This post is nerd overload!

Star Trek

When we first saw the new Star Trek I’d said I’d wait awhile before I put a glowing review up here, just in case my desire and love for the movie faded over subsequent viewings. It hasn’t. I can now safely say exactly what I was thinking when our group of 10+1 saw it in the Buford IMAX on opening day: that movie was awesome. Everyone should go see it. I’ve seen it multiple times, and I’m rather pleased to have done so. It’s such a weird time, being excited about the future of Star Trek again.

Magic: the Gathering

Thirteen years. Thirteen long, long years.

Containment has failed.

Save yourselves.

This Sunday Kenny and I moved furniture for my parents to get him a ‘free’ dryer before we went and bought him a washer. This marked either the fifth or sixth straight weekend that I’d moved really heavy things.

The best part, of course, was when we were halfway up the stairs at Kenny’s apartment and the dryer fell off the handtruck. I was nearly killed! Luckily I pulled a Hulk moment and caught the thing; Kenny and I simply shoved it the rest of the way up the stairs. And this was after the same thing had happened to Kenny on our first attempt, lower on the stairs.

But right now I’m in New York for my sister’s graduation, trapped in the Sheraton in Times Square, using 3G broadband. Save me!

I have a series of prose poetry/non-narrative stories coming up for Jux. Probably this week as I sit here with time to do them.

The CDC has just released a special advisory regarding the incidence of a new strain of virus – Feline Hornetrabies.

This is apparently fallout from Qualcomm‘s latest experiments. As researchers are discovering, proper protocol regarding QA on their lab specimens was not followed. It turns out that they were just paying local homeless to round up alleycats and other strays, which were much cheaper than the labspec specimens.

Prognosis of symptoms are still under investigation, but a brief summary of possible signs is outlined below:

Roughly 18 hours after the initial infection/incubation period, the virus begins metabolizing proteins in the blood into mastoparans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet#Sting), a strong irritant which makes you feel like your veins are crawling with stinging hornets.

Then, about 12 hours later, the viral load releases en masse, and begins mutating the gene known as HOXb8 (http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20020006014545data_trunc_sys.shtml), which has been found to cause excessive grooming in mammals. At this point, the victims will find themselves unable to stop licking and grooming nearby objects, which is how this particular virus spreads.

Terrible Stuff.

If you, or anyone you know begins exhibiting behavior such as licking the walls while screaming, you may already be at risk. Isolate the infected by pointing a red laser pointer at the wall or ceiling, a tactic which has been proven irrestistable to victims suffering from this illness, and call your local infectious disease hotline immediately.

This has been a Public Service Announcement from The Jux Entente. Stay safe, you guys.

I concur with Kenny’s statement below.

Full report later, however…

GO SEE STAR TREK RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

Edit: Okay, that was too big. A single letter doesn’t need to be 1024×768.

Yes, I am talking to you. Yes I did that. You weren’t expecting it and it cost you dearly. I came into your house and made it my own. Next time you’re sitting in the movie theater thinking you’ll play a quick little game of Mario Party DS before the flick starts and you notice Kenny attempting to join your game even though you’ve never heard of me, be prepared to have your ass handed to you. Thank you Nintendo for making it so easy to join games of people I’ve never seen before and don’t even own but happen to notice their DS searching for software to download.

I’m coming around on Versus.

Totally Hat needs to become the best 4-man clan in Left 4 Dead. We may have to strap Travis to his computer for this to happen.

Signed,
Zoey, Auto Shotgun Surgeon and Tank Specialist

Yesterday, right after a disc golf game where I was actually happy with the results for the first time in a year or so, the skies opened up on me, Kenny, and Peter. We were drenched. Beyond drenched, actually; I could not have been wetter if I had jumped in a swimming pool, and that is not an exaggeration.

I had two casualties: my BlackBerry’s keyboard and my hat. It’s unknown at this point if my hat will recover, but after a full day of laying on hands and doing various things, my BlackBerry is alive! Yaaaay!

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