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Jul. 16th, 2007 10:14 pm
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Today's reading:  Dragonfly, by Bryan Burrough.  It's an account of the Shuttle-Mir program.  A very good read, and pulls no punches on either side.  It hammers on the Russian obsession with secrecy and apparent indifference towards safety, and the dreadful political maneuvering that NASA has to go through (and seems to thrive on internally).  Somewhere along the line, reading this led me to read about Chernobyl, too.

Today's writing:  A Starship Troopers article for Pyramid.  Couldn't really get spooled up for either M&M or Spycraft.

Today's movie:  Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.  It's not really bad, but it is astoundingly not good.  The Fantasticar should not have a Dodge gunsight grill or be powered by a Hemi (and just so you know, Dodge, people that know cars nowadays know that that vaunted term doesn't mean nearly as much now as it did 35 years ago).  Some redemption in the way Dr. Doom was handled.  And I may be one of seven people on the planet who liked Galactus as a big honkin' cloud.  That's one of the few things that I think the Ultimates line does better than Marvel-616.  I'm just not taken with a giant man wearing a pointy pope-hat as a world-devouring cosmic entity.

An upcoming JSA story arc is going to see the Kingdom Come Superman joining the Society.  No good at all can come of this, especially since we've by now seen the "And Evil Will Inherit the Earth" poster with KCSuperman.  I am greatly digging on this title.

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Date: 2007-07-17 02:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tragical-mirth.livejournal.com
Weird about the Chernobyl thing - Japan had an earthquake today that caused a nuclear leak

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070717/ap_on_re_as/japan_quake

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Date: 2007-07-17 11:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fishxxiii.livejournal.com
The old good bug is a dead bug! Gogogo writing! :+D

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Date: 2007-07-17 12:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tracker7.livejournal.com
Today feels like a Spycraft day. Just have to decide which project to work on.

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Date: 2007-07-17 12:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fishxxiii.livejournal.com
May I suggest a fine collection of suicide teeth gadgets? :+D

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Date: 2007-07-17 12:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tracker7.livejournal.com
That's a curiously ... specific suggestion. Something to do with the project you've mentioned recently?

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Date: 2007-07-17 12:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fishxxiii.livejournal.com
No, for one I HAVN'T mentioned ;+)

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Date: 2007-07-17 12:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tracker7.livejournal.com
You're a dirty tease.

*points to e-mail*

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Date: 2007-07-17 12:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fishxxiii.livejournal.com
I am what I am. 0:+D

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Date: 2007-07-17 02:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spoe.livejournal.com
...powered by a Hemi (and just so you know, Dodge, people that know cars nowadays know that that vaunted term doesn't mean nearly as much now as it did 35 years ago)

Nor was it ever exclusive (or even original) to Dodge/Chrysler. Hemispherical heads had been around almost 60 years when the legendary 426 Hemi was introduced and the contemporary Porsche 911 used a Hemi design in its flat 6.

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