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and #4... http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1949813

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1949271

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBuyjZHe_8E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZCtQ5NzPEU

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1949406

Thanks When I've actually ridden coast to coast is when I'll have humbly earned any congratulations that come my way, but your encouragement is appreciated. At least raise prostate cancer awareness and raise a couple of bucks for PCC's research programs then it'll be worth it. It would be kinda neat to have people come out to troop at the media events in major cities as I pass through... anyone know who I'd talk to in order to set something up?

Many thanks! Every bit helps. I've just 5 months left to raise all the sponsorship money, co-ordinate the logistics, get in better shape, etc. Nothing like a challenge!

Star Wars as acted out on the subway

So far there's been slow but steady growth. More fans on the Facebook page would really help get sponsors behind this. If you can spare a sec to click 'like' that'd be awesome http://www.facebook.com/pages/Strong-And-Free/113375188731660

some of you may remember when I starved myself this summer to call attention to the dangers of poor eating habits and fad diets. As part of my recovery, I was given a bike to ride around on, building muscle back up with a low impact workout. i hadn't been on a bike since I was about 9, but I was quickly hooked. Within 5 weeks I was up to 50 km/day. So... I've partnered with Prostate Cancer Canada (since they only get less than 1/50th of the funding that the pink ribbon bunch get), and will be riding my bike from coast to coast across Canada to raise, hopefully, $2 million for their cause. If you're interested, you can check out http://www.strongandfree.org to follow along. if you're really interested, i'm looking for people to join me for a leg or two here and there. Be sure to click 'like' in the facebook fan box. Numbers are something potential sponsors look at, and it would really help.

I make sculptures the same way out of packing tape

Agreed! Slick outfit.

*chuckle*

...well I thought it was funny.

DarthChridan, your sig is full of win.

I was reading a site about lame mail-in action figures (like Anikin Skywalker from the original ROTJ, pre-Lucas-retinkering) when I stumbled across this gem: The Time: Mid-90's Star Wars revival The figure: Han Solo in Stormtrooper gear. The cereal: all the Froot Loops you had to buy to get him. I had 3 other friends going in on this as well, and we all had bought our requisite boxes of FL, and we were chomping like mad to get all the cereal eaten. The first night, none of us got past the 3rd bowl, and the next day, after I woke up to sit down for the morning constitutional, afterward I noticed..... Well, let's just keep it as a colorful side-effect; and I was reminded of one of Kermit the Frogs songs. (I would later learn that just one bowl of Boo Berry would do the same thing) Got back to the friend's little box he called a house, saw a familiar look of bemused horror that had been on my face earlier, and asked him, "Hey, this morning, did you.." "Yeah." "So it's not just me?" "No." Repeat this exchange another 2 times with the other friends, and a quiet afternoon of not much conversation. I went home for dinner, and mentioned the 'effect' to my Mom. "Well, why didn't you just put the cereal in a Tupperware?" Because we were idiots Mom, that's why.

absolutely nothing to do with trooping, or Star Wars... Genki Sudo, a former MMA fighter, is now a Japanese pop star. Well, he was always Japanese, but you know what I mean. His muscle control translates well into insane choreography. At around 3:50 this vid really gets insane. in a good way.

oh I'm familiar with the manufacturing process. I said "crappy seam" specifically, because they could have lined it up with a few features but chose to have it run arbitrarily across them instead. From an ease of moulding standpoint it wouldn't have altered the ease of manufacture, but for someone would have had to spend another 1/2 hour planning.

does it have the same crappy mould seam line running around the back of the chin segment, and the so-sloped-in-the-openings-are-tiny frown? That's my biggest beef with this eFX helmet. it's like they were working on it from the rear to the front and by the time they got to the frown & chin, they just figured "Screw it - lunch is in 5. Let's get this thing done and get outta here".

The MRCE is injection moulded, snap-together too? I thought it was vacuum formed.

A friend of mine just loaned me his eFX helmet (injection molded, licensed from Lucasfilm). I've a big melon on my shoulders but this thing seems cartoonishly oversized. Since I don't have another bucket handy to compare it to, I figured I'd ask here; is the eFX as oversized as the original FX?

http://gizmodo.com/5660305/this-stormtrooper-helmet-was-made-with-two-milk-jugs?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+gizmodo/full+(Gizmodo) Here's an awesomely creative example of being resourceful: a Star Wars fan built a Stormtrooper helmet out of two milk jugs. Yes, that helmet in the picture was made with those plastic milk gallons in your fridge right now. The full instructions are available over on his site but the gist of it was rather simple. He used an exacto knife to cut out specific pieces of the milk jug and a hot glue gun to put it all together. Some spray paint and a sharpie finished up the project, leaving him with the best bang for your buck Star Wars helmet available. I wonder how he would make Darth Vader. Full deets: http://www.filthwizardry.com/2010/10/milk-jug-storm-trooper-helmet.html

As some of you know, I'm in the entertainment industry. I work around models and actors most days (except when I'm shut in writing a screenplay or designing a new game). I saw several young actors and models using unhealthy low, low calorie diets to get that hollywood/runway waifish thin look. Being an ex-military bear of a man (and at 37, "old" in their eyes) telling them how bad it was for them was like a fish criticizing someone's bicycle riding technique. So I decided to show, not tell. I put myself on a 100 day starvation diet and blogged about my experiences, demonstrating first-hand how silly it is. I dropped 63 lbs, a little over 1/2 of which ended up being muscle mass and bone density as my body consumed the protein and calcium for nutrients. But it paid off; I received a lot of fan mail from both girls who had been caught in the diet trap, thinking their worth was measured in numbers on a scale, and recovering male anorexics who not only faced an uphill battle against an eating disorder, but doctors and society telling them they couldn't possibly be anorexic. After all, "everyone knows" only girls become anorexic... On the other side of the coin I address obesity - the hidden things in our food that sabotage legitimate efforts to drop unwanted body fat, and how making little changes and even losing as few as 10 lbs. can make someone's overall health improve far more than they could imagine. Yesterday was day 100. I now start about a year of recovery working with a trainer to build my muscle back up and retraining my BMR (basal metabolic rate) to handle more than the 200-400 calories per day I was existing on. If you're interested in this sort of thing, check out the blog at http://www.thehungryi.org If not, just give me a minute to get my nomex on before the flaming starts...

Obviously that should say "lucas", but I can't edit the topic title.

http://www.thresq.com/2009/12/star-wars-st...r-costumes.html Dec 16th, 2009 'Star Wars' stormtrooper costumes not artistic, says court By Eriq Gardner Star385_314229a George Lucas should have used the Force rather than lawyers to pursue a British designer who sculpted the original Stormtrooper helmets in the first "Star Wars" film. A British appeals court has ruled that these helmets are not copyrightable works of art and therefore, Lucasfilm can't prevent Andrew Ainsworth from selling replicas of the helmets. The $20 million lawsuit against Ainsworth has dragged on for five years and may continue still as Lucasfilm says it is prepared to appeal the case up to Britain's Supreme Court. In the decision yesterday, a judicial panel ruled that the helmet and armor of the Stormtrooper costumes had a "utilitarian," rather than an artistic, purpose, so "neither the armour nor the helmet are sculpture." Previously, Lucas won a $20 million judgment against Ainsworth in a California court in 2006. He's been unable to get British courts to enforce the decision.