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Darren Naish, Tetrapod PHD fires off a really interesting scientists view of the creatures of the planet Pandora from James Cameron’s Avatar.

Kenna and I went to see Daybreakers last night on a whim.  If 70mm over-the-top blood explosions are your bag, this is the movie for you.
Directed by another Hollywood  brother team, Michael and Peter Spierig, I got the feeling they watched Zombieland and the last Rambo movie a bunch of times before they shot this. [...]

My buddy Erik has a witty and thought-provoking blog post about the drug-like phenomenon of microblogging.
I’m posting it on Twitter and Tumblr…

Best.     Movie.    Evar.

Two very helpful pieces of info that I learned in the past 24 hours:

Western Digital drives are preformatted with NTFS.  In order to install them on an Airport Extreme, you must first reformat them so they are writable by your mac clients.  Use Journaled (Extended).

A side note: Time Machine actually WILL work on the airport [...]

A really excellent interview with several of the concept designers for James Cameron’s new Avatar. Super cool to see that Wayne Barlowe was on the team!

So this morning, I looked outside and thought it might rain.  Heading over to Wunderground.com (the best weather station around, BTW), I tuned into the “wundermap”.  All these choices for overlays of Tornadoes (we’ve had three in the past twenty years!), Fires, Hurricanes, Brimstone, Illegal Aliens – it’s amazing.  So I fired up every single overlay [...]

Pat Watson and I are teaching a Maya Character Bootcamp this spring over at CSUMB.  Given this course outline (thank you Graffle), would you be interested in this class for $200?

Short post here.  I upgraded the blog to the latest version of WP.  What a pain.  It may be that I’m just a bonehead, but good GOD what a process.  No fun.
In other news, the Tumblr Blog now has comments.
What a boring post.  Sorry your RSS woke you up for this one..

There’s a need in my life for more complexity. So I’m starting a second blog.
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