Amiibo

Amiibos. If you have to ask what an amiibo is then stop reading NOW. I mean it,             immediately. If you do, then tell me where I can find Marth.  He's very elusive.

I am Charlie! Who are you?

Hacking

I don't get computer hacking.  Ok, you have shown that you are clever, above the law,     lawless and perhaps a cool, evil geek, but why? Then, if you are going to hack, don't be  destructive and pick something that causes little harm.  Recently, Sony Xbox was hacked.  I don't think I saw gamers this riled up since the new Smash Bros. was released with       adapter.  You may say, does it really matter it was XBox.  It's not like it was the       military or a bank.  But still, there is personal information and gaming info! In an       event, they caught the hacker. It was probable another hacker that hacked him and then   gave the hacked up- or something like that. But interestingly, he's an 18 year old from  England. I would ask him why he did it, but first I would ask him HOW!

Dr. Who

Dr. Who. Not the original series or the movie, but the new series which started up in     2005. If you have not seen it, don't. It is seriously addicting, almost like some Time    Lord subliminal persuasion is embedded in the subtext.  

For those of you "who" have no idea what I am talking about, The Dr. is an alien, a Time  Lord from the planet Gallifrey, who rides around the universe in time and space in his    ship called the Tardis ( time and relative dimension in space) which looks like a blue    Police Call Box. We never find out his name although a few of his female traveling companions are told. 

Each week the Dr. and a companion get involved in some nefarious plot to wipe out the     whole of humanity and it's up to the Dr. to save the universe. While watching each episode you are convinced that this is the end of it all, but the Dr. is clever and he and his   sonic screwdriver find a way to get out of sticky predicaments with little collateral      damage, unless you are a Cyberman or Dalek.

"Community", one of my favorite sitcoms, had much of its episode time devoted to parallel universes and Inspector Space Time  " it's not where we are but when we are" ( Dan Harmon was obviously a Dr. Who fan). 

The Dr. Who explosion has been remarkable. From merchandising to "Who-a-cons", the       popularity, and amongst, all ages cannot be ignored. 

Season 9 comes out in the Fall which is the second season for the new Dr. (the other Dr.'s regenerated). Season 1-7 is on Netflix so start watching!

Community (again)

In my last Blog I mentioned "Community", so I needed to circle back for an update.       "Community" aired. Then it was canceled. Then it came back. Then it was cancelled. Then it kinda came back. Then it was really cancelled and during this time a few of the main cast left ( or were kicked off).  It was truly gone until it wasn't because Yahoo picked it up. So now, it was to have aired, but it didn't, and it will likely air, unless it doesn't,  at a time scheduled, unless it's rescheduled.  I can't wait!

Superbowl

I was thinking about the Superbowl, and wanted to narrow down my favorite parts of the    game. Obviously, we all watch to see two of the best teams of the  moment battle it out   for fame, glory and money- no wait- to see who are better athletes, yea, that's it.
Of course, I like the end when the winning team humbly walks onto the field and shakes the other teams hands- no, wait, they run onto the field in the other teams face, donning    Superbowl champion hats and getting fitted for their rings and talking about how to spend their money. 

I, like many others, enjoy the commercials. I always look for the pop star, tear jerker,   ridiculous and the ha ha ha ads,  oh wait, I look up  the commercials before the Super   Bowl because most of the good ones don't want to spend the money for seconds of time. 
Ok, the food is awesome. There are always plenty of chips and dip, wings, nuggets and     pizza to keep us happy, but wait, we can never get the buffalo pizza with onions delivered    right before half time. Hum, half time? Nah, not going there.

The bottom line is that the Super Bowl is a fun event, just understand what it is and     enjoy.

The Interview

"The Interview". I can write about the fact that canceling this movie is an affront to our freedom of speech, or how if we give in to terror, terror wins.  Instead, I will focus on emails.  These hackers, evil and maniacal, are ingenious  They knew who to hit, when and where.  They did not just scare Americans into not seeing a movie (or intriguing those that would not have seen the movie into trying to fine it somewhere), they purposely revealed the insiders' view of movie making and Sony.  It shows that these executives, actors and producers have it all;they are rich, famous, talented and lucky.  But, interestingly, they are not particularly smart.  I say that because from the first day we are connected to that magic box (access to a computer) we are taught what web sites to stay off of (hence the reason for the above comment that you seek what you cannot have)  and NEVER to put anything in e-writing because it is there FOREVER and will be used against you everywhere for all time and eternity. We all know or should know this, but alas, no. Nothing is personal and everything is up for "forwarding".  There are so many lessons to be learned from this episode, most of which still has yet to be played out, but perhaps in addition to refraining or at least editing your emails, maybe we need to be more tolerant and nicer to each other.  That would be a great sequel for the world to see.