Trekkies or Tatooine…

It has been quite a hectic last few weeks with work and study and there does not appear to be a major break on the horizon soon on these fronts. I don’t mind so much as it is keeping me quite busy and occasionally entertained. I haven’t had much time for a social life, however can attest to being an Iron Man “convert” after seeing this film in a rare foray away from the PC and books.

Outside of that, the craziness of events across the world has been in full flight, with quite a lot of ugly news that has been sad and enough to leave ones jaw dragging on the ground.

For my cameo appearance though, I have decided to add two story links from the SMH Online that both appeared in yesterday’s edition. I partciularly liked the first one:

1. Darth Vader attacks yet another Jedi: “A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a black garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of Britain’s first Jedi church…”

Much akin to the story about the scorpion and the bear, it is in the nature of Darth Vader to attack Jedi’s…everyone knows that. Must be why he got only a suspended sentence.

2. Trekkie invasion of British court system: “British judges abandoned a 300-year-old tradition of wearing horsehair wigs to a chorus of mockery from fashion critics and traditionalists, who say the new robes have turned them into Star Trek look-a-likes.”

Given the tradition that Britain generally upholds so tightly, I am quite surprised to see them dispensing with a internationally known part of it in such a modern manner….well if you consider the new look robes to be modern rather than futuristic. Would love to see this new look stick around, and wonder if there will be enough unrest among the legal-ites there, that the old robes and wigs will be brought back post-haste.