Alas, An Update.

So, once I became a twitterholic, I kind of abandoned this poor old blog.
While Twitter is great and way more addictive and way more interactive, it obviously has a different purpose than the traditional blog.
In the times when I might have truly benefited form writing and putting my thoughts down on paper, so to speak, I haven't been.
The last few months have been hell. Not because of anyone or any situation in my life, but because of my stupid brain. I've developed something I consider existentialgeneralizedhypochondriaanxiety disorder. Somewhere in that jumble lies the truth, but I don't know which is the most prevalent.
I've been convinced I have heart disease, an imminent heart attack, lung cancer, a brain tumor, a failing kidney, and more. Though logic would dictate I would likely have signs of such problems, the anxiety supersedes all of it when it takes hold. Every muscle spasm, random ache or pain, headache or heart palpitation is amplified and is screaming at me through a megaphone. They all mean imminent death. I've been afraid to be alone because I don't want to die by myself. I've had numerous panic attacks.
On top of all of this, I've started to question the purpose and meaning of life. Life is so incredibly damn short. Unfairly and tragically short. I don't want to poof out of existence so quickly. I don't know where we go after this life, and I don't know whats out there in the universe. What is our purpose here? Why are we cursed with sentience, cursed to know our own lives are fragile and ticking down every second of our existence until we're extinguished?
Despite my fear of all things medical, I made an appointment with a doctor, and am now on some antidepressants/anti anxiety medication that I'm hoping like hell can put my mind at ease to some extent.
Unfortunately, at the Doctor's Office, I had to list my family medical history. My grandfather died of colon cancer, my grandmother of a heart attack. My other grandfather has had several heart attacks, a triple bypass, a defibrillator implanted, several skin cancers. My other grandmother has a thyroid problem and is now going crazy. My mother has high blood pressure and diabetes. In great grandparent and further back land, we have additional heart attacks, leukemia and other cancers, and a host of other diseases that took their lives before reaching any kind of average life expectancy. Despite all of this, at least my father seems to be a fairly healthy person.
This all made me realize the cards are stacked against me, and added to my depression.

Last night, I was thinking in the moments before drifting off to sleep that I want to do whatever I can to try to change my life for the better before I become another story in the family of what ailment killed me too soon. I want to become a healthy person. I want to lose weight. I want to get in shape. I want to exercise every day. I want to eat only healthy foods. I want to do everything possible to live as long as possible so that when the day comes, I can be sure I died of some inevitable genetic flaw or old age, and not because I helped myself and my bad genes into an early grave with the way I lived my life.

Lastnight, I had a strange dream. I dreamt that I lived in a large town square. The buildings were all old and run down, and the sky above was gray. Throughout the course of the dream, I hired crews to come in and remodel and rebuild the square. By the time the dream was over we had made the square look new and wonderful and revitalized and the sky was blue. I think this dream was a nice metaphor for my desire to rebuild the way I live my life.

Wishlist

Since we all agreed to make one to make life easier, here's mine:

Austin Powers Collection - Blu-ray
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - Blu-ray (Avail Dec 16)
Planet Terror - Blu-ray (Avail Dec 16)
Interview With the Vampire - Blu-ray
Signs - Blu-ray

Moshi Voice Activated Alarm Clock
Titanium Spork
Original Ring Thing (size 11)

How Do You Avoid Making Good On Your Promise Of Free Dr. Pepper?

Simple really.

If you're Dr. Pepper, you simply make sure your website cannot handle the traffic and is basically inaccessible during the 24 hour promotion. Pretty clever actually.

Fail Blog / Engrish Funny

So I have to share my 2 new favorite sites.

Fail Blog

Engrish Funny

You're welcome.

