Australian Tortoise Beetle Trachymela sloanei
William R. Mason Regional Park, Irvine, 2008-08-03
This is an introduced species that feeds on the equally non-native Eucalyptus tree. It’s a little bigger than a ladybug.
So apparently there now was a Superboy? Kal-el did start getting his powers at or before puberty? And he did hang out with the LSH in his early days? How many complete retcons does this make now? 5? 6? 7?
The Legion was one of the first books I read starting somewhere before issue 200, and I kept at it through some of the bad times (Legionnaires, anime-art) right through Legion Lost, after which point I just completely lost the plot and was never able to pick it up again.
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Halictus tripartitus
San Joaquin Wildlife sanctuary, 2008-08-10
Fiery Skipper, Hylephila phyleus
UCI Arboretum, Irvine, California, 2008-08-11
I finally got around to seeing The Dark Knight yesterday. I don’t know why the rule that comic book sequels are always better than the originals, but it continues to hold. (Superman II, Batman Returns, The Incredible Hulk). Possibly it also holds in sci fi in general: The Wrath of Khan, Empire Strikes Back, Attack of the Clones, etc.
As everyone already knows, Heath Ledger was incredible as The Joker, and Christian Bale once again blew chunks. (Why no actor has ever been able to voice Batman properly, I have no idea; but in my head I just never heard him talking in some funky whisper. Batman has a strong, authoritative, commanding voice. It’s Bruce Wayne who disguises his voice, not Batman.) Nonetheless, it’s a really good movie. Go see it.
The reason I waited so long was that I wanted to see it in IMAX. I heard that it had been specially designed and shot for IMAX, and that it would really take advantage of the medium. Wow, was that wrong.
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Dreams do come true. Chandler 1.0 has been
released. The client component is written in mostly Python and the server in mostly Java. I’ll have to try this out a little later today.
