In my post about the new Star Wars movie I mistakenly stated that David Prowse was the actor which appears in Force-ghost form at the end of Jedi. Fellow blogger Womo brought the mistake to my attention:

“Although David Prowse did play Vader in Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi, but when Luke takes daddy’s mask off in Jedi, it’s not Prowse but Sebastian Shaw that we see. Shaw also appeared as a Force-ghost with Yoda and Obi-Wan. So it was Shaw not Prowse who got replaced by Christensen in the DVD. (Lucas also made Shaw’s brown eyes blue for the DVD so they’d match Hayden’s peepers.)

Now tell me, why is it that no one is willing to play the Star Wars Trivial Pursuit game with me?”

Dammit. As much as I hate being schooled like that, I feel humbled instead of humiliated because I know for a fact that Womo is a Star Wars superfan. How do I know this? Because, he was (and hopefully still is) the proud owner of a one-of-a-kind Star Wars calendar.

This guy needs reminding that it’s Chase bank’s policy to metaphorically screw the people.

If you’ve never played on-line games before, then this video probably won’t be all that funny. Then again, you might find it funny no matter who you are. Watch it all the way through and marvel at Mr. Jenkin’s disregard for teamwork.

The few times I have played on-line games (I played Ultima On-line the longest) I usually end up getting pretty bored really fast. I don’t have the patience for them, so I usually end up making myself a pest for other players. The guys in the video are obviously hard-core gamers (one of the guys calculates the statistics of their survival rate down to percentages), but I very closely identify with Mr. Leroy Jenkins. The video gets funnier every time I watch it. I love Leroy’s battle cry, and then his partners’ befuddled reactions.

When I played U.O. I created a character that was a blacksmith, but I forgot to give him the ability to mine ore. So, I would make sure that I stayed within city limits (it was illegal to fight in the cities, if you did guards would appear and kill you) and find guys that were mining. Some guys liked to wait until they had mined a lot of ore before they picked it up. I would walk over to them and start talking, and as soon as they began to speak to me I picked up their ore and ran off. That’s really all I did in the game. It really wasn’t worth $14.00 a month.

I just heard on television that jalapenos are being bred without heat. I don’t know why I’m so incensed about that, but damn it, I am. I usually add more jalapenos than recipes call for, and I thought it was because I had a higher tolerance for heat, but evidently the heat has been removed from the capsicums, thereby lowering the jalapenos’ rating on the Scoville scale.

I don’t know who to blame about this…I’m thinking the conservatives are probably responsible. They probably think that hot food may lead to anal sex or abortions in some way (just an aside, I’ve never understood why conservatives have such a problem with gay sex…I mean, who has less abortions than homosexuals?)**

Or maybe the liberals are behind this. They probably think that keeping the peppers hot would be an affront to mexican-americans; as if anglos were mocking the latin heritage by consuming all the spiciness of it. Or perhaps some vegetarian burned their tongue, so the liberals think the government should protect the public from the harshness of the pepper.

Who knows…I’m just gonna have to start growing my own damn peppers.

**Yes, I know that I stole that joke from George Carlin. That doesn’t make it any less funny.

You’ve never been to the Alamo. I’ve been once, and that was when I was in grammar school and my dad had a business meeting here.

This link will take you to a site where a video has been made of people giving themselves brain freezes with Slurpee’s from 7-11.

The people appear to be having way too much fun. The government should ban this practice immediately.

Blogger hasn’t been working worth a damn the past couple of days, so I have a quite a few leftovers to dish out. Let’s get started with some Star Wars stuff and proceed from there:

I guess these idiots don’t know that lightsabers emit a plasma blade via a crystal, and not via gasoline.

“Art of the Saber” is a fan-made short film of two guys engaged in a lightsaber battle. Before you scoff, know that the fight rivals anything in Lucas’ films. Be warned: I have a cable connection to the net and it still took me a couple of mintues to get the video. It’s worth the wait though.

If the Force is a tool of Satan, why does Jesus look like he’s about to make out with the Death Star?

Well, I guess we’ll just have to rely on the flux capacitor, since the wormhole is out.

While we’re on the subject of Jesus, I think the fad diet craze has finally found religion.

“Hippo-sized X-Ray Machine” is very funny to me.

NASA helps in the discovery of heretofore unknown plays by Sophocles and Euripides. Also of significance is another manuscript of the Gospel of Thomas, which most theological scholars agree predates Mark’s Gospel.

An extremely well put together site dealing with classical rhetoric. The site also examines the ways classical rhetoric is used in modern society.

Locus has posted this years awards finalists. (It’s a sci/fi thing)

The classic vampire movie Nosferatu has been digitized and is available for download at no charge.

It’s a pity we are kept out of the loop of how the world views us. That’s the International Edition of Newsweek by the way. That article was published everywhere but in the U.S.

Last and most certainly least: My religion is better than your religion! I breathed a sigh of relief when I read that was in North Carolina…I just knew it was somewhere in Texas.

All we want is an up or down vote. Enough with the political stalling. Let the representatives have a straight vote already.

Time has an article that details the successes and scientific breakthroughs that Korea’s Seoul National University, led by Dr. Hwang, have accomplised in stem cell research. Go here to read the article and marvel at the scientific possibilities that lay just over the horizon. After you’ve sufficiently praised the ingenuity of the human spirit, go here, here and here to lament the reality that America is fast becoming the scientific equivalent of the Amish when it comes to scientific progress.

In my previous post on Star Wars I forgot to mention that the Millennium Falcon appears briefly at the beginning of the movie. Keep an eye out for it during an exterior of a space port on Coruscant. The Falcon flies in and lands as the camera pans over the shot.