The End is Near..

As I speak right now, somewhere in Sweden, a bunch of Scientist-types are working on The Large Hadron Collider, the worlds biggest proton accelerator...the worlds biggest anything, for that matter...

Why this is of importance, to all of you people who couldn't care less, is because scientists are attempting to study the formation of the Universe itself, and they are doing this by trying to recreate the Big Bang...

You don't have to be an egghead to figure out that thats the kinda thing that can seriously fuck shit up...The energy of the big bang is of the order of magnitude of 2 raised to a million Joules, which will rip the the crap out of the planet and possibly set up a Universe within a Universe...

But of course there's a very slim chance of that actually happening...

Of course, the formation of Antimatter is a concern, and so is the possible formation of a Black Hole...

Once again, that's not exactly the healthiest thing for a planet, what with being sucked into a sinkhole for matter and energy itself...

This isn't just crap I'm making up, by the way, here's wiki to shed some light on it...

Concerns have been raised about the safety of the LHC on the grounds that high-energy particle collisions performed in the collider might cause disastrous events, including the production of stable micro black holes (mBHs) and strangelets.

Strangelets, by the way refers to the Strange Matter Theory, referred to, here

If the strange matter hypothesis is correct and a strangelet comes in contact with a lump of ordinary matter such as Earth, it could convert the ordinary matter to strange matter. This "ice-nine" disaster scenario is as follows: one strangelet hits a nucleus, catalyzing its immediate conversion to strange matter. This liberates energy, producing a larger, more stable strangelet, which in turn hits another nucleus, catalyzing its conversion to strange matter. In the end, all the nuclei of all the atoms of Earth are converted, and Earth is reduced to a hot, large lump of strange matter.

To put it plainly, we make one particle of strange matter, that sparks a chain reaction that turns all of earth and everything in it into a steaming pile of crap...that turns anything it touches into more crap....

Now, individually, the chances of one of these things happening is pretty low, but club it all together and things get worrysome...

I don't know about you but I'm trying to do as many good deeds as possible beofre the 21st of October...can't be too careful...

100 bullets

100 Bullets is a DC/Vertigo comics crime-drama series, which is slated to continue for (what else) 100 issues...

It exhibits a distinct noir style, in both the story and the language used, which by the way is pretty 'strong'...you have been warned...

I'll let Wiki fill you in on the rest...

100 Bullets is an Eisner and Harvey Award-winning comic book written by Brian Azzarello and illustrated by Eduardo Risso

The initial plot of 100 Bullets hinges on the question of whether people would take the chance to get away with revenge. Occasionally in a given story arc, the mysterious Agent Graves approaches someone who has been the victim of a terrible wrong, and gives them the chance to set things right in the form of a nondescript attaché case containing a handgun, 100 bullets, a photograph of a person, and irrefutable evidence that this person is primarily responsible for their woes. He informs the candidate that the bullets are completely untraceable: any police investigation that uncovers one of them will stop.

Though all of the murders enabled by Agent Graves are presented as justifiable, the candidates are neither rewarded nor punished for taking up the offer, and appear to receive nothing other than closure for their actions. Several people have declined the offer. This is later revealed to be only a minor part of a much wider story.

That's pure noir right there, as in- Crime, Deeply flawed characters, Dark settings, themes like Revenge, Retribution and loads of action...Kinda like a Max Payne paperback...

This is what makes up most of my reading nowadays, and I recommend it to anyone who likes good comics...

The Hitch Hiker's guide to The Galaxy

This book (later adapted to a movie) is summed up in one word...crazy...

Imagine if the author, Douglas Adams, sat down to write it with a long line of tequila shots on one side of his table, a bowl full of assorted hallucinogenic drugs on the other side of the table, and his laptop in the middle- You'd get some idea about how crazy the book is...

Let wiki continue things- do note that the first line on the article is- "all or part of this article may be confusing or unclear', which is just how these books do, y'know?

