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©2005 Jason Cross
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 Wednesday, September 18, 2002 |
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No time, no time. Faithful readers, of which there are now likely only 4 rather than 5 due to a lack of updates, I will post more soon once I get caught up on other things! Check back soon, as I am going to see Ecks vs Sever this weekend, so you know I'll have to write about THAT! ;) |
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Monday, September 2, 2002 |
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Mom, Shawn, Misty, Keith, Sebbie, Nate and I went took a family trip to Omaha over the weekend, where we stayed downtown near the Old Market area and spent Sunday at the Henry Doorly Zoo. It had been over 14 years ago when I had last been to the zoo and being disappointed with the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, I was looking forward to the trip.
I mean, come on, Blank Park doesn't even have bears.
It took a good 5 or 6 hours to go through the zoo, and that was talking it fairly fast. We saw the Imax Kilimanjaro movie (note to self, add climbing Kilimanjaro onto life's todo list), visited the air conditioned desert dome, walked through the rainforest area, watched some gorillas, went through the aquarium, and much more stuff as well.
I'll have more later when I get my photos up.
The Fam and I - Click to Enlarge
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Using my theatre connections, I went to see Blue Crush on Friday. I went in with two expectations: surfer girls and cool surfing shots. What I got was a longing to visit Hawaii... but onto the movie.
Not bad, per se, not what I expected, which isn't necessarily a bad thing either, yet as it ended I felt a sense of pointlessness. Like the movie was heading towards a point that it just kind of missed.
The main character, whose name I can't remember though she's played by Kate Bosworth, was in a surfing accident two or three years prior and almost died. As the movie starts, she's gearing up for the "Pipe Masters" which appears to be some sort of surfing competition. Unfortunately, whenever she's getting ready to really go for it, her fear of getting hurt again holds her down.
So you think the movie would be about her overcoming this fear, though she never really does. In the competition she ends up sitting there scared most of the time until the wise pro-surfer in the round against her helps her just once overcome her fear and surf the perfect wave. She doesn't win, she doesn't overcome anything, but to wrap it up nicely a Billabong sponsor (which I guess is the maker of some sorts of surf stuff) wants to talk with her about joining their team. Too bad she'll probably continue freezing up out there. Oh well, I guess that's a problem for the fictional characters.
Despite this part of me liked the movie. Blame the surfer girls and cool surfing shots. |
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Late last week I finally saw Queen of the Damned on DVD. Having read the entire Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles series, I was hoping that it would be good yet fearing that odds are it wouldn't be.
Sadly, I was right in the latter of my judgements.
The movie bothers me with its stupidity in decisions. Vampires are described in the book as having a preternatural beauty and grace, so in the movie they look like heroin-strung addicts. They fill the movie with characters and settings that only make sense if you've read the books, yet they deviate from the books greatly in the history and reasoning of these characters.
Why make a movie that will only have a chance of appealing to the fans, and then screw with it in ways that are sure to annoy these fans?
And Aaliyah is actually in it for only 20 minutes or so. And she's not that good, though I blame the movie, not the late actress.
Queen of the Damned. Stay away from it. If you need a vampire fix, watch Angel. Sundays on WB. |
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Wednesday, August 28, 2002 |
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What *is* the plural of Praying Mantis? Mantises? Manti? Hmm.
Before yesterday I had never seen a live praying mantis in my life, despite their being one of my favorite insects (shows what kind of kid I was that I had a favorite insect!). Now I've seen three in two days, all downtown near our building, one outside our break room window on the 19th floor. Odd.
Maybe it's a sign. God has sent his most devout creature, the insect that can't help but pray. Probably not though. |
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Sunday, August 25, 2002 |
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This weekend was Gnomedex - the Lockergnome convention held annually. I have the pleasure of calling many of the Lockergnome staff my friends, so that, combined with the fact that we're doing a CrossPaths-Lockergnome partnership assured my being there.
Gnomedex is great.
