Comments for The Fort-Knight Dispatch http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1 John M Knight's outpost on the digital frontier Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:55:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 Comment on New Job, New Day. by John Knight http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1/2009/10/08/new-job-new-day/comment-page-1/#comment-153 John Knight Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:55:57 +0000 http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1/2009/10/08/new-job-new-day/#comment-153 Very excited all. Thank you for the well wishes! Very excited all. Thank you for the well wishes!

]]> Comment on New Job, New Day. by J. Heuer http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1/2009/10/08/new-job-new-day/comment-page-1/#comment-152 J. Heuer Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:54:08 +0000 http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1/2009/10/08/new-job-new-day/#comment-152 Woot Woot Woot! Well done- Woot Woot Woot! Well done-

]]> Comment on New Job, New Day. by PeteW http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1/2009/10/08/new-job-new-day/comment-page-1/#comment-151 PeteW Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:50:48 +0000 http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1/2009/10/08/new-job-new-day/#comment-151 that last post was from me, Pete Wendel. that last post was from me, Pete Wendel.

]]> Comment on New Job, New Day. by Anonymous http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1/2009/10/08/new-job-new-day/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Anonymous Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:49:51 +0000 http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1/2009/10/08/new-job-new-day/#comment-150 Congrats John. I know a UX manager at a power utility in Columbus, OH that's interested in these kinds of applications as well. Is there any public info I can share with him to find out more? Congrats John. I know a UX manager at a power utility in Columbus, OH that's interested in these kinds of applications as well. Is there any public info I can share with him to find out more?

]]> Comment on New Job, New Day. by Reverend0 http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1/2009/10/08/new-job-new-day/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Reverend0 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:28:37 +0000 http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1/2009/10/08/new-job-new-day/#comment-149 Congrats! Sounds like an exciting opportunity. We should talk. Congrats! Sounds like an exciting opportunity. We should talk.

]]> Comment on Tweeting; To The Moon, and Beyond by @saburitz http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1/2009/07/23/tweeting-to-the-moon-and-beyond/comment-page-1/#comment-148 @saburitz Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:10:57 +0000 http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1/2009/07/23/tweeting-to-the-moon-and-beyond/#comment-148 Very cool :) <br /><br />I wish more people understood how useful Twitter can be! And thanks again for dinner at the Capital Grille, we appreciate it! Very cool :)

I wish more people understood how useful Twitter can be! And thanks again for dinner at the Capital Grille, we appreciate it!

]]> Comment on Tweeting; To The Moon, and Beyond by russ http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1/2009/07/23/tweeting-to-the-moon-and-beyond/comment-page-1/#comment-147 russ Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:20:06 +0000 http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1/2009/07/23/tweeting-to-the-moon-and-beyond/#comment-147 This is great and gives me hope as well and is inspiring. Your experience with "strangers" is grand stuffs. I only wish I lived nearby so I can participate - but alas, I do what I can from where I sit in colorful Colorado. I enjoy tweeting and conversing with everyone and I hope peoples realize my name is Russ instead of flight0001. ha This is great and gives me hope as well and is inspiring. Your experience with "strangers" is grand stuffs. I only wish I lived nearby so I can participate – but alas, I do what I can from where I sit in colorful Colorado. I enjoy tweeting and conversing with everyone and I hope peoples realize my name is Russ instead of flight0001. ha

]]> Comment on Happy Independence Day!! by James V Reagan http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1/2009/07/04/happy-independence-day/comment-page-1/#comment-146 James V Reagan Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:08:33 +0000 http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1/2009/07/04/happy-independence-day/#comment-146 Totally friggin cool going up in a bird like that. I am jealous. Totally friggin cool going up in a bird like that. I am jealous.

