Amazing jumping guy

Amazing jumping guy.  Impressive!


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Alternative super power

Another super power that would be good to have is the power to universally heal.

I'm thinking that, as long as you can touch the person's skin, look them in the eye, and say "It will be all right", then in exactly one year the person will have completely healed whatever physical, cognitive or psychological disability the person had.

The recovery would be fairly linear, and incremental, such that for the first week the person wouldn't notice the improvement.

An awkward implication of this ability is that you wouldn't be able to go public with it, because people would be hounding you to heal them.  So you'd have to do things like wander around the hospital wards, secretly healing people.


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My chosen super power

When I was younger, I thought that if I could choose any super-power, I'd want flight, or super-strength, or invulnerability.

Now that I'm older, I'd want the power that anyone I touch on the shoulder or arm will have a good life.  A good, long life.


And that's the difference, I think, between a teenager and a forty-year-old:  you think about these things from a different perspective; your sense of what's important, and how you can help people, changes.


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Superman joke

Just thought of this:

If Superman hated musical instruments, who would be his arch-enemy?


Answer: Lex Luthier.


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Some YouTube Superman vids

Did a YouTube search on the R.E.M. song "I Am Superman", and found this video: nicely done, and obviously with a lot of work behind it.

Also found this video -- which I found amusing (and insightful, really).


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Two more impending movies

These go into the "Upcoming Movies That I Hope Won't Suck" file. Not hoping as desperately as with Scott Pilgrim (which, IMO, was actually pretty darned good). But still...


The Green Hornet (which seems to be even more indebted to Kato than in the original -- while the Green Hornet guy just tags along).




And, the Green Lantern.



Ayep!


Note: Just a coincidence that both have "Green" in the title.


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Superman doesn't need sleep

I come up with some odd thoughts, as I work late at night (which no longer seem ''late at night'' to me; hmm).

As I sat at my computer, just now, a frame from a Superman comic book flashed across my vision: Superman was on a long patrol of the Earth, and commented that he didn't need to sleep -- except for a few hours every now and again, for psychological reasons. I can't easily substantiate this, as I have... a few... comic books. However, a quick Google search seems to support this: here.

If I only needed to sleep an hour or two a night? **Man**, that would be handy! I could be **sooo** productive!


Although: I **do** like dreams.



TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC: I found this photo by accident, while Google-image-ing ''superman sleeping''. I appreciate the colors.


Although, I have no idea why ''sleeping'' returned this image. Maybe it was part of that person's blog entry.


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