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I will get rid of the tired Richard Hatch “alliance”
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alliances! Its become The Idiot’s Survivor First Move.
I have more military tactics than Alexander the Great
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The Idiot’s Survivor Second Move: You are in a tribe
for 5 minutes and scheming who you will take with you to The Final Two.
I
have a fresh, new approach to the game. While I hate being outside,
can’t swim (yet), I can make fire! So if anyone reading this knows the
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That’s me learning how to make fire by a Masai
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me with my personal sherpa in Pokhara, Nepal on a trek in 2001), Tibet,
Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, and West Africa, I think Survivor would be a cake
walk (because I have read Clauswitz on War). I will be the 17th Sole
Survivor.
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“Jumper” (YES), The Spiderwick Chronicles” (YES), “Vantage Point” (YES),
and “Definitely, Maybe” (YES).
Jumper. Redacted review for TDH: Finally a superpower
human without the need to do good for humanity. No ending since it’s a
90 minute trailer for Christensen’s starring franchise.
Remember the old days when knowledge was jealously
guarded by, first the pharaohs and kings, and then the Catholic Church?
With the internet, there is no more secret knowledge. It’s all out
there. And now it’s more important to be beautiful than smart. You can
get bank loans for cosmetic surgery, so what’s next to set people apart?
Well, in the near, after we have been genetically engineered to be
beautiful, we’ll want super powers.
But
right now it’s just a squirmy quirk of mutant DNA. When David Rice was
five years old his mother vanished and he was raised by a brutal,
neglectful father who never brought him a birthday gift or noticed his
son had an unusual gift. This gift, by the way, only serves David.
When a teenager, an accident causes David to
consciously recognize his power to teleport anywhere. It took him 12
years to dope things out.
After learning about David’s teen years, we “jump”
forward to present time, where David (Hayden Christensen) is living The
Life in a luxury duplex in New York City! He goes into bank vaults and
takes as much cash as he wants. (I would go to Hermes, thereby “jumping”
the two year wait list for “the Birkin”.) But David is a really good
guy. He leaves I.O.U.s. He can take stuff with him (unlike Invisible
People who have to go around naked).
Apparently,
for some reason, David needs “jump sites.” I’ve been to the Sphinx.
David goes there in 1900, before the onslaught of the tourists, The
Mall, Pizza Hut and KFC. (Did you know the Sphinx, whose legacy was to
look out into Infinity, now has a Pizza Hut and KFC directly in front of
it blocking Time and Space? You can buy a high-rise apartment looking
out at the Sphinx’s broken nose.)
The Sphinx is one of David’s jump sites. No one sees
him sitting on top of the Sphinx’s head. Zahi Hawass, High Priest of The
Sphinx and Great Pyramids complex, is off-site digging in sand for a
bigger find than Howard Carter.
With the world literally his, David decides to go
back to his hometown and romance his high school first crush, Millie
(Rachel Bilson).
Hey, David’s life is shattered when he finds out he’s
not the only one with this talent. And, he’s targeted for death. He’s
being tracked by Griffin (Jamie Bell) for 10 years. Griffin must be
obsessed with David since he has a police wall charting his every more.
Griffin is also a Jumper.
Griffin
doesn’t bother to explain a thing, especially about the nefarious
Paladins, a centuries-old secret society that has been hunting Jumpers.
They are all- powerful and vanquish Jumpers with high doses of
electricity (tethers). David’s nemesis is fanatic Roland (Samuel L.
Jackson) who believes that the Jumpers are snubbing their nose at God.
Maybe Jumpers are really genetically engineered by an
even more powerful secret society. Wait, that’s Jumper 3.
David runs into Griffin at the Coliseum and, followed
by Roland’s men – who can “jump” also – the fight destroys the place.
David has taken Rachel there to impress her by getting into a big fight
and destroying the place.
I liked the special effects and the storyline – thin
though it was. The full story must have been tethered into the
netherworld.
