Battle of wits

When you read comic books it seems there's always evil dudes coming up with elaborate ways to destroy the earth or whatnot. Yesterday I caught an episode of Smallville from the latest season that I had missed the first time around. They were filming a movie based on a comic book (Warrior Angel) in Smallville. The bad guy in this episode was a comic book nerd obsessed with the comic books. He tried to eliminate an inconsistency between the movie being filmed and the actual comic books. What happened was that, in the comic book, the Warrior Angel's girlfriend dies.. But in the movie they all live happily ever after. So the guy tries to kill the movie actress or something. I suppose that's beside the point, because what was interesting was that in the comic book, the bad guy forces the hero to step up and save the world. It almost suggests the antagonist doesn't care about causing mayhem, but that his real purpose is to bring the best out of the Warrior Angel. Oh and something about his girl dying and facing his destiny alone. Anyways, Smallville writers are foreshadowing Clark's ever increasing role in the world and why he has relationship troubles. Well that's also beside the point. I probably just like talking about Smallville
That also reminded me of the movie Unbreakable. Mr. Glass causes a bunch of disasters just to find his real life comic book hero. It was Bruce Willis.
This all got me wondering. Why aren't there super evil dudes threatening the real world with ingenious schemes? Maybe there are, and we just don't hear about it because the government keeps that stuff under wraps, or they get stopped before anything can happen. Who knows? But there probably aren't. I think it's probably pretty unlikely that dudes who are angry-revenge-seekers have the brains and the confidence to organize and go through with the elaborate plans we find in movies and comic books. Phew!... Generally if you've got the brains, confidence and money it takes to get that evil mastermind stuff done, you're probably doing alright in life, and don’t need to resort to that.

Jim Henchman

I was thinking that bad guys often have underground layers. I wonder if they were bad before they got the layer. I mean in my mind people who hang out in the sun are generally happy. Hippies sell out, but I don't think they go evil or anything. Maybe some regular Joe is like "hmm, I need somewhere to put my super computer and laser cannon."[really! laser's not spelled with a 'z'! that sucks] and he needs some cheap real estate after blowing all his money on a super computer and a laser cannon. Dark underground gigs with no windows can't be that expensive. So he spends all his time underground playing with his toys and he gets all pasty and his friends forget about him. Where he gets henchmen I have no idea.
Then I was thinking "hmm... I live in a basement. MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

Oooo!

Well it's that time of semester again. Lots and lots of midterm action. Creeepy.

Positioning Strategies

well.. Exams of a sort are upon me once again.

I'm sailing away

Yesterday I went sailing. I mean, I'm not a yuppie, but I'm working towards it, and sailing fits the lifestyle you know. It's also pretty enjoyable.
It's not hard to see why I like it. I mean, it's fun enough, and you get a wicked sunburn. Also, my boat is so excellent and decrepit. I'm going to fix it though so It's all pretty again, and that will be fun too.

Standard Deviation

I suppose this would explain why I go through so much paper.

Serenity Now!

Well the results of my Seinfeld poll are in. Four votes cast. 50% David Puddy, and 50% Jackie Chiles. I was sure I would get at least one vote for Uncle Leo.