I've been to a number of "computer conventions" and none of them compare. There were about 400 attendees, which makes it relatively small, but that's part of the charm because you actually meet people, recognize and get to know them. Chris Pirillo, the Lockergnome himself (and host of TechTV's Call for Help) brought in a great group of speakers. What's really cool about Gnomedex is that these speakers don't just talk and leave; instead they mingle in the crowd, attend the other talks, and chat with the people at the show. It's pretty amazing.
Highlights from the show for me were:
* Seeing Chris and Gretchen again for the first time since last year.
* Seeing Phil and Kacie again for the first time since last spring.
* Meeting Jennifer Goodenow from Spindustry finally!
* Getting a great positive response for the new CrossPaths Pay-As-You-Go plan and the Gnomies.com ISP.
* Getting up on stage with Chris and Lori to talk about the new Gnome ISP with CrossPaths, my cell phone ringing (in silent mode) and cutting out my microphone, and Lori attempting to answer my cell as I talked with it still attached to my belt clip.
* Meeting the sales people for MediaFour, the Des Moines-based company who creates MacDrive. Particularly the cute saleswoman.
* Being confused for someone else twice (two different people confusing me for two different people), one of who thought I went to Iowa State, another thought I was their friend's old roommate.
* Walking back into the Marriott lobby after booth teardown and finding Steve Gibson, Leo Laporte, and Mark Thompson just sitting together on some couches in a corner of the lobby just talking.
* Helping Jennifer sneak Chris' digital camcorder behind his back and recording people congratulating him about Gnomedex, including recording Steve Gibson, Leo Laporte, and the outstanding Megan Morrone, the latter two of who are actual TechTV celebs. It's just pretty cool thinking that I have actually filmed two TV personalities. It was really funny when I was prepping Megan with the "Ok, counting down from 3, 2, 1..." and she was like "Yeah, I get it, though they don't usually say '1'".
* Talking about blogs with Evan Williams, the founder of Blogger.
* Learning that there was a point in 2001 when Evan was the only Blogger employee, yet they came back from it and are arguably the most successful blogging company out there.
* Learning how Phil "Pud" Kaplan of FuckedCompany got his start and basically makes all this money from completely automated page systems he's created.
* Seeing Leo Laporte and David Lawrence sing "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" to each other during the karaoke session.
* Ms Gnomedex 2002 - Gnome-Girl's winning performance.
* Hearing Doc Searls talking about the fact that open-source and commercial software both have their place and that much innovation is due to commercial software - which is absolutely what I believe but was not expecting to hear.
* Standing right there next to Steve Gibson listening to Doc speak.
* Lori and her usual party antics!
* Finding out how much of a Gnome-geek Steve Mays from Learfield / RadioIowa is.
Oh, and there was so much more. Like I said, it was a great great time. Heck, meeting Evan Williams and Megan Morrone was worth it!
Pictures to come... |
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Saturday, August 17, 2002 |
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Last night I had the, well, I won't say pleasure so let's just say occurrence, of watching "The New Guy" on DVD.
Yeesh.
As most people who know me, or at least read what I write about movies on occasion, know that I'm pretty forgiving about movies. I don't expect Shakespeare when it's not meant to be Shakespeare. It's a good way to be, as there are lots of movies out there that aren't great by any means but have their charm.
The New Guy ain't one of them.
It's about this kid who enters his senior year hoping to be more than just a loser, gets horribly embarassed, goes to prison for a day or so for no real reason, gets the idea from an inmate he befriends that if he gets expelled and sent to a new school, he can start acting all tough and crazy and be popular, does so, and becomes so before the inevitable unveiling of who he used to be by the bullies at the old school. And of course all is forgiven because even though he supposedly has a reputation as a crazy killer of a guy at the new school, he still has a heart of gold.