I Think I Have A Disorder

After my panic attack, or whatever the heck it was, I began doing a lot of reading up on similar and related psychological disorders.
I can say that since the panic attack I have become obsessed with thinking something worse is wrong with me. When I'm distracted on work or talking to someone or watching TV, etc. I feel just fine, but when I'm alone with just myself and my hyperactive mind, I become obsessed with checking my heart rate, checking my pulse, breathing deeply and/or coughing to see if anything feels different, checking my temperature and on and on and on. The process of doing this does cause me to stress out, and my heart rate increases from normal (around 80 to 100) when I start checking all this junk to about 120 (slightly above normal resting). Once the obsessive behavior diminishes and my stress level lowers, it goes back to normal. I have actually made my pectoral muscle quite sore over the last week from constantly feeling my heartbeat.
The thing I realized in finally consciously observing this behavior in myself is that this is not an isolated incident. I have frequently self-diagnosed myself with all kinds of issues and then obsessed over them when they were in fact non existent to begin with based off of a simply muscle ache, an upset stomach, a twitch, and on and on.
I was first thinking generalized anxiety disorder seemed to cover most of my behavior, but I think hypochondriasis seems to be the top contender. I guess it might be a combination of both. Heck, for all I know that self diagnosis could be me doing the same exact thing I was describing above.
I can say however that discovering these patterns and behaviors in myself and reading up on these disorders and reading the symptoms and causes has made me breathe a huge sigh of relief that its something that can actually be identified. Reading about them kind of gave me a light bulb moment about myself.

The New Enterprise

Here it is:(Click to enlarge)

After months, nay, years of anticipation, JJ Abrams finally released a picture of the new NCC-1701 as re imagined in his new take on Trek. I personally think this new design is beautiful. Classic Trek purists and canon cops the world over are shitting themselves and frothing savagely at the mouth at this 'abomination' which has "raped their childhood" (actual quote) which I am finding quite amusing. For people who have embraced the essence of Star Trek, one large part of which is open mindedness, acceptance of change and evolution, they sure are screaming from their mom's basement about how angry this change makes them and already writing the new film off as garbage.
To me, the thing doesn't really even look all that different! The lower half has been streamlined and given a more modern look, but overall, I think most non fans, which in large part is the target audience of this new movie (fresh blood), will see it as simply the Enterprise, but not like the old one which looks like it was made from paper plates, spray-painted paper towel and toilet paper cardboard tubes and popsicle sticks.This version is what the purists want on the screen. I think if they did that, the entire movie would be a laughing stock. That design is from the 60's, and I don't see how anyone living in 2008 can think a design from 45 years ago can be a true and current vision of our future.
Heck, even the designers of that tube-and-saucer concoction changed it up as soon as they were able to get a movie budget which would allow it.

Panic Attacks: Like Death But Without The Death

So early last week I had my first real clinical panic attack. Not like a 'OMG Panic attack! LOLZ!' but more like 'Holy Shit I think I'm having a heart attack and I'm going to die!'

To be honest, I at first thought that it was some kind of heart attack, and I remember thinking how sad it would be for that to happen at only 27. After it passed, I got online and pretty much every symptom of a panic attack that one can exhibit, I had experienced.
Heart feels like it stopped, then heart was racing, flush, then burning up, sweating, can barely move, everything feels like a dream and in slow motion, electricity shooting all through my body, tingling all over.
I even had a nagging involuntarily spasming eyelid muscle 2 days prior, which apparently is a precursor.

While the initial attack was brought on seemingly at random, I found out in research that the first attack can set up a kind of positive feedback loop where one gets so worried about having another panic attack that they work themselves up into having another one. I can indeed agree with this, as anytime afterwards that I've had the slightest tingling in my extremities, felt flush, had an elevated heart rate ( even when warranted, like from physical activity) or felt kind of out of it, I freak out and think I might be starting to have another one.

The truth is, I would prefer to go to the doctor to make sure for a fact that that's all I experienced, even if just for peace of mind, but being broke and health insurance-less kind of makes that cost prohibitive.
Even if it was only a panic attack, it served as a sort of wake up call that I need to start taking better care of myself. I've been trying to eat more fruits and vegetables, stay away from junk and fast food, take a multi vitamin and get more sleep.
I do know that both my mother and at least one sister have dealt with panic attacks that felt just like I described mine. My mom was even rushed to the hospital the first time thinking she was having a heart attack.

Here's to hoping it was just a one time thing.

Yes We Can

And Yes We Did.

I have to say, I found both Senator McCain's concession speech and President-Elect Obama's acceptance speech both very touching.
I think McCain seemed more like the McCain that many Republicans said they felt was missing throughout his campaign. I think if he had been as eloquent, kind and insightful throughout his campaign, things might have turned out differently for him. I am saddened by the behavior of his supporters at his gathering however, as I think it showed a tremendous amount of disrespect for Senator McCain that his speech was marred with boos and angry words at the mention of Barack Obama, and I think you could tell it was irritating and saddening McCain that his supporters were setting a bad example for his party.

