It has come to my attention that today is the 14th of February. You know what that means? The Morelia-Linares Tourament is about to start! This is supposed to be the strongest competition so far this year (since it’s only the middle of February). The Morelia - Linares tournament will take place between February 15-23 (Morelia) and then February 28-March 7, 2008 (Linares).
Attending this tourment are: GM Viswanathan Anand, GM Veselin Topalov, GM Alexei Shirov, GM Peter Leko, GM Vassily Ivanchuk, GM Levon Aronian, GM Teymour Radjabov, and GM Magnus Carlsen. Once again to my disappointment GM Gata Kamsky’s name is absent from the list.
Now I know when I asked if you know what that means, some of you probably thought it was Valentine’s Day. Unfortunately you were right. Today is the anniversery of the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre. At the last minute I decide to get Jeanne a Valentine’s card and a box of chocolates. I went by her house on the way to work to give them to her. She said thanks and I went to work. I know, what an exciting story! I’m considering asking her out again. Last time I took her out, her brother dressed up like a marine to scare me. Today he said if I ask her out again, he’ll dress up like a mobster. For some reason, I’m not scared.
My brother and I have been working a new Analog-Theater site, thanks to the new content management system we found. It will look a lot better, offer us more features (including a slide show in the gallery), and be easier for us to update. We’re still working on getting everything up and running and trying to import the old archive. Since we had been hard coding everything, I’m not sure if we can import the archive, all the options I can find is to import it from another content manager.
There is something very serious that I want to talk about. Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles. I’ve been watching it since it started and I’ve been holding my breath to see how it goes. I’ve been worried that its going to be a new killer robot from the future every week, but it appears thats not going to be the case. So far there has been a lot of exploration into the mythology of the series and significant character development. And in the five episodes so far there have only been three killer robots from the future and on of them is a recurring villain.
The series revolves around Sarah Conner played by Lena Headey. Her main desire is protect her son, John. At the beginning of the series they were on the run, but finally decides to fight back against Skynet. While Sarah spends her time trying to track down Skynet and save the future, she insists that John and Cameron go to school like normal teenagers. John Conner, played by 20 year old actor Thomas Dekker, is Sarah’s 15 year old son. He is struggling with his role as the future hero of the resistance. Having been told his destiny from birth, he is eager to save anyone he can and is the first to suggest they stay and fight instead of running again. Joining them is Cameron, played the great Summer Glau, an unspecified terminator unit from the future that was sent back to protect John. Like all terminators, she does not hesitate to kill people and criticizes Sarah for letting people live. She also has trouble understand human behavior, such as after a classmate died why people were leaving notes on the memorial. In the last episode after killing another terminator she appears to be experience some grief and was writing a note herself.
So far Terminator appears to be the best new show this season.
In good news, it appears that the Writer’s Strike is over. This means we might have our favorite TV shows like Lost and Terminator next season. I just hope that its not too late for Burn Notice (I can’t find anything about how it was affected by the strike).
Now, only if Tokyopop could resolve their problems like the Writer’s Guild of America. I bought the novel Kino No Tabi book 1 a while back. I’ve been waiting for Book 2, but the publication date keeps getting pushed back. Apparently Tokyopop is having problems with the licensor and because of that, they can’t get the rest of the books out. Oh well, there is always hope that some day they get everything straightened out. Until then…
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