Turns out they Didn't Cancel "The Incredible Hulk"

I remember reading a while back that when Jeph Loeb took over writing for the Hulk they canceled the Series called "the Incredible Hulk" and just renamed it "Hulk." Well I just had an eye opener. Not only is that series still alive it's got my favorite Hulk Writer Greg Pak. I am totally kicking myself for not noticing sooner, I really need to spend more time hanging out at the local Comic Book shop called Legacy Comics. This gives me hope for the future of the character, I still dislike Jeph Loeb's work with the Red Hulk, I like what could have been, but so far I'm less than impressed, no that's not true i'm disappointed. I think that he is so focused on the future story arcs "War of the Hulks" or the "Hulk Wars" or whatever he's going to call it he's clearly not paying attention to what he's writing in the here and now, because it's crap. All the BS about dragging out the secrecy about who the Red Hulk is has killed my interest in the story arc, it's just been dragged on and on for too damned long.

As for where the story line stands now, Jeph Loeb killed the Hulk, the Red Hulk as it turns out is not actually a "brick" He's a drainer but being a big red hulk looking brick is a nice side effect of his primary ability. He drained the Gamma lout of Banner effectively killing the Hulk. So that's where that's at. Man it's frustrating, Red Hulk is such an awesome villain but I just find his current story arcs more irritating than enjoyable.

So now Greg Pak has picked up a few of the pieces of Jeph Loeb's Mess and ran with it. And it's freaking awesome! He's basically turned it into a story of Banner and his son Skaar the son of the Hulk from Planet Hulk. So in this one Banner is now kind of the sidekick/trainer instead of the usual trying to cure himself stuff. I like where this series is going, but I don't think it'll last I think that boob Loeb has more pull with the management at Marvel than Pak.

That said I think Loeb has got some awesome creative ideas, like the Red Hulk, he's a fantastic idea for a villain but Loeb shouldn't have the reigns of implementing/writing the series. That series has absolutely killed the fun of it for me but it had awesome potential.

Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" my 64bit experince

Well Canonical made another great OS that gets the job done and looks great. The Price can't be beat it's got a complete Office Suite for students or even business with Open Office. Craploads of Free games, but most of all it has Internet access that just works. The Driver models really seem universal and just work.

Unfortunately it still has the same damned basic fatal flaw that every Linux OS has. Making it work "to it's potential" is still a Hobby, it dosn't "Just Work." I was setting up the Dual Monitors and realized that it's not intuitive and frankly the method for making Dual Monitors work is a work around/Hack that I honestly don't think the average user would figure out. First you have allow the "Proprietary Drivers" and then you have to mess with the NVIDIA X-Server program by editing it in the freaking terminal, and the way they put allowing propriety drivers comes across like they're talking down at you like a bunch of elitist assholes, "Oh your going to use those corporate whores drivers." Don't be mad at me that's the way it comes across. Making it work was a royal pain in the ass to figure out, it requires ass loads of research or just grabbing one of the Linux Guru's to walk you through it. In my case I'm in it for the challenge so I went through the work of figuring it out but looking back on it while it was a great troubleshooting experience for me it's a very poor user experience. I'm also running the 64bit version of the new Ubuntu and was a little bummed to discover that the Adobe Flash equivalents in 64bit are still buggy as hell but there has been a slight improvement, sort of. They apparently removed the controls for watching flash video so you can watch it without crashing but now there is no pause, fast forward, volume change, ect.

All in all, it seems as solid, awesome, and bad as Ubuntu 8.10 now that I think about it in fact I'm not noticing much difference. The changes must be deep under the hood because I haven't noticed anything really different yet. To A point Ubuntu is still a Hobby not an OS that can be recommended professionally. In the hands of a nerd it's a great alternative, for the average user, it feels like it's ruined by the poor hand off of the proprietary drivers, that part actually has made several people I know who tried it quit.

EDIT: Wow suddenly one of my big gripes as a hobby OS went away. The Flash Video suddenly started working correctly and really seems a lot more stable. And WinE (the Windows Emulator) does seem to work a lot better. That could be potentially game changing if they can get the propietary games to work somewhat fluently.

