I found myself explaining the Double Slit Experiment and Schrödinger’s cat to my co-workers this week. Ironically, one of my friends posted a video on Facebook about the Double Slit Experiment which explains the phenomenon.

Every once in a while, I go to Apple’s website to check out the newest movie trailers. I find it is a really good way to check out what movies I want to see. This weekend I came across a trailer for Beowulf which will be coming to theaters on November 16th. For those who haven’t heard of Beowulf [wp], it is an influential Old English heroic epic poem which dates back to 700–750 AD. Beowulf was basis for J.R.R Tolkien’s academic career which was the first serious literature critiques of the poem. The poem was, also, a strong influence in The Lord of the Rings which lead to the development of modern fantasy. Although I would never read Beowulf, I think it is an excellent premise for a movie.

Last weekend I went to VanLan 2007! If you haven’t heard of it, I am sure you are not alone. Every year all my old High School friends go to Vancouver to play computer games and hang-out with each other. It is a good way to stay connected with each other. This year there was only about a dozen of us (a lot less from last year), but it was still a lot of fun. The only down-fall of VanLan is that every year there seems to be more drinking and less computer games. I guess it would be less of an issue if I was a bigger drinker. However, on the positive side, it is a lot easier to beat an intoxicated opponent. Even with this set-back, we did play a lot of computer games. Here is an overview of some of the games we played: Dawn of War, WarCraft 3 mods, Aliens vs Predator 2, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s, and much much more.

I was, also, introduced to a cool little game called Geometry Wars. The best way to describe the game is Asteroids on Ecstasy. I never thought that such a simple game could be so visually stimulating… or that hard. The best part is the full game only cost four bucks! Whenever I had some free time on the weekend I was playing this game, so I got my money’s worth already.

Another interesting game I was introduced to was the Starcraft boardgame. I really don’t like Starcraft, so I was shocked to find out how good this game was. Starcraft (the computer game) has absolutely no strategy in it. It is all about micro-management and cruiser rushes. I thought the boardgame would be doomed to fail. However, I was surprised how much strategy was in the game. The best way to describe the game is a cross between Axis vs Allies and Settlers of Catan which are both excellent games. I am definitely tempted to buy the game.

As you can tell, I haven’t had much time to blog lately. I usually try to blog something every week, but that doesn’t always turn out. During the last week, I have been watching the Hereos TV series. My brother lent me the first season last weekend and I already have watched it. It was absolutely amazing. I couldn’t stop watching it and hence why it only took me 4 days to complete the series. It would have taken me a lot less time if I didn’t have to work. If you haven’t seen it yet, you really should watch it. It is in the same league as 24 and Battlestar Galactica. I love it when a TV series has a continuous plot line instead of having a different plot every episode. Your plot line can only go so deep when it has to be contained in 30 minutes (or an hour).

Anyways, the second season starts on September 24. I really hope NBC doesn’t drop the ball on this series. It has so much potential! The last thing we want is another TV series as bad as Lost.

A couple years ago I was hooked on a Flash animated Internet cartoon called Homestar Runner. It is the funniest Flash animation I have yet to see on the internet. If you haven’t heard of this site, you should really check it out (especially the StrongBad emails). For whatever reason, A couple years ago I stopped visiting the site. I think it was because I just got tired of waiting for new content.

Since a couple of my friends were raving about the last Strong Bad email, I decided to check it out again. It was SO funny! I was hooked all over again. I was about to add it to my RSS Reader, so that I could keep up to date, only to find out that the site didn’t have an RSS Feed. How could homestarrunner.com NOT have an RSS feed? I was dumbfounded! It would be the most useful thing! The site doesn’t release new animation on a consistent interval so an RSS feed would be perfect to let everyone know that there was an update.

Anyways, I committed myself to create an RSS feed for the Strongbad emails. It shouldn’t be that hard to generate. I will post the feed URL here after I create it.

Update: You can access my strongbad email rss feed at http://www.jkwiens.com/strongbademail