Bane

It always annoys me how each new incarnation of Batman, be it cartoon or movie, can never seem to do justice to Bane. I mean, I consider Bane to be one of the biggest all-time Batman villains, with a comic arc spanning dozens of issues or more, and yet, he never is done justice. This is the man who grew up in one of the worst prisons in the world paying for the crimes of his father, who was strong enough to come to Gotham City and actually break Batman. I mean, this is the only man who methodically wore down Batman, learned his moves, figured out within a day or two who he was, and then completely crippled him. It's had huge repercussions throughout the comics, and yet, still he gets but one episode. The movie version was a joke, but then, I don't expect a lot from the movies (I still think Jim Carrey would have made a much better Joker than Riddler), except a good once through. The cartoons though, they annoy me that they don't seem to try that hard. I mean, at least go for a to be continued or something. The new cartoon, "The Batman" (which is really not that good compared to Batman: The Animated Series) just had Bane show up, pump up, throw Batman around a little, have Bats make a big suit, then have Bats beat him. There was nothing there. Okay, big strong guy, oooh. They could just have easily used killer croc or something. This concludes my rant.

My brain!

Ugh, physics just broke my brain, which is not always all that hard to do, but in this case, is extremely surprising. So anyway, I've been reading the chapter on kinematic motion, and the last bit of it is on how things like velocity are all relative to the observer, i.e. with two people going the same speed it will look like neither is moving to the other. The example they used was someone standing still watching a cop car going 50 shooting a bullet at 300 will appear to the observer as going 350. However, the part that broke my brain is when they described light. They use examples using star trek stuff, like the Enterprise, which just amuses the crap out of me, but anyway, they used the same argument, except having a laser being shot at the speed of light (3x10^8) and the observer in a shuttle craft going 2x10^8. Now logically, the person in the shuttle should measure light relative to his or her own speed as going 1x10^8. The thing is though, no matter how fast the shuttle is going, light will always be measured as going exactly 3x10^8. And apparently anything that goes over about 10% the speed of light starts having crap like this happen. In other words, things like light don't follow the normal laws of physics, or even reason. At least, that's what the book says. It breaks my brain, but in a fun way, so it's not too bad.

Cast Away

There's just something about that movie that makes me love it. I think it's how silent the movie is. Every time I watch it, it just gives me this great sense of calm. I mean sure, the beginning's a little hectic, but after that, it's so peaceful. It always makes me wish I could crash on an island like that. That's probably the last idea someone would have after watching what he went through, but when I look at it, I see the beauty of the calm.