Sinking Ice and Meteor Showers

So, I saw GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra last night and thought I'd make a few comments.

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Firstly, Christopher Eccleston makes a great supervillain. And the idea that he used NATO's money to develop weapons he'd then steal was pretty clever. Not necessarily original, but today, it's almost impossible to do something that doesn't come off as cliche.

The underwater battle was pretty neat. I can't think of another movie that's done this before and it got away from doing something similar with space/airships and tanks. The last time I'd seen something original to that extent was in Swordfish when they hoist up the bus with the helicopter. The only beef I have with this scene is that when the self destruct mechanism for the enemy base goes off, not only do we see ice sinking, but one of the characters says something along the lines of "The Joes will be killed by a million tons of steel and ice". Ice floats! The writers only needed to leave out those last two words and I could have let the science go.

Accelerator suits, Mach 5 or 6 STOL aircraft piloted via neural interfaces and Celtic voice commands (also, why does the redhead know Celtic and not tie her hair up anyway?), nanomites to turn your burnt face into something metallic, and don't even get me started on the H2 chase, I could have gotten past all of this (hey, it's the future). But sinking ice? This is pretty basic. 
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Subsequently, after the film, the Perseid Meteor Shower was at its peak, so I tried to find a good spot to observe from (not obvious because of the trees in my backyard and the street lights every 12cm in the front, but I saw a couple events before I hit the sack, and this was the lead in to the funniest thing I've heard this week.

Having gone to bed in the wee hours of the morning, I needed a stiff drink and stopped at the Second Cup on McGill College rather than the Trottier Cafeteria (which doesn't sell Starbucks coffee anymore and "Seattle's Best' is less than awesome). When it was my turn, I asked for a large coffee and the return question was "What kind?" to which I responded "Something dark." She took one look at me and called out to the guy who was making drinks "One large battery acid to go". 

I think it was the greatest coffee of my life.

OK, back to work.