Throughout the movie we also see him in and out of prison, just visiting it appears, but still allowed in among all the kind-hearted inmates. And we see Jerry O'Connell and his brother who are way too old to still play high school guys. And we see football games that play out in mere minutes. And we see Eliza Dushku trying out bathing suits. That was the good part. The only good part in the whole movie.
No wait, there was a second, Zooey Deschenal was in the movie.
Do yourself a favor - don't see this movie. Don't be stupid like me. If given the choice between this movie and unnecessary dental work, choose the movie, but at least think hard about it before doing so. |
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Saturday, August 10, 2002 |
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I can't believe people are still confused by the Widescreen vs Fullscreen (aka pan-and-scan) formats. Bigger ain't necessarily better when it means having the sides cut off people!
Fortunately, some people still keep an open mind and are willing to change their view... ;) |
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Today I caught a matinee of xXx, aka XXX, aka Triple-X, aka that new Vin Diesel movie. The movie was developed to be sort of the Bond of the younger generation - a younger secret agent who is flawed and into extreme sports-type things like dirt biking and cliff-jumping.
It was pretty good, a fun ride, with lots of action pieces. I liked the Xander Cage character, as he had a sort of sense of humor through the whole thing, and am interested to see how the franchise evolves (XXX2 is already a sure thing). I also liked the way that X didn't kill people unless necessary, instead using knock-out darts part of the time. Bond is so blase about killing.
There was a preview for The Transporter in front of XXX, which is the new Luc Besson movie. It has the guy who played Turkish in Snatch in it (that reminds me - Phil, don't forget to bring back my Snatch DVD when you come back next week) and looks pretty cool. I loved Besson's work in Leon: The Professional and The Fifth Element, so this should be interesting. |
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Last night I went to see the movie Signs. Was it good, you ask? Eh, I'm not sure.
Don't read this entry if you don't want to see some details having to do with the ending of the movie.
You see, I really like parts of the movie. REALLY like parts of it. But at the same time I REALLY dislike parts of the movie as well.
M. Night Shyamalan can sure make a creepy as hell movie, this proves. And I like thew concept of a movie centered around people on the periphery of an alien phenomena and not right in the center of it like in most movies (*cough* ID4 *cough*), but at the same time its handling of the plot, heavy-handedness of the theme and ending, and its real lack of reasoning behind the aliens motives, make it leave a bad taste in my mouth.
I mean, come on, aliens travel all this way "just to start a ruckus?" to steal from what Will Smith's character said in ID4. And not only that, but WATER hurts them, and they seemed to have missed that fact until too late, despite, oh, the commonness of water on Earth.
I wish Night would make a sequal to Unbreakable. I would love to see that. |
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Thursday, August 8, 2002 |
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From the "Ask Jeeves" Day Calendar:
How did Nostradamus predict all those future events?
It has been convincingly suggested that, as a politically active Protestant living during the Inquisition, Nostradamus often talked in code about contemporary occurrences rather than trying to predict the future. Regardless, his maddening obscurity has been interpreted long after his death in dozens of different ways, showing that if you're obscure enough, put no time limit on your "predictions," and have thousands of people reinterpreting and retranslating your words for centuries afterward, you can be an amazing psychic too. |
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Monday, August 5, 2002 |
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Ah yes, time for the National Balloon Classic, that time of year when balloonists from around the city, the state and the country descend upon (or rather ascend from and then descend upon) Indianola for our 9-day balloon festival.
Growing up in Indianola, it's easy to forget that there are quite a few people who have either never or else very rarely have seen a hot air balloon in person. When you live here, you kind of take them for granted, as during the summer, it's a rare calm day NOT to see at least one in the sky.
I've crewed for a few balloons - Midnight at the Oasis (Christine's balloon!), Pup's Delight and O'Henry. For the uninitiated, crewing means that we help set up and take down the balloon, as well as chase after it while it's in flight.
Conditions only allowed for two flights this weekend, so hopefully things will clear up for the rest of the week. It's an awful lot of fun, and it strikes me that they still seem quite beautiful even after all these years of having seen them.
