Posts Tagged “Einstein”

A few months ago, my wife and I were walking through a store that specializes in second hand kids stuff.  Our boys had grown past a certain point, and it didn’t make much sense in keeping many of the things they wouldn’t use again.  While walking down one of the store’s aisles, I saw something from my own childhood: The Illustrated Dinosaur Encyclopedia.  Though entirely out of date now (thanks to recent discoveries and whatnot), it was in perfect condition and only $2, so we got it for the boys.

My own son is still a little young to really get into it, but he enjoys looking at the pictures nonetheless.  My stepson, however, is two years older than him and gets a kick out of it.  He and I will sit on the couch and he’ll turn to a page and ask me to read it to him.  Thanks to how it’s laid out, he can immediately see (thanks to some special graphics and charts on every page) how large the dinosaur is compared to a human, if they lived REALLY REALLY long ago, pretty long ago, sort of long ago, or just not so long ago (my terminology), and if they ate plants or meat.

Did anybody play the original Red Alert: Command & Conquer ten years ago? It had an amusing premise: Albert Einstein went back in time to eliminate Adolf Hitler. Altering the time line had unfortunate consequences however, for with Hitler removed, Stalin and the Soviet Union tried to take over the world instead.

Recently, Red Alert 3 was released; this one is even crazier than its predecessor! The Soviets were losing badly to the Allies, so three of their leaders went back in time and eliminated Albert Einstein, which had even more unforeseen consequences, namely the rising of a new Imperial Japanese power, the Rising Sun.

Here is the trailer:

This one has an all-star cast: Tim Curry as the Soviet Premier, J.K. Simmons as the American President, Jonathan Pryce as the British Field Marshal, Jenny McCarthy as Special Agent Tanya (the only recurring character), and George Takei as the Emperor of Japan (awesome)!