6/19/2003
I saw the following report from over at #!/usr/bin/girl:
“The Transformers” —the ever-morphing Hasbro toy line that spawned comic books, TV series and an animated feature — are ready to change shape again, this time into live-action stars of the big screen. Angry Films chief Don Murphy (whose next film is “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”) and writer-producer Tom DeSanto (”X-Men” and “X2: X-Men United”) have teamed to produce a feature-length, live-action movie based on the popular brand.
THE DUO are expected to shop the project to studios shortly, and DeSanto said they have already received interest from a handful of directors.
DeSanto is currently working on a story treatment for the project before he and Murphy hire a screenwriter to adapt it for the big screen.
“Transformers enjoys an amazing fan base worldwide, and we believe that we can create an incredibly fast-paced, exciting movie that will be appealing to anyone who loves action films,” Murphy said in a statement.
At long last, I can dress up again as a large 18-Wheeler, that is here to protect you. If it’s as good as the cartoon movie was (both), then I’ll be there with my 12-year old children (quadruplets). Starscream or Bust!
I saw this over at cheesebikini:
The
Rotten Tomatoes forum has more pictures and commentary regarding this
Mr. Sparkle meets Nipponese-Matrix event:
Tell me you aren’t frightened by their fearsome faces of fideism!
These aren’t just any ordinary security blankets, they’re super special and holy!
Note to women in the audience: all guys want one of these, be sure to buy a complete set for them. They make great house-warming gifts and are huge turn-ons. (Via DiVERSiONZ)
City later offers free permit:
Avigayil Wardein may be only 6, but in the past few days she has learned a lot about permits and dealing with government regulations.
Naples police officers shut down a lemonade stand Avigayil was operating with friends at the end of her driveway on 11th Avenue South on Friday. Her mother, K.C. Shaw, said the lemonade stand was shut down because a neighbor complained.
Now I’ve had some annoying busy-body neighbors, but this certainly takes the cake. I would have loved to have heard the phone conversation between the effin neighbor and the police department:
Operator: 911, what is your emergency?
Flanders: Yes, I would like to report a crime-in-progress
Operator: What is happening sir?
Flanders: A conniving, calculating and cold-blooded deviant is gouging the proletariat
Operator: Could you be more specific, what exactly is the crime?
Flanders: They are operating without a permit
Operator: Well why didn’t you say so in the first place? This is heinous and must be stopped!
I think I’ll go on a sympathy strike, no more lemonade will be produced from this blogger. No way, no how, no where.
Raise your hand if you own a Segway HT. Do I see a hand in the back? You’re just yawning? So none of you own one? For shame!
OK, so this revolutionary mode of transportation really has not taken the world by storm as Mr. Dean Kamen had predicted, or rather it has along the lines of what Steve Jobs foresaw.
In a recent interview at AlwaysOn, Tony Perkins discusses wireless technologies and the horseless carriage, stating:
The auto industry has been very astute about staying on top of the CPU side of the business as a big buyer of high-tech software and hardware. The average car today has as much micro-processing power as the Apollo 13 did. The big challenge now, however, will be to leverage the Internet and wireless technologies and make the auto an integral part of the network I discussed earlier. Your car should be able to exchange files with any computer or other device anywhere else.
I personally would be more apt to purchase an automobile if it had WiFi integrated under the hood, rather than brewing up my own make-shift version like these fellows did. Since that probably won’t happen anytime soon, I had an idea that Mr. Kamen could try out: integrate WiFi transmitters/receivers into the Segway.
Yea, it probably would suck up all the juice in the vehicle, but it could add a whole new element that the marketing department could use to lure even more trendy customers to the hip-hop scene. In fact, they could just install a WiFi receiver unit at the base and place the antenna through the handle bars, creating a large window for capturing WiFi signals, saving battery life that a transmitter would otherwise run through (passive is the keyword).
Maybe I can offer a service to “mod” the existing Segways, overclock them, install nitrous oxide enhancements to the gyroscopes and maybe even a fist-sized muffler. Any takers?
