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Man, it took like 10 minutes for me to find out the back ground colour of my blog so I could make the text the same... Templates are not easy to sift through

My Spidey Sense is tingling

So me and Dan went to see Spider-man 3 today. It was the combination of horrible theater experience and a horrible movie.
Seriously, I think that this is the first movie ever shown at this theater cause they had no idea what was going on. We got there a little late and the previews were playing, but this is the first time I've seen that meant the theatre was pitch dark. We had to wait for flashes of lightening in the Harry Potter preview just to see where seats were let alone if they were empty. Then when we found seats the floor was covered in popcorn. I really do mean covered, there was 2 full bags in our row thrown all over, they didn't clean the place between showings. Then people who have never been in public before sat in front of us, talking all the way through and sitting straight up with their giant fros. Who sits straight up in a movie theater? YOU SLOUCH! It's common courtesy! And one of them left to purchase concessions, came back 15 minutes later and needed to be caught up on everything. Loudly. Boo! And then with 5 minutes left in the movie, they brought the house lights up! What the fricken heck? You do that in the credits, not the movie! GRRR.

And then there's the movie. I'm gone blank the text out in case anybody reads this but hasn't seen it yet, but otherwise just highlight it to read.

WHY WHY WHY??? Why did this have to be such a bad cheesy movie? Remember Superman 3? Yes it's Richard Pryor cheesy. Chester Cheetah chessy. It's... it's just really cheesy ok. That stupid Saturday Night Fever getting sequence, the Jazz bar crap, even JJ was painful in this one. And the fight scenes were just plain lazy. "hmm, we could take the time to make this look really good and convincing, but that would cost a lot of money, just make it go really really fast so people can't tell the difference." If you can tell me what happened during the open Goblin fight then you deserve a medal. And Harry's butler, where'd they drag this guy from? I've seen some bad acting in my day, but I think they pulled this guy of a used car lot commercial. And none of that scene made any sense! Hey Harry, I know that you and your dad were the Green Goblin, and I totally saw him when he died and his wounds came from his glider, which totally means that he killed himself by accident... and I'm just telling you this now cause it's convenient for the plot, so don't think about how stupid this is, especially sine you get killed by your glider later in the script yet it clearly isn't by your own hand. And what was up with that? He can control his glider with precision accuracy and remote control in the first fight but he can't in the last fight so he jumps in front of it? And not jump in front of it and catch it or knock in out of the way, but he lets it stab him? Bah? Now there were some good parts, I mean the Sandman was great. That Wings guy got buff, and he did a great job here. So did ChrisTofer Grace as Eddie Brock. Too bad they killed him off before he did anything cool at all. And really they just crammed too much stuff into this movie without caring about making a good film.

So, I recommend waiting for rental, or stealing it from the interweb. Don't pay $10 for it, or $8.25 like I did to see it in a really crappy theater

Newfie Weather

I can not believe that we are still getting snow here. This is just plain gross

I'll trade you sheep for wheat cupcakes

Wow, that is some tasty awesome

Goodbye Rory...

Yup, it's official. Gilmore Girls is Canceled

Kirk Cameron vs Ration

So, next Wednesday on ABC Kirk Cameron and his cult leader Ray Comfort will be in a Nightline debate trying the argue the existence of God against The Rational Response Squad who do this sort of thing all the time. It should be freakin hilarious!!!

Origins

Glee! Neil deGrasse Tyson was on the Colbert Report today! This guy is great! He was on talking about the new planet, Gliese 581C, but it turns out that beyond just the origins special on PBS he's got a new NOVA show coming out. So now I need to learn which channel is PBS. I guess I just flip til I see sesame street right?

The glories of technology

So, I picked an S-video cable to connect my lappy to the tv so I can watch movies and whatnot up there. BUT then I figured out that I don't have to just choose which screen I'm watching on, I can use both! There's a little check box in the display properties asking if I want to use the second monitor as an extension of my desktop. So of course I said yes and now, if I drag the mouse off the left edge of the Lappy screen, it shows up on the tv! I know this old hat to some people out there but it is pure magic to me. So I can watch downloaded anime and blog at the same time! It's no flying car, but the future is still pretty cool

People sell the craziest things

So, check this out. VOLTRON SHOES! and not like some crappy tennis shoe with a sticker on it, these are some fancy Reeboks. I would totally wear the yellow and blue set.
Also, check out wearefishermen.com. I think this has to be a parody site right? Like no real Christian is going to have a begging jesus statue, even though I think it kicks ass.