Obama's speech was very touching, and seemed to have a bit of a somber note. Whether that was from the realization that he is now in charge of grabbing the wheel of this nation as it sloppily hugs a proverbial cliff in many regards, or because of dealing with the loss of his grandmother before she saw this momentous occasion I'm not sure, but it was a very well prepared speech. I think he conveyed a sense of community by saying this was our win, this was our nation.
In contrast to McCain's supporters, the attendees at the Obama celebration conveyed a sense of respect for McCain and his campaign when they were mentioned during his speech.

At the end of the day, I was proud to have both participated in and witnessed a truly historic day for our great nation.

Brainwashed Idiots: Confirmed

I have confirmed evidence that Republicans (at least the vocal online type) are idiots.
In an attempt to get many viewpoints, I regularly visit news organization's websites whether it's CNN, Fox News, or MSNBC. It's no secret that Fox points so far right they couldn't look left to save their lives, and I regularly look at their article's comment sections.
One particularly funny manufactured Anti-Obama article today was talking about how Obama asked 3 reporters who's newspapers endorsed McCain to not fly on his campaign jet anymore. The article does accurately state that it's because of additional staff needing room on the plane.

Now, here is the typical Republican commenter's post (excluding the racist comments or the ones calling him a terrorist)

Comment by steve mieczkowski October 31st, 2008 at 1:01 pm

Just another instance of the Thug Obama camp flexing thier muscles. WAKE UP AMERICA, this is what we have to look forward to if The Chosen One wins.

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Comment by Zeke October 31st, 2008 at 12:58 pm

Obama is obviously a tyrant in the making and this is just the start of it. This man can not be the next President of the US. If he can censor the media what do you think is next?

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Comment by Tasha October 31st, 2008 at 12:58 pm

ABSOLUTELY!! 100%!! A clear vision of what is to come if this “LIAR” is elected as our president. He will ban everything and ANYTHING that does not support his corrupt idealisms. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!

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Okay, so you get the idea. Multiply these comments by 500, pepper in racism, cries of communism, socialism, terrorism and religious intolerance and you pretty much get a sense of what the comments section on that article looks like.

This had me laughing my ass off. Why, you may ask?

It appears that none of the turd fergusons even bothered to read the article.

Being Fox biased, the title of the article was an Obama attack, as was most of the content, then at the end of the article, the last 2 sentences also say that John McCain has done the same thing to reporters on his plane in the past few days.

Oops! Silly Republicans. Were you saying those things about Obama, or McCain? Care to change your point? Care to clarify?

Fight | Unite

I've been listening to both Barack Obama and John McCain's speeches today, and here is a brief summary of both.

McCain:
"Fight! I'm a fighter! Lets fight! I'll fight for you! I'll fight you! Maverick! Fighting Mavericky Maverick! FIGHT FIGHT!"

Obama:
"Unite! Unite! There is no blue or red America. There is one America! Unity! Lets be as one! Unite!"

I have to say I like Obama's 'closing argument' speech more than McCains. His seems a bit... divisive.

An Honest Question

Let me start off by telling you about what I did this evening, because this question requires a bit of back story. I went to my parents to visit while my sisters Kristy and Kelly were there this weekend.
My sister Kristy and I went outside to look at my paint job on my car, since she didn't get to see the finished result when it was being painted (by her husbands body shop) since they left for vacation at the time. Upon seeing my Obama bumper sticker, she told me:

"I cant believe you have that man's bumper sticker on your car. I ought to rip that off."

Okay, now I was intrigued. I asked why she felt that way, and the answer floored me.
Apparently, her church regularly preaches to them that Obama is a Muslim terrorist, and the Antichrist. He's plotting to destroy America from the inside, planted by the Muslim extremists.
Yes, you heard me right. This is being preached by a church.

This raises a couple questions for me.
Number one, why on earth is this church taking it upon themselves to be spreading this kind of misinformation and slander?
The real question I want to ask I'll get to in a moment.
Needless to say, I tried my damnedest to convince her that the church was spreading propaganda, but I don't know how much damage I was able to undo.
Through this conversation, we eventually landed on my argument that even if Obama were a Muslim, what difference would that make. I made the point that America is made up of Christians, Jews, Muslims, atheists, agnostics and a whole colorful rainbow of creeds. What would be the problem with a little Muslim boy or girl who lives in the Unitest States wishing to grow up to be President someday?
The answer I got really made something in my head kind of click, and I can't really explain how it made me feel.

