Ed is home.

Guess the title:

Chewbacca's evil twin, maybe? Although, when there's that much hair already, you can't really tell if there's a goatee or not.

No, it's titled "The Fu Man Chewbacca"

One could say Life Imitates Art as we can see here:

The first here being from Star Trek: The Next Generation, where we see Data, an android, playing the violin. The second, a video from a few years ago of a real robot actually playing the violin.

Now, the question here is this: is this life imitating art, art imitating life, life imitating life, or art imitating art?

There's certainly a lot of imitating life going on, as we can see androids pretending to be humans.

But then there's also quite an obvious dosage of life imitating art, where a robot was built to play the violin after a television show had the same thing plenty of years before.

And then we must of course cover the art imitating art, since there's a TV show showing an actor portraying an android (and a real robot) playing the violin, but it is only an imitation of a "real concert" as one could argue that the piece is only as emotionally involved as the player; this is nothing but a player piano with more moving parts.

And then, we must observe that Data exists in the 24th century, three centuries after the first humanoid violin-playing robot was built, and is that not art and/or life imitating life? Life being the reality of The Next Generation imitating what happened centuries ago, art being perhaps that Data could be considered a work of art. He is one of a kind, after all, and quite collectible, as one who is known for his pursuit of collections couldn't wait to get his hands on Data, as we can see here.

If you didn't catch that last bit, that's the actor who also played Artie on Warehouse 13. Seems to be big on collections of one-of-a-kind objects. But then, you can't really collect something if there is only one. Unless you decide to simply collect one of everything. An endeavor I once attempted, but eventually stopped when I realized I was unlikely to retrieve the bones of Socrates and the gold at the end of the rainbow. After all, even mythical things belong in the set of everything.

I'm pretty sure I strayed off topic at some point...

I saw this video just now, and it reminded me of something I saw a long time ago:

New:

Old:

So, Cassini's just flyin' around Saturn, looking like a total tourist with one camera always up at its eye, two more dangling around its neck. It decides to flip on the thermal imaging fiddly thing and see what happens. Funny pictures taken in the middle of the night, stuff that it'll probably delete in the morning when it's not drunk. But then, lo and behold, the best sort of image you could ask for from a thermal imaging camera:

That is all.