Pretty cool article I found on MS research today. Check out the awesome AI receptionist avatar!
“Eric Horvitz, a distinguished scientist at Microsoft Research, has an equally distinguished receptionist. After eight years of working with him, she’s developed a feel for his habits and routines. She can predict how long his meetings are likely to last, knows when he can’t be interrupted and senses when he’ll be running late. Not bad for an avatar.”
Article here: Ability to ‘see’ advances artificial intelligence
OH MY GOD! Really? Seriously? Could that possibly happen? That would be just 
beautiful! =D
Since late last night I’ve been reading here and there around the web about how David Tennant has been approached for a role in the upcoming 2 part Hobbit movies! Apparently so far this is just an offer and no one knows for sure if it’s actually going to happen, but if it does… my oh my! Awesomeness to the max! =D
For anyone who may not be familiar with David Tennant, he is the actor playing the role of the 10th Doctor, in the British sci-fi series Doctor Who. I’m a pretty big fan of Doctor Who in general, and well, the 10th Doctor is most certainly my favourite incarnation of The Doctor so far. 😉 Davit Tennant is an amazing actor, and if he goes on to play a role in The Hobbit, that alone will be a reason for me to see the movie on the opening day.
Another great actor who has been offered a role is Martin Freeman, who recently played the role of John Watson in the British TV series “Sherlock”. Apparently he will be playing the role of Bilbo Baggins.
When I heard that the “The Hobbit” is going into production phase soon, I was very excited. I’ve always said that the Lord of the Rings trilogy movies are an extra simplified version of the books, and that they miss a ton of important facts and side stories and a whole lot of depth in comparison to the books. However, that’s only natural. There’s just no way to put a Tolkien book into a movie exactly as it is, due to the incredible amount of details in his books. With all of that in mind, I believe that the LOTR movies where quite fantastic from many different aspects [well, Duh! ;)], and I’m now very much looking forwards to seeing “The Hobbit”.
You can read more about the possible cast of “The Hobbit” here.
I wonder why I’m not hearing more noise about 
this movie. Has anyone seen it yet? I’m beginning to worry that this movie may just not be receiving the attention it bloody well deserves!
A few days ago we went to see the first part of the Legend of the Guardians. Well, to be more precise I took my mom to see it, due to her affection for owls. =D [For anyone who may not know, the relationship between my mom and owls is something like the one between me and the colour blue! 😉 ]. And of course being a real fantasy genre enthusiast, I totally had to see it too. [In 3D, obviously! =P]
Turns out, this is one of the cutest movies I’ve ever seen! Owls are beautiful animals, and I’m glad someone finally did something right with that! The characters of the movie are positively adorable! <3 <3 There’s tons of beautiful scenery, and the plot is quite a nice one too, if not terribly sophisticated. I’m definitely a fan, and will certainly go to see the next parts when they’re made. =)
Late last night I watched the latest episode of Stargate Universe, as I didn’t want to wait any longer to find out about the “object” that was coming towards them. I figured things may finally get more interesting.
At the end of the episode I was cursing myself for not having spent that time to watch something that I would have actually enjoyed instead, specially since I have very little time these days…. Don’t get me wrong, the whole “other ship with aliens on board” thing was pretty interesting, but I’m beginning to feel that the series’ main characters are SOOO annoying, that they’re over-shadowing any interesting events in the plot. I’m sorry to say, but not a single one of them seem to be capable of doing anything other than being horribly annoying all the time. As much as it pains me to say, SGU has turned into a soap opera featuring a large group of complete idiots!
Their military leader is a brainless arrogant dictator. Their supposed “brains” guy is an idiotic self centered arrogant b*****d. The entire series is the struggle of these 2, and the rest of the characters are so interesting and important that they could as well cease to exist.
Stargate used to be about a group of people each of whom where important in their own way. Each evolving to something better during the series, while dealing with interesting SCI-FI challenges [not soap opera ones!]. I understand that SGU is supposed to be “different”, but so far this difference has been nothing but a severe failure. And by the way, I’m not the only one to say that. Every serious sci-fi fan that I’ve talked to so far, says the same thing.
If things keep going this way, I will quite possibly stop watching SGU altogether. =(
I think Bing just fell behind in the search engine wars, big time! Today I gave Google Instant a try. Love it. That’s the way to go! Given the recent changes in the Google image search and all the new options, and now this… I think Google is back to being my favourite again! =D
Another Kahvi Collective release has found it’s way to my favourites. =) I came across the album “Glass Marble” by Frederik Behr last week, and I’ve been listening to it quite a lot. [Makes a nice mix with 4mat’s “Decades” somehow!] The very first track called “Alleyways” is my favourite. Check it out!
… on a loop! =D
Few days ago I finally received my copy of 4mat’s new album called “Decades” from Amazon. Yes, physical copy! =)
For the past so many [I don’t even know exactly how long] years I’ve been enjoying 4mat’s music, so when I found out that for the first time he’s releasing physical copies of his album, I figured I absolutely had to have one. =) Amazon.ca doesn’t carry the CD, so as usual it was back to the .com, hence the long wait.
![4mat-Decades[3]](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Tl7xVSHEwJs/THr-uwZp0YI/AAAAAAAAAX0/1IgKid2Jhxg/4mat-Decades%5B3%5D_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800 "4mat-Decades[3]")
Decadeds Cover. And my current desktop wallpaper.
For the past few days I’ve been looping the album, sometimes on it’s own and sometimes mixed with various Kahvi releases. And I just can’t get enough of it! As the album name suggests, the compilation is such that it really gives you the feeling of listening to the essence of 4mat’s evolving music during the past decades. And as I expected, the tracks are just fabulous! So if you’re a fan of chiptunes, electronic music or generally great music, you’re sure to enjoy this.
If you haven’t already, go get yourself the album. Now. Preferably physical copy. 😉
Decades CD on Amazon.com
Decades on Bandcamp
Decades on iTunes
I guess for anyone who’s into both robots and J.J. Abrams, this is definitely big news.
And it’s not all that new, so I don’t even know how I didn’t know about it already! =P A good friend of mine just sent me the link to an article, about J.J. Abrams latest movie project, called “Boilerplate”.
Supposedly, this movie is based on a graphic novel which is the story of world’s first robot, and his adventures along side some interesting characters and mixing with certain historical events. Here’s the article, check it out!
So now I’m very much looking forwards to seeing the movie. =) I think it will probably turn out to be pretty darn fantastic! Can’t wait… can’t wait…. =D
Yes, I HAVE seen Inception! =D I just didn’t want to write about it because given the sophisticated plot of this movie, it’s so easy to cause spoilers, and it would be an unforgivable crime to do that to such incredibly brilliant scenario.
A couple of weeks ago [thanks to xo’s persistence! 😉 ] we went to see Inception, and the only thing I’m going to tell you about it is that it’s one of the most ingenious, unique movies that I have ever seen. I have every intention of getting me the Blu-ray once it’s out, as this movie is worth watching numerous times.
I’d also like to mention that if you enjoyed the Matrix trilogy, chances are you’ll enjoy inception too. In a way, I see Inception as Matrix inverse. 😉
Oh, and here’s the proof I did go to see it… =))
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