The Heart of the Swarm

The next installment of the Starcraft II franchise is apparently far along enough for Blizzard to post a trailer which does imply a 2012 release.

And now for something completely different:

http://winterson.com/2005/06/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html

Here is the link to the "Backstroke of the West" aka Star Wars episode III: Revenge of the Sith with the deliciously hilarious mistranslations that come from using machines rather than native English speakers to write out the subtitles.

The 50's Were a More Innocent Time

This toy from the 50s, the Austin Magic Pistol, works through a reaction of calcium carbide with water. This produces acetylene, you know that gas we use in welders? Not only is it available to children, its used as propellant to fire a projectile, presumably at other children....

LOTR Engrish Subtitles

Check out the last screen shot on this page.

As Lovetronic would say "You will laugh until you sit on the floor."

Though We Know Not the Day or Hour, the Time Draws Near...

... For the culimination of Marvel Picture's most ambitious project to date. If any of the component movies tanked at the box office, there were good odds that this film would have been shelved but not only did they manage to fly past that hurdle, X-Men Origins showed that there was still strong interest in "superteam" movies after the previous X-Men and the Fantastic Four films did some damage to their credibility.




For comic nerds:

Got to admit that I am loving Robert Downey Jr's version of Iron Man. This Tony Stark is (somewhat) less of an asshole than his canon 616 counterpart while being more sarcastic and funny.

At least they got Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow to break up the boys' club. The Wasp was the only founding female member of the Avengers and if they had to put in one of the female Avengers, I am glad that they decided to use Black Widow. Ms Marvel would (visually) have too similar powers to Iron Man and Thor while Scarlet Witch's ability to screw probablity might not make for good cinema. Although granted Natasha is pretty much a mirror version of Steve Rogers; a female Soviet spy versus an all-American soldier boy.

Responsible Pregnancy

Call me heartless, but I seriously feel that people need to think about responsible pregnancy. Difficult first trimester and difficult third trimester can affect other people working around you, not just you. It is really irresponsible if you just take that time away to 'just rest'. You can always set aside 30 min per day of your leave to clear overdue work (and not leave it to someone else). If you've always been weak and you get weaker when you are pregnant, seek medical help. Covering for two pregnant women is no fun...it's not helping that people assume that i'm the most free since I'm single. Maybe I really should get married and get pregnant (and keep getting pregnant!)

p.s. once again, something that i can't post on fb.

Fileserve Problem

FYI for those that is using singtel.

I have been plagued by fileserve landing 1703 error for a good part of the year. It makes my computer unable to download properly. Initially I suspected it is due to me switching over to windows 7.

However it seems like not the case since people has been using it fine.

Only until recently did I googled fileserve landing 1703 error singtel did I realised the singtel proxy is blocking this.

So after setting the proxy manually and correctly, I am once again PIRATE of Singapore.

Land Ahoy Mate!