Joe Sinnott in Dutch, Ian Anderson in Space

Mark Sinnott has announced that his dad, Marvel Comics legend Joe Sinnott, will have some of his fantastic art on display at the Dutch Ale House in Joe’s hometown of Saugerties, NY. The opening for the two-month showing will be next Sunday, February 20 at 3 pm, and I’m hoping to be there with D.F. Rogers, esq. Denro has done an incredible job of locating issues of comic books for Joe that he worked on decades ago, where Joe had only the story title on file because the publisher didn’t have a specific issue in mind for the assignment.

Mark is the world’s biggest Jethro Tull fan, and at this moment one of Ian Anderson’s flutes is in orbit on the International Space Station, with astronaut Catherine Coleman.

Coming up Acers

Knowing that you can’t stand the suspense of waiting to find out what my new desktop computer will be, I’ve already ordered one. It’s an Acer Veriton M275 E7600, and having soured on Dell, it will be the third Acer computer in the house.

Ugly box, eh? It’s intended to be a business computer, and that’s why it interests me, because it has Windows 7 Professional (64-bit), which is $80 more retail than Windows 7 Home Premium, but $100 more when ordering it as part of a customized Dell configuration. I’m fairly confident the 500 GB hard drive from the Dell Inspiron is still good, and the new computer also has a 500 gig disk, so I’m hoping to use Windows RAID 1 mirroring. I vaguely recall there are hassles when doing this on a C: drive, but I’ll either figure it out or add the second disk as a D: drive.

My external Western Digital USB drive has hardware RAID 1 mirroring. Unfortunately, it appears that WD has discontinued their Mirror Edition drives, but fortunately Amazon still has some, so I grabbed one.

From Russia With Silence

When synchronized sound came to the movies, American film studios no longer had a universal product that only needed the title cards translated into different languages to be exported to markets around the world. Dubbing spoken dialog has never been a satisfactory alternative, except for cartoons.

Thanks to the ubiquitous distribution of American silent movies in their day, every so often copies show up in other countries. The latest example is a cache of American films that were preserved in Russia.

K3 Through the Looking Glass

In addition to their TV sitcom, the ladies of K3 in have a new stage musical coming up. It’s an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland (perhaps inspired by the success of Tim Burton’s movie?).

http://youtu.be/PyZCUD7pAHw

With all of the injuries from the aerial acrobatics in the Spider-Man musical, one would hope that Karen, Kristel, and Josje wouldn’t be made to wear wires so they can fly above the stage, but they already did that in an earlier musical, when Kathleen was in the group.

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