A venerated sage with vast power and knowledge, you gently guide forces around you while serving as a champion of the light.
“Judge me by my size, do you? And well you should not – for my ally is the Force. And a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us, and binds us. Luminescent beings are we, not this crude matter! You must feel the Force around you, everywhere.” *source
I was kind of hoping to be a STer like Picard or Spock or Data… even Worf would’ve been fine. Turns out I am just an old little green hippie inside… we know these quizzes never lie!
In other news, the web’s abuzz about Google Wave. From the preview, I can’t decide whether they’re streamlining user-experience by collapsing multiple services into one, or creating an entirely new service that may even be too bloated with functionalities. But Google rarely disappoints and the fact that this is open source is good news and the real-time document editing capabilities look fantastic. I can’t even begin to describe how many times I’ve needed something exactly like this for collaboration projects, because Google Docs just does not do it… so I am definitely looking forward to when this thing actually comes out.
What I am really looking forward to though is this upcoming summer (yes, summer still hasn’t quite started here, you can still breathe in Montreal) there are some exciting things coming this way.
Stumbled upon this on twitter (“Finally, an easy way to reconcile the differences between Jews, Christians, & Muslims, with a nod to the mormons!” via @god appropriately enough). It’s a pretty funny observation… Speaking of trilogies, the next Trek is due out in 2011. Hopefully it follows the Lord of the Rings and not the Matrix sequel trajectory.
Think of it like a movie. The Torah is the first one, and the New Testament is the sequel. Then the Qu’ran comes out, and it retcons the last one like it never happened. There’s still Jesus, but he’s not the main character anymore, and the messiah hasn’t shown up yet.
Jews like the first movie, but ignored the sequels, Christians think you need to watch the first two, but the third one doesn’t count, Moslems think the third one was the best, and Mormons liked the second one so much they started writing fanfiction that doesn’t fit with ANY of the series canon.
This is “Ey Iran” performed by Iranian actors and actresses (for what I assume to be a film festival and/or new year’s celebration of some sort). The song is not the national anthem, but an ode to the country with a very interesting background history*. Weaving gorgeous strings of poetry it draws on pure and raw nationalism without imposing political ideology, and so is loved all across the political spectrum. The video is a montage of footages from the country’s best films (I was kinda excited to recognize some!) and incorporates musical elements from Iran’s ethnic minorities. It’s very well done for sure.
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A venerated sage with vast power and knowledge, you gently guide forces around you while serving as a champion of the light.
Speaking of trilogies, the next Trek is due out in 2011. Hopefully it follows the Lord of the Rings and not the Matrix sequel trajectory. 
