Avatar musings, Facebook and Abyss

The teaser trailer is out now for James Cameron's Avatar. It only reveals the base premise and the fact that the movie will be HUGE in scale and visuals. Definitely try to see it in HD, though- some of the visuals look a bit cartoony in standard dfinition (though it also has to do, i think, with the chalky powder blue skin texture and tone of the Avatars- kind of like a glow-in-the-dark surface when seen in broad light,

Sadly I couldn't obtain tickets to the 16 min Avatar Day IMAX 3D event today- I was online and ready at noon PST to reserve my tickets but the traffic of everyone else doing the same overloaded the site's servers and so I spent 2 hours refreshing a white "timed out connection" error page- on occasion breaking through and seeing a list of theaters but unable top then load the theater reservation page. And then I had to go to work. By time I got home all the locations I was hoping to see it at were sold out.

Alas...


In other news I've finally setup a facebook account (I had actually signed up back in May to access some info, but haven't had a chance to dedicate time to setting it up with pics and stuff till now).

My initial impressions of it are positive- it's much easier and useful to use than myspace, and it loads and runs so much better- unlike with mysapce where people's pages are so decked-out one out of four pages are likely to crash your browser due to awful multimedia embeds. ;)

Whereas myspace is more like someone's personal webpage and kind of an evolution of the simple, old-school Geocities pages of 10 years ago, facebook is more like a messageboard system- one of my natural habitats ;)

I've also started reading Fate of the Jedi: Abyss- or, more accurately, have almost finished it- I've blazed through that thing real fast. Solid read. This series is shaping up much better than Legacy of the Force was at this point (book 3). I've been pecking at finishing the Colbert book too, with a chapter here or there.

Tonight: Inglorious Basterds!