Link of the Day [5.16.12]
This has got to be awesome! Hotdogs are awesome! Let's open up a competing chain with Filipino sausages!
The Avengers
Joss Whedon wrote one of my favorite X-Men arcs, the first twenty-four issues of Astonishing X-Men including its Giant Sized Annual. In it, he resurrects Colossus, makes Kitty Pryde into a Buffy clone, and furthers Emma Frost ambition to be the hottest mutant alive. It’s one helluva run on an X-Men book that rivals any of the Claremont/Byrne stories. Whedon forged a team from Cyclops, Emma Frost, Colossus, Wolverine, Kitty Pryde, and the Beast even though they battled each other throughout. Then he threw in an alien invasion that had to be stopped. All this and more happened too in Whedon’s The Avengers.
What was good about Astonishing X-Men is that he added tons of action to the team and gave them a purpose. He changed their dour whining into something heroic. He made them heroes that would give all they can to save the world. He did it too with the Avengers.
They wrap up the Avengers in a great way bringing everything and everyone together from their individual movies. You’ve got Iron Man and his brashness, Captain America and his patriotism, Hawkeye and Black Widow and Thor. Then you have the Hulk. HULK SMASH!
It was great seeing Thor versus the Hulk. The two most powerful superheroes in the Marvel universe. They were beating each other up! And just like in Astonishing X-Men, they had to forge themselves into a team to defeat an alien invasion. And they did. And they were still a fun thing to watch.
4 of 5 stars.
More Sadly Mac
Took the MBP to MacMedics because she has to get fixed. I think I should just get a new one.
She was starting to report drive issues when I hooked up DiskUtility to her. That can’t be good. Hopefully, this cloned drive is good and I can restore it to as it was before she got sick.
My suggestion to you. Backup. Backup. Backup.
Sadly Mac
MacBook Pro is weezing and injured.
The laptop on the left lost its display last Tuesday. I’ve been connecting to it via screen sharing, but even that is going. It takes two or three boots before it displays itself on the network. When I mounted it as a firewire drive, it complained that the drive was bad. Running DiskUtility on it and DiskUtility wants me to copy as much off the disk as possible and reformat.
I’ve Carbon Copy Cloned her drive, but haven’t tested if the copy was good. Fingers are crossed that the back up went well, because I’m going to have to try and get her fixed up. Or maybe its time for a new laptop. A new MacBook Pro with an SSD drive!
Jimmy James
R.I.P. Adam Yauch AKA MCA of The Beastie Boys.
It’ll always be ninth grade and driven to a new school in the blue Golf whenever The Beastie Boys are mentioned.
Licensed to ill? No, licensed to thrill.
Thoughts and prayers go out to his friends and family.
Outrun Your Fate
You can’t outrun it. You can’t change it. It’s there. It’s done. Homuhomu come on!