Audra – The object of your desire from John Carter was one of the main characters in the Texas football based “Friday Night Lights” TV show. That show grabbed my son’s attention, which eventually led to him deciding that he wants to get the heck out of California and go to UT Austin. You may want to check it out (on Netflix streaming).

On the topic of the transition from a book to film. I remember Michael Crichton being interviewed for the movie “Timeline” which was transitioned from a book he wrote. I think he said something to the effect that often it must be different. In the book, he spent about 50 pages developing the background of the time travel technology, and why there were “transcription errors” when traveling back and forth. In the movie, there was one line to describe all this technology “It’s like a fax machine.” Chricton said he would bore a movie audience to death if he tried to stay true to the book. So the book and the movie were different. And that was ok.

Similar with Hunger Games. So much of the book is exploring what Katniss is doing and thinking as she goes through the story. Most of this is without any dialog with other characters, so there really is no opportunity to stay true to the book without being awkward. In the book, there really is little attention paid to the Gamemaker (Seneca Crane) or all the stuff that is going on behind the scenes to make the games happen. However, this is a portion of the movie. Same thing. Book is different than the movie, and both (in this case) are pretty good.

Take care, and I will be less a stranger.

Mark in Sandy Eggo

Cheers

Now, SyFy isn’t as good anymore. There are not many Sci-fi shows in syndication. Plus, the biggest “sci-fi” craze is vampires. I could watch some of Buffy…but there’s too much Twilight influence.

I miss X-Files, Star Treks series, Battlestar Galactica, even Dark Angel. It seems like there will be a Star Wars series. But, that is still a few years away.

We need more sci-fi set in space.

And yes in case you can’t tell I am a Big Time Trekkie! So much so that me and a few mates recently had a heated debate (in public lol) about who was better, Picard or Kirk. I’m a Kirk man myself!

Donnie Iris & the Cruisers are online at http://www.donnieiris.com/ and http://www.twitter.com/donnieiris

Here’s a bio/story about the group:

http://popdose.com/the-popdose-guide-to-donnie-iris-and-the-cruisers-its-a-rough-world/

And here’s a link to Tis the Season TV:

http://tistheseasontv.com/

On Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/tistheseasontv

The complex web of life on our planet will live or die in the next 100 years based on whether we can get ourselves free of utter dependency on this single planatary source of absolutely everything we need to survive.

Of the slender thread that survival hangs on,
I have no doubt.

It is going to be a close race, but we will have the means to survive if we choose to do so. If we can stop our suicidal path towards infighting, hatred, and self destruction. We have it within ourselves to live. But we must choose to live and live as it we are worthy to do so.

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“We have to dream in order to survive.”
Dr. Beverly Crusher
Star Trek: TNG — “Night Terrors”
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In all, I dropped my monthly expenses about $125, and I haven’t regretted anything.

Heck, i even liked the Berbil episode 2 weeks ago!

Thanks again for the use of your image! And that youtube video is awesome! Keep up the great work!

~Shooter

Now that I can pick it up now with a more modern computer, it should be fun

Lets just hope I don’t get motion sickness (first happened when I was playing HL2. (hence why I like games like Batman – over the shoulder).

For those that have the pc version Crysis or Crysis Warhead there is a great total conversion mod based on the Mechwarrior universe.

website:
http://www.mechlivinglegends.net/

trailer:
http://youtu.be/lNFeE8mIlxQ

You might also want to check out Crysis Warhead. I don’t know if that has been ported to Xbox yet, but it is basically a new camping along the same lines as Crysis. You play as Psycho, the british guy from the first game. In my opinion, it is a little shorter, and a little more fun.

I religiously played that game for several months after release. First run through I did my “kill absolutely” everything that get’s in my way, Next, time out I tried to keep the body count low. Both were fun fun. The suit and the options you can use with it in your drive to win are really cool. The alien nest thing was vomit inducing in it’s weirdness (in a good way). Great story line for a shooter/stealth game. Well worth my coins and time.

I just can’t play fps games on the xbox near as good as i can the pc, or i’d be happy to hop in with you.

Either way, thanks for bringing the game back to my thoughts.

-Trey

I would have some concerns with all of this tech and having children these days.
I’m not sure if many of the children and young adults I know even know how to “disconnect” (even for a little while).

I’d like to see a Modern Geek podcast with advice on how teach our kids to be responsible and safe while using all this tech. How to protect/monitor kids internet experience and when is a good age for a kid to get a cellphone, or texting capability. That sort of thing.

I love all the gadgets, always have. Some I could afford, others, not so much. They expand my world. And they are soooo much fun.