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| Monday, February 14, 2005 11:09 AM |
| Of Hearts and Other Organs |
 by Fëanor |
- I've said it before (though admittedly not in so many words), and I'll say it again: Superman is a dick (yoinked from Sarcasmo's Corner). That link is to a collection of comic book covers that support the thesis that Superman is actually a complete bastard. It's pretty awesome.
- Now some cool medical science news. Turns out we can cure deafness in guinea pigs now using gene therapy. Admittedly, we made them deaf in the first place, and it'll be a while before we can try applying this to humans, but still. Pretty awesome.
- We can also now use a harmless version of HIV to hunt down cancer cells. So far that's all it can do, but eventually the plan is to hook therapeutic genes to the HIV so it can hunt and kill. Sweet.
- Now for my usual video game progress report: still struggling through the painfully long ending of Knights of the Old Republic. I've met two different tribes of an alien race on the planet I crashed on. One is kind of primitive and violent and likes to eat its enemies to gain their power and knowledge. The other is a race of peaceful priests and wisemen who are protecting the ancient secrets of their race. I was hoping I'd be able to use my Jedi skills to reconcile these two races (the former was capturing and torturing the latter, and attempting to raid their ancient temple), but after I talked to the priests, the warriors decided I was betraying them and attacked me. So I was forced to kill...well, all of them. I wiped out their entire colony. It wasn't even hard. It did make me feel pretty icky, though.
So now I'm finally inside the ancient temple, and I just have to kill all the Sith who got in here and turn off the disruption field so I can finally get to the Star Forge, kill the bad guy, and save my friend. And also save the Republic fleet.
- Meanwhile, I've also started playing Soul Calibur 2 again, and discovered there's still quite a lot left to do. Lots of extra missions to play and weapons and features to buy. I finally figured out how the shops work, and I'm buying all kinds of cool stuff, like the Soul Edge for every character, goofy new costumes, and joke weapons, like a souvenir gift for Mitsurugi, and a bamboo pole for Kilik. I thought I'd already unlocked all the playable characters, but I just opened up Berserker to play versus matches with. Folks who are coming to game day should expect that some Soul Calibur 2 will get played, and it will have more features unlocked than they are used to. Word.
- Last but not least, I'd like to take this time to wish everyone a happy Valentine's Day. Special wishes of course go out to my lovely wife poppy. You're beautiful and talented and I love you very much. Here's a lemur baby for you, and a big, wet, sloppy internet kiss. :*
- For my other readers who didn't want to have to share in the emoticon smooch and the mawkish sentimentality, I'll throw in another bullet point here to take the flavor out of your mouth. I happened to catch part of Matrix: Revolutions (that's the third one, for those of you who didn't follow the movies too closely) last night on HBO. I own this movie on DVD now--I received it as a gift at my own request--but I haven't watched it again since I saw it in the theater when it originally came out. I wanted a copy basically just to complete my collection of the Matrix films, even though I hadn't really enjoyed it that much. I was also hoping that it would get better on repeat viewings; somebody had told me that was their experience with the film. Unfortunately, I had the opposite experience. Watching various scenes from the movie last night, I found it clumsy, pretentious, repetetive, dull, and utterly stupid. How do you make a gun battle in a computerized world between superhuman characters completely boring? I don't know, but the Wachowski brothers pulled it off somehow.
Anyways, that's it for me for now. Everybody try to enjoy your Monday.
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