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    May 15, 2008

    Is the Apple Tablet Really A-Coming?

    I mentioned and posted about this before, but I guess I jumped the gun. A device that looks like this:

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    But wait! Did I? Here's the dealio:

    According to ZDNet.de, Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer confirmed that Apple would be using the Intel Atom processor in a future version of the iPhone. The new model will reportedly be a larger model with a larger display, correlating with circulating rumors about a mini-tablet (720x480) device rumored to be coming from Apple.

    720x480? Doesn't that look just about the size of the patent application diagram? Hmmmmmm...

    May 12, 2008

    Bye, Bye Speed Racer

    As I predicted, Speed Racer is bombing, mainly because it apparently sucks. So far, one call down, and Ironman is still booming at the box office. My doubtful Korean friends are all now true believers. I've even got one friend going again to see it. Hehe. Ironman, baby.

    May 05, 2008

    Feel the Force Unleashed

    And I'm going to crow again about my skills in divining the divine.

    Remember me going on about the Wii and The Force Unleashed?



    Now shut up and go buy that shit. Don't have a Wii? Well, get one. September, dude, September.

    April 29, 2008

    The Dark Knight Cometh

    Oh, yeeeeah. Oh, yeeeah.

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    This movie is going to unequivocally rock. Care to make an outing of it? Oh, yeeeeeah.

    April 27, 2008

    No, You Are Not Dreaming and You Better Get Your Jacket

    You know when you're arguing, or you're being stubborn about your point, you might say something like, "When pigs fly!" or "It'll be a cold day in Hell before" you'd ever do that thing? You might even say something like "When Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg do a country music duet!" before you think you'd ever pay $4 for a tank of gas in Ohio.

    Well, I'll just say that you might just have to take that last colorful metaphor off the list. The video's doesn't come in for the first few seconds, but just be patient. This is the entire performance.

    Better get your jacket ready for your trip.

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    April 15, 2008

    "He's Dead, Jim!"

    This was an irritating beginning to the week, so I thought I'd lighten up the mood for both myself and this blog, to show that even levity can come to the gravest of situations, given enough perspective.

    My favorite is when Jim responds to being told "the brain is gone," where he seems to react with "Brain...WTF...?" Ah, Star Trek.

    April 01, 2008

    A Sad Day Has Come

    This is the last time I will post here. My time as the "Metropolitician" is up.

    I've realized a lot of things over the last week or so, since falling for a certain young lady of a more conservative persuasion, who has quite literally rocked my world. I realize that a lot of the liberal ideas I had formerly and formally adhered to were largely misconstrued notions I had held, distortions of ideological ramifications that simply had no precedence in either established fact, dilapidated fiction, or even (and not either) the demonstrated dialectics of most people's dystopic desires.

    In short, a new kind of love has made me into a harder, more turgid man.

    No longer will I carry the torch for a a deluded liberalism, nor be the voice for lefty illiberality. What I truly hanker for is a haughty helping of a hunk of cheese that isn't defined in terms of a mere neo-Freudian kitsch, but the kind of cheese one can count on, like money in the bank; indeed, one needs sustenance so solid and reliable one can literally stick it in a pipe and smoke it.

    So I can no longer continue to write here, after having fallen for someone like the one who has learned to call me "oppa." Such is an experience I never thought I could have had, either as a black man, or a Star Trek fan, and her highly-developed sense of what I have previously called here mere "fetishized femininity" has caused in me an emotional rise that is quite epic in its tense and torpedo-like tautology. Indeed, they didn't call Moby a "Dick" for nothing, as they say. Unlike the proverbial Ahab, my little lady has actually caught her whale.

    When wondering why I have decided to forgo any further forays into formalism and endorse not Barack "Aladdin" Obama, but rather John McCain, the answer becomes perfectly obvious, does it not?

    When you ask yourselves these questions, as you struggle for the answers, yet still can't bring yourself to face the truth, realize that Tom Cruise once said, quite poignantly, that the "truth could not be handled" and that in a similar situation, Al Pacino pointed a finger and said that the entire Supreme Court was indeed, very much "out of order."

    In the same way, I was once out of love, and was so lost without her, but believe you me -- I now realize that it's hip to be square. Or did not Huey Lewis not give you that news?

    So, it is with heavy hands that I make my last entry here, since the Metropolitician that was me has completely and totally ceased to be he.

    For Pak Geun-hye's youngest daughter knows how to hit me where it counts, and to not just do that to me once, but likes to hit me, baby one more time, all the time, if you catch my meaning, number one Negaroni! See, I don't shrink away from saying, loudly and proudly, what needs to be said. And if you didn't get it from the passage above, you need a double dose of dis doubletalk. April mothafuckin' fool's, bitches!

    Word to your mother, yo!

    March 31, 2008

    You Feel the Need for Speed?

    How about 17,000 miles an hour, getting you into space in less than 2 minutes? From a camera on board the space shuttle from the ground to space? It is truly the shit. Seriously cool stuff.

    You feeling Monday morning yet, or do you still need that cup of coffee? Hehe.

    March 19, 2008

    The End of an Odyssey

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    I'm sad to report that Arthur C Clarke has died, and before we found any evidence of life on other planets, although the discovery of more than 200 extrasolar planets in the last decade surely had put some wind in his sails. He was ahead of his time from back in the 60's, and we're still catching up. I just rewatched 2001 very recently and was re-impressed with how he set helped set the bar for the limits of the human desire to explore beyond our closed inner space, even a year before Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon.

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    Interestingly enough, we just waxed rhapsodic about science fiction and its role in the West, as well as the genre in general, on Bomb English just this week. Of course, Mr. Clarke lived to a ripe old age of 90, but it was still nice to see the man still with us, chilling in his home in Sri Lanka. RIP, Mr. Clarke.

    March 04, 2008

    Great Freakout

    Watch for it...watch for it...



    Hehe. Good morning and happy Tuesday.

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