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Monday, January 30, 2006

Its been more than a week...

No, the government did not shut me down after that last post. I have been mega busy completing my application for the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh, so I have not done much of anything else over the past week. However, the world continues to turn. Here are some of the things that have happened since my last post.

1. I completed my application. Ugh. For better or for worse I have done all the paper work and got the letters of recommendation that I needed (some pretty goods ones, I think). Its a huge weight off my shoulders. One less thing that needs to be done. Now if I could just get that darn novel started.

2. The Pittsburgh Steelers are going to the Super Bowl. The Steelers won the AFC Championship against the Denver Broncos 34-17. Hey, I know that at this point this is old news, but I would probably be kicked out of Pittsburgh if I didn't mention it.

3. The guys at ifanboy.com mentioned me on their January 20th podcast. I have been listening to them comment of comics for a couple of weeks and posted my name on their "Frapper Map". Another one of my 15 minutes of fame used.

4. Tech people announced the threat of a new virus that is targeting Windows machines. The Nyxem virus is threatening to delete Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and Acrobat from infected machines on February 3rd. Good thing I blog on a Mac.

5. Jonathan Kent, Superman's dad, dies (the character not the actor) on Smallville. This show has its ups and downs. Too many of its characters (including Clark) are too two-dimensional. I liked Jonathan, he was like the third well developed character on the show. Last season there wasn'?t much that was done with him, so that sucked. This year they did the election thing, which isn'?t canon for Superman, but it got my curiousity wondering how it would turn out. Now they have gone and made an Uncle Ben out of him. Another thing, Jonathan has been shot and tossed around more than a couple times since he developed a heart condition and suddenly something on a piece of paper that Lionel shows him pushes him over the edge. I have a hard time swallowing that. Ah well.

6. Brian Michael Bendis' run as writer of Daredevil comes to an end with the release of issue #81. Daredevil has never been a very interesting character to me, but the buzz about what Bendis was doing with the comic book made me curious. I can't say that he made a Daredevil fan out of me, but I enjoyed some parts of the four year long arc. Another thing on Bendis, last year he destroyed the "classic" Avengers superhero team and then remixed the title with some old and new characters. When it was announced that Spidey (Marvel's classic loner) and Wolverine (Marvel's most over extended character-- I think he appears in at least six different comics a month) would be on the "New Avengers," I groaned. It seemed like a marketing maneuver. Get Marvel's two most popular characters on a revamped Avengers and the fanboys will lap it up. I didn't want to like it, but Bendis has done a decent job of bringing together the "New Avengers" and he does seem to spin the characters in entertaining ways. Even if it takes the guy an entire year to bring the book together, its been fun, and that is the only thing that matters in comics. Having fun.

7. Scientists, with their Bunsen burners and electrical doo dads, announced that concentrations of greenhouse gases may have a more serious impact on global warming that previously imagined. The Greenland ice sheet may melt and raise sea levels 23ft over the next 1,000 years. I guess we better get off of this mud ball while we can.

8. In the spirit of space exploration and the idea of traveling beyond the planet Earth, January 28th, 1986 the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after take off. This past Saturday marked 20 years since the disaster. I was five years old at the time, so I don't remember much of the event. Over the weekend I saw some of what then President Ronald Regan had said afterwards. It was something about not allowing the tragedy to hinder man's exploration of space. It takes a lot of resources to send men and women into space. Resources that could be used to clothe the poor, feed the hungry, or offer a shit load of financial aid to college students. What do we get out of going to the Moon or Mars? Velcro and satellite television are two products of the U.S. space program. Has it been worth it? Absolutely. It isn't a financial issue. How many billions of dollars goes into military spending? The exploration of space is the future. Yeah, I say that as a huge sci-fi dork, but at some point, billions or trillions of years from now, the sun is going to implode and when that happens life in our solar system is going to get wiped away. If we don't get off this rock then everything that we ever were from day one, will be gone. Then what?

9. Big Momma's House 2 tops the box office over the weekend. Hey, I think Martin Lawrence can be damn funny. However, what's the worst that can happen? This sequel.

10. Today, I got a compelling/frustrating/interesting email. And thats all that I will say about it. That's cryptic.

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