Because they would believe in a different god than her god, and that would be wrong.

Myself not being a person of religion, I don't know the answer to this, and I know most anyone who is reading this who knows me is not a person of any strong religious ties either, so I ask this in the hope that maybe some anonymous reader who is could answer it for me.

Does being loyal to a certain religion in this day and age make you intolerant of other religions?

I really want to know. Myself being agnostic I understand that there are many deities worshiped by many different groups, and thats okay. What I really do want to understand though is if being religious and dedicated to one group makes you see others as 'wrong', or if this is simply another product of the apparent radical approach that my sisters church takes in 'teaching' their congregation?

Why Do Republicans Think Every One Is Out To Get Them?

In other words, why are they such whiny little bitches? Such professional victims?

Heres some of the things I've read about recently:

Republicans are outraged at the joke from this weekend's Family Guy where Stewie was wearing a Nazi uniform and a McCain pin. The matter is amplified by the fact that it was their 'only fair and balanced news' Fox's network show.

John McCain is outraged that Barack Obama has raised over 600 million in private financing because he says that much money (which Obama earned fair and square after rejecting public financing which McCain took) will inevitably lead to corruption.

The Liberal Elite Media (CNN, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC... everything but Fox News) is out to get them, and they're outraged. They are 'in the tank' for Obama and it's part of a giant conspiracy to elect Obama.

Colin Powell has been transformed from a respected retired official to a 'pathetic worthless horrible man who's only backing Obama because they're both black'.

The entertainment industry is out to get Republicans by all banding behind Barack Obama for some kind of large conspiracy.

Theres way more, but It's all getting mixed up in my head into a giant right wing hairball.

I hope they know they are making themselves look like gigantic crying babies. Ugly babies, too.

If you're ever bored, head on over to foxnews.com and read the comments on one of the several sure-to-be-there anti-Obama headlines. The conspiracy theories and whining is great for a chuckle. ;)

Check out this gem of a comment from "nosocialist" on the article about Obama's record campaign fund raising.

"Obama supporters please take off your blinders and see that we're not upset about the amount of money he raised. Surprised? Yes. The fact is that we know most of Obama's supporters are lower income, lower education level because they're voting for the handouts which leads us to believe that the money is coming from shady sources. That's all. Show us the list of donors is all we're asking. Feel free to keep sending in your $150 dollars, it's your welfare check to spend as you see fit."

Here's another goodie in the same article that has nothing to do with the content of the article, but is just spewing made up crack induced frothing. This one is from 'sausage30a'

Obama’s October Surprise: He is a citizen of Indonesia, and of the Islam Religion. At 10yrs of age, he went to Hawaii, and became a naturalized citizen, and was able to get a US Passport. He was registered under the name of Barry Sotero-Indonesian-Islam Religion/Date of Birth 1961. He attended primary school in Indonesia. One has to be a native born US citizen in order to be president. That’s why Arnold cannot run for President either. Why is the State Dept. not investigating this? Our community will not vote until Obama can produce his authenticated Birth Certificate with a raised seal on it. You can run for the Senate/Congress but not President. He needs to show us who he really is. This might be the “straw that broke the Islam Camel’s back. Why is the media not researching this? Do you want to be the cause of a major hysteria in this World? Katie Couric, Bob Shaeffer, why did you not ask this important Question? Where is Obama’s from? Tell us please. There might be DNA out there to prove he might not be a native born candidate, and possibly a reward for his captor. Was Larry Sinclair, his lover, part of this cover-up plan?

Mixed in between all these right wing circle jerks are more Republicans who have to audacity to say the Democrats are creating a divisive society by their comments and attitude during this election, completely ignoring the raving mad republican shit balls peppering down all around them. Stupid stupid Republican fuckers.

You know what assholes? I like to think I'm an open minded person who tries to see from multiple perspectives, but it's your divisive diarrhea mouthed comments that have divided me off from any desire to seek to understand your positions and ideas. At least for now.

I can safely say that after reading these and hundreds of similarly minded comments, my sticking to the Democratic ticket no matter what for as long as I am a citizen of this country has been galvanized. I wouldn't in a million years want to be on the same side as these paranoid, hate filled, close-minded anal warts.

