Diaspora Issues

Well, it seems that for the past month, I can respond to other people's posts on diasp0ra.ca but not post any comments directly on my own. Not sure what's going on there.

Any theories?

Moving Along the Victorian Day

Well, the diasp0ra.ca issue seems to disappear when I use Safari rather than Firefox 11, and Firefox has been acting oddly over the last day or two. Maybe the next time I'm prompted to update to Firefox 12, I should do so?

Right.

So...Victoria Day. The third Monday of May is a federal statutory holiday to honour the memory of the monarch who signed off on promoting Canada from colony to Dominion back in 1867. Therefore, this is a long weekend. Considering the weather in Ottawa the city at the moment, perhaps we might all consider retiring to our basements, cellars, Diefenbunkers and other assorted underground hangouts to evade discomfortable levels of temperature without humidity.

Tomorrow I go back to the day-job, after three days' paid time off and a week's unpaid leave(that last subject to amendment, I hope). And I'm bracing for the next job hunt.

Heather Mallick's latest words echoing in my brain...

Avengers Movie: SHIELD Helicarrier

One of the things that really got my attention, and that of more than a few others' as well, was the movie version of the Helicarrier. When I got that coffee-table book on the movie's production artwork, I was hoping for a large chunk of page-count devoted to that vessel. I was not let down.

Over at Facebook, box_in_the_box and I started out discussing the way Black Widow was depicted as out-conning a Trickster-god figure - sorry if that spoils any plot points at this juncture - and segued into discussing the 'Carrier. "Box" is of the mind that the movie provided the best depiction to date in any medium - including the original comics - for such a vessel as this.

I'm not sure that I can make any counter-argument. I have no expertise sufficient to that challenge, assuming it needed to be made.

There's been a couple of things about the specific comics version as shown in the Marvel Universe Handbook that caught my eye, though...both cobbled together from Marvel Universe Handbook imagery and line art from the Federation of American Scientists' website(or perhaps the USN's own public-access archives?).

Assuming that the Nimitz-class CVNs are the same length as the Helicarrier design given us by Eliot Brown...

Honestly, I usually get this techno-nerdy with Star Trek's fictional spacecraft...