Holy crap, I can’t believe Ethnic People is actually a category on allposters.com. Seriously, do white people really believe they have no ethnicity? (no offense to any enlightened white persons out there) Maybe it’s time for people who don’t think they are “ethnic” to go back to school and learn some more.
Hint: take an intro sociology course or something. Actually, just look up the definition of ethnicity in a dictionary.
I was thinking about what the future Hiro said during the first season of Heroes in the context of the second season. When future Hiro appeared to Peter on the subway train, he told Peter to save the cheerleader (who turns out to be Claire Bennet), in order to save the world. It was pretty clear later on that the reason Claire had to be saved from Sylar is because if Sylar obtains her healing abilities, then he would be unkillable — thus Hiro’s thrust to his chest would not have done anything.
Now, in season two, we find out there’s an even bigger catastrophe that’s about to be unleashed into the world. The Shanti virus that strips Heroes of their abilities, as well as eventually killing them, will mutate and infect all human. This results in 97% of the world population being wiped out. And guess what? The only person, according to Bob from The Company, that can save the world from this epidemic is none other than Claire.
Maybe when future Hiro said to Peter, “save the cheerleader, save the world,” he wasn’t referring to the incident with Sylar and the NYC bombing. After all, preventing the NYC bombing isn’t really saving the world. At least from what we’ve seen the season one’s “future” episode, the bombing seem to be affecting the US, but we don’t know what happened with the rest of the world. But this new virus thing will wipe out most of earth’s population. And we also have rumors that the badass, future Hiro will once again make an appearance in season two. Maybe he’ll shed some light into what’s going on, and perhaps the future Hiro has seen a lot more than we thought he did in season one.
The Writer’s Guild of America is now on strike. That means there will be no new scripts written for the TV shows in the US. I can’t imagine how TV will be like when they run out of new episodes for the current shows. Re-runs and reality shows… it’s not going to be a pretty sight.
The thing that sucks most is that the second season of Heroes will be cut short, and there’s some speculation that the current season of Heroes might be ending with the episode that is set to air on December 3rd (source: Heroes Fanatic). If that’s the case, I hope the finale won’t feel too rushed. And I hope that the WGA and the networks can work out a new contract before all TV goes to heck.
Talking about Heroes, was that an episode tonight or what? By far the best episode of season 2 so far! And from the preview for next week’s episode, my hopes are getting high. :P
I was talking to some co-workers about legalizing drugs today during lunch. The Canadian government, and the US government, view drugs as a matter of law. In reality, though, it’s really a social issue, and by punishing drug users and traffickers with harsher penalties isn’t going to solve it. If the issue is public health, then we should focus on prevention and safe drug use, instead of just throwing people in jail. If the issue is morality, then the question is, what is morality?
Alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking are both legal in Canada. What makes marijuana any different? Is it just because pot smoking has always been viewed as illegal and bad, thus it must always remain so? I’m not promoting the use of marijuana, but people need to stop and think about the reasons they hold onto certain beliefs. Marijuana is progressively becoming a folkway as opposed to a mores in today’s society, and a lot of people are already pushing to legalize it.
One more thing to consider is that one of the side-effects of illegal drug trafficking is violent crimes. An example would be drug dealers trying to protect their turf, thus resulting in gun violence against other drug dealers. If drug supply is controlled by the government, then these violent crimes can be lowered. So instead of the police spending so many resources on trying to punish drug dealers/users, they can focus on more serious crimes, and as a side-effect of legalized drug, the rate at which the other crimes occur would lower too.
I’m so tired of seeing those stupid commercials on TV that tells you to text “Love” to 55655, to get pick-up lines. Seriously, who in their right mind would use that service to help pickup someone?
First of all, those lines sound pretty dumb. The one line from one of the commercials goes, “If I could arrange the alphabet I d put U and I together.” Do they actually expect people to use that line on someone? Secondly, you can find these ridiculous pickup lines for free on the Internet! Just Google “stupid pickup lines” and see what you get. :P
My name is Jack Hsu. I'm engaged to Ams. I graduated from the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. I enjoy playing video games. I'm a web developer at The Globe and Mail. You can reach me through email at jack.hsu[at]gmail[dot]com.
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