Yeah, I know. responding in anger to anger and stupidity doesn't solve anything and lowers me to their level and makes me fall for their trap or whatever else other life lesson I can't think of right now, but I'm in an eye for an eye kind of mood right now.

Who Are These People?

I saw a video this morning that dissolved a small piece of my pride in being an American.
Before you watch this, keep in mind it's a report filed by Al Jazeera, a Middle Eastern media conglomerate who've had their fair share of controversy, but the people they're talking to are real Americans.



How much of America do you think the people in this video represent? I seriously felt a little ill.
How can this infected festering puss boil of dubmfuckery be fixed?
I'm seriously at a loss as to how you can fix stupidity. And if you can't fix it, how do you ensure that it doesn't get passed on to a new generation?

Republican Hatred (Theirs, not mine)

Okay.

So for all intents and purposes, I consider myself, at least for the time being, a political junkie. The TV is generally always tuned into CNN. I know the Right Wing consider everything other than Fox News evil-corporate-biased-liberal-devil-death-anti-
McCain-hate-media, but I see a lot more republican strategists, independents and non-partisan guests on CNN than I've ever seen on Fox 'News'. I also see CNN calling out Obama on issues just the same as McCain, but I digress.

What I really wanted to talk about was the ignorance of the people attending the Republican campaign trail. I've read and watched numerous reports over the past week of attendees at Sarah Palin rallies yelling gems directed at Barack Obama such as:
"Kill him!"
"Hang Him!"
"Terrorist!"
There was also the largely publicized video clip of a dumb old woman standing up and saying directly to John McCain that she was afraid of Obama because he was 'An Arab'. John respectfully snatched the microphone away and corrected her retardedness, but afterwards some journalists caught up with the woman who said she still believed he was 'An Arab' and he was "A Muslim because his father was a Muslim, so he has some Muslim in him"
Not only does this woman consider 'Muslim' - a religion, and 'Arab' - an ethnicity interchangeable, not only does she still believe these ethnicities/religions are true of Obama after being corrected by McCain himself, but she's mailed out hundreds of letters to people telling them this information, which she says she 'found at the library'.

Just Wow.

Now, I know. Go America. Christian Christian Rah Rah Rah! and all that, but I'm also disturbed by the fact that these psychopaths are automatically associating a religion and a race to evil. I feel really sad for Muslims and especially Arab Muslims living in the United States right now. What ever happened to the melting pot that was America? It seems the oil is having a hard time mixing with the water in this stoup (Thats for you Ryan).

I know that Democrats are seen more as the progressive and forward thinking bunch, and Republicans are seen as a more traditionalists and evangelicals, but what's with these Republicans carrying around so much misinformation and hatred. Is it just built into the Republican base, or is it being helped along by Sarah Palin, and to a degree John McCain's polarizing speeches they've been giving?

To be fair, I have not seen really any footage from a Biden or Obama campaign stop where all the outlandish spectacles of hate for the other party are on display, but is it because there really isn't any laughable insanity on the left side, or is all the media truly left-wing? Anderson Cooper said last night that they'd soon have cameras meandering around some Biden rallies to see if this shiteous behavior exists as prevalently as it does on the McCain campaign, but I'm having my doubts.

My guess would be that the God fearin' folk who are afraid of anything that isn't white, cross wearing and in bed by 9PM are an integral part of the Republican party, and they're simply behaving as they normally do.
One ray of hope is that, at the moment Obama is enjoying a 10 point lead, and the number of registered Democrats in the United States outnumbers Republicans.
Slowly but surely, I think this nation is beginning to open it's minds and it's eyes.

What are your thoughts?

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Vote For That One

My Thoughts on the 'Town Hall' style presidential candidate debate:

Obama spoke in terms and mannerisms which I think resonated more with 'joe six pack', unlike Sarah Palin, who's attempt at speakin' to the average American means droppin' the g's off every word. You betcha!

McCain seemed old (obviously), tired, and angry.

When McCain gave a big smile after cracking one of his lame jokes that no one laughed at, it scared the hell out of me.

I don't know how many times I heard McCain utter "My Friend", but I most certainly am not.

I don't care what context McCain meant it in, but calling Obama "That One" seemed akward and rude.

