Okay. So I’m a total geek. Fine. Get over it. Anyway, I found this clip showing a test of the Marvin the robot in the upcoming HHGTTG flick. Once you get over the fact that there’s a little person in there, the body language says it all. I think they capture his despair quite well, don’t you? You can just hear him droning on about how life is so terrible, etc., etc., etc……
HHGTTG – The Movie – Finally
Opening May 6, 2005 – Let the countdown begin – but don’t panic!
As one of the most original, laugh-out-loud while-thinking how-odd-the-universe-really-is type-of-books, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, has finally made it to the ‘wrap’ phase of production. Douglas Adams, taken from us at far too young an age, unfortunately died without knowing that his beloved novel would go on to become a motion picture after over ten years of heartbreak at the hands of the Hollywood machine. Head on over to the official movie site to see the teaser trailer. Or click on the image above to download some spiffy wallpaper.
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Alsatian Turkey
Thanksgiving. The time where we Americans celebrate our harvest by killing poor, flightless birds. Ah, the horror. But they do make fine eating. This year, Amy and I joined a multicultural Turkey Day feast at Shon and Alonzo’s home in Decatur. We contributed our turkey (recipe follows), two types of cranberry sauce, whole wheat & chestnut stuffing, and my Alsatian Turkey Gravy. Yum!
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Qosmio
Yesterday I recieved a new laptop – the Toshiba Qosmio F15 Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 multimedia machine. Amazing little laptop, that – integrated TV tuner, PVR functionality, 80GB drive, Pentium M 745/1.8ghz, NVIDIA GeForce FXGo5700/128MB, etc. Early reactions are that it’s fairly HUGE (14.7″x11.2″x1.7″) and HEAVY (8.6 lbs, plus adapter). So it’s not quite the svelte machine that my TiBook is. But then again, this machine is much faster, has better video, and can watch/record tv. The Media Center apps are an interesting acoutrement, too. Got it up and running pretty easily, but was confounded by *two* audio streams from my DirecTV box. Turned out that you have to mute the line-in audio signal, otherwise you get audio piped directly through to the speakers *and* the encoded audio from the MCE video recorder. Was proud that I figured that out. And what is the deal with user manuals only on the HD for $2500 pieces of gear? That’s B.S., thank you very much. More detailed review soon.