Friday, April 15, 2011

Question of the week: Wood chucking woodchucks

Question of the week: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck would.


Wood-chucking woodchucks..


Reality or myth?



 Joke, or real a threat?!

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Detroit Shoots Down Idea To Erect ‘Robocop’ Statue in City

I seems that not all attempts result in immediate success. It may have to do with the intended material (I admit I am biased), but maybe we can extract some lessons out of the trials of our robotic friend here.



The following article was written by Peter Sciretta:


 

"  I’m sure you saw the Chrysler’s “Imported From Detroit” Super Bowl commercial featuring Eminem. Detroit has an image problem, and steps have been taken to spin the city’s image back in a more positive direction. Detroit Mayor Dave Bing has been soliciting the internet for suggestions on how to clean up the city and its image. One follower suggested that Detroit erect a giant statue of Robocop.  Mayor Dave Bing actually responded.


 
I for one actually think it’s a great idea. Erecting a Robocop statue in the city would instantly create a new tourism opportunity, and bring a sense of pride back to the city. Pennsylvania has gotten a lot of mileage out of the iconic Rocky statue, and smaller locales like Vulcan , Alberta , Canada have followed suit, erecting a Starship Enterprise Statue. The only problem with having a Robocop statue in Detroit is that the movie wasn’t shot in Detroit. While the film’s story is set and will forever be associated with the city, the movie was actually shot mostly in Pennsylvania and Texas, with only a couple exterior shots filmed in Detroit."
 
Source: http://www.slashfilm.com/detroit-shoots-idea-erect-robocop-statue-city/

Friday, April 8, 2011

Erecting a wooden statue

When first opening a blogger profile a random automated question is posed. The goal, I suppose, is for people to get to know you better ( it may be the real you, or the ideal image of you, whatever).
This was my random question: 

-Your people want to make a statue in your honor. What will it be made out of and what victory will it commemorate?

I immediately decided that if (when) 'my people' decided I needed a statue I wanted it to be made out of wood. 'tis a noble material, is it not? 
(I ruled out iron, I hate iron:it's ugly and it smells funny).


My wooden statue wood rise above all and it would commemorate Me. Just plain Me. After this bit of ego-tripping I descended back to earth to face the fact that my statue (wooden or otherwise) wouldn't be erected within the foreseeable future. I decided therefore to attach something blog-ish to my blogger account and consider it me carving out my own wooden statue.


I'd like my wooden statue to look something like this: 




minus the weird bird, of course, and with some clothes on (my mother would freak).And maybe my hands would be reaching towards the sky. Yeah, that would be nice.