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…an early analysis of the data that has been sent back indicates that 140 of the 700 identified bodies are much like Earth. “The figures suggest our galaxy, the Milky Way will contain 100 million habitable planets…”
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…an early analysis of the data that has been sent back indicates that 140 of the 700 identified bodies are much like Earth. “The figures suggest our galaxy, the Milky Way will contain 100 million habitable planets…”
We had a great camping trip this week; some friends own a plot of land on a little lake up north, in the heart of a quaint hidden little polish community. The weather was awesome; it rained one night — all night, penetrating our tent a bit — but that was while we were sleeping so was easily bearable… otherwise sunny and awesome the whole 5 days. The best part was getting out on the dock at night to stargaze; seems like forever since I’ve been able to see the milky way — far too bright in the city for that.
Last week I picked up the cartoon version of Avatar: The Last Airbender for the kids (it’s 60 or so episodes long) and they absolutely love it. What I’ve seen of it has reminded me a bit of Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli films; I suppose it’s Nickelodeon trying to “do” Miyazaki. I haven’t seen The Last Airbender film yet, but want too — I have always enjoyed Shyamalan’s films (particularly The Village, haha) — I’ve usually felt he was treated a bit too harshly by the reviewers, who seem to want every movie he makes to be a triple-A blockbuster… but they just aren’t that sort of film, methinks. Now, I was surprised he took on The Last Airbender, considering it is a franchise film; guess he was trying to mix things up a bit in his career — too bad it seems to have backfired, alas. But I’m sure I’ll enjoy it nonetheless. I may wait for DVD though… costs a fortune to take the family to the theatre these days!
Last film we went to see was Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (we had a couple free passes). I really enjoyed it, but I rarely meet a fantasy action film I don’t enjoy. 
In this case, I had played the video game, and always thought, “this game would make a great movie”… and Gyllenhaal was better than I thought he’d be. Finally also saw Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Heath Ledger’s last film where he is replaced by Depp/Law/Farrell. Gilliam was luckily able to finish the film that way, as the other version of Ledger’s character are all dream-world sequences — but I still felt the film suffered by not having Ledger himself giving us a continuity of the character’s journey. Gah, what a tragedy it is to lose Heath Ledger. I’ve been a fan of his since I first saw him in his first role as a Celtic warrior in a short-lived fantasy-themed television show called Roar — it was a really good show, but couldn’t compete with the more popular (and more cheesy) Hercules and Xena shows at the time, alas.
We had a great camping trip this week; some friends own a plot of land on a little lake up north, in the heart of a quaint hidden little polish community. The weather was awesome; it rained one night — all night, penetrating our tent a bit — but that was while we were sleeping so was easily bearable… otherwise sunny and awesome the whole 5 days. The best part was getting out on the dock at night to stargaze; seems like forever since I’ve been able to see the milky way — far too bright in the city for that.
Last week I picked up the cartoon version of Avatar: The Last Airbender for the kids (it’s 60 or so episodes long) and they absolutely love it. What I’ve seen of it has reminded me a bit of Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli films; I suppose it’s Nickelodeon trying to “do” Miyazaki. I haven’t seen The Last Airbender film yet, but want too — I have always enjoyed Shyamalan’s films (particularly The Village, haha) — I’ve usually felt he was treated a bit too harshly by the reviewers, who seem to want every movie he makes to be a triple-A blockbuster… but they just aren’t that sort of film, methinks. Now, I was surprised he took on The Last Airbender, considering it is a franchise film; guess he was trying to mix things up a bit in his career — too bad it seems to have backfired, alas. But I’m sure I’ll enjoy it nonetheless. I may wait for DVD though… costs a fortune to take the family to the theatre these days!
Last film we went to see was Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (we had a couple free passes). I really enjoyed it, but I rarely meet a fantasy action film I don’t enjoy. In this case, I had played the video game, and always thought, “this game would make a great movie”… and Gyllenhaal was better than I thought he’d be. Finally also saw Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Heath Ledger’s last film where he is replaced by Depp/Law/Farrell. Gilliam was luckily able to finish the film that way, as the other version of Ledger’s character are all dream-world sequences — but I still felt the film suffered by not having Ledger himself giving us a continuity of the character’s journey. Gah, what a tragedy it is to lose Heath Ledger. I’ve been a fan of his since I first saw him in his first role as a Celtic warrior in a short-lived fantasy-themed television show called Roar — it was a really good show, but couldn’t compete with the more popular (and more cheesy) Hercules and Xena shows at the time, alas.
Let’s hear it for the greatest cult computer of them all, which debuted a quarter-century ago today.
Netflix Inc. will make its international debut this fall when the rapidly growing movie subscription service offers video over the Internet in Canada.
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Definitely worth checking out this new free game…
No math skills needed! Stringing together numbers has never been more fun! The object is to generate as many sequences of numbers as possible within the allotted time. A sequence consists of runs (like 2,3,4, or 4,3) and doubles or multiples of the same number (like 2,2 or 2,2,2.2), and can also wrap between 1 and 9 (like 2,1,9,1). As numbers are removed from the grid, new numbers fall into place. Increase your high score by creating a very large sequence that also contains as many bonus tiles as possible.