Sadly, Christine was injured :( in a post-landing mishap through no fault of her own. Breaking your wrist in three places is an ordeal, as is missing the classic because of it, but it sure beats an in-flight problem! It's sad though, 'cause she loves ballooning so much, and being an Indianolian with her wings clipped during *our* event is a magnitude harder than missing some other balloon event.
Oh yeah, and Keith and I still hope to get a balloon of our own one of these years. So watch out you other balloonists - 'cause we'll come to play! ;) |
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Wednesday, July 31, 2002 |
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Had lunch at Spaghetti Works with Brandon today. That's right, THE Brandon from the band Elixyr.
If any of the 5 readers are music company moguls, check 'em out! Heck, the rest of you can, too. |
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Sunday, July 28, 2002 |
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For this weekend's movie "review"...Austin Powers in Goldmember.
I generally liked the movie. There were some really funny parts (such as the opening sequence) and some really unfunny parts (such as Goldmember himself). Many of the jokes were retreads, but that was kind of expected. The cameo by The Osbournes was a funny bit for me, as I've recently started watching their show (better late than never!).
I don't really get why they even used the character of Goldmember as he was fairly pointless. I was hoping he'd be the central villain (you know, like how James Bond has MORE THAN ONE VILLAIN!), with Doc Evil in the background, but it was not to be.
As with most third-or-higher sequels, if you liked the earlier movies, you'll probably find this one worthwhile, otherwise odds are you wouldn't be considering it anyway! |
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Friday, July 26, 2002 |
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My car is starting to worry me. First the A/C, then the brakes, and now the CD player and the driver's door lock is acting up. It might be time to cut my losses and trade 'er in. I mean, you'd think these are unrelated parts, so it's not like one leads to the other.
So this raises the question... what next?
Maybe a used Mercedes M-Class... Luxury SUV... Mmm... |
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Sunday, July 21, 2002 |
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This afternoon, Ian and I braved the 100+ pre-heat-index temperatures to go see that fine cinematic masterpiece...Eight Legged Freaks.
An homage to those giant bug movies of yesteryear (think "Them"), Eight Legged Freaks (or ELF as I will call it, as these were the guys behind ID4) was all spiders, little plot, which was expected.
David Arquette wasn't TOO spastic, and Kari Wuhrer is always nice to see (it's been a while since her stint on "Sliders" but, yeah, she's still got that sci-fi cheese charm). And Scarlett Johnason from Ghost Worlds was in it. And the spiders were funny. And most of the town died, but in none-gruesome ways.
Isn't it weird how in movies spiders make all sorts of noise, but in real life never a peep? Hmm... |
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Saturday, July 20, 2002 |
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Yowza, it is too hot outside.
I'm going to be on Gnomeradio Sunday at 7pm, so for you readers in the DSM area, tune into 1350am. Oh, and please call with your questions! Give us something to do! |
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Sunday, July 14, 2002 |
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Crikey! Did every movie come out at once this weekend or something? Yeesh! I haven't yet made it to Croc Hunter: Collision Course yet, but I did make it to two movies, both of which I will treat you, the faithful five, with a review of in my oh so special style.
Reign of Fire
Reign of Fire was a movie I had been looking forward to for a couple years, pretty much since it started production. I first heard about it a while back when I read somewhere the Alexander Siddig (formerly Siddig El Fadil) - Dr. Bashir of DS9 fame - was in it. As I read more, the concept of dragons in modern day against modern weaponry sounded cool. So now, years later, I have seen it.
I really liked the movie, more so in retrospect as I think about it. Ebert gave the movie a horrific review (1.5 stars) which had me scared, so I waited to read his take on it after seeing the movie for myself. I think he was WAY off base, nitpicking at the most minor details and in general acting like an elitist ass who made his decision to not like the movie from concept alone.
The dragon designs were cool, the action and concept had some originality, and it wasn't afraid to keep things dark and sacrifice the lives of characters for realism in the situation.
