Jedi Mindtricks

(no spoilers)
Is there really anything cooler than being a Jedi? I grew up longing to weild a light sabre, and wishing I was as cool as R2-D2. Now that I'm an adult *coughcough*, I find myself wishing I was a kid again, so that I could dash around the streets humming the soundtrack, while wafting dirty great big sticks in the air. I was always the girl who ran around the backyard with a towel tucked into the back of my shirt, pretending that I was a jedi knight. Fighting off evil Storm-Troopers with my faithful Wookie Sidekick, Taffy. (Taffy was an intergalactic Labrador, you see)

As you can probably guess, I've just been to see "Star Wars: Episode 2: Attack of the Clones" (Otherwise Known As: "Most Hideously Titled Movie Of the Year") I sat in the dark, along with my fellow geekazoids and my excitement was palpable. The fanfare blared out, the logo jumped up and the standard texted scrolled off into the galaxy far, far away. In fact, I was rather impressed with the quality of the filming, considering that it was all filmed on digital cameras. There were one or two scenes where I thought that the resolution was a bit grainy, however, seeing as the image was being projected onto a screen
that was well over 4 metres tall, i think I can overlook it just this once.

Its no surprise that I walked out of the cinema's wanting to rush out and purchase my own slice of digital magic so I, too, could weild a real looking light sabre and pretend to be a Jedi with quality sound effects. I really want a digital camera and a real light sabre, so that I could edit the film to include all the special effects required to amaze the world. Not to say that my authentic kid-style sound effects were crap. Quite the contrary. I had my Labrador convinced that I was in the midst of a viscious duel between good and evil.
I ~am~ Engineering Girl. I am a Jedi Knight. I am Yoda's Love Child. I can defeat the Sith with a simple Lempel-Ziv Transformation!

Muahahaha! Engineering Girl. The first Jediette to have dialogue!~
Oh well. For the time being, I'm stuck meddling with old hand-drawn graphics giggling to myself in a truely disturbing manner. And practising my Light Sabre sound-effects....

Zshwaaaahh....Clarng...Ziiirtthhhh
Til next time, my young Padawan.