I’m getting all giddy thinking about this. Ridley Scott is one of my favorite directors and I love the Alien franchise. If ever there was a movie I was going to see on opening night, this is it.
As of yet, there is very little information on the project, but I remember Ridley Scott talking about a prequel in the DVD extras for Alien. If I recall correctly, one of the things he talked about was that he wanted to make a film that gets to the bottom of what happened to the “Space Jockey“, the giant fossilized alien sitting in some kind of chair in the derelict ship on the moon LV-426.
According to Wikipedia, the original space jockey prop was 26 feet (7.9m) tall and the actors in that particular scene were Ridley Scott’s own children. He used his kids to archive the special effects technique called forced perspective where an object appears larger and taller than it actually is. That’s the kind of moviemaking and commitment I hope Ridley Scott can bring back to the Alien world.
Just came back from a spa where I had a bunch of tiny fish nibbling at my feet. It was a pretty strange sensation at first (like mini electric shocks), but after a few minutes I settled down. I’m not sure it did any good, but it was at least fun to try.
Sorry for grossing you out with close-ups of my feet after being in water for 40 minutes, but here goes.
I also stuck my hand into the tank and recorded this little video.
Here’s what some of the monitors look like in the campus computer labs. What’s wrong with people?
One of my favorite podcasts, MacBreak Weekly, used to include a segment called Mac whines. This was the part of the podcast where the otherwise extremely pro-Mac cast got to whine about stuff they didn’t like regarding Macs, iPods, iPhones and other Apple products. It’s been a while since the last Mac whine segment was featured in the podcast though, and as a switcher coming up on his third anniversary, I think there’s more to whine about! I absolutely love my Macs, but I’ll be the first to admit that there are things that annoy and sometimes confuse me.
So, as a pet project, I put together MacWhines.com. It’s a very simple voting website where you get to bitch and whine about all things Apple. While creating the website, I took the opportunity to learn a little about OpenID and decided to rely completely on OpenID for the sign in mechanism. Additionally, I added “Sign in with a Google Account” and “Sign in with Yahoo! ID” buttons that redirect you to Google or Yahoo! and allow you to sign in via their federated login systems. Give it a spin and let me know what you think.
PS. There’s not a lot of functionality on the website apart from signing in, voting for whines, submitting your own whines and commenting on existing whines, but that’s kind of the idea. I didn’t want to overshoot the target so to speak.
I haven’t tried a lot of games on the iPhone, but so far, the best I’ve encountered is FlightControl. I must warn you though, It’s extremely addictive.
