This title will sound familiar to all who enjoyed the Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2 movies in the ’80s. I recently reviewed both movies for UnePorte.net. Seeing these movies again renewed my love for this universe and I found out that a mini-series of Ghostbusters comic books was printed last year. I’ve ordered a copy of the new paperback collection that has just been released and will let you know how it fares when I read through it. The art in the book looks great and the story and dialog seem to keep the spirit of the characters from the movie.

Some people have way too much time on their hands… Grocery Clone Wars, produced in association with the Organic Trade Association, is essentially a spoof of Star Wars made with vegetable and fruit characters. Luke become Cuc Skywalker (a cucumber), and Chewbacca become Chewbrocolli, among others. Some of it is pretty funny while other parts are a bit more boring since they talk about the goodness of organic produce against other types of cultures. An interesting watch that runs for a bit less than ten minutes.

I was a bit surprised today to learn that Steven Page, lead singer of Barenaked Ladies, one of my all-time favorite bands, has released a solo project in June of this year. Entitled The Vanity Project, this new CD contains a series of songs that Page co-wrote with long-time collaborator Stephen Duffy. I’ve only listened to the excepts available on the web site so far. Some songs sound quite interesting while other are a bit too much of a departure from the BNL sound for me. I’ll have to try to listen to the entire CD in the near future to form a better opinion.

The new name of the next version of Windows has been recently announced, it will be called Windows Vista. A first beta was recently release to a small number of external testers to get some feedback on the product. You can read an in-depth review of the beta on the Windows Supersite, a great Windows news site. A lot of the changes mainly seem to be superficial interface changes (although some things are quite pretty), but there are also a few deeper features that will be interesting to see in action. One thing I’m wondering is what will the system requirements be with so much going on graphically on-screen.

The third and final season of the Quebec drama series Omertà is going to be available on DVD on September 13th from TVA Films. This third season was quite interesting since its storyline started before the first season, followed some of the major events of seasons one and two and finished after the second season. This way, we got to see many of our favorite characters again.

I have been introduced to another wonderful tool from Google recently called Google Earth. I was already blown away by Google Maps, with its smooth scrolling maps and satellite imaging. However, Google Earth just blows that out of the water. On startup, the application simply shows you the planet. You can then enter an address and it will zoom to that street address, dynamically loading one image after another to get the correct resolution. It kind of feels like the imaging that they had in the movie Enemy of the State with Will Smith. The other nice thing is that the databases accessed by the client also contain 3-D information on buildings located in the major american cities. It is therefore possible to see the New York cityscape in 3-D with overlaid information about streets, restaurants and hotels. Quite a sight. And as usual with Google software, this is completely free!

I don’t usually post images in my entries but a picture is worth a thousand words as they say, so here is a picture of the tool in action, showing the Chicago Aquarium where I went for my vacation last month.

Another long time without any posts… Things were a bit nuts for the last month and a half. Andrée foot healed well and she got her cast off last week. So she had it for a total of 5 weeks. This encumbrance really put a hold on a lot of the projects that we planned to do around the house.

We were in Chicago in mid-July for a reunion of about 15 mothers and their babies born in October 2004. About 6 dads also participated to the event. It was a lot of fun. We went to visit the Chicago Aquarium, the Navy Pier and had a nice, relaxing picnic at a park near our hotel.

There is not much else happening these days. I’ve started watching the first season of Battlestar Galactica at my wife’s urging and must say it is a very enjoyable series. I’ve only seen the mini-series and first two episodes of the season so far so it will still be a bit before I can chat about it.