We watched the movie "The 40 Year Old Virgin" last nite. A friend at work (and his wife) recommended it to me, saying that my wife and I should watch it.

I was sceptical -- the last time someone at work recommended a movie, saying that I, and my wife would like it, didn't work out so well. The movie was "Booty Call", and the recommender was my boss.

Needless to say, my wife has banned any movie rentals which were recommended by my boss.

So when I came home with the 40 year old Virgin, and told my wife someone had recommended it, she had that "oh not this again"-typical-wife-look.

But she watched it with me.

It turned out to be a very funny movie, and she liked it too. She said that if it had any more "guy humor" it would have been too much, but that it was funny and she liked it.

To sum up the movie, "Go fuck a goat!" :)

Anyone been to Boston, MA, lately? Anyone been there, from there, or know where to go while there?

Looks like I may be there for a week in December. I'm lookin for pointers for a first timer there.

Any suggestions appreciated.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/10/D8DPVV703.html

This is a perfect example of why every law abiding citizen, who is properly trained to carrry, should have the right to carry.

Not that I'd be caught dead seeing that movie, but....

Let me get this straight:

1) no paper trail of opinions
2) 2 years of experience being a judge

Hmm. Seems enough to be put on the highest court in the land!

Not!

After doing the anti-firearm bowling for columbine his bodyguard gets busted for a firearm.

Personally, I don't think anything should happen to the bodyguard. He was seemingly trying to do the right thing by checking the piece into the Airport security. Anyone carrying has to do so. It's not as though he was trying to sneak the damn thing onboard or something or forgot about it.

Oh, while you're hear, checkout bowlingfortruth. Happy reading ;)

My wife and I were watching Hardball tonite, and I couldn't help but comment on it here (It's too tempting with that politics topic!).

I have never in my life watched two religious (pundits?) get grilled like that before in my life.

And it's about time.

I thought the best part was when the american-catholic priest was asked:

"Well what if this is old world spain" - in regard to the punishment a woman would receive for having had an abortion performed. He was obviously bringing up elements of the inquisition etc... and the priest recoils with the look of "shit, I can't answer that".

Oh, fyi - I am american. I was raised catholic. Spent 4 years in a jesuit highschool. Dunno if any of that matters, but now ya know.

remember everything

That's one of the more interesting editorials I've read lately...

So I'm sittin here on the couch reading about Fedora test2, and a sudden pang of guilt shot through me.

In my utter shock, I decided to post a journal entry about it.

Why the guilt?

Because I'm sitting here watching "One Night at McCool's", reading slashdot, and doing it all on my OSX laptop (damn is she hot, I'm waiting for the carwash scene). The thing is, I'm *not* spending my evenings testing kernels, drivers, modules, src, etc. I haven't done that since I picked up this Mac 15" Powerbook.

I've spent the past umpteen years doin Linux stuff. Many nites, weekends, and freetime's been spent mucking with Linux.

But not lately. I just use the OSX box. I compile stuff. I write code. That's it. No hassles.

So I'm suddenly feeling guilty. I'm reading about all these people spending shitloads of time testing, testing, upgrading, fixing, testing.

I used to be one of the bretheren.

Now, I'm not. I don't have time at this point in my life to play anymore. And although I partly feel guilty, there's a part of me that doesn't miss it.

I am not writing this with any sarcasm. Infact, I'm very appreciative of all these people putting their (free?) time to help a free project.

It's just that it's becoming easier and easier not to be one of them.

I'm hoping Michigan stomps USC this afternoon. I think SC's *way* over-rated. It would be interesting, to me, if Michigan (who I *never* root for, I'm a buckeye fan) can pull that off, what everyone would say as far as the BCS.

Go Bucks! Go Michigan!

This weekend we traversed the Columbus Ohio manic-driver-festival (ie xmas season shoppers) to make the perilous journey to the famed Lennox theater (they have nice big cushy seats and the isles are larger) to see The Return of the King.

(No spoilers here, folks)

All I can say is... AWESOME. This was a great flick. It was very *long* movie. Don't get a large pop, and make the trip to the rest room before the movie starts. I ignored both of those pieces of commonsense, and by the end of the movie I was ready to burst.

