More on Star Wars

You can see what alterations have been made in the new version of the Star Wars trilogy here.

Speaking of Star Wars Humour ...

There's a bunch of lists on TheForce.net ... my favourite was Why Star Wars Is Better Than The Matrix. The really funnier lines were:

Star Wars has Anthony Daniels play a robot - The Matrix has Neo played by a robot.

   

Can the Nebuchadnezzar make the Kessel Run in 12 Parsecs?

   

Star Wars didn't fall apart after two movies. It took four.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away ...

(Insert Johns Williams fanfare here)

I hate Amazon. They only just shipped my copies of the DVDs. I hope I get them by the weekend (All 3 Star Wars movies back to back to back ... 18 hours of glorious Jedi action!). I'm surprised that Bill Amend's Foxtrot comic strip hasn't commented on them already.

So half the Star Wars fandom is up in arms about the new tweaks in Lucas' movies. I'd say it's a good thing - I mean, it's his vision. If he made the changes on an artistic level, then kudos to him. If he made the changes for purely commercial reasons (which he hasn't) then the detracting fans have I case.

I remember the Star Wars vs. Star Trek fan fiction/parodies I used to read on Yahoo Humour Pages in the good old days of dial up ... for a fan of both series, those parodies really were a good laugh. They don't seem to be up anymore :-( But there are some good humour sites out there in any case ...

:: how jedi are you? ::

It's George "Dubya" "War President"

It's George "Dubya" "War President" Bush! He's adressing the UN tonight ... or is it tomorrow? I'll have to tune into the Daily Show to find out :-)

Needless to say, my block has been barricaded again.

You've got to love weather predictions

A colleague of mine at work (Steve) and I used to have heated debates about who was better at predicting weather - the Brits, or the Americans.

My take was that the Brits didn't have any weather to predict ("Uh, it's going to be foggy in the early morning, raining by mid-morning, maybe a tornado in the afternoon, followed by intermittent sunshine, and we end the day with more rain. Tomorrow may be sunny, or it may rain.").

I saw this prediciton of Tropical Storm Jeane (from a link on Dave Barry's blog) and figured he's probably won the argument!