When McCain told an audience member that he (and many of the viewers) probably never heard of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, I thought that was rude. He acted as if he was assuming regular people had not heard of these companies. I felt talked down to.

There was a point when Obama stood up and started retaliating against some of the McCain mud slinging drivel when Ryan and I both were yelling at him to shut up and sit down. You could see his likability drop on the CNN voter meter thingies at that point. People don't like angriness, which McCain seemed to bring a lot of.

Overall, I think that Obama won the debate, unless you watch Fox News.

Sacred Right

(Just for clarification, while this post may mention ballot issues for specific states, it is neither about religion nor politics, but rather civil rights)
So I've been reading about issues on the CA. and AZ. ballots regarding gay marriage. In CA. 'they' want to overturn the recent allowance of gay marriage as well as legally nullify any recent same-sex marriages in the state.

In AZ. they have proposition 102 which would amend the AZ. Constitution to add that only marriage between a man and a woman could be legally valid and recognized in the state.

The argument that I most frequently read about in favor of these propositions is that (aside from the lack of practicing separation of church and state) marriage is a sacred right between a man and a woman and should not be extended to "alternative lifestyles".

I have a proposal that I think would help those people make their hetero-marriage sanctity even stronger. Ban divorce. If you enact a ban of divorce, it would be the ultimate commitment to showing me you hold marriage as a sacred right, and it would let me know you are serious when you say it is.

The sad truth is, half of all the supremely sacred heterosexual marriages in this country end in not-so-sacred divorces. Meanwhile, loving gay couples are not allowed to share the legal or spiritual benefits of marriage which many heterosexuals take for granted. This is not fair.

Lets pretend that gay marriage were allowed in the U.S. (like it is in most other countries). How would it hurt these opponents? I'm not going to murder them with my marriage license. I'm not going to rape them with my family health care option. Why do they care so much?

It baffles me.

Random Vitriol

My God Mediacom. You've been slowly raising my bill for several months (don't think I haven't noticed) and over the last 2 weeks your internet speed has become something akin to a dirty cat box. What the hell gives? And can I pretty please have more HD channels? I think the extra magical 15 dollars my bill has randomly gone up recently warrant at least that.

I think iTunes gets off on making me feel specialtarded. Would you really think setting it up so music put into a specific folder is automatically added to your iTunes music would be that difficult? Yeah, me either. But, after I spent 15 minutes trying, I gave up and went to File>Add File To Library. I am missing something blatantly obvious, right?

Take this poll.


I have a headache and I'm going to bed. LaAAAaaame.

Chevy Volt Toyota Prius

Take a look at this sleek and sexy piece of concept car unveiled a couple of years prior. This was the concept for the Chevy Volt, which promised to usher in a whole new era in electric car goodness.

Sexy aesthetics aside, the Volt promised to revolutionize the (mass produced) electric car by introducing a whole new set of rules for creating and using energy. You actually plug this one in for starters. The lithium ion battery delivers approximately 40 miles running only on that, which Chevy claims covers about 75% of commuters trips to and from work. After the battery is depleted, there is a small gas engine which does not drive the vehicle, but powers the electric engine.
Said engine will deliver somewhere in the vicinity of 300 miles on a tank of gas, and will average about 2 cents per gallon (Using $3.60 gas as a benchmark). Compared to the regular average for vehicles which is 12 cents, that seems pretty snazzy. Another interesting talking point is that it only sucks about as much energy from the grid as a refrigerator in a years time.
One thing that remains foggy is the price. Speculation puts it somewhere between 30 and 40 thousand bucks.
Now, the main reason I wanted to write about the Volt. I give you, the final production model unveiled this week:


Wait, what? I think if you told me this was the next refresh of the Toyota Prius, I'd buy it. I've nothing against the Prius, mind you, but this looks nary a shadow of its conceptual glory. What happened here? I know, I know. Concept cars always outshine their final production models, but this thing looks like a 3rd cousin of the concept car. Definitely not a direct offspring.


Eh. At any rate, look for them in 2010.

P.S. Heres a B.D.O.T.D. (Thats Blu-ray deal of the day) for those interested. Tower.com shows Iron Man as shipping within 12 hours when you order it. The movie is not set to be released on Blu-ray until September 30th. Tower has also been known to ship movies ahead of the scheduled release dates. I placed my order this morning. I'll let you know if it ships.