Yeah yeah, too much information.

But the movie is truely fantastic. I cannot wait for the extended DVD to come out this time next year.

My wife and I finally went and saw the movie Timeline 2 weekends ago. Yes, I've been too lazy to post something about it, er, rather, too busy.

Anyway, I enjoyed the movie. Though it's been a few years since I read the book, I think it followed the book rather well. I'm always hesitant about that when seeing movies based on a book. I'd rather it follow the book near-to-the-letter, and if not, they'd better have a damned good reason why it doesn't follow the book.

The battle scenes were excellent. It was very cool watching them tool around the village and woods, it brought back memories of how I'd envisioned it when reading the book.

The only thing that I was disappointed with was the fact that they left out detail with the characters. Specifically with André. I felt they just kinda threw him into the fold, and tried to explain his midevil interest/training with one sword-play scene. That vague explanation really didn't cut it with me. It would have been nice if they'd delved deaper into it, like the book did (or so I recall). They could have went further with it, and they could have went further w/ his knowledge and skills in other scenes of the movie.

* begin spoiler alert*
That one sword-play scene, in my opinion, really didn't seem to explain very well - ie why he chose to stay.
* end spoiler alert *

Anyway, if it's any gauge to tell whether I liked the movie, I'll definitely pickup the DVD when it comes out.

While reading the last Wired magazine that we recieved, they have a blurb about a new movie that's coming out on November 26th. The movie is called "Timeline".

I cannot *wait* to see this Movie. I am just as excited about this movie as I am about the Return of the King.

This book was one of the best books that I've read over the past few years. Infact, I've been meaning to re-read it, except I think it was lent out to one of my friends and never returned. (Friends have a habit of 'Oh that book was that good huh? can I borrow it?')

I read the book in about a day or so, I couldn't put it down.

Anyway, I don't normally hawk books/movies/products in journals. But this book was, imho, a very good read. I hope the movie does the book justice.

We've got a poll up regarding Clarett, Ohio State (OSU), and the NFL at the Bookiejoint. If any of this interests you at all, please go vote on it.

Oh yeah, while you're there, signup to play, too :)

http://bookiejoint.org/

For me, it's interesting to watch the US Media. Many people just go with the flow - they may watch the news, they may read the paper, but many don't question a damned thing.Take, for instance, the shooting of Uday, and Qusay.
It's interesting to note *when* the killing of those two took place, in relation to the White House's 83-minute briefing on Tuesday in which Stephen Hadley, deputy national security adviser, took the blame for not catching disputed intelligence that made it into the president's speech.
The timing is the awesome thing here. Bush's had this little flame under his ass from that damned speech. "Good news" took over all the media once the Hussein's two sons were killed. It was all over the media. In whitehouse speak, that's "time to announce the BS", so it'll be quietly swept under the rug by the media and never see the light of day on CNN.
Infact, I hadn't heard, saw nor read anything about this, until I was surfing the NY Times on my lil' dell axim on the couch last nite (OT: see their WAP enabled area, very cool, very blah, but very quick and readable for a small wireless screen). That's when I saw a very smull blurb about Stephen Hadley getting the shaft.
Or, is that, getting the deal of his life?
He's the fallguy. But what is he truely getting out of it. It's obvious that the Whitehouse *wanted* that language in the speech. They had to have told Hadley, and others, to get it in. So now he takes the fall for it, personally.
I'd wage a lot of money that Bush has made sure he is taken care of, to keep his mouth shut.
Now, when our beloved President tries to stick all the other ongoing crap that's dogging the whitehouse on the fbi that'll be interesting. How's he going to shut them up? He's already pissed off the entire intelligence community, and angered much of the military (talk to some of the guys who've been over there, there's a lot you don't hear about). He's going to stick it to the FBI???
You gotta give Georgie credit. He pulls classified material out into the public setting just to justify himself and save his goal of reelection. He "rewards" those who are behind him, and nails to the coffin those that aren't.
What a leader... by example... yea right.

I caught this article over on bomis. I got a chuckle out of it, and you should too.

hmm. wonder if there's a default in the preferences so I can change the comments on my journals to 'enabled' so I don't have to remember to turn it on.