Save the Whales, you awful person you... (and other things)
Whales and Dolphins 3-D at the Imax was really visually stunning. The effects were very good- you felt like you were right there. If I had to pay for it though, I would have been slightly peeved that it was only 45 minutes long. As it was, the only irritating part was the hippie save the whales message that they beat you over the head with about seventy times in the space of that 45 minutes. Now, before you all gasp in horror, let me state that I am very much in favor of sealife conservation. I love the whales and dolphins and manatees and want them all to swim around and be happy in nice clean environments free of predation. That being said.. I don't need to be told how awful it is that everything is going to die out every five minutes. I do not have a harpoon in my purse at the movie theater - I am not the evil problem causing the extinction of the whales - but the movie made me feel like I was.
There was even a song at the end about who is going to be hunted next, and how terrible it is that we came from the sea but we drive sea creatures to extinction and so on. I don't remember the words, but the gist was 'Humans suck - whales rock, get off your ass and conserve some you lazy person. Visit our website and donate money and you'll suck less." It did detract from the experience.
Things to do tomorrow:
finish press release writing
clean the fish tank
go to post office
do something about getting Aus's stuff in to Office Team
We started a Half.com store by the way - take a look at some of the book we have for sale! Buy some, we'll love you forever. We'll be adding more as time goes on.
We also joined this neat program - a video game exchange. You can exchange games you don't want any more for points which you can use to get games from people who have the games you want available. Check it out here!
There was even a song at the end about who is going to be hunted next, and how terrible it is that we came from the sea but we drive sea creatures to extinction and so on. I don't remember the words, but the gist was 'Humans suck - whales rock, get off your ass and conserve some you lazy person. Visit our website and donate money and you'll suck less." It did detract from the experience.
Things to do tomorrow:
finish press release writing
clean the fish tank
go to post office
do something about getting Aus's stuff in to Office Team
We started a Half.com store by the way - take a look at some of the book we have for sale! Buy some, we'll love you forever. We'll be adding more as time goes on.
We also joined this neat program - a video game exchange. You can exchange games you don't want any more for points which you can use to get games from people who have the games you want available. Check it out here!