Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
Jeff Bridges is one of those understated geek icons – in many geeky films (Tron for the gods' sake), but also calmly going along and doing his thing.
His web page is a fount of awesome, and one of the most unique personal/professional pages I've seen.
Go and experience it.
A helpful guide to terms we use around here. Updated 1/9/2010:
A
A.I.N.O. – Anime In Name Only. Refers to things based on anime with none of what made the anime work, or things imitating anime.
C
CorpTechPocalype – The inevitable end of Corporate IT as it moves to SaaS, mobile, and outsourcing. Comes from a series of two columns at 3 Geeks and A Law Blog (here and here), further commented on here.
Crush Object – Any company that the staff things is particularly awesome. In Bonnie's case, eternally Sony.
E
Econogeek – A geek who is into economics, or a person who is geeky about economics.
Everything Wars – The name for the conflict going on between many companies that previously did not compete, but now do because of technical synergy.
G
Geekonomy – The ill-defined part of the economy that is dominated by Geekdom. Includes media, technology, comics, video games, and whatever else the bloggers feel is vaguely related.
Geekonomics – Activity that affects the Geekonomy. Also interesting news for Econogeeks.
P
"Three P's" – Politicans, Preachers, and Pundits. The people Steve most often notes manage to botch things up while being moralizing.
Production Revolution – The ability that the internet and IT tools have given people to become published authors, artists, videographers, etc.
Progeek, Profan, Protaku – Terms for people who apply their hobbies professionally.
People hated "The Last Airbender" for many reasons. I'm not going to argue any of them, as I've seen it (with Rifftrax) and it was mind-numbingly bad in a way that actually beat my incredibly low expectations. But among the things people say about the film adaption of the beloved franchise – the hate of the actors, the plot, the acting, the direction, the story, the intermittent attacks of slow-mo - there's one thing I rarely hear brought up.
Why a film anyway? I mean let's assume that you have some driving reason to turn "Avatar: The Last Airbender" into some other media form, why a film?