Just did another reinstall of Ubuntu. Fixed a problem I was having with the Compiz Fusion but now I can't get the Nvidia X-ServerConfig to save the file for some reason. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1308868

EDIT: Well I guess I spoke too soon. It's been a few days and flash is just starting to stutter like it used too. Thinking maybe I'll try the 32bit version next week sometime.

The Last Day of Screamfest 2009

EDIT: Found the Perfect Mascots for when I review stuff.



Went to a movie event with a friend last night at the Manns Chinese theater at Hollywood and Highland last night. That was loads of fun. We didn't see all the movies just the ones we thought we'd like, they were a lot better than I was expecting.

The First movie was called "Mutant Swinger from Mars." and Oh yes it was B movie and the title is exactly what the movie was about. But obviously a B movie on purpose. Lets just say if they had a limited budget they spent nothing on effects and the rest on the script and the script made fun of that. This movie was clearly made by a guy with my sense of humor for his buddies to laugh at. This movie was an A+ fun time for me.

The Next Movie was a foreign film called "Before the Fall" or "3 Dias." This was my favorite movie of the 3 and The Writer/Director answered a bunch of questions for the professional bloggers in the crowd (don't even think of me as one of them) and he pointed out the fact that this was a very difficult movie to sell because you really can't categorize it. I disagree with him this is a drama it's not like there are any spaceships or hobbits. It is about a man in south America lives with his mother then one day the US Government is on every TV channel telling the world that for the past three years they and others have been trying to stop an asteroid five times the size of the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, but they've failed and we have 3 days until it hits the Earth and destroys the human race. RANT*Had the movie dealt with the missions to stop the asteroid, okay I can see calling that SciFi. Calling this movie a SciFi feels like you could have a soap opera and introduce one character who's an astronaut never actually deal with his job but suddenly Hollywood calls it's a fucking SciFi show, I just don't get what's with Hollywood's view of SciFi. I guess I just get annoyed by that. END RANT* Anyway There's a few scenes in this involving kids that had some governments up in arms but I think the only reason it was an issue is that movie was so well done. That said those scenes were tough to watch.

The Last movie was called "The 4th Kind" it's sort of a Blair Witch style alien abduction movie. This is easily my favorite Alien Abduction movie the problem is that's not saying much. It's well done and is easily the best of the abduction movies I've ever seen. I don't know why but alien abduction movies tend to come across as less believable than any other scifi genre even to SciFi junkies like myself.

I think I'll have to try this again next year.

A REAL Solution to Gay Marriage, too bad no one actually wants one.

Politics Left vs Right? Your both full of SHIT! Fuck you both with barbwire dick!


Just got done trying to have a discussion about Gay Marriage and it revealed to me just how stupid people are when it comes to their politics and and it really fucking got under my skin. See I support "Gay Marriage" but I realized something not too long ago and stumbled on the REAL solution to the gay marriage issue. Now say this to yourself slowly. " I need to ask my government, if I can get married." Requiring Government approval for a marriage sounds like something we'd give Communist Russia or China a load of shit over, and we'd be right so why the fuck are we doing it? Then it hit me like a ton of bricks, that's the real solution we've been going about this all wrong, not government approving gay marriage but remove the component of government approving ANY marriage! Now on the Surface the government need for approving marriage is to give help to families. If that's the case fine, beef up the child tax credits but remove government approval of marriage.

I mentioned this idea to a bunch of people and not only was I shocked at the resistance to the Idea but I pretty much received the same hostility that both sides give each other and I got it in spades from both sides. The problem with this solution is that neither side gets a stamp of approval for their views from the government. In fact in a way the message from this solution is that your both wrong, now knock off the petty bullshit! Which in a way is exactly the correct answer in order to do the right thing. That's why I got canned bullshit responses from Boxer and Feinstien my reps in California about how important the issue is ignoring the substance of what I said. I realized both sides are full of shit when it comes to civil rights or anything else. It's about forcing the other side into submission and making them say uncle, fuck the right thing to do. Gay Right's activists will not be happy until they force the catholic church to perform marriage for gays or religion is banned and The Evangelicals will not be happy until being gay is illegal. They just won't come out and say that's what they really want deep down, they lie to your face and most of all to themselves about what they really want. So fuck both sides the reality is that they're both Tyranical scumbags, it's just not Tyranny when they do it... Bullshit!