Road to Perdition
I don't envy Sam Mendes. His Freshman effort was American Beauty (for which he won an Oscar and forgot to thank the writer, Alan Ball) and now his Sophomore effort looks like it could pretty easily do the same. Now THAT is a tough act to follow up on. He and Tom Hanks probably get together and talk about this expectation of greatness that now hangs over their heads.
It's a sumptuous movie, unafraid of going slowly and letting people simple *act*. It's full of shades of grey characterwise, the blurred line between good and evil, and boils down to a father's acceptance of his own decisions in life yet not wanting his son to follow the same path.
Funny thing, it really pulled the old people into the theater. Hearing this old woman next to me say "get him!" before someone got shot was odd. I suppose maybe she lived in 1931. |
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Tuesday, July 9, 2002 |
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Today I took the day off from work and went to Adventureland with my sister Misty, her husband Keith, and my nephews Sebastian (almost 5) and Nate (2.5).
It was a great day for it, as there were relatively few people there despite being a nice sunny day, so the waits on all of the big non-water rides were pretty much nothing. I was very surprised to find that despite not being 5 yet, Sebbie was tall enough to ride the rollercoasters, which he did, including sitting in the very front seat on two of them with me!
Nate really like the ladybugs ride, though I think he liked looking down at the fish in the "river" and visiting the candy shop just as much!
I'm now kind of sunburnt, but ah well, it was worth it! |
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Sunday, July 7, 2002 |
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A quick blurb for those who look to JasonCross.com for your movie reviews...
Watched Shallow Hal on DVD this weekend. Jack Black looked more cleaned-up than normal, which kind of detracted from his funniness, though Gwyneth Paltrow was great. Great performance and great looking. Mmm...Gwyneth...
I give the movie a general recommendation. You don't have to drive so fast to the video store to get it that you hit the occasional curb, tree, or schoolchild, but if you're looking for a flick with some fun and a good message, get it eventually.
Ms Paltrow, as I'm sure you are one of the five JasonCross.com readers, I would just like to say that I think all those who claim to dislike you for this or that reason are just suffering from sour grapes syndrome. |
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On Friday I bought Warcraft III for my PC. This is a big deal for a couple reasons:
1 - I don't actually buy computer games that often.
2 - I don't usually play computer games that often anymore, as I tend to lose interest pretty darned fast. Short attention span. Ritalin needed.
3 - Blizzard, the creators of such minor games as, oh, Diablo, Starcraft, and, oh yeah, Warcraft I and II, are known for top-notch games, and the buzz had been killer on WC III for some time.
So I stopped by my trusty local Best Buy and spent $60 on the game.
It's held my attention for a day so far, which is better than many (and no, that's not a day solid - probably more like 4 hours). The graphics are very good, not the best ever, but still really good. The gameplay is solid real-time-strategy fun (none of that turn-based junk here!), and it's got a decent storyline.
Hmm, now I have an excuse to upgrade my computer! ;) |
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Saturday, July 6, 2002 |
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After some time without, it has begun to rain in the last few days. Unfortunately, it hasn't been enough to make much of a difference, yet at least. My hostas are wilting, my grass is brown, my ground is cracked and seething (well, maybe not seething, but it sounded good.)
It was funny yesterday, when it was pouring like crazy when Ian and I left Best Buy (I bought Warcraft III for the PC - more on that another time), but halfway between Des Moines and Indianola is was completely dry and sunny. Weird.
A couple hours later I was driving back to DSM to get a new battery for my car, and there was this point about halfway there where while I was driving in dry sunlight, I could see about a quarter-mile forward on the highway a wall of rain. It's always odd to just drive immediately into a downpour that you can spot rather than a gradual start of rain. |
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Monday, July 1, 2002 |
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My uber-secret radio contact - code name "Eric" - got me a pair of tickets to the Star102/Lazer103 screening of Men In Black II this evening. I had enjoyed the first MIB so I was looking forward to this one, plus the added cool-factor of seeing it early. That's not to mention the whole free part.
