Lego Millennium Falcon - Done!!!

This little project took Sandy and I a combined total of around 60 hours to complete. we only ended up with two missing parts out of the five thousand or so that were included. Next is the Star Destroyer.

Rose Festival floats

I snapped this pic around 2pm today. A few of the floats were parked across from my building. They are all gone now. :(

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Quickie - Paramount + Blu Ray

It has been a while since I followed the latest format war. I stopped paying attention right around the time that Wal Mart went exclusive and Best Buy went 'recommended' on BD.

The last I remember is that Paramount had signed an HDDVD exclusivity deal, and would not be offering Transformers on BD. Well.... I recently received two Netflix rentals. Payback and Tomb Raider. Both had Paramount written all over them!!

So... I guess that deal no longer exists? Does this mean we get Transformers soon? Busy day here at the office, I don't have time to dig. Feel free to fill me in with comments....

Why I stopped clubbing:

From Willy Week:

The downtown bar scene: Despite being in the heart of Portland, the knot of pubs and clubs around Southwest 2nd Avenue and Burnside no longer serves Portlanders. On weekends the entire area reeks of Axe body spray, as it’s overrun by Jäger-slurping ex-frat boys from the suburbs. Kells is a decent bar during the week, but all you see on Saturday is fake-’n’-bake blondes dripping lip gloss and gym rats from McMinnville who wear Red Sox caps and talk about the Curse of the Bambino like they don’t have a Derek Jeter jersey at home. Gel-happy metrosexuals cruise the Greek Cusina, telling everyone, “I’m not gay. I know I’m wearing flared jeans. You wanna fight?” At the end of the night the whole ugly crew piles into a fleet of Chevy Tahoes and Dodge Magnums, turns up the Toby Keith, and swerves back to cul-de-sacs of aluminum siding in Tigard to talk about how much they love “the city”—except for all its weirdos on bikes and disquieting lack of Red Robin franchises.

Whole story here

Man having a child....

America... Oprah... What the shit is wrong with you?

Did you not see Junior or something? If you haven't, please allow me to remind you. This was fiction. Fiction because men cannot have babies.

Before you informationauts correct me - I realize that the placenta has the ability to attach itself to any organ, not just the womb. And therefore it is theoretically possible for a man to grow a baby within his body cavity. Now... Please keep in mind that men do not have ovaries. If you're a man and you have ovaries you're a genetic mistake - and thus you are a hermaphrodite, not a man. This sounds a lot less entertaining than the sensational headlines that are slapping us in the face everywhere we look right now.

If you're not following me, please open a tab and hit news.google.com. For those who use IE6, or are just too lazy, here is one of the many stories.

To sum it up for those who can't even click a link: There is a "man" here in Oregon who's having a baby. The man in question is actually a transgender female who never had his girl-parts scooped out. Instead, opting for the chest-removal and hormone therapy. Before I go any further, let me say that I think what he's doing for his family has its roots in nobility. As for the probable social confusion this child is destined for, I choose not to comment. I'll leave that to my reader(s). Now back to the story. This man was artificially inseminated because his wife is infertile.

The problem I have is not with the fact that this man is growing crotchfruit, but that the news is buzzing like flies on shit with silly headlines. Who wouldn't turn on the tube to see something only tackled by Arnold on the big screen. I mean... if I saw something like, "Amnesiac discovers alien remnants on Mars, brings down mining operation." Hell yes! I would turn on the news to see what the hell they're talking about - only because I've seen Total Recall and I can't believe it. I just fear that most people would expect a journalistic account of mutants on the red planet; immediately forgetting that we've never stepped foot on Mars (eff off Bay).

I suppose the reason this bothers me so much is that American news is crap. Complete, utter, crap. Oprah, shame on you. A proper headline would be, "Transgender woman pregnant." It's not as neck-snapping, and it won't get the viewers, but at least it's true. True just doesn't hold as much meaning as it once did.

To the family, and especially the child: Best wishes.