Vader Has a Posse!

Vader has a posse
According to the creator, a Lucasarts employee, the 220 pound weight is Vader’s weight with the suit on. Guess those cybernetic arms and legs are pretty lightweight, given Vader’s size.

In a similar note, you can keep it real on the Jedi side as well.
Kit Fisto has Meat Dreadlocks

Ah, just when I was starting to think it was time for another visit

8/16/2005 11:46AM local time...And, folks, this isn't the big one....This was a big one with little overall impact but felt over an unusually large area. The greens or higher are where you really start to scared/worried

Pretty!

Taken with my new and very nice Minolta Dimage X50 camera...

Woot--A-ah--Saviour of the universe!

Even with my fairly jaded Gen X sensibility, I still manage to come across something on the net that makes me smile joyously.

Today’s example is WOOT. It is a one item per day bargain site and when the item is sold out, the item is sold out for good (sort of the reverse of those failed buyer aggregation sites that flourished and folded during the internet heyday, such as Mercata and Mobshop. Ah, those internet bubble days and those lovely $50 off a $100 purchase coupons that Mercata threw out to the masses all the time..

First off Woot (or w00t) is leet speak for ‘cool/sweet/awesome/sugoi’. So cool points for that.

Second, the deals are often fairly good and they don't gouge on S/H, although sometime the merch is often a bit old tymey from a tech viewpoint (for example the wireless card below is of 'b' flavor of transmission speed, which is fine but a tad slow by the current 'g' level standard).

Third, and this is my joyous bit, they have terrific fun with the ad copy. Note this write up for a compact flash card/Wi-fi card combo unit for a PC laptop.

It took me a moment to realize it was set to cadence of Flash Gordon by Queen.

Pathetic Earthlings! Who can save your files now?
Flash – a-ah – savior of your important files
Flash – a-ah – it’ll save every one of them
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Flash – a-ah – it’s a Wi-Fi miracle
Flash – a-ah – device of the impossible
It’s for every one of us
128MB for every one of us
Connect to the web with wireless broadband
Every man, every woman
Every child – with a mighty flash
Flash – a-ah
Flash – a-ah – it’ll save every one of your files
Just a memory card
With a Wi-Fi adapter
You know it’s nothing but a card
But it will rarely fail
Just one slot is all it needs
To find the golden grail
Oh oh – oh oh
Flash,

Be sure to get the Super Pink Homotrooper for your collection, kids!

I came across this when I was doing some J Toy research for a friend and I thought it was pretty funny. It was originally listed for sale at kidrobot.com but it doesn't seem to be listed there anymore, although the creator has his own site here.

But what was infinitely more amusing was the reaction of hard core Star Wars collectors at rebelscum.com who had a hard time figuring this one out. The thread from Rebelscum.com’s forums

The suckadelic site has some interesting Star Wars/pop culture mixing.

That AT-AT must have ended up in the wrong side of Hoth, yo!

March of the Penguins (of METAL)

In an odd juxtaposition and/or a sign of my age, I was watching "The 100 Most Metal Moments" on VH1 the other day. It is a a clip show of old MTV footage mixed with fairly old metal heads (Why do I bet that Ronnie James Dio has an AARP card in his wallet?) and modern D-List celebrities talking about various tidbits of metal history and lore-Did you know that the lead guitarist for Black Sabbath lost the tips of two of his fingers in and industrial accident before joining the band? I didn't. He played the guitar with prosthetic finger nubs for finger tips. The show is one of those enjoyable time wasters that VH1 is really good at putting together (a la pop up videos or I love the 80's). But the thing that caught my eye was that a commercial for March of the Penguins . Sure it is one of the surprise "hits" (documentaries usually do almost no box office biz and in this in this summer of umpteen weeks of down Box Office, it has caught Hollywood’s eye by doing more that $20 mill so far) but I thought it was a funny item to advertise during a show highlighting the historical excesses of Metal.

But I was pleased to see the show mention, Heavy Metal Parking Lot . Looking back, this film is a cautionary tale for me, since I know people who were EXCACTLY like this and could have ended up like them. The school van I took to high school had people right out of this (and actually attended this show) and I have no doubt one or two of them are driving around town in a delivery truck, singing to radio whenever 'living after midnight' comes on and are really looking forward to lighting up a blunt when they get home after work.