Earth Day 2010

It's Earth Day again, and you know what that means.... A day full of reminders from passionate individuals of how you are not just failing yourself, your familly, your species, but also the very planet you live on.
Don't get me wrong, I love the planet and a good portion of the things on it, but this annual celebration of half hearted attempts to be a little less harmful to the planet I find to be empty and half-baked. The 1 out of 10 people that realize it's Earth Day will harp on other 9 about environmentalism on a very shallow level (make sure bring your own bags to the store, turn off the faucet when you brush your teeth) to the point of making people want to harm the environment to "get back at the damn Tree-Huggers".

Try to educate, not annoy your fellow inhabitants of Earth.  Thats all I am saying.

Some helpful environmental links that I like and Follow:
http://www.lnt.org/-I am a certified trainer in LNT and suggest anyone who travels in the out of doors at least looks at the guidelines.

http://www.recyclart.org/- great source of artistic uses for stuff that would get thrown away.

http://blog.holyscraphotsprings.com/- Hippies w/ webpage.  Great source for how to live closer to the earth in your daily life.

http://newworldgeek.com/- Great site, been on "temporary" hiatus since June, but look at the archives.


Have you Huged your planet today?
  

The best Video game movies never made

Hollywood is full of people with lots of money and very little in the way of a new idea. That is why all movies seem to be based on books, older movies, TV shows, and yes even video games.

Today I will celibrate the fore mentioned source with the most inconsistant results- Video games. After all they made the Super Mario Brothers Movie and they made the Tomb Raiders. Inconsistant at best.

Here are some movies that should never be made for real.

Zelda

Reason: They would Just fuck it up too much for a poor geek like me to bare.

Tetris

Reason: Since the fall of the Berlin wall movies involving Russian things just don't do it for me any more (James Bond really needs a USSR reunion to make him shine again)

Dig Dug

Reason: OK, You got me. After seeing this preview I will say that this one needs to be made. Best thing to come out of Hollywood since "The Notebook". Your sitting on a Gold Mine Trabeck.

Mario Paint

Reason: Too Art Film to make it in the main stream.

Well I have wasted too much time now.

L8r g33k$

Going down with the ship -The Pirates Bay

Anyone who has been paying any attention to the outside world recently would have noticed that pirates are getting slapped around something fierce. Mind you, some are a dicks and have it coming (crazy African kids with guns) and but others are just all about copyright infringement.

It is no big shock that I don't support holding people hostage at gun point, but my feelings on those criminals who have the bad habit of borrowing copies of strings of 1s and 0s are far less negative. Many of us were young and poor in the days of Napster's great reign of file sharing. I may have "borrowed" copies of songs (and nudie pics) from the web from time to time (with the full intent of paying for them later of course).

As time progressed the names and technology invovleved in such media "borrowing" changed, from Napster, to Limewire, to bit torrenting on on. I will admit to nothing, but I kept my eyes open to the evolution of this technology and watched it grow from mp3s and jpg's of nude ladies, to entire seasons of TV shows and movies before they hit the theater. I feel that file sharing and I have almost grown up together, making it one of my oldest and most giving friends (never brings the beer but he is fun to be around none the less).

So it hurt me to hear one of my favorite venues for data dissemination has decided to close its doors. The Pirates Bay after a life of fighting the good fight (for poor people looking for media/ bad fight for the fat cat media kings) has finally chosen to take the recent torrenting advances and legal losses to make this its swan song.

I bid you farewell The Pirates Bay, may you have favorable winds on your voyage to Valhalla. (insert single tear here)

Return to Geekness

So I will admit it- I failed. I let this little Blog project of mine die before it was every really born. Trouble is I was never really happy with the look of the page and had never really chosen what the direction of the commentary would be. I don't want to be like every other geek-centric blog out there; bitching about how every episode of their least favorite sci-fi show is an affront to all intelligent life on the planet (mind you I read those blogs, but I don't want mine to be that).
So I will try to update 2 times a week or so, aiming for the T-days of the week, but will probably miss more then I hit them. The direction and tone will bounce around a good deal trying to find its voice. All I ask of you, the reader (I leave it singular b/c chances are it is only one of you out there- Hi Otto!) to let me know what works and what is complete dribble.
Suck-it-Trabeck,
WWS

Syfy Channel?

Check this out- Syfy

The Sci-Fi Channel has made an announcement that they will be re-branding themselves this summer as "Syfy". They will be turning to more "imagination" based programing trying to capture a larger viewing audience. This means more junk science shows about ghost and "real" sightings of Big Foot and less episodes of any number of old Star Trek shows and other classic sci-fi shows.
I like the cheese-tastic made-for-Sci-Fi movies staring the man-mosquito monster and space alien goo inhabiting a recently thawed woolly mammoth. Its geek bait. And it is exactly that geek audience that built the brand; now they are turning their back on them. Replacing Flash Gordon with UFC (like that has anything to do with sci-fi or Imagination) and TNG with Ghost Hunters. I have watched the degradation of one of my favorite networks for a while. Though they have experienced a surge in viewership recently, they are running a high risk of losing their core audience.
to them i say- Suck it Trabeck!

The Begining

The most epic journeys always start with the smallest steps and this waste of time starts with this crappy post. Suck it Trabeck!!