The Year of the Tiger roared into Mississauga on Saturday evening to the loud drums and cymbals of a lion dance at the Fo Guang Shan Temple in Meadowvale.
OMG, this video is awesome! It makes me want to play the game! I wonder if this is going to be a new trend in merging games with movies. After all, most of the models required for the CG in the movies would be already modeled within the game.
The cost to produce the movie would’ve been absorbed into the cost of producing the game, with the movie providing a lot more revenue for the game publisher.
Furthermore, the short movie trailer, in this case, would promote the game, which in turn, would promote a full length feature movie to be released in the end.
It would be nice to watch a two-hour representation of the game whose story line you had been drawn so deeply into during the course of finishing the game.
I definitely think this game-movie partnership would be a new trend in the gaming future.
The above is a link from Media Matters about doctored FOX News broadcasts. I must say I’m quite a news purist, preferring to catch people in action than to even set up a portrait for my shots.
Using footage from a separate news cast is definitely unacceptable.
If you know where to look, you might just find an officially unlocked iPhone.
As I have been in the market for a good smartphone for a while now, I have been doing some research off and on about iPhones.
According to this blog post by Olly Farshi in Helsinki, Apple can actually unlock your iPhone. It’s as simple as giving Apple your IMEI, and upon synchronizing it with iTunes.
In the Hong Kong version of the Apple online store, there is a message on the web site that states
iPhone 3G & iPhone 3GS purchased at the Apple Online Store can be activated with any wireless carrier. Simply insert the SIM from your current phone into iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS and connect to iTunes 8.2 to complete activation.
Yet, there is no such indication that the Canadian iPhones are unlocked, at least not according to a source who works at an Apple store.
Now that Bell and Telus has worked their way into the iPhone market, I think we should have some kinda choice, especially if we buy the device out right and pay in full.
Why should we be locked to a carrier if we paid full price for the iPhone?
Kristen’s teaching me lesson #2 of my saxophone lessons. I like it a lot more than my guitar. I love playing the guitar, but I always said, I don’t listen to enough guitar music to actually play the guitar that well.
I also had lunch at Coffee Culture today. It’s a nice place to hang out and eat. The $5 box lunch for a cookie, sandwich and a pop (which I substituted for a hot chocolate) was very hearty and palatable meal.
I’m all for finding new places to hang out and I think Coffee Culture will be my new hang out place in Mississauga. It’s kinda like a Second Cup or Starbucks but with more food.
I suppose when I need a different kind of nourishment, more academic than organic, I will head back to Chapters. For now, you might find me at Coffee Culture.
I think having a charter is a step in the right direction of helping religions re-focus on their faith. As Karen Armstrong mentioned, a main problem with religion is that today, their leaders miss the golden rule of “do unto others as you would have done unto you”.
At about 18:40 into the video, Armstrong says something I do not agree with, and I hope it is just a simple oversight
… guidelines as to how to interpret scriptures, Jews and Christians and Muslims working together to create a document which we hope will be signed by a thousand at least of major religious leaders from all the traditions of the world.
What I do not agree in that quote, is that she only mentions Jews, Christians and Muslims creating a charter for essentially the rest of the world.
The idea of a compassionate Charter of Compassion would include all of the world’s religions to create that Charter not exclude them.
I assume it’s a minor oversight in her speech, as Christians, Jews and Muslims are the ones battling it out at the moment.
In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting and gives one the feeling that is room for growth.
Found this quote off Google Books, but I Googled it as it was a quote Marcus du Sautoy used in his lecture on TED.COM about Symmetry.
I found this quote rather interesting because from a philosophical point of view, I agree wholeheartedly with the quote. Diversity is what gives us our strength. Diversity and its variability lets us overcome obstacles. And from this diversity, we can create even more variety to overcome even more variability in our world.
Yet, is uniformity not nature’s perfection? We are biologically programed to be drawn to symmetrical faces. The most stable structures on this planet are symmetrical.
