Charlton Heston Has Passed Away

While updating my BlogRoll, I came across this piece of news. How terrible! He was such a wonderful actor and an interesting person. I always got the feeling the man loved throwing curve balls.

Reasons Why Heston Rocked:
1) "A Touch Of Evil"
2) The Trifecta of "Omega Man", "Soylent Green" & "The Planet of the Apes" - These were very much the founding movies of my sci-fi geekdom
3) He Supported Gun Rights - As a big believer in self-defense, I love that he took a stand for it when it wasn't cool.
4) His cameo in "Wayne's World 2" - Shows what a real movie star can do with one scene.
5) "The Agony & The Ecstasy" - I love watching him & Rex Harrison snipe and banter and show how these two people kind of grew on one another.

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Miscellaneous

Just a quick run-down of what's up:
1) To the American chocolate manufacturers, GOD DAMN YOU, damn you to hell! If you want to save money by taking the cocoa products out of chocolate, that's your call. BUT you don't get to keep calling it chocolate! Link has info about how to complain to the FDA to prevent this travesty of proper labeling.

2) In cool-science news, my dream of interplanetary spelunking is that much closer to reality. The Mars Orbiter has discovered 6 incredibly large cave entrances on Mars. The scale picture with the article shows an opening 100m across! Also, the caves are so deep that no information can be ascertained about their insides.

3) Before Pirate of the Caribbean: At World's End last weekend, they showed a trailer for the new Transformers movie. Everyone in my theater liked it but did a quick side-to-side check of the other people to be sure it wasn't just them. I was skeptical of this project (honestly, I thought Michael Bay had finally lost it) but, man, it looks fantastic!

4) Recent Reading: "7 Daughters of Eve" by Bryan Sykes - I really enjoyed this book about the genetic origins of modern Europeans and the research that went into it. The author has a very wry sense of humor that helps ease through the more technical explanations of things like polymerase chain reactions. However, the last chapter was a weird change of tone from the rest of the book.

Coming this week: My review of NASA's recently released report on Asteroid Deflections. Interesting stuff...

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I'm intensely pleased

I know its just a silly on-line quiz, but, if I'm going to be compared to anybody it might as well be someone this damn cool.

Your Score: Katharine Hepburn

You scored 16% grit, 47% wit, 42% flair, and 4% class!

You are the fabulously quirky and independent woman of character. You go your own way, follow your own drummer, take your own lead. You stand head and shoulders next to your partner, but you are perfectly willing and able to stand alone. Others might be more classically beautiful or conventionally woman-like, but you possess a more fundamental common sense and off-kilter charm, making interesting men fall at your feet. You can pick them up or leave them there as you see fit. You share the screen with the likes of Spencer Tracy and Cary Grant, thinking men who like strong women.

Find out what kind of classic leading man you'd make by taking the Classic Leading Man Test.

Link: The Classic Dames Test written by gidgetgoes on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test

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