Year: 2005

Some of you may remember the official Dreamworks web page for a great film called Galaxy Quest.. It featured the mad web skillz of one Travis Latke and was launched in tandem with the film.

The film itself is specifically an intelligent spoof of the popular cult sci-fi show, Star Trek. At the time, the web was littered with hundreds [possibly thousands] of Star Trek Fansites–many of them written by exuberant fans with little or no html skills. Although some of these fan’s skills may have improved over the last 6 years, many sites like this exist even today. These sites allow them to express their enthusiasm for things which ‘fans’ truly appreciate–including our beloved Star Trek. However, the sites also often yield information about the individual that may or may not mark them as–shall we say–eccentric?

Travis Latke’s Galaxy Quest Page is one such page. Dreamworks created this page much as they did the film. It’s a spoof! It is a parody of evey fan site complete with graphical hard rules, blinking text, flashing bullets, animated ‘new’ buttons and even a copy of Travis’ resume. It is brilliant. It was up for a relatively short period of time and then dropped. Since then, there have been other Galaxy Quest sites–some are actually pretty good! Dreamworks still maintains the name registration for galaxyquest.com–however it no longer produces a web page when entered into the location bar in your browser.

On occasion, to have a good laugh, I would I visit the wayback machine to see the site. The wayback machine is a web archive that has been around for a long time. It tracks as many sites as possible archiving the pages as they were written. Some of mine exist from as far back as 2000. However, they are often missing graphics or other items that the Wayback Machine couldn’t harvest. Recently, I decided to visit every instance of the GalaxyQuest.com website to glean every graphic and item available to effectively mirror the original site here at my own domain: adamkooyer.com.

So finally, it is with great pleasure, I give you in it’s entirety (with the exception of that darned quicktime trailer):

Travis Latke’s Galaxy Quest Page

It will also get a place in my links section to the left. So if you decide to come back to look for it–it’s right there. 🙂

Thanks for reading,

ak

Happy Thanksgiving, all.

Tell me what you have to be thankful for. I don’t have to share with you that which I am most thankful for but I will! 🙂 Of course, any of you who have lost someone close know that you realize best what to be thankful for only when they are gone. Well, not exactly–but it at least makes you think a little more about what you have, what you have had and what you will have. My immediate family on my Mom’s side were all here this day… I am thankful for that. I’m most thankful today for my wife Heather and our new marriage. I do hope we are able to spend a lifetime together. I’m also thankful for all of my friends and every one of my family members new and old. You all mean the world to me. So let me know what you’re thankful for…

…or comment on my blog header. I decided to make a blog header which was approriate to society’s tendency to make each holiday sound ‘up to date’ while completely disrespecting the original meaning of the day. Christmas is one holiday that has gone through the politically correct machine. Companies, organizations and individuals alike–at some point decided ‘Happy Holidays’ is more appropriate. I say, “BAH, HUMBUG.” Christmas is Christmas whether you’re Jewish, Hindu or Buddist. Regardless *note my eloquence in not using IRregardless*–Anwyay… Regardless of your religion Christmas is a holiday which was invented with specific celebratory means in mind… if you don’t like it then don’t celebrate it. If you do? Then wish your neighbor, “Merry Christmas!” Anyway, the blog header is sort of the ultra-minimalist view on what people have started to refer to as “Turkey Day.” Turkey Day [as it were] is completely inappropriate. And so I give you “T-DAY!” and you all should enjoy the humor in that which is my blog header. Alas, it will probably be gone before you get a chance to look at it so if you didn’t see it…

Here it is. 😉

I dug up this old image that I found on the web a long time ago. It struck me as extremely funny. Superman in this comic is kickin’ back with a tall chocolate milkshake. Don’t forget to click it to see a larger image. I wish I knew which issue this was from or if it was a common ad in comics. I’d like to get a better scan. 🙂

Enjoy!

…his mind-boggling computers almost instantly mix him… a chocolate shake! To some, the action may appear frivolous… …even that of a man driven mad by foreknowledge of impending calamity. Superman knows, however, that his mind can use a few seconds of unraveling…