I love Jim Henson

I recently watched Jim Henson’s The Storyteller. It was a cool idea. Take old folk tales and make them come to life. There is nothing I love more than fairy tales. There is something different about fairy tales from other types of stories. I can’t put my finger on it but you know when you have seen or heard a fairy tale and I love that feeling. I also love Jim Henson. His Creature Shop makes awesome puppets. It’s one of the reasons I love the TV show Farscape. Jim Henson Productions produced the show and pretty much made all the aliens for that show and I think they were stunning. I love when shows and movies  use puppets instead of CG. No matter how realistic the CG looks I just feel like I can relate to them better than computer generated creatures. I also love the look when they use puppetry and CG together like in the movie Where the Wild Things Are. 

I Love the Internet

The one thing I love about the internet, and Wikipedia particularly, is how easily you can learn things. Also the wide range of things you can learn about in a short period of time. I mean I don’t go in depth into the things I am learning about like I’m sure other people do. I just hear about something I want to know about and I look it up to get a general knowledge of it. Sometimes I will get caught up on a particular subject. An example: recently I have been obsessed with Doctor Who. If you look at my web browser right now I have about 10 tabs open to different things about Doctor Who and I just can’t stop reading more and opening more tabs. It’s getting out of hand.  But then other times I will look up something, get a general feel for it and then I get a hint of something else on the page and I’ll hit the link and pretty soon I have tons of tabs open to things that are just loosely related to each other.  I just get lost on the internet sometimes but it is so much fun.

International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day

I have a calendar that I bought from ThinkGeek that has April 23 marked as International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. And being the curious person I am I looked up International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day on Wikipedia (that is where I get most of my information so if this is wrong I would be more than happy to be told). According to Wikipedia it’s a day that was created writer Jo Walton to encourage writers to make “professional quality” works available for free on the internet. Which is awesome because I love reading and anything for free is great. She picked the day because April 23 is commonly considered Shakespeares birthday. It’s also St. Georges Day, which is celebrated by exchanging red roses or books with your sweetheart. Now that is a day I can get behind. Forget chocolate on St. Valentines Day, I want a book on St. Georges Day. I still can’t figure out what a Pixel-Stained Technopeasant is but it has my full support.