It has been a bit since I've heard anything new about the future of Futurama. Came across this tidbit on Slashdot today:
http://www.collider.com/2009/06/07/exclusive-comedy-central-goes-back-to-the-futurama/
More here , here, and here.
Decent article on the renewed popularity of Rush over at the Chicago Tribune's site today.
Indeed, Alex Lifeson, Rush's guitarist, said he has noticed that fans who grew up with Rush seem "a little more detail-oriented in their professional lives." He said, in middle age, they seem disproportionately made up of engineers, chemists, economists and businessmen."Just yesterday I got an e-mail from an astronaut," Lifeson said. "A guy up in the space station. He brought a copy of our last album with him into space. I mean, this is amazing. You know how many Rush fans there are within NASA? A lot. I'll leave it at that. And I'm not just talking about the guys out in the field. Our fans are inside, close to the big programs. They run everything."
Almost forgot to mention...picked up a new iMac a couple of weeks ago. First iMac since the one I bought back in 1998--I've been on iBooks since then. Speedy. Just picked up 4 GB of RAM that needs installing tonight. Next on the list is a new external drive for use with SuperDuper!
Saw this at Amazon this morning. Waring Pro Professional Electric Martini Maker. Oh jeez. A $190 machine to make a martini? Only if it is a robot that looks like William Powell. No wonder it was marked down to $78.52.
Is it true? Will Futurama be coming back as more DVDs or a new series? Good news, everyone. There's an article at Wired today that looks into things:
"I don't know if there will be more DVDs, or if the show might return to TV in some way," Cohen told Wired.com. "But the return of Futurama is being discussed. I'm just not privy to those discussions."
Will Futurama live on beyond these DVD releases? Will it ever find its way back to prime-time television?"There's no official word, but I think the future looks positive," Cohen said. "The DVDs are selling well, and that helps. I admit I've developed an addiction to checking our sales rankings on Amazon."
I still need to pick up the fourth DVD: Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder.
Sorry, haven't seen the movie yet. All the hype about it makes me want to reread the graphic novel. Maybe I'll see the film next weekend. There was a great parody of the story and the state of newspaper comics over at PVPOnline last week, though. Worth a read even if you are not familiar with it.
This morning I saw that Amazon has released a Kindle app for the iPhone platform. Grabbed a copy a little while ago and installed it. After setting it up, which involved remembering the unique e-mail address and password I use for Amazon, I quickly scanned through my wish list to see what books were available. Several were, so I grabbed a free sample chapter of G.K. Chesteron's What's Wrong With the World. It arrived quickly. You turn pages by flicking to the left or right on the screen. Sadly, it doesn't rotate, which I would find to be a little more useful way of reading. Nice to discover that the book's price was $1.99 for the Kindle version. I may end up grabbing it and Peter Ackroyd's London: A Biography (only $7.96) and test out a real, full length book or two.
So far, so good.
Man, you come home from riding to a second-place finish in the Amgen Tour of California and find that someone robbed your place. Took nearly everything, apparently, including :
• Black 2008 Subaru Outback, Utah plate A189NC
• Black 2006 Toyota Scion, Utah plate 094VWM
• Giro D Italia Race Medal (approx. 6" circumference)
• Olympic Seiko watch
• Beijing Olympic ring (silver) with initials "DZ" engraved ($4,000)
• Olympic Time Trial Bike, plus 12 other bikes (combined value of $100,000)
• Cervelo (black/red) bike frame - team issued ($5000)
• Tag Heuer watch ($6,000)
• Bose Speaker/Receiver System ($15,000)
• Sony 52" flat screen TV ($4,000)
• Two Mac Books and one Mac desktop, plus hard drive ($8,000)
• A pair of Space legs, a recovery compression system for legs ($5,000)
• 7 Marvel sideshow statues ($11,000)
Great shot I saw on Flickr of Levi Leipheimer tearing the peloton apart on the Bonny Doon climb during stage two of the Tour of California. That rain is intense.
Bought three seasons of The Simpsons just after Thanksgiving last year. Decided I really didn't want to keep them and wanted to return them. Forgot all about it until I found them this morning. Sigh. Too late now.
