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Seems like the Warners want to follow the success of Batman. Problem with Superman is, he isn’t a dark character. He’s really the opposite of Batman. They should focus on is more of a thought provoking theme. The Dark Knight did this very well thanks to Chris Nolan. It explored the role of Batman in a city full of crime and corruption. Where Batman is the pessimist, Superman is the optimist. He sees good when there isn’t. He doesn’t brood all day long. Perhaps the best thing is for the Warners to consult DC Comics on what kind of themes to use and not just follow the path of Batman. Warner Bros. owns DC Comics and yet they don’t really talk to one another.

I was surprised Ukraine taking the Men’s Individual Archery from Korea. And by 1 point too.

A Korean shooter got caught with performance enhancing drugs. It’s hard to control your rifle or bow if your arm twitches. As I mentioned earlier, a Canadian archer’s arm twitched quite a bit because he was most likely nervous. He might have done better if his arm was twitching less. Oh well.

There isn’t many other competitions left I care for. Diving will probably be the only one left I pay attention to. I really don’t care for gymnastics or track & field.

Watching the Archery semi-finals while waiting for the swimming I watched the match between Ellison Brady (USA) and John David Burnes (Canada). I noticed Burnes’ pulling arm twitch a lot. He looked really nervous, which may have accounted for his performance.

The Men’s 4×100 Freestyle relay was definitely the best swim so far. It will be fun if we see another relay race to the finish like that in the swimming competition.

I’ll probably make more comments about the Olympics as we go through it.

Watching the swimming in this Olympics, I find the female swimmers fairly larger than I remember. Yeh, they work out but jeez do they look big in the upper body.

A couple of the female Chinese gymnists look younger than 16 years old. Now I know about small Chinese girls, but they really look younger than 16.

You know with the Olympics in Beijing coming, crap like this really makes me wonder what Americans actually think Chinese eat. Although, I’d be tempted to eat lamb testicles only because the fish in the “steamed fish” has probably been tainted with mercury or other industrial waste. I’ll take my chances with the exotic food over food poisoning and more-chemicals-in-my-food. But really, most Chinese don’t eat those parts or weird animals often. Heck, maybe only once in their life will they actually eat that. Especially the people in the cities (like Beijing). And the weird stuff is in the tourist areas.

And stinky tofu is actually good… if you can ever get over the smell (think of really strong smelling cheese).

The Dark Knight was definitely one for the books. Probably one of the best interpretations of Batman and the Joker. I came out of the theater extremely satisified with Chris Nolan’s take on the Batman-mythology. If there’s one superhero flick that really just stands out above it all, The Dark Knight does it. I would definitely recommend second viewings of the movie. I’d probably watch the home release a few dozens times. It’s just that entertaining.

And by the way, don’t let anybody show you disappearing pencil tricks.

I’m in the market for a new PDA. Yes, PDAs went the way of the dinosaurs. Right now, my only only option is to go with a smartphone. Did I ever mention I hate those things? Or I should say, I hate becoming one of those people with those things. Every morning, I see the people traveling to and from work with them out. As well as their work phones forwarding to their smartphones and their phones going off everytime they get an e-mail. I hate the notion of being tied to work that badly. But considering there’s nothing else other than smartphones, I’m stuck.

1) Blackberry? Maybe. But I’m not really liking the size. Also, no 3G support an any of the current models.

2) Palm? No. Hell no. After 3 years of this PDA, I’m ready to toss it.

3) iPhone 3G? Right now, AT&T’s plan is pushing me away. My workplace will not give me a discount on the plan and phone either so as nice as it looks… This one is coming up no, unless I’m given an incentive to buy it.

4) iPod Touch? I really don’t want another iPod. I have the Classic and Nano.  For a PDA, this might work and there’s no cellphone (hence, no phone plan!), but software upgrades cost money because Apple has a crappy accounting plan for the Touch. I don’t really want to pay for upgrades that they should be offering for free (some might be security related which should be free).

5) Other? Getting an unlocked Nokia E66 or 6600 Slide might be hopeful, but integration might be an issue. It has 3G support, but I’m not sure about the integration.

I’ll probably be at this for a while.

Apparently, about half of Americans surveyed in this poll believe the ‘Net should be regulated by the government.

If you people don’t want to raise your kids, or learn not to hit the link about the Nigerian prince who needs money, then please get off the ‘Net. Seriously, get off. The ‘Net isn’t owned by America (hence WORLD-WIDE-WEB). And I really don’t want to apologize for your stupidity. If you really want something to regulate, why not those companies who are charging an arm and leg for their services. Like oil, ISPs or damn speculators who keep driving up prices everywhere they go.

It’s 9PM at night and Forcastfox says it’s 85 degrees F outside.

WTF.

Firefox 3 has been out for a few days now and with roughly 8 million downloads in 24 hours, I’d call that a sucess. Although, there are still some bugs in there that they should have fixed like the printing bug in Macs. Oh well. At least my extensions still work. So far, I like it. The interface hasn’t been revamped so bad like IE 7. That was a pain to navigate out of the box. With Firefox 3, I installed it, updated my plugins, checked a few things only to see that not much changed on the adjustable settings front. That was nice. Otherwise, everything was where I left it. So far, it has been less memory intesive than the previous versions and it does load faster than before.

The only thing keeping me from really abusing it…the damn heat. 2 days already. Hell, I’m typing with the lights out.

Image was not Photoshoped in any way. I’m really typing in the dark cuz it’s so damn hot.

Concerning the iPhone 3G

No. I don’t have a need for a smartphone, nor do I see myself needing one in the near future. With the integration of Push services for corporate stuff, it’s tempting. Not to mention GPS, slimmer profile and reduced price tag of $199 for the 8GB and $299 for the 16GB model. But I have to submit to a 2-year contract and I’m not going to jump on that. And I don’t need my pocket buzzing me every time I get an e-mail. I see those people in Downtown paying more attention to their phones than they do the road and I really don’t want that. Jeez people, can you separate yourselves from your e-mail and the ‘Net for more than 20 minutes? Maybe down the road, when the need for it is paramount, but right now, I like not being on-call.

Concerning gas prices

The most expensive gas near me is $4.89 for Premium. And you wonder why I take public transportation.