Jered carving
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Having picked myself up from the over indulgence in turkey (above) and the depression of not having anyone comment except my wife… I am back, bringing you the cool things I find, or the stuff on my mind.

Over the break, I saw a few movies: Rent, Unleashed, Shultze gets the blues, and Millions.
Mini Reviews below.

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p>Rent

• This musical-adapted movie worked as a musical. There was a charcter who didn’t really have a point, a few who were plain unlikeable and the music… Let’s just say that the first song, and two songs in the middle were great. Everything else was a little too rock opera for me. I went with a die-hard Rent fan, and I’m hoping that she doesn’t read this: I didn’t like it. I wouldn’t recommend it. I’m sure it’s a great play, but not a great movie. Period.
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p>Unleashed

• An interesting concept holds the amazingly choreographed fight scenes togther. While it’s shy on character development and Bob Hoskins plays an unbelievably cruel charcter, the movie works. Not overly well, but it works. The fight scenes, while painful to watch at times, are great, very fluid, and more realistic that the normal kung-fu showy moves.
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p>Schultze gets the blues

• German movies are slow. I’m married to a German, she’s explained this to me everytime. German movies are slow and this is no exception. The idea that people change over time and don’t really realize it, was well depicted. The actors have portray a great sense of the German dry humor. It’s a slow tragedy, but worth a watch to see what real Germans are like.
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p>Millions

• This was one of the best movies I have seen all year. A touching story about a boy who sees saints and suddenly comes across more money that he could imagine. I don’t want to ruin the movie for anyone, but this one is excellent. The way that it is shot is very smart, with excellent uses of special effects and the story is touching. See it this holiday season.
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Admit it. Everyone has them. Even you lurkers who are reading but not commenting!
Today’s only post, no matter what other cool stuff I find of even if the world falls apart, will be about enemies.

Esther and I have started a list. If you are a reader and you have enemies, the must be our enemies too. To give you an idea of our list here is what we have so far.

• Bill O’Reily
• Lady at Mr. Li’s
• bird flu
• Bad Virginia Drivers
• Monday-Friday
• Ann Coulter
• The Man

Post a comment and I’ll add your enemies to mine

Myspace is for losers. So much so I’m not even going to link to it.

What is up with this closed community where you have to become a member to comment (which I am against completely) or membership is required to see a person’s friends. It’s stupid. Yes, it brings more people into the fold, but I am of the mind that a blog should be an open book any way. It’s like facebook where you have to be made friends. While I understand it, I don’t like it. I think that if you are going to be on a social networking site, like facebook or myspace, you should be forced to be open to everyone.

Plus, have you seen how god aweful some peoples sites are. I know that you have to be a “rocket scientist” or something to get a site that looks half decent, but come on people, your sites look like crap! Either learn how to make your own or don’t do it period. I thought we had moved beyond the Geocities sitebuilder days, but apparently not.

Why are people allowed to upload what ever shape or size of picture they want? Why not constrain them to a 72×72 image. Follow digg’s example with a dynamic upload and crop function.

Myspace is for losers. If you’re on myspace, and you don’t want to be a loser, email me and I’ll get you a non-sucky site with 90% of the crap that they have on that sucky site.

Esther used to be an R.A. (Resident Assistant) in Nation Hall. I was shocked to read this:

Three fires have been set in Nation Hall in the last several weeks, university police report.

Most of the fires were extinguished soon after they were started.

The fires have been on the dormitory’s third floor, fourth floor and basement. Campus police do not suspect a resident of Nation Hall. Butch Herring, director of Police and Parking Services, says such incidents, including acts of vandalism and setting of fire alarms, tend to be caused by visitors.

“Usually, the residents tend to take care of their halls,” Herring said. “It’s normally been a visitor to someone in that hall.”

Herring says the person or persons caught for setting the fires could be charged with aggravated arson, which is a felony. They could be fined $1,000 and could be sentenced to jail if convicted. In addition, if they are Pitt State students they would likely face expulsion.

“It’s unusual that they come in groups like this,” Herring said. “We’ve never had three in three weeks.”

The fire in the basement was found by nursing freshman Kayla Moyer, who blew out the fire soon after it started.

“You could tell it just started,” Moyer said.

Aaron Cadman, director of Nation Hall, says that he is unaware of any specific evidence that would incriminate anyone.

“If they do live on campus and were charged with the fires, chances are they would be kicked out of housing,” Cadman said.

Damn arsonists!

I’m famous, and to just to my wife and Mrs. Gomah. Last night while watching the Posiedon Adventure I spotted a moleskine, used by the main character (and Jayne Cobb of Firefly), played by Adam Baldwin.
I immediately sent an email to the moleskinie fetish site Moleskinerie, and guess what…. front page!

Only a matter of time until the royalty checks start rollin’ in.

On another note: The Posiedon Adventure was absolute rubbish! Please gouge your eyes out before watching.