Tweets from Space

February 5th, 2010

Picture of the Moon rise by Astro_Jose

The future is now. Astronauts are tweetin’ and taking pictures from their respective missions from Space. Ive been following @Astro_Mike, @Astro_Jeff, @Astro_Soichi. Check out their Twitpic streams we well for the latest pics live and direct from Space. This picture of Mt Fuji is especially cool.

Recent Movie Viewings

February 3rd, 2010
Sof Shavua B’Tel Aviv [For my Father]
A gripping, tragic and immensely deep portrayal of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It pulls no punches, and does not take sides, nor does it preach. It examines the despair on both sides. An engrossing story that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Although not as good as Paradise Now it is still one of the best movies Ive seen this year. I couldnt move at the end when the credits started rolling.
The Children
Im not a fan of horror movies or any movies with blood and gore, but I had heard this movie was different so I gave it a shot. Its a story of some little killer children bent on a murderous rampage in a small English countryside. It had its moments, but there were times when the film stretched the scene way too long for added suspense, causing me to literally push to fast-forward button to get on with it. Skip it.

Hitler responds to the iPad

January 29th, 2010

Recent Movie Viewings

January 25th, 2010
Pandorum
. . . … … ugh! I have no words for how utterly bullshit this movie was. Zero stars.
The Hangover
One of the funniest movies of the year. I saw this movie in theathers in the summer and recently watched the DVD again just to check out the extras, deleted scenes and bloopers. Fucking hilarious! Rent it!
Jennifer’s Body
I have a confession to make. I didnt actually see this movie. All I did was fast forward to watch the, erm, juicy Megan Fox bits. And from what I saw - I got my money’s worth. I couldnt tell ya if the movie was good or not, or if the story was good or not, or if the acting was good or not. I can tell you that Megan Fox is hot. Yep that I can testify to.

Caprica AM New York Takeover Ads

January 22nd, 2010

I was pleasantly surprised to see today’s AM New York free newspaper turned into ‘The Caprican’ to promote tonight’s premier of what I believe will be my next new favourite show. They are showing the pilot again tonight which we have already seen, but I will see it again anyways. Here are the pictures of the newspaper:

front.jpg
Creator and ‘Father’ of the Cylons Dr Graystone.
caprican_001.jpg
Picture of Lee Adama’s father.
inside.jpg
The weather reports from the 12 Colonies.

LOST + 24

January 21st, 2010

LOST + 24 =


Exit Through the Gift Shop

January 21st, 2010

I heard about this project last year. And now finally the trailer has been released and will make its debut at Sundance in a few weeks. Watch it here:


Those of us that have been following Banksy since, well, the beginning will no doubt say that this proves that he’s finally gone mainstream. But being a fan that I am, I dont really care. A teaser site is also up here.




friskyGeek is the personal web log of Faisal Sultan. It contains a collection of thoughts, links, rants, critiques and observations and should not be read by anyone. Read more about friskyGeek . . .

    » 

    The photographer famous for photographing celebs has a photoblog / blog of sorts where he posts random shots. Well worth a bookmark.

     # 0
    » 

    Beautiful posters of each planet in our solar system. Love the one for Mars.

     # 0
    » 

    Damnit, why cant we go someplace where there arent as many dicks around?

     # 0
    » 

    Pictures of the the Venice carnival.

     # 0
    » 

    Picture of the Snowpocalypse, or Snowtorius B.I.G, or Snowmegeddon from space. Funny how it just missed New York City - which Im still pissed off about! I love snow.

     # 0
    » 

    Want: Hello Kitty chainsaw.

     # 0
    » 

    It could happen. Your flying on an airline and suddenly people around you realise that you look like an Arab or have a muslim name and they throw you out of the plane. Here’s how I plan to survive that fall. Hey it could happen - America, the land of the Retards and Morons, is surely headed in that direction.

     # 0
    » 

    Pictures of Roxxxy, the $9,000 Sex Robot. Why is her mouth open like that? Wait… never mind. Dont answer that.

     # 0
    » 

    Open Letter to James Cameron from Papyrus. Its funny - when I first saw the movie and the opening credits, I threw a little in my mouth when I saw the use of Papyrus for the font. James Cameron spent a gazzilion dollars on the movie, yet he couldnt create a custom font for the movie? Seriously!

    Kudos to you for not spending a single cent of your massive budget on an expensive, attractive font for the subtitles.

     # 0
    » 

    Repo Men. This looks really good.

     # 0
    » 

    Arts: Photographer Loves Math, Graphs Her Images. She takes pictures and then creates a mathematical graph on them. Due to my engineering background, I often compose shots that are linear and almost like graphs but this takes it to a whole new level.

     # 0
    » 

    If youre a geek then you must be wondering if the title is a typo. Compiled php? Whats friskyGeek talking about? Well, Facebook is moving towards compiled scripted languages like php in an effort to boost performance and reduce pageload times. Its quite impressive. Check out their HipHop project.

    HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it.

     # 0
    » 

    Interactive NYC map, with pictures from 1924. Pretty darn awesome.

     # 0
    » 

    The New York Times is awesome at collecting and displaying data and this timeline of the LOST universe is no exception.

     # 0
    » 

    Parking garage of the future? There’s already parking garages like this in New York and in Germany, most famously the Volkswagen parking tower.

     # 0
    » 

    This is a great read if you want to learn more about what’s really changed in the Obama administration from the Bush polices. In short - nothing. In fact, this time its even worse as whats happening now is similar to what happens in China and Libya. Way to go Obama - youre doing exactly what Osama Bin Laden said you would. So who’s telling the truth now? You or the Terrorists?

     # 0
    » 

    Afghanistan, January 2010.

     # 0
    » More Random Linkages

    friskyRadio Podcast

    Categories