Sci Fi Jungle

Today I started Reading Eragon

I just started reading the book Eragon, by Christopher Paolini.  I can't believe this kid was 15 years old when he started writing the book.  Thinking about that makes me feel like an old failure in life.  Sigh.  Oh well.  The book is very well written so far.  The  writing is sparse, yet descriptive enough to allow you to picture what is going on in your head as you are reading.

I already saw the movie before reading the book.  Usually I like to read the book before I see a movie, but in this case I really didn't think I would read the book.  But I saw a great looking copy at Goodwill and couldn't resist.  I like to skulk around the book department of my local Goodwill on my lunch hour since it is right across the street from where I work.  I am a bit of a book addict so that's my secret for being able to buy books cheap.  heh heh.

For you DVD loving folks, the movie is also out on Blu-Ray DVD and well as regular DVD.

Great Review of Stargate 10th Season DVD

I found a great review of the Stargate SG-1: Complete Tenth Season at flickfilosopher.com.    In the Ark of Truth I am curious as to if there's going to be any finalization of the relationships of Amanda Tapping's character Sam Carter and the two guys they've written romantic tension in with - Ben Bowder's Cam, and of course MacGyver, cough, I mean Richard Dean Anderson's Jack.

 

Since Sam is still in Stargate Atlantis, my guess is that they won't wrap too much up in the 2 direct to DVD movies that are coming out.  (See the Ark of Truth for more info).  I've heard the Ark of Truth was leaked on the net (bit torrent?) already, but of course I'm waiting for the legal real deal.  If anyone knows the gossip (jack, sam carter, wedding, "ark of truth"???)  or happened to see a pre-release of Ark of Truth post us a comment.  We love comments.  <smile>

   

mnemonic for remembering the 11 Planets

Need a mnemonic device to remember the now 11 planets?  Riverview Elementary fourth-grader Maryn Smith wrote one that is going to be included in a National Geographic book.

mnemonic for remembering our 11 planets:

My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Palace Elephants.

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Eris.

It works - thanks, Maryn.  You've got your 15 minutes of fame at an early age.

And while we're on the subject of planets - check out this really cool NASA site all about the search for life in space - ORIGINS - Habitable Planets. 

St Patrick's Day Space Alien T-Shirt

Zeb the Irish Alien all decked out for St. Patrick's Day.

“St Patrick's Day Space Alien T-Shirt. Our space alien Zeb says "I'm from the Irish Galaxy" and has a cute lil shamrock. For the Irish sci fi fans and those who just want to party on St. Patrick's Day .”

Hot New Books in Sci Fi and Fantasy

Here is a slideshow of some of the hottest books in Sci Fi and Fantasy right now.

Grandma Google Found Us!

I've been doing some research on our site statistics.  I am very pleased that the all mighty search engine Google has added SciFiJungle to their indexes.  Yay!  Thank you Google-bots. 

Some of the searches that brought people to the site include:

"futuristic urban scifi art"  - - excellent - that's exactly what we sell on our cafepress store

"hot sci fi guys" -- I am not quite sure how I feel about his one.  <<smile>> This is a family friendly site,  (family as in kid safe and also family as in the rainbow type family).  But we do enjoy looking at the cute actors and actresses in our favorite tv shows and movies, so I guess its ok.   The way I look at it, the more we get picked up in the search engines the more chance people are going to start looking at our cool sci fi themed t-shirts and art and then the business will grow.

"Ben Browder" - Yeah, this makes sense.  We like Stargate, we like Farscape.  We like Ben Browder.  In fact, I guess he's one of the hot sci fi guys as discussed above.  <giggle>

No nibbles on "st patrick's day alien t-shirt" though.  Well, I guess its a niche market, right?  These things take time.

New Torchwood Tomorrow - "Meat"

Next Episode of Torchwood - tomorrow night.  Get your Tivo's all programmed.

Torchwood
"Meat"  (episode: #204)
Sat 2/23 8:00PM     BBC America

Rhys finds out the truth about Torchwood and becomes involved in the investigation of a suspicious alien meat supply.

I also saw linked on meevee.com that itunes is now going to be carrying BBC shows including Torchwood so you can buy episodes for your iPod.    Cool beans.  I love to watch tv shows on my video iPod while I am waiting in the doctors office or anywhere where I have time to kill.  I saw it on the UK iTunes but not the US version.  Ok, Apple, I'm waiting...  When will Torchwood be available on iTunes in the US?  My iPod needs some Captain Jack.  And I am not talking about Johnny Depp and Jack Sparrow, I am talking about Capt. Jack Harkness from Torchwood - the BBC DrWho spinoff.

Lunar Eclipse - 10:24 PM EST

The first photo is the moon on its way disappearing.  Taken standing on my front porch - sorry for the tree branches.

The second photo was taken leaning on the back of my mini-van - no tripod or anything.  This is straight out of the camera.  Wow.  This Nikon D70 is really something.  50 MM 1.8 lens.  This is the moon coming "back" after disappearing.

According to Space.com what we see here is:

The planet Saturn and the bright star Regulus will form a broad triangle with the moon's ruddy disk, according to Joe Rao, SPACE.com's Skywatching Columnist.

I am really proud of this shot.  :-)  I am usually a terrible photographer so this is so cool to me.

Sci Fi City 0 - New in the CafePress Store

I am very special feelings about this design.  James' Sci Fi Cities series were the inspiration for this web site and t-shirt shop.  After a wonderful home cooked dinner at Jeff and James' house one night, Jin and I got to see some of James' portfolio.  I was just blown away!  I had just heard about CafePress and the idea started cooking in my head.  I talked to James about it and it sounded good to him too, but we didn't do anything for a long time. 

We have now realized the dream.  We have our own store and  website to share our love of cool Science Fiction goodness.

Sci Fi City Zero Organic Cotton Tee  (also available on many other products)

Futuristic urban landscape. We see this metropolis of the future as if we are in a flying car, in the tops of the towers. A computer generated fantasy of leaning towers. Original art by James Bowen
$18.99

Futuristic urban scifi art t-shirt

Stargate - Ark of Truth is coming to DVD 3/11/08

Stargate - Ark of Truth is coming to (straight to) DVD March 11th

Info from GateWorld site:
U.S. RELEASE DATE - March 11, 2008 (DVD)
BUDGET - $7 million
WRITTEN and Directed BY - Robert C. Cooper
STARRING - Ben Browder (Cameron Mitchell), Amanda Tapping (Samantha Carter), Michael Shanks (Daniel Jackson), Christopher Judge (Teal'c), Claudia Black (Vala Mal Doran), Beau Bridges (Hank Landry), Tim Guinee (Tomin), Currie Graham (James Merek), Morena Baccarin (Adria), Julian Sands (Doci), Matthew Walker (Merlin), Sarah Strange (Morgan Le Fay), Greg Anderson (Prior), Doug Abrahams (Prior)

With the Ori forces poised to launch a final assault on Earth, SG-1 must travel to their home galaxy in search of a way to stop their onslaught.

Preorder from Amazon Here