]]> Comment on Space, The Final Frontier by russ http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1/2009/05/15/space-the-final-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-145 russ Fri, 29 May 2009 13:52:44 +0000 http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1/2009/05/15/space-the-final-frontier/#comment-145 Pics from the primere: http://radruss.com/?p=1026<br /><br />My review: Spoilers ahead.<br /><br />I will finally bite the bullet and give my review for the new J.J. Abrams ‘Star Trek’ movie. Let me start by giving it 7 out of 10 stars, or 3 out of 5 stars or 1 ½ thumbs up. It wasn’t the best movie I have seen in awhile. It’s better that “Wolverine” for sure. I thought “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” was better - and I have been a Trek fan since I was born.<br /><br />The movie was slick. It was spectacular. It was funny. It was action-packed. It was also almost - not really - true to the original series television show and all-encompassing Star Trek lore - to a point.<br /><br />The film is far from perfect. I have not seen very many poor reviews. This is far from a poor review. I am just pointing out what bothered me. And it was a lot to be honest.<br /><br />I was majorly disappointed with the gross changes to the timeline and ‘canon’ universe. The changes are, of course, blamed on the age-old “alternate universe /time travel/new timeline” excuse. It’s a copout. It changes everything. Trek is notorious for altering the timeline, even with the Prime Directive.<br /><br />Ambassador Old Spock violated the Prime Directive more horrendously than Captain Janeway did on “Voyager” by giving Scotty the calculations for a transwarp transporter. What will that knowledge do to the Trek universe? No more starships because you can just beam everywhere? Bah!<br /><br />Old Spock also, from what I gathered, gave young Spock the advice/permission to be emotional. Does this mean Spock will embrace his human-side in upcoming films and be all angry and poignant and cry-baby and non-Vulcan? Wasn’t that done in “The Next Generation” with the android Data reference his emotion chip? Will we at least see some nasty Uhura-on-Spock lover action in the future? What was that all about? Spock, with a click of his PADD, can change crew assignments based solely on his “getting some?” Stupid.<br /><br />The entire planet Vulcan is now gone and the Vulcan’s are endangered species. Spock’s mother is dead.<br /><br />This new origin story pretty much wipes out all of the television shows/movies that happened in the past. Now it’s ‘anything goes.’ It’s a copout. This movie erases ALL of the past in my opinion. How can Spock die in Star Trek II and have his katra, the immortal, living spirit of a Vulcan, returned to his body in Star Trek III, on Vulcan, if the planet is destroyed? If Spock were an endangered, cry-baby Vulcan, would he have even sacrificed his life in Star Trek II? Shouldn’t Ambassador/Old Spock have been erased from existence and not be in this version of history? I can go on and on. A PARADOX! Doc Brown would freak.<br /><br />The movie was slick. It was spectacular. It was funny. It was action-packed. It’s a new, different Star Trek universe now and I am not sure I like it. I hope they correct this heinousness in the next movie. I doubt it though. Pics from the primere: http://radruss.com/?p=1026

My review: Spoilers ahead.

I will finally bite the bullet and give my review for the new J.J. Abrams ‘Star Trek’ movie. Let me start by giving it 7 out of 10 stars, or 3 out of 5 stars or 1 ½ thumbs up. It wasn’t the best movie I have seen in awhile. It’s better that “Wolverine” for sure. I thought “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” was better – and I have been a Trek fan since I was born.

The movie was slick. It was spectacular. It was funny. It was action-packed. It was also almost – not really – true to the original series television show and all-encompassing Star Trek lore – to a point.

The film is far from perfect. I have not seen very many poor reviews. This is far from a poor review. I am just pointing out what bothered me. And it was a lot to be honest.

I was majorly disappointed with the gross changes to the timeline and ‘canon’ universe. The changes are, of course, blamed on the age-old “alternate universe /time travel/new timeline” excuse. It’s a copout. It changes everything. Trek is notorious for altering the timeline, even with the Prime Directive.

Ambassador Old Spock violated the Prime Directive more horrendously than Captain Janeway did on “Voyager” by giving Scotty the calculations for a transwarp transporter. What will that knowledge do to the Trek universe? No more starships because you can just beam everywhere? Bah!

Old Spock also, from what I gathered, gave young Spock the advice/permission to be emotional. Does this mean Spock will embrace his human-side in upcoming films and be all angry and poignant and cry-baby and non-Vulcan? Wasn’t that done in “The Next Generation” with the android Data reference his emotion chip? Will we at least see some nasty Uhura-on-Spock lover action in the future? What was that all about? Spock, with a click of his PADD, can change crew assignments based solely on his “getting some?” Stupid.

The entire planet Vulcan is now gone and the Vulcan’s are endangered species. Spock’s mother is dead.

This new origin story pretty much wipes out all of the television shows/movies that happened in the past. Now it’s ‘anything goes.’ It’s a copout. This movie erases ALL of the past in my opinion. How can Spock die in Star Trek II and have his katra, the immortal, living spirit of a Vulcan, returned to his body in Star Trek III, on Vulcan, if the planet is destroyed? If Spock were an endangered, cry-baby Vulcan, would he have even sacrificed his life in Star Trek II? Shouldn’t Ambassador/Old Spock have been erased from existence and not be in this version of history? I can go on and on. A PARADOX! Doc Brown would freak.

The movie was slick. It was spectacular. It was funny. It was action-packed. It’s a new, different Star Trek universe now and I am not sure I like it. I hope they correct this heinousness in the next movie. I doubt it though.

]]> Comment on The new Ride by Reverend0 http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1/2009/05/07/the-new-ride/comment-page-1/#comment-144 Reverend0 Thu, 07 May 2009 18:05:00 +0000 http://fortknightdispatch.com/blog1/2009/05/07/the-new-ride/#comment-144 Pretty nice!<br /><br />Congrats on stimulating our economy despite Chryslers downfall. Pretty nice!

Congrats on stimulating our economy despite Chryslers downfall.

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