25 Improved Star Wars Quotes

25 quotes from the Star Wars movies, with cleverly placed words exchanged for the word underwear.

1. I feel a tremor in the underwear. The last time I felt this was in the presence of my old master.
2. You are unwise to lower your underwear.
3. We've got to be able to get some reading on those underwear, up or down.
4. She must have hidden the plans in her underwear. Send a detachment down to retrieve them. See to it personally Commander.
5. These underwear may not look like much, kid, but they've got it where it counts.
6. I find your lack of underwear disturbing.
7. These underwear contain the ultimate power in the universe. I suggest we use it.
8. Han will have those underwear down. We've got to give him more time!
9. General Veers, prepare your underwear for a surface assault.
10. I used to bulls-eye womp-rats in my underwear back home.
11. TK-421. . . Why aren't you in your underwear?
12. Lock the door. And hope they don't have underwear.
13. Governor Tarkin. I should've recognized your foul underwear when I was brought on board.
14. You look strong enough to pull the underwear off of a Gundark.
15. Luke, help me take these underwear off.
16. Great, Chewie, great. Always thinking with your underwear.
17. That blast came from those underwear. That thing's operational!
18. Don't worry. Chewie and I have gotten into a lot of underwear more heavily guarded than this.
19. Maybe you'd like it back in your underwear, your highness.
20. Your underwear betray you. Your feelings for them are strong.
21. Jabba doesn't have time for smugglers who drop their underwear at the first sign of an Imperial Cruiser.
22. Yeah, well short underwear is better than no underwear at all, Chewie.
23. Attention. This is Lando Calrissean. The Empire has taken control of my underwear, I advise everyone to leave before more troops arrive.
24. I cannot teach him. The boy has no underwear.
25. You came in those underwear? You're braver than I thought.

Note: I saw someone post this recently, and they'd gotten it in a chain email, so I'm not sure where it originated from. If you know the author, please let me know and I'll put in a citation.
 

Why Politics Are Interesting

I read an article today discussing Obama's approval rating, which is starting to rise as unemployment falls. It's helped, the article said, by a very divided GOP field. I asked myself, why do I follow politics so closely, it's not like my knowledge is going to make a difference. What I thought of then was a scene from Star Wars, Episode III.



The scene was near the end, the battle between Mace Windu and Darth Sidious. I've loved that scene ever since I first saw the movie, because I felt like it was crafted to well. What makes it such a powerful scene is because everything, the fate of the galaxy, hinges on it. Mace Windu is the arms master of the entire Jedi order. Yoda might be the most powerful with the force, but Windu is the strongest of combat. He's therefore the only Jedi, the only one, who's skilled and powerful enough to defeat Sidious. And he does, when it's one on one. Without outside interference, he would have won, and the Republic would have survived. That is what makes Anikan's betrayal so significant. His betrayal at that moment, changes the outcome, from defeat to victory for Sidious, and everything else follows. With Windu gone, Sidious gives the order to the clones to begin killing all other Jedi, and Anikan destroys the Jedi temple. Later not even Yoda can defeat Sidious, and retreats, completing Sidious's victory.

Again, the reason I find this scene so compelling is that it leads in two completely different directions, depending on it's outcome. The universe, everything, is doubled at that moment, for both possible outcomes exist. Until the end of the battle at least. And I find real world politics the same way, if not to as high a degree.

Until the end of the race, we have two different outcomes, both of which are equally possible. That means that there is so much more in the world, and entire doubling of everything, looking into the future. It's fascinating, looking and exploring both possible outcomes, and knowing that right now, they both exist equally.
 

Starwars, Star Trek, Why Must We Fight?

I watched Fanboys the other day, and I enjoyed it. The one thing that frustrated me was the animosity between "Lucas Hounds" and "Trekkies". Why can I not be a fan of both?

I friend sent me this today, and I felt the need to pass it on.


 

R2D2 Video Game Droid

This is a bit out of date, but I just found it, and it's pretty fruiting awesome. Imagine if you will, R2D2 in all his glory from the movies. Now, imagine all your favorite classic video game consoles and put them together in your mind. Now, take R2D2, and the video game consoles, and combine it all, and you have:




Brian De Vitis is a mechanical engineer who as a side project, decided to turn a promotional R2D2-shaped Pepsi container into what you see before you. It houses an Atari 7800, NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, PSP, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Sega Genesis.



You don't even need a TV! R2D2 comes with a build in projector as well.



Sadly, this amazing robot isn't for sale. However, you can go to De Vitis's homepage and drool over more pictures.