George Galloway pulled off an upset election victory this year for his respect party in the UK and then went on to knock the wind out of the US Senate homeland security and government affairs committee yesterday. You may have head about him in the news but I wanted to check it out for myself so I found these video clips… when this guy gets rolling he sounds like William Wallace.
Wallmart is coming to town. Not sure how I feel about that. At least someone is using the old K-Mart building for something.
I keep seeing this word all over the web and just today a new friend sprung it on me during casual conversation. I think it may be seeping into everyday language because of exposure on Homestar Runner and Teen Girl Squad. Someday fudatch, snarfled the garfax, compromisism, and jerzizz gozzgizz are going to be real words too.
My dad used to own the Perseverance Theatre building and we lived upstairs above the neighboring Billiken Bar. I remember at age three just having the vague impression that it was somewhere special. When anyone talked about art, theatre, or public television I assumed it all took place there. They once did a Sherlock Holmes play and since it was all the same to me I assumed that Sherlock Hemlock from Sesame Street was my neighbor and they were filming his portions of the show downstairs.
One of my favorite stories from that time is of Billy Horner, another tennant who lived above the theatre. Perseverance was doing The Diary of Ann Frank and night after night he had to listen to the Nazi’s stomping about as he was trying to sleep. One night he got fed up and went downstairs with his shotgun to save Ann.
I went to the theatre Saturday night to see columbinus and the space still feels the same to me even through the first slow steps of rennovation and expansion.
Columbinus was directed by PJ Paparelli who co-wrote the play with members of his theatre collective, The United States Theatre Project, and brings it to Juneau as part of a co-production world premiere. Paparelli, also the new artistic director for Perseverance, researched this play extensively and often quotes directly from a journal, tapes and other artifacts left behind by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. It’s not my favorite play of the season but it had me thinking about the events after I left the theatre and ranks highly as a social examination. The play opening comes at a time when our own Juneau Douglas High School is being scoured for weapons and under watch after finding a message written on the wall of the women’s restroom that claimed the writer would bring a gun to school Thursday.
High School is a strange little social Petri dish… Theatre too.
The goal of Robot Soccer:
By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team.
RoboCup 2005 has a small, medium, humanoid, and robot dog division. The Sony ABIO robot dogs are a little creepy because their movement is a too lifelike. Kind of like mutant babies crawling around nudging the ball with their heads. They look like great fun to program though. Hmmm… I always wanted a dog.
In the small division I like the Carnegie Mellon team. They’ve got a good media archive so you can check out all the best robots in action.
GOOOOAAAALLLLL!!!!!
I made it out to the cabin last weekend with John Mackinnon, Joe Smith, and my cousin-in-law Danny Pardee on his boat the Sentry. She’s a stout little fishing vessel with some good speed to her and apparently the same make as the boat my dad used to own. We were only out for a couple days but I got some brush cleared, took apart the sink and started scheming for my next trip. I’m going to try putting together a micro hydro device to power the 12volt. I’m using the hampster wheel alternator as a basis for my design.
If anyone from the future is reading this and plans on attending the M.I.T. Time Traveler Convention we’re having a short film showing on Friday May 6th which you’re invited to attend as well. It should be a good warm up event.
The shorts were hand picked by Warren Etheredge who watches thousands each year and the show will provide any anthropologists or art historians from the future with unique insights into our modern arts and culture. Tickets can be reserved in advance at Lucid Reverie starting Tuesday and they’re free so you don’t have to worry about hefty exchange rates on old bills. They go quick so get here early and you do have to get separate tickets for older and younger versions of yourself.
The films will be shown on top of Mt. Roberts in the Chilkat Theatre in Juneau, Alaska and the Tram starts running at 7:00. The event is brought to you by the Juneau Underground Motion Picture Society and The Warren Report.
Note: If your time travel method involves high speeds or nudity please be advised these are against current laws. Explaining that you are from the future will probably not get you off the hook. I’ve tried that.
I fixed up my wildskies film site. I’m trying to archive my work better and the next step will be putting the films in more formats. I’m trying to get away from Quicktime since Apple has decided to bundle I-tunes with the new version and I think Sorenson Squeeze and other compressed video for Macromedia Flash is going to be the way to go. My biggest concern for this time around was that I wanted to get all the films on their own pages and have some space for people to comment.
On a side note I originally bought the wildskies domain for Eric Davis who wanted to start a northern lights viewing center in Fairbanks. Now I’m going to make a flying logo with cold fire and use it to tag all my films.