Another Rumor Verified

But this time, it's actually a good rumor. Some of you might be familiar with The Forever War and might be interested to hear it's being made into a movie. Finally.

Falling water images

Same video as Steve sent around ...

http://gizmodo.com/5036399/inkjet+like-smart-waterfall-makes-animated-falling-water-show

In use in Jeep auto show, 2007(?) ... (looks like it was in use since 2001)

http://www.core77.com/blog/videos/jeep_waterfall_5379.asp

More video clips and bio of the innovator here, Steven Pevnick ... he's been doign these since the mid 80's .. almost as long as Deskjets have been around.

http://www.uwm.edu/~pevnick/index1.html

A different kind of holiday pagent?

I know I talk about things i hear in church here a lot ... hopefully you guys are willing to put up with that from me as the group's token religious wacko. :) Anyway ...

The Unitarian church we’ve been going to is putting on a holiday pageant. The theme is “Life from Darkness”. This is in keeping with the recent theme in their class each Sunday … but it’s not exactly what I learned in Sunday school.

When I picked up Daniel after church last weekend, he showed me a picture of how universe was created. No Adam and Eve, no garden of paradise or seven days parable. It was a picture of the big bang that he had drawn, after talking about it in class.

So instead of dressing up like shepherds and wise me, my son will probably be Pluto, or mabye a neutrino, or maybe even a strand of DNA in his holiday pageant (note: this is my wild speculation ... I know there will be costumes, I don't know what they will be yet). It almost feels like something that could be in a Ben Stiller movie making fun of new age churches. Part of me think this is really cool, but the old traditional Catholic in me is a little unnerved at the same time …

… in a good way, I think.

p0wned

Former UBS executive Mitchel Guttenberg was sentenced to six and a half years in prison today for his involvement in illegal insider trading. source

Perhaps more importantly, four former General Re executives and one former AIG executive ( Christopher Garand, Ronald Ferguson, Elizabeth Monrad, Robert Graham and Christian Milton) were convicted of defrauding shareholders of somewhere between $544 million and $597 million. These crooks could face a life sentence. source