EDIT:
AHHGGHHHH
I feel better.
Don't take it personal that's just after talking to the people at fucking CNN! I don't normally rant on politics but the partisan cock smokers at CNN really pissed me off. I'll toss this idea at the Fox news people next see what they think.

Can't find an actual forum for Fox news, not surprised with that though, it'll just be a continual flame war. I'd imagine this would get loads of support from the townhall crowd though.

Ya know there's also a lot of money tied in this issue. Just more reason to suppress real solutions in government I guess.

Wow, Holy shit... My post on CNN's iReport is gone. Apparently enough people who saw my suggestion flagged it as offensive. The Post on CNN wasn't a rant llike this was. And the fact that it got removed for doing nothing more than pointing out the facts is pretty telling that my follow up rant here is dead on.

The future of Internet security....

There isn't any, all thanks to the new Evil Empire Google. Don't put anything you don't want copied and handed out to everyone on the Internet. It's as simple as that, money transactions, On-line Banking, Shopping, personal information and all that stuff as much I love the convenience of them and the broadened enterprises it's created I really do believe they need to be removed from the On-line universe unless the Internet undergoes a fundamental restructuring soon. See here's why, Google's new web browser chrome is a nice and solid product. At first I liked what I was seeing in Google's chrome it was Fast, Looked Slick, and was well packaged. Then I discovered something that's on it's own is really not that big a deal. The OmniBox that you enter your data into is a live key logger.

Here's Ina Fried's Blog pointing it out.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10031661-56.html

What they're doing is meh no big deal, it's not that much different than what they record whenever you do a Google search. Then it hit me, wait a minute my security suite is not picking up a live keylogger? Let me repeat my last statement because it's crucial to what I'm saying and people tend to gloss over it because what the Information that google is recording is trvial. My Security Suites are not picking up a live Keylogger. I use Norton at the office and NOD32 at home and use Superantispyware, Spybot, and Malwarebytes for antispyware. None of witch batted an eye and allowed chrome's logging my key strokes and sending that data out over the Internet. I have read lots of reports that Kaspersky was identifying chrome as malware but it was for a totally different reason and has since been taken off the malware list. So are security companies not bothering with keyloggers anymore? This makes no sense to me. "Common Sense" says any software that logs keystrokes and transmits that data on-line needs to be stopped, it doesn't matter if THAT data is beguine, it's the act that matters. It reminds me of fucking the Financial meltdown, a keylogger is an accepted application? Are you shitting me?! It doesn't matter why Google put it there, do you really think the bad guys won't find a way to exploit it and log ALL of your keystrokes with it? Or just emulate why security software is ignoring it?

My god people are stupid. This is going to end with a security disaster as large as the financial meltdown we just had and frankly mirrors it in a lot of ways because people in general are looking at what I'm saying going aww hell no that'll never happen in a million years. Never-mind this is not an issue of something fancy, it's about ignoring the bare bones basics of security. Just like the fiscal meltdown was about ignoring the bare bones basics of Banking, lending, and trading, this attitude of ignoring the basics can only end badly on a huge scale.

When I it happens just remember even if you remove your on-line profile. YOUR BANK HAS YOUR MONEY THERE! Unless you have all your money in cash stuffed in your mattress, you'll be feeling it.

I'm pretty convinced now that Chrome's Keylogger was designed simply to push the envelope to see what Google can get away with and see what the public will accept in terms of corporate in your face spyware. I don't get why people are so stupid and choose to ignore the obvious.

I may be wearing a tinfoil hat but when I happens all I can say is FUCK YOU I TOLD YA SO!

EDIT: Aww Fuck just thought of something... Kinda Scary er I dunno. Okay so I mentioned how the could explode as big as the financial meltdown... How can we really know for sure that it didn't? and it's all just been papered over so the sheep don't panic.

All Hail Octavia

Holy Shit the Onion if Fucking Awesome! I'm laughing so hard I'm crying right now.