How Did I Find Casino Royale?

I watched Casino Royale the other day and it felt a bit different from other Bond movies I've watched. Without criticizing the movie for its details and watching it simply for the sake of watching, I found it entertaining. It had a lot of action scenes and some touches of humor. I'm also glad that the role of the Bond girl has evolved into an integral part of the story and has a real involvement with the progression of it. Watching the early Bonds, it was annoying to see the Bond girl as merely a pretty face a la Ursula Andress strolling across the beach. Keeping in mind that Casino Royale was ian Fleming's first book and that it's supposed to the prequel to the Bond stories we know, a lot of inconsistencies were bugging me all throughout the film. 1. It's the first Bond story but the movie Casino Royale had modern day technology that was unseen during the early Bond days. This one is a bit understandable though since it would be really sucky to see a movie without cool technology nowadays. 2. The role of M was not always Judi Dench's. In fact ever since the start until he dies in 1981, M was played by a man named Bernard Lee. In fact in Golden Eye (Brosnan's first Bond movie), Judi Dench makes a reference to her predecessor in a conversation with Bond. This I assume is Bernard Lee's character. Being the first assignment of Bond, it should have been Bernard Lee's character that should have been in Casino Royale, hence they should have gotten a man for their M, not Dench. I'm thinking maybe Anthony Hopkins or *snicker* Sean Connery lol. Seeing as Bond was still much younger in Casino Royale, Daniel Craig was a good choice to play the most athletic Bond I've ever seen. It's a bit strange to see Bond running around and beating people up like a bruiser. It felt like I was watching a Vin Diesel movie. Overall though the movie was fun.

Knock Knock?

I happened to be channel surfing last night while watching TV saw that the Maury Povich show was on. It wasn't the usual Paternity tests episodes with the "You are not the father!" so I decided to check out what was going on. It so happened that Maury was featuring some famous online videos (all of which, fo some reason, I never heard of or seen before). This particular video of knock knock jokes made me laugh my ass off. Enjoy!

b5media.com got a face lift!

b5media.com has a new look and I'm loving it! It looks a lot more fresh and clean. Rather than being a just a blog to post announcement and thoughts from the founders and the rest of the management team, it's now serving a cooler purpose of being a portal to the b5 blogs. You can choose which channel to drop down now rather than scrolling down to the channel and blog of your choice. The site also features a random channel each time you visit. Like the sloganizer at my sidebar, you can refresh the site and a new channel will be featured. With b5 growing into one of the biggest blog networks around and the 2 million dollar VC funding it just got, everyone in b5 is very excited with all the changes. A new b5 deserves a fresh new look!

Low Vision Blog

I mentioned before that I had to quit playing World of Warcraft because my eye condition called Keratoconus. I've had it for more than 5 years already but I wore special lenses back then. Ever since my opthalmologist prdered me to stop wearing them I've been living in a blur but thankfully I can see well enough (actually... just barely) to use to PC to write stuff. i have to stick my face closer to the monitor than I normally should but it's the only way I can get to see what I'm reading and writing. Since I already write for b5media's NBA Obsessed, I've been thinking that I could probably write a blog all about low vision written from the perspective of someone actually experiencing it, living the low vision life. That way it's more personal and while I also have to write about the science news and technology about low vision (which includes other low vision conditions like cataracts and stuff), I also get to write about my experiences. It's probably not going to be up for a few more weeks but that's the plan.