Title photo help

I can't quite decided on my title photo.
I have used these ones so far.

Any best or least liked please help? Leave a comment.

Nomad

favorite movie

Joe Versus the Volcano, loved it and have watched it every year since first seeing it on TV in a hotel room while on vacation. Its the story of the triumph of the human spirit over the shackles of the ridiculous state of the world. Meg Ryan playing three characters two in split screen with very different personalities.
Lloyd Bridges ridiculous caricature of a Hughes like personality and his need for the mineral "bubaru".
Ever since I saw this movie I always wanted water tight steamer trunks for a my suitcases (never had one though).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Versus_the_Volcano) for more info.

My current obsession in reading

I don't know how I found out about this author or exactly when (probably from wikipedia or what not) but whenever it was I was hooked on the spot.
Iain M Banks
first read

Many people who know the Culture novel series/collections by M Banks believe you shouldn't read this novel first (found this out after the fact). I don't agree with them though.

The story is told from the viewpoint of its protagonist Bora Horza Gobuchul who is actually an enemy of the Culture.

Author Banks said in an interview:

'There's a big war going on in [Consider Phlebas], and various individuals and groups manage to influence its outcome. But even being able to do that doesn't ultimately change things very much. At the book's end, I have a section pointing this out by telling what happened after the war, which was an attempt to pose the question, 'What was it all for?' I guess this approach has to do with my reacting to the cliché of SF's 'lone protagonist.' You know, this idea that a single individual can determine the direction of entire civilizations. It's very, very hard for a lone person to do that. And it sets you thinking what difference, if any, it would have made if Jesus Christ, or Karl Marx or Charles Darwin had never been. We just don't know.'

Hope you read it or have read it.

Nomad

My reason for Reading

Frank Herbert's Dune is the reason I read books.
Ok for many people reading starts in school or home. True I learned to read starting at home and school but I never actually read for myself. I read because of the demands of getting good grades. I never thought of it as enjoyment until I saw Frank Herbert's Dune miniseries. How does seeing something on TV get you to actually reading it a book? The novels have more to say.
I started reading the prequels written by Frank Herbert's son
Dune: House Atreides
Dune: House Harkonnen
Dune: House Corrino
Then Dune itself.
and eventually read all of the Dune series.
I was captivated by the character, settings ambiance.
Seeing the desert of Arrakis in my minds eye, hearing the sound of the sand in the wind and smelling the bitter sent of the spice.
This is what got me hooked.
This is my addiction.

First Post

My first post
So excited.
I have been thinking about creating a blog for a very long time.
Always came to a point where I thought: what do I have to say that is worth sharing? Does my voice make a difference? or am I just adding to the background internet noise? My answer and what this blog will be is it doesn't matter.

I have over the past year or so commented on other blogs. Mostly consisting of either short funny (I think) comments or long detailed ones. The long detailed comments were what got me to start this blog, as one blogger asked me "Why no blog of your own? I suspect you would have much to say". So I am going to stop not just making comments on other's blogs but create my own.
So Kal ( http://calvinscanadiancaveofcool.blogspot.com/) this is my start.

I hope to write intriguing funny post in the coming months and years.
So thank you for reading me.
Sincerely,
Nomad