The book begins when contractors arrive at Earthling Arthur Dent's house in order to demolish it to make way for a bypass. Arthur's friend Ford Prefect arrives as Arthur is attempting to talk the demolition crew into leaving his house standing, and talks Arthur into coming to a local pub with him, at which point Ford explains that he (Ford) is actually from a planet somewhere near Betelgeuse and that they have to get off the planet before it's demolished. An alien race of bureaucrats called Vogons intend to destroy Earth to make way for a "hyperspace bypass".

After which, they hitch-hike across the galaxy, being tortured by bad poetry, dealing with manic depressive robots and elevators that can look into the future, journeying, meeting the president of the Galaxy, quite literally to the end of the universe and back again, being blown back in time, forward in time, or just blown up, quite often...

After which they finally find the Answer to Life, The Universe and everything in it...

Makes for some incredible reading, but it's comedy of a slightly nerdy kind...if you haven't done any science in your short life, you may not get some of the more subtle jokes...

Kick-Ass!

Kick Ass is a brand spankin' new series, written by Mark Millar, started off in April 2008...here's a short summary...

Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan with a few friends and who lives alone with his father. His life is not very difficult and his personal trials not that overwhelming. However, one day he makes the simple decision to become a super-hero even though he has no powers or training

As you can probably see, just looking through that summary, and the attached picture, that this one is pretty darn unconventional. It's pretty darn violent, too, and quite profane...but then again, you're not going to be saying things like 'Blistering Buttercups!' when you're being tortured with a Car Battery wired to your nuts, now, are you?

It completely defies all precedents by showing what REALLY might happen if someone straps on a spandex suit and goes looking for trouble in a rough neighbourhood...not fame and glory, but scars, bruises, life threatening injuries and maybe even the aforementioned car battery burns on your privates...

Look around on the intarwebs and you'll find this comic in a cbr format for easy reading...I've got chapter one and three, and if anyone gets their hands or mouse on chapter 2, be sure to tell me...

What I've been upto...

...Thats worth mentioning, anyway...

This means I'm not mentioning anything to do with studies, I talk about that enough...but don't let that give you the impression that I'm spending my life pissing away my time reading books and watching movies...

The next series of posts are going to be about the movies, comics, manga and books that I've been reading in the last six months...they tend to be things that are relatively unknown, so anyone who has interest in the aforementioned topics should probably stick around...

Comfort Food, Comfort Book...

Who Watches The Watchmen

I've just finished reading the Graphic Novel Masterpiece, The Watchmen...now I'm completely excited about the movie coming out right after my CET exams next year...

Aside from which, I'm also excited about the Max Payne movie, coming out in November...

And 'Wanted' which is releasing here next week...

And Metallica's new album in years, Death Magnetic...

And The new album from The Rasmus...

And The LAmB Anime releasing in October-November....

And Gotham Knight, the prequel to 'The Dark Knight'...

And X-men:Origins-Wolverine...

And Lots of other things to look forward to...if it wasn't for all those darn studies...

Survival Facts for you n00bs!

Just in case you FYJC students googled the name of your college, on a whim, and ended up on this site, here's some vital information to help you through your 2 year ordeal to come...

In other words, Suffer well, you S.O.B...

Facts about Somaiya

1)Being seen Wearing an SK ID card is about the most embarrassing thing that can happen to a person

2)It takes longer to get a new I.D. card than to complete a two year Junior college course

3)All requests have to be sent in writing to the office so that they can be filed, then misplaced, then forgotten, then sold off, then remembered, then recovered and finally buried underground behind the library for six years before any action is taken.

4)Painting is undertaken (without any exaggeration) once every twenty-Five years

5)The colour of the outside building was a dark red colour once upon a time...you would never have guessed that with all the bleaching and the chuna that they apply, would you?

6)There are people in commerce and arts who don't even know what their college looks like.

7)Male Students wearing three-fourth pants are taken to task for 'Gross Indecency'

8)You can find half the answers of your exams written on the walls near you.

9)If you are caught by the principal without wearing an I.D you may be asked 'If you are the poor'

10)The most deadly variety of student here are the Vinay Mandir students-They move in groups and attack in packs, so stay clear and avoid eye contact...