The first thought on seeing this shot is, “Oh! Sheldon drinks Sprite. Lenard likes Diet Coke. Howard always drinks Dr. Pepper and Raj picks 7up”. Unfortunately, you couldn’t be more wrong. Well at least you got the message that was being protrayed, but did you realize that it makes it a mix of Coke and Pepsi products? How can that be you’re thinking? May be they finally are co-sponsoring something. But before jumping to that conclusion, let’s look carefully.

That is not Dr. Pepper.

That is not Diet Coke. And though Sheldon’s drink looks like a Spirite it has no name on it.

Finally, I believe that says 7on.

Amazing, no? I actually missed it all the time, but Ruh didn’t. And once we noticed Dr. Peeper, we started paying attention to the others. Interestingly enough when Lenard picks a Vault, the name of the can is covered with a big V.

(All images courtesy of CBS)

Now Variety is reporting that Peter Berg (director/producer of The Kingdom) just got rights to work on new Dune Movie from Paramount Studios. IMDB already has a page up stating a potential 2010 release.

Now, I’m both pissed and excited. Pissed since no one has yet been able to do a good adaptation of the book (David Lynch was very close, however). And excited for the vary same reason. I mean, may be, just may be they will get it right this time around?

Story of the movie is nothing that hasn’t been done before. There’s a boy who is dyslexic which is causing problems at school, along comes the savior and sorts it out. But just because it is not a novel story line doesn’t mean that it didn’t do a good job. The movie as a whole was simply brilliant. The cinematography is reminiscence of the likes of Finding Neverland. The kids acting was phenomenal. Even the songs weren’t that bad.

I would confess, however, that there was times through the movie where I thanked whoever discovered the 1.5x mode on video playback. The movie is 2.5 hours long, and sometimes you just wish things will go faster.

So why was it unfortunate? Having finally finished reading the final chapters (supposedly guided by notes from Frank Herbert himself), I would have to point out that the notes left behind by the original author must have been seriously incomplete. Never in a million years I would think that Dune will tie up all the lose ends and give happy endings to all its multiple story lines. It’s just not the Dune way. But then, there’s the saying – never say never.

While I was doing that, I finally installed a test web server on my desktop again after like a year or so. The great news is that now the server is running in 64-bit mode! I really can’t want until more and more of the applications start providing native 64-bit support. If you are unclear about it’s true benefits, let Lord Jobs show it to you. Granted I’m in the Windows world, but really it’s that much better.

P.S> I have managed to finish learning how to solve a 4×4 Rubik’s cube!

I have sold my Wii. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you read it right. I have sold my Wii. The Wii and I had a decent relationship. It was a fun thing when my sisters were hear. It is fun when my cousins are around. In fact the last few times they were around I didn’t even play with them.

I always wished that the Wii could stream videos from my machine. Or may be just play some DVDs. I wish the Wii could support 720p so that web pages will look better. May be once the Wii demand is met Nintendo will focus on the next Wii. Or may be they will be nice and provide all these features somehow for free. At that point in time, I can always get the Wii again

Until then, bye bye Wii. Hope you conquer more of the console market.

The other thing is that I got a Rubik’s cube. I saw this really good tutorial online and wanted to really learn it this time. I could always do one side without a problem, but I figured it was time to explore further. And after a couple of painful hours with several mishaps that made me restart. But I did it!! That’s the big news for the day. Sorry to anyone who called me during then because I really couldn’t concentrate on anything else.

On other news, Big Cat is going to get a new name since some people are revolting against it. I’m thinking Vombol Daas. What do you think? The weird thing is that sometimes I get afraid that he’ll scratch me. It is weird because if anyone met me in the last year, they know I am all scratched up. But that’s by Sylvee, and she was there with me since she was a baby. Anyway, we’ll see whatever ends up happening with Vombol.

Sure there are still tons of options to waste time online, but they aren’t as appealing as they once were. I keep up with about a dozen non-personal blogs about another half a dozen personal ones, but with the help of RSS feeds, they all wait for be patiently in one place. And in an hour or two I’m done with that. Then what?

Chatting? It has its peak hours too. I’ll get bombarded for 25 minutes and then everyone will go away all at once. I’m telling you, the net has become boring. But hey, at least the two hours of reading blogs and Penny Arcade is entertaining

Isn’t that amazing? I mean just look at it. I don’t have to deal with Bangla in roman letters. Though tagging every single Bangla MP3 that I own might be a bit of work. Oh by the way, the song that is playing is the only one I wrote that have been published so far

I have to say that the third installment in the (movie) series was damn good. So instead of dissing out about how things could have been so much better if the book was followed, I figured I’ll point out things that the book had that they didn’t bother to cover in the movies.

1. He finds out his past in the first book allowing books two and three cover a lot more.
2. Bourne is not only slippery as an eel, but also is a chameleon – simple dress changes make him look very different.
3. Bourne is a weapon, but not a hired gunmen. His task is to flush out Jackal. Bourne’s task was to stop Jackal’s kills. If he fails, he was to leave his calling card so that Bourne got the credit for the kill.
4. The reason Marie started helping Bourne was more intense in the books.
5. Marie doesn’t die. In fact, she helps him with the recovery and they get married.
6. Bourne is like Max Payne – getting seriously hurt but still kept pressing on.
7. Bourne gets to track down an impostor in the second book who lead him to the Jackal.
8. Marie learns a lost of Bourne’s tactics in book one which she uses in book two.
9. The government was still a bastard but at least they didn’t kill US citizens and gave the couple a beach house with full security.
10. David Webb and Jason Bourne is almost two different characters making the main character completely schizophrenic.