Short Story Idea

Had an idea for a possible science fiction short story. We know that chimpanzee DNA is the most closely related to Human DNA at 96%. What if a scientist discovered a micro-organism that had an even higher percentage of DNA similarity to humans?

An interesting what-if at least. I'm not much of a writer, so don't count on seeing this fleshed out further by me. Maybe one day when I'm bored.

Bravo Barack

This is not a political blog so I'll keep this short. Good for Obama for putting his foot down when it came to the recent McChrystal fiasco. I don't know why it was even a question over whether or not this guy would keep his job. Seeing comments in support of McChrystal made it apparent to me that a lot of people don't understand that being critical of your commanding officer in such a manner IS NOT OK. Life in the military is not life as a civilian. He's lucky this is America or else losing his job would be the least of his worries.

World's Greatest Dad

I just saw this movie on Netflix streaming on a recommendation and I'm going to go ahead and forward that recommendation to anyone reading this blog. One of the best dark comedies I've seen in a while, World's Greatest Dad stars Robin Williams as an unsuccessful writer/high school English teacher with a son who is, quite possibly, the most miserable human being on the planet. When Robin Williams finds his son dead in his room one night (the victim of an unfortunate auto-eroto-asphyxiation accident), he makes it look like a suicide and writes his son's suicide note. Hilarity ensues when the note becomes the only thing the Dad has ever written that people actually like.

Great movie that seems to have gone under the radar for the most part.

Mortal Kombat movie reboot?

What's this!?

Seeing as how all video game movies suck I'm not expecting too much, but this 8 minute short used to pitch the idea to Hollywood sure does look awesome.

Danger

Youtube link

I'm not a huge electronic music fan, but if you watch this video and don't immediately think, "AWESOME!!", I think there's something wrong with you.
Apparently, Danger is a French DJ/artist who takes a lot of inspiration from 80's movies and arcade games. It shows.

A Question of Etiquette

I take the bus into work everyday, and recently I've been wondering about good manners when it comes to public transportation.

If someone gets on the bus and it's too crowded to get a seat by themselves, they sit next to a stranger for the ride. I've noticed some people, once the bus empties enough that there are free seats, will then get up and move to a seat away from the stranger they were sitting next to. Now, people do this because they are uncomfortable being so close to someone else they don't know, but would this be considered rude? If I am sitting next to someone and they get up and move to a different seat part of me, at least, will think that there was something about my person that made it unbearable to sit next to me. I'm sort of insulted.

I'd be interested to know if there is a right or wrong in this situation.