Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

Hey,
When my friend Scikidus told me he hadn't seen a full Star Wars movie, I thought he was joking. He wasn't. So, we got together on a Tuesday a while back to have a Star-Wars-athon: all six movies in a row, starting with Ep.4. However, something important came up, and we had to stop watching after episode five. So, we got together again the next day to finish the series. However, it turned out my cousin had borrowed episode two from me without telling me, and so we had to stop after episode one.


SPOILER ALERT....DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN STAR WARS EPISODE SIX: RETURN OF THE JEDI
I don't know who hasn't, but whatever...



At the end of episode six, after Darth Vader has died, Luke, Leia, Han, and the Ewoks party on the forest moon of Endor. Luke turns away from the party and sees Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Anakin through the force. Here is a photo of what this looked like in the original version of episode six, on VHS:



I freaked out when I saw the following, on DVD:



They replaced the original Anakin with Hayden Christiansen, and replaced the puppet Yoda with cgi???????

(Note how the two images are matched up to the frame PERFECTLY with Obi-Wan's head. Also note how the ripples on Anakin's shirt are exactly the same, the only differences are from the collar up.)

*Update: "SPEEDSKATING"*

This is what that was supposed to look like:

SPEEDSKATING

I can't run this blog without mentioning speedskating. So, speedskating.


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Apparently, that did not work.

Percent/Per Cent/Pour Cent

The American way of writing % is 'percent'.
The English way of writing % is 'per cent'.

I hate (or love) epic failures, especially when they pertain to the American public, and especially when they have to do with writing/grammar/literature.

American goes back to English which goes back to French which probably goes back to Latin
Percent goes back to Per Cent which goes back to Pour Cent which probably goes back to ??? (I dropped Latin as a freshman)

The French 'Pour Cent' literally translates out to be 'for a hundred'. When you say 'forty eight percent' e.g., you are saying 'forty eight of a hundred'. Makes sense, eh (the Canadian type)?

Rick Astley Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade RICKROLL

If you were watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade this year, you might have seen Rick Astley rickroll millions of American viewers across multiple news channels. I captured this on video:



The screaming comes from me and two close friends. When we put up this video, we had tried to reach 20,000 views by the first of January '09, but we only hit 19,035. Close, but not quite there.

Solar Powered Shack

While I was far, far away over vacation, last week, on a warm island, one of my parents and I were driving in a very residential area. I was truly intrigued by the living conditions of many of the islanders. As we were driving through, I noticed a huge solar panel on the roof of a run-down tin house (definately a home, as it was complete with a door, window, flowers, and a bicycle in the driveway), maybe twenty feet by twenty feet. I was in utter shock and awe of this, quite literally, solar powered shack. It made me happy.

January 1st - Urban Dictionary Word of the Day

From:	Urban Dictionary <-daily@urbandictionary.com->
To:	James Bond <-jemetib@aol.com->
Subject:	Y2K9: Urban Word of the Day
Date:	Thu, 1 Jan 2009 7:09 am

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January 1: Y2K9

The simultaneous worldwide crash of every 30GB Zune worldwide during the early hours of the morning on January 1st, 2009.

Y2K9 - oh noes!