On Saturday, Hunter became the first person in her family — and the first from that first-grade class — to earn a college degree, a bachelor’s in accounting from Alcorn State University. And Hunter’s beloved Miss Brown was there to see it, telling her afterward: “It’s a new beginning for you.”

Imagine if we were all Miss Browns.

Tom of Kaibutsu came through town today, on his way to studentship in Eugene. Accompanied by his intrepid friend Corey, they met us for food at the Greek Cusina. Us being myself, Bill, and JD of foldedspace.

The food was great, and the company fun. I kinda wish I hadn’t had the waitress take our picture though, because she insisted on getting the restaurant sign in there, and I didn’t care about that–I wanted the people! Ah well, here we are, a bit small and blurry (with the dang sign cropped out). L-R: Corey, Tom, JD, Bill, and me in front.

I didn’t even know there was an I, Robot movie in the works, until Paul got hired as Movement Coordinator.

If you’re expecting a faithful adaptation of Asimov’s work, don’t. The script was originally a smart robot murder mystery called Hardwired (see the excellent Kuro5hin thread). Fox picked it up (at no small expense), bought the rights to the book, wrote in a few things from I, Robot, and decided it would make a good prequel to a series of robot movies. In Proyas’ hands, it may well. The pros and cons:

PRO: Playing the lead of Det. Spooner (a human) is Will Smith. Y’all may not like him, but I do, and I think he’s a plus for the success of this project.

PRO: Though Wil Wheaton auditioned for the part of the robot Sonny, he didn’t get it. This is sad, but an equally good call, Alan Tudyk (formerly of Firefly), did.

CON: Akiva Goldsman is re-writing the screenplay. After Batman and Robin and Lost in Space, I have doubts.

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