Monthly Archives: April 2006

I had to download Flash 8 to watch this, but I thought it was worth it…very clever video of what their Roomba vacuum does all day while the humans are gone…you can guess the 80s song used as the soundtrack already… 😉

(via the MAKE blog feed on Yahoo)

Rani Roomba’s Adventures in New York City

Also having in the past seen the costumes people have made to dress up their Roombas, and the tales of cats vs. Roombas, I’m getting tempted to get one myself…! I’m horrible about getting out my bulky vacuum anyway…maybe this would be a useful AND entertaining investment… 😉

Happy Friday!

I guess last week’s story was another case of a rumor getting picked up by national sources & spread around like wildfire…J.J Abrams spoke to Empire magazine about the truth here:

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=18614

(via Melanie who read this report)

So, J. J. Abrams is producing, might be directing, but the reported storylines are NOT true…I might be able to relax about Spock at least… 😉

I swear I don’t think I have EVER cried at Scrubs before…*sigh*…comeon, it’s a SITCOM, people! If I wanted heart-wrenching medical drama I’d watch Grey’s Anatomy or something… 😛

I really want one of these! *sigh*

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

My 17″ PowerBook from Oct 2003 is still okay, but my backlit keys are becoming unreadable in spots, I’m in dire need of more RAM and hard drive space (gone through 2 250G external drives already!) so iPhoto with over 10K photos is slower than molasses, and now I think my AirPort card and/or base station is being flaky…but seeing I’d want the fully-loaded model but I now have a hefty house payment, I don’t think I’ll be getting one anytime soon…oh well…

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/15891.html

Looks like it’s official even though the Paramount press release is still forthcoming. All I have to say is they had better be DAMN careful about messing with my beloved Spock! The Cage/The Menagerie firmly established that Spock served on the Enterprise under Captain Pike for 11 years before Kirk became captain, and the time between The Cage & The Menagerie was 13 years. It sounds like they’re going to be fudging canon about the difference in life span between Vulcans & humans, since during TOS Spock is supposed to be in his 50-60s actual years, which equates to human mid-30s for age appearance, but he was still supposed to have attended the Academy in his early 20s. Kirk was actually mid-30s in TOS, attending the Academy in his early 20s as well, which doesn’t mesh for them attending the Academy together. They’ll probably claim like they did on Enterprise that it doesn’t strictly violate canon, even though it messes with what most die-hard fans have lived with for 40 years now…hrmph…As long as they’re creative about it, they could still meet at the Academy and serve on a mission together without pissing off fans and be a good movie, but they’d better be careful. 😉

There’s a wikipedia entry already here that makes me more nervous:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_11

We’ll have to see how this shakes out…they’d also better pay close attention to the casting! I have no idea who the heck today could play a young Spock let alone a young Kirk…hmm…