I will not ruin the silliness of David’s parentage
“reveal” that desperately needs a script doctor asap, or bland Bilson.
Only Bell, with a bemused hobo look (and a unrealized homoerotic
fixation on David that will be dealt with in his Berber lair dwelling).
This franchise has a lot of potential but what
happened to director Doug Liman? He seems to have directed “Jumper” from
the sofa of his “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” mansion. There is absolutely no
heat between Christensen and Bilson or Christensen and Jackson.
I visited Christ the Redeemer, the world's largest
statue of Jesus, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil twice already. I also took
the glass-paneled cable car, that runs along a 1400-metre route, to
Rio’s Sugarloaf Mountain.
The Christ statue is 130ft tall, is made of 700 tons
of reinforced concrete and stands atop the 2,296ft Corcovado mountain
overlooking the city.
The statue was struck last Sunday during a
thunderstorm causing havoc in Rio and felling trees in several
neighborhoods but did not damage the statue. Christ the Redeemer was
named one of the new Seven Wonders of the World in 2007.
I know that Brazilians consider this a portentous
event. It is an omen of coming disaster.
Madonna New Face (pictured
with her daughter) recently hosted a celebrity-studded event on the
lawns of the United Nations to aid Malawi orphans, UNICEF, and to
inaugurate a new Gucci store.
Madonna was promoting Third World orphans and a grand
opening of a luxury store as celebrities got gift bags filled with a
Gucci bag and Gucci products. Am I the only one seeing irony here?
Madonna told the crowd: "I've earned a reputation for
many things: pushing the envelope, for being a provocateur, for never
taking no for an answer. For endlessly reinventing myself, for being a
cult member, a kidnapper. For being ambitious, outrageous and
irreverent. And for never settling for second best."
US scientists say they have produced embryos that are clones
of two men, in an attempt to produce patient-specific stem cells.
Well, at least that’s what they say they are doing.
But we know better.
Researchers removed DNA from donated human eggs, and
replaced it with DNA from the skin cells of two volunteers. They
produced embryos with genetic material that matched the men's, but did
not go on to extract stem cells.
Only
400 Years in the Future. David Levy, a PhD in gender studies and
artificial intelligence and author of "Sex with Robots: The Evolution of
Human-Robot Relations", predicts sex with an electronic femme-fatale or
a superstud sexbot will become an accepted part of the human landscape.
"Think of it: great sex on tap, 24/7," he said.
People may even fall in love with their hard-wired sex slaves, he adds.
First Chakra Nirvana. That’s what we called sex at
the Bihar, India ashram.
Last
November, researchers in Japan unveiled a robot, named Twendy-One, that
can cook, talk, obey verbal commands, and use its soft silicon-wrapped
hands -- each equipped with 241 pressure sensors -- to interact with
humans.
The sexbot Gigolo Joe was played by Jude Law
(pictured) in Steven Spielberg's 2001 film "Artificial Intelligence: A.I."
Gigolo Joe had a heart and provided chat and emotional support as well
as sex.
A
company in Japan, Axis, has already produced the world's first,
rudimentary, sexbot -- for men. Called Honeydolls, the lifesize figures
are made from surgical-grade silicone and resin, and are equipped with
voice-emitting sensors in each breast. Pinch the nipples, and Cindy (or
Soari or Maria, depending on the model) will react with a squeal and
whisper pre-programmed sweet nothings in one's ear. Customized MP3 audio
files can be substituted for a more personal touch. Price tag: $7,000.
Will Ferrell (pictured) has already been approached
by Axis and done sittings for their Honeyman series.
Axis knows its buyer is a sensitive dude. New love
dolls have built-in sensors that cause her to moan as if she were in the
throes of orgasm. The silicon Honey Dolls are equipped with touch
sensors which when (im)properly touched will activate the built-in MP3
player and make the dolls moan with different sounds. The moans, as
provided by the manufacturer or ones you program yourself, are heard via
a speaker located in the head of the doll.