What did I think? It was fun. I really like the whole MIB world, with the black suits, chrome guns, and wacky alien designs. Lara Flynn Boyle was hot as hell, and Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith continue to make a great contrast in style with each other.
So will you like it? If you liked the first one, odd are this one is a good bet. Is it the most original thing ever? No, it's a sequal. Is it a fun 90 minutes? You betcha. |
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Wednesday, June 26, 2002 |
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Tonight I went to an I-Cubs game with my sis, her husband, my two nephews, and my mother. It was a slow game (no hits by the time we left) and was pretty hot out, with the sun right in our eyes, so we didn't stay too long. The kids were getting antzy.
It was too bad, because I generally like going to Iowa Cubs games. Sure, they're minor league and aren't always the best, but Sec Taylor is a great stadium and it can be pretty relaxing just to sit in a good seat and watch a little live baseball.
My favorite name for a AAA team is the Las Vegas 51ers! |
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From a reader:
"hay my name is jason cross 2"
Yup. |
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Monday, June 24, 2002 |
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From news.com.au:
Scientists Mix Spiders With Goats
LONDON: As comic book hero Spider-Man fills cinemas with his webby adventures, prepare to meet an equally astonishing creation - Spidergoat.
Scientists have combined the DNA from a goat and spider to create an animal which produces silk that is five times stronger than steel. The fibre, derived from the goats' milk, harnesses the huge strength of silk spun by spiders.
The breakthrough could be worth millions because the silkmilk fibre can be used to make body armour which is far tougher than normal bullet-proof vests – while weighing little more than a cotton shirt.
The hybrid goats were created by the insertion of a single gene from an orb-weaving spider into a fertilised goat egg.
The amazing genetically-engineered goats are outwardly normal, but carry the gene responsible for production of a spider silk protein. Each goat is only 1/70,000th spider, but when fully grown the females produce a milk which can be treated to produce a fibre with spider-silk strength.
The animals are believed to be the first commercially-viable creatures made from the DNA of two species.
Nexia, the Canadian biotech company which produced the goats, hopes the fibre – dubbed Biosteel – could take a large chunk of the billion-dollar market in industrial fibres.
WEEEEIRD! But kind of cool too. Hope the Spidergoat doesn't grow some sort of large abdomen and start attacking school kids. And Keith pointed out to me that one has to wonder why they use a goat and not something larger like a cow, which could in theory produce greater quantities of this milky silk. Hmm.
There's a web site for Biosteel up here at Nexia Biotech.
I want a bulletproof t-shirt! Bring on the Spidergoat! |
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Sunday, June 23, 2002 |
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That's right, you read me, go see Minority Report. Now. What are you waiting for? Quit reading and go.
Ok, so it's obvious if you're still reading this that you aren't going this instant. That's all right, I'll just assume that it's not because you disobey JasonCross.com, but maybe because you live in a world without movies, or because you're blind, or because you're waiting to take a hot date there.
Minority Report is a fine movie. I don't want to say too much and give it away, but suffice it to say that it's great to see a movie where for once the preview doesn't give it all away. The futurist in me loves the technology in the movie; the liberal in me is frightened by the future lack of privacy; the movie lover in me is pleased with the good plot, acting, effects, and tight pacing. |
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Wednesday, June 19, 2002 |
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Things are finally getting back to their normal "insano" levels at work, as opposed to the "mega-insano" levels they've been at for the past few weeks. And yes, those are technical terms! ;)
So the time to take a trip, use up some of those vacation hours, might be coming nigh. Thoughts...
Maybe I'll head out to Colorado Springs to visit Phil and Kacie, though I should let the homefires quit burning a bit first. Mmm...smoked Chipotle...
I'd also like to go out to the Bay area, or possibly down to Florida, though those might be better suited for Fall/Winter trips.
Hmm... Any ideas? Post a comment! |
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