Apparently one entry about facehugging aliens just isn't enough for me.

I also found this commercial from Space (Canada's version of the Sci-Fi Channel), which is funny all on its own, but even more so because the guy clearly says a cute Canadian "aboot"

I guess you may have noticed that I have this strange... thing on my face

There's also a commercial for the original Battlestar Galactica; watching a Cylon scrub floors is funny in the same way that a Stormtrooper buying groceries would be. If only the show was half as good as the commercial...

Replaced by CGI - PLEASE help

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VG Cats is a good videogame-based webcomic, like PVP Online (if you follow that link, keep in mind that today is a guest comic) or Penny Arcade.

I find that I really enjoy it most of the time, the only downside is that it updates a lot less often than the others do and also seems to require a more intimate knowledge of specific games.

Nonetheless, I think their comic based on Aliens Vs. Predator two would pretty amusing to anyone with even a basic idea of what happens in the Aliens movies:

That's Saying a Mouthful

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After work this evening I went over to Mark and Chrissie's to pick up my DS Lite and also to hang out a bit.

Mark and I ended up watching Alien Vs. Predator, which, as awful-action-movies go, was actually really freaking sweet.

The story was actually somewhat rational, sort of, maybe, if you try really hard. REALLY hard.

But I enjoyed it. There was a Dr. Jackson clone in it which was kind of amusing. He had nerdy-yet-trendy glasses, took lots of videos and spent most of his time translating ancient text. I think it's funny how archaeologists in movies are pretty much always Dr. Jackson or Dr. (Indiana) Jones.

But maybe most exciting for me was that this marked only the third time I'm aware of (the other times being Cowboy Bebop and an episode of Stargate SG-1) in which someone in a TV show or movie is actually shown surveying. Actually come to think of it I don't think anyone in the movie is really shown USING the equipment but a Trimble 5600 is rather prominently displayed in the middle of a scene early in the movie. It also is conspicuously absent in the same spot when things start blowing up, probably because the producers didn't want to blow up an incredibly expensive piece of equipment (unless they're cars I guess).

Anyway, I've used those for work, and I found that kind of cool.

On a somewhat related note, Marketplace on NPR (which as I think I have mentioned in the past, is a great program) had an interesting story about how the Hollywood movie industry is actually Los Angeles' second-largest air polluter!

currently reading: "Xenocide" by Orson Scott Card

current weather: Mostly Cloudy, 38, Wind: calm; Rain coming tomorrow I think

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