In yesterday’s entry, titled I am Mace Windu, I gave away an important plot point about Revenge of the Sith
without providing the customary spoiler warning. A small number of fans
patiently awating the movie’s release have been on me like flies on a bantha, and rightfully so. The oversight has been corrected, and my apologies to the fans.
[via Logan’s Dave] Here’s a cute little test that determines whether you’re drawn to the Light or Dark side of The Force. My result:
I am Mace Windu! The result also reads:
You are a Supreme bad-ass Jedi who resonates with the Force. Yoda is your best mate.
Update: There’s a punchline to this entry, but it’s a spoiler! It appears below…
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I’m quite happy with the latest version of Mac OS X, code-named
“Tiger”, although I suspect that a lot of the hot new features such as
the new XCode, Core Data and Core Image
are aimed sqaurely at programmers and won’t even indirectly affect
end-users until developers start cranking out application that use
these features.
There is one glitch I’ve noticed: every time I boot up, the Dock seems to forget some
applications that I’ve either dragged to it or marked as “Keep in
Dock”. Has anyone else had this problem?
Attention karaoke fiends of Accordion City: there’s a Kickass Karaoke tonight at Ciao Edie (489 College, just west of Bathrust) starting at 9 p.m.!
Here are some scene from the Kickass Karaoke on Sunday, May 8th at The Rivoli…
You’ll note that he’s gotten rid of the beard. He was tired of people coming up to him and asking “Where’s the accordion, man?!”
In the print edition of today’s National Post:
Three Days Until the Sith Hits the Fans
To kick off Star Wars week, here’s Bill Murray’s classic lounge rendition of the Star Wars theme from Saturday Night Live [1.0 MB MP3].
I wasn’t expecting much in the way of brainpower from the new free alternative paper Dose, but I did
expect them to have a reasonable grasp of the English language. That
grasp is a bit slippery, if the photo below is any indication:
From Dose’s Toronto edition, Wednesday, May 11, 2005, page 9.
It reads “PRINCE HARRY MAY be third in line for the thrown…”
(Memo to Dose: Dude, I shouldn’t have to point this out, but the word you’re looking for is “throne“.)
This sort of mistake goes beyond the garden variety “its/it’s” or “there/their/they’re” homophone trouble; we’re in “brain damage from inhaling solvents” territory here.
(Memo to Dose, just in case: A homophone is not a gay communications device.)
Before I go run out and enjoy this somewhat chilly Friday evening, I
thought I’d make one more entry, and this one goes out to anyone who’s
got shares in Tucows. I don’t know if any of the shareholders — who
were directed here from the Raging Bull site as a result of my Mark Cuban entry — are still reading this blog, but at half a million pageviews a month, there’s always a chance.
In the comments to the “I am Ten Scobles!” entry, I posed some questions but didn’t get any particularly useful answers. I’ll pose the questions again and see what I get.
What would you like to see from Tucows?
you like to be directly contacted, say via email if new developments
arise? Would you want to be notified during the “soft launch” or when
the launch is made generally public?
Let me know in the comments (or if you prefer, privately via email at jdevilla@tucows.com) and I’ll pass it along. I happen to be a pretty persuasive guy.