- Megan Fox is purty. I’d offer her a rose, but I fear rejection.
- I always like seeing Glen Morshower, ever since 24. (note that they kept his last name for the movie, haha)
- I thought the robot battle scenes were easier to follow than the first movie.
Stuck in Vancouver Airport, but they have free wi-fi! Uploaded the rest of the pictures (We didn’t do much on Day 7) for your enjoyment.
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
My connection is slightly better, but not enough to post anything substatial… I uploaded Day 1 images (no captions yet)… I try to catch up later today…
Broken wi-fi connection + slow public computers running IE6 over a proxied satalite uplink = no major updates… We’ll be near Skagway tomorrow, hopefully they have enough Verizon juice for the EVDO modem to work…
(For the non-geeks, my interweb here is less than ideal, and I hope to have a better connection tomrrow)
Short post today, too much travelling. We made it to Vancouver (by way of Dallas… we had a 4 hour stay over there, which we spent in AAwhich I’ve never seen before, so I took pictures so you can see what it looks like])… Flight from Dallas to Vancouver was delayed an hour, which botched our restaurant reservation at Tojo’s… We settled for hotel room service…
Sleep now… maybe write more later.
Today I travelled to Charlotte to meet up with my travelling companion, Katy, and another NC BFF, Amanda… Upon arrival in Charlotte, I was picked up by Amanda and whisked away to the official stock car capital of the world, Lancaster’s BBQ. It was here that I was treated to some fried pickles (both regular and Cajun style), which tasted exactly like one would imagine (fried and delicious)… I also had a BBQ pork sandwich, thus introducing myself to the Eastern North Carolina school of BBQ (I didn’t eat the cole slaw though, so I’m not sure if it my experience is truly complete) … While my neck failed to turn into a shade of red, there may be hope for me yet.
Later that day Amanda transferred me over to Katy, where I was dragged along a helpful companion in her quest to find “something white.” Clothes were purchased, and we decided to see Angels and Demons.. Quick bullets follow…
Afterwards we picked up some Coldstone ice cream and rejoined with Amanda to conclude the evening… Tomorrow: Vancouver!
Picture fail again today… I only took two good ones of lunch, and they were (again) with the iPhone… Tomorrow I will have my camera at the ready, so hopefully that should turn into something entertaining visuals wise…
Ok, from here on out this “blog” is now Julian’s cruise blog…
Of course I didn’t pack until today. I didn’t really have a luggage piece suitable for such an excursion, so I borrowed my Mom’s, and while she was at it, also borrowed her excellent folding skills (I don’t quite ball things up, but if I packed, I probably would have to jump on my luggage a couple of times in order to close it… God help me on the way back…).. My weather research has been next to nil, but I’m guessing 50-degree weather, and have planned accordingly… For the record, this is the longest vacation I’ve ever taken… Not sure if I am capable of relaxing for such an extended period of time, but I have faith.
Apologies for the blurry pics, main camera was charging, so IPhone pictures needed to suffice.
Misc. thoughts from someone who was fairly into Trek (gave up at some point with Voyager, though I did see the last couple of episodes, including the finale… only saw the pilot of Enterprise [worst opening credit music ever btw]), but is perfectly ok with the series getting a reboot:
- While I enjoyed the movie, there are a bunch of things that don’t hold up under closer scrutiny, without getting too specific:
- This is a little bit spoiler-ish, but presumably, RIP Sybok and Tuvok…
- I found BSG‘s influence on the movie rather interesting, shaky-cam CGI, switching phasers from beam weapons to projectiles, and more or less dispensing with shields entirely (Did anyone see a shield actually deflect something in the movie? I didn’t.)
- The Cloverfield cameo was kind of unnecessary, I think.
- I question whether in the quest to reboot the franchise, Abrams & Co. have forgotten what makes Trek unique. Take away the fan service in terms of the characterization and focus on the plot…. Is it Trek? I don’t think so… This doesn’t mean it needs to be inaccessible “high concept” SF (though I personally would be ok with that), but I’m hoping future Trek movies get back to some sort of vision (Roddenberry’s or otherwise) vs. big explosions..
- While I agree that the franchise did indeed need a reboot, it’s not like they haven’t tried to make the franchise more mass market friendly in the past… 
Feel free to chip in with your $0.02 either on darklight.org or on Facebook…
Still not quite flush against my sidebar… maybe this post will take me over the edge… The blog now has a fancy iPhone interface, check it out by looking at the page with an iPhone…
EDIT: I added my food links to the sidebar, thus growing the sidebar, thus making me sad. I will cheer myself up by clicking on said links.
Nothing to see here, just trying posting from my iPhone…
With luck I might have enough so that my posts are flush with my sidebar!
