I got to see Star Trek the movie on Thursday. It was awesome. Even if you aren’t a Star Trek fan I believe you will enjoy this movie. JJ took a lot of the nerdiness out of the show and put a lot more action in. It felt like watching Transformers or the Matrix. It was a good balance I think. A lot of people were expecting him to screw it up by either being to nerdy or not being nerdy enough. I think he found a good balance that will satisfy all the long time Star Trek fans such as myself as well as a lot of the newer non-trekkies who are more interested in actions films in general. I would highly recommend it. I’m hoping to go see it again in sometime soon in one of the larger theaters such as the Cine Capri at Harkins.

In other news, I’ve been wanting to get back into ham radio, scanners, and war driving. I unboxed some of my old radios and re-programmed them with a few frequencies i still remember. I would like to get my main ham radio (the radio on the far left of the pic) and my portable (the Kenwood in the middle) programed with the new updated ham frequencies. My scanners (the two radios on the right) have a few channels in them. I haven’t touched police frequencies in a long long time. The handheld scanner has Edmond in it only. I actually keep this scanner at my desk so i can find out whats going on when i hear sirens around my apartment. Once i get a list of all the frequencies i need to input I’ll publish the list on here. Probably in a new tab at the top. It should be interesting.

Another thing i wanted to talk about was Champions Online. I’ve been reading a lot about this game and it looks amazing. I’ve watched a few videosof the game play and it looks like a lot of fun. The main thing I’m looking forward to in this game is the character customizations. Cryptic is the same company that did City of Heroes/Villains. And if you remember anything about that game, its probably the character customization process. From what I’ve read, the character creations process is City of Heroes on steroids. I can’t wait. Jon and his friend are both doing elemental animals as their first characters. His friend is calling his character Fire Mare and Jon is doing Static Panda. I need to come up with a catchy character to play soon.

Time for something new. I couldn’t think of a catchy title… so its just Random Links for Clicking. Basically, if you’re bored here are some interesting finds for for the week:

• Uncrate – Interesting blog with random products you might want to buy
• GeekPad – Very funny and interesting tech blog
• Cyber Warfare and the Army
• The 10 Most PUzzling Ancient Artifacts
• StarCraft 2 Beta opened on Wednesday
• Cute Overload – Very cute animals that will make you smile
• Learn Morse Code- I still need to do this. Though the General and Extra licenses no longer require CW to pass
• WoW Player gets power, gets corrupted, gets banned – Interesting read about a player who obtained Martin Fury
• Stupid girl run over by her own SUV during “Ghost ride” stunt – Natural Selection at its finest
• $330,000 photo of Air Force one – Honestly, i think a monkey with a disposable camera could have taken a better photo…
• The Hunt for Gollum- Still haven’t watched this in its entirety yet. Looks amazing though. Fan created prequel to the films. (Fan fiction, not cannon)