For every delicious buritto there's a horrible crap

So, the inevitable happened. Fox canceled Drive. I should be more upset and surprised, but this is FOX we're talking about. They've canceled so many awesome shows, heck they canceled Family Guy twice already, but I thought it'd get more than 3 episodes. After all, they must have had car companies throwing money at them for product placement, so they could have given it a bit more time, then do a big marathon some day like what was done with LOST to let people who heard about through word of mouth to catch up. Stupid Fox...

But yay Astronomers! Now we've got a place to go! It's got a 13 day year, it's a little bigger than earth and it's only 20 light years away. I'm gonna start packing my bags right now

There's life in Seki

So, as many of you know I am intrigued by boobies the game of Go. And since I live in North America I figured I'd go ahead and learn the AGA rule set, but it took me a while to figure out if a passing stone is considered a prisoner (it is) and then a little longer to realize that this doesn't matter at all since they score using area counting and prisoners don't count.

But, all of that is really just to say where I was going when I stumbled onto some ancient Go lore, specifically, the 4 day long game where ghosts told one player 3 moves that led him to victory, and right after the game, the other other player vomited blood on the board and died two months later. 3000 year old games have some cool history

Eleven!

Today, right now, it is 11 degrees out! Glee!!!

Gander

Did I not make a post about Gander? Me and Danielle went there for Easter cause her parents live there and man oh man, let me tell you Newfies know how to make chowder! I could probably eat it 'til I died from too much awesomeness.
And Gander is just like Ormoncto which makes me think that military bases all have that same town springing up next to them

Been a while...

So, Kurt Vonnegut passed away... It shook me up a bit cause he's someone that I always wanted to meet. Like, of his generation, the people who went through the War and were alive before TV, he was probably the only person I'd be able to relate to and to be able to just hang out and talk with. But he won't really be gone to me until I read all his books, so I'll keep working at that.
My birthday is coming up and i just sent a massive list of wants to my mom. This way I really have no idea what I'm gonna get, but I know that what I do get will rock. Also, it turns out that I want a lot of stuff. Who knew?

Oh and I got a plant from the Dominion, which is the super store for newfies. His name is Jim and while not a kitten, he'll do for the short term

A fateless destiny

So tonight while talking with Danielle something got said (I can't remember what, and it's not that pertinent to the narrative) and Daneille said something like, "Don't say that, cause then it's out in the universe and it'll happen now", and I laughed at her for being silly. Then that sort of turned into a talk about superstition and fate and how we disagree on these things, she believes in them but I don't. Anyway, this isn't really a post on my distaste of religion or similar things, but more that I couldn't quite get across how being an atheist makes the world more beautiful for understanding how it was shaped, or how knowing that my sense of right and wrong come from ancient ancestors huddling together for security don't make them more important to me, or (more on topic to what we were discussing) not thinking that things happen for a reason makes every choice more fulfilling. I've tried to force some Richard Dawkins on her, cause he's better at explaining these things but it hasn't happened yet.

And yes I know that Danielle is gonna read this, but it's on my mind so I'm writing it anyway.

Better than Mama!!!

So, Sunday while me and Danielle were out and about looking for an elliptical trainer (which is it's own story in a frustrating Walmart employee tracking down kinda way) and when we didn't pick one up we headed over to the electronics department to browse. There I found Batman Beyond season 3 and Justice League Unlimited season 2 both for $25. Now I don't have BB season 2 or JLU season 1 cause I could ever find them for less than 50 each. So I was all iffy about which one to get. Then I was really pondering both.
But if I was gonna spend $50 than I might as well just buy cooking mama for the wii

Seriously, the first thing you'll notice is just how bad Mama's accent is. Kim Jong Il's puppet has nothing on Mama. Then you'll notice that it's a pretty fun game. Some parts are easy, some parts need a lot of practice to get right. I'm talking about hte frying pan part. It doesn't tell you what will cook fastest so you need to keep trial and erring til you figure it out.

But it has a 2 player cook off, so I can beat Danielle at making cream puffs and perogies! Which is the best part really

It's really happening

At first I thought it was an early April Fool's joke, but I guess this is really getting made.

Games

So, I was watching Spike the other day when the very first Star Trek DS9 came on. And it made me realize that I hadnt really seen many of those, but I liked the ones I saw, so I went looking for some torrents and now I'm watching some of the first season stuff. It benefits from being a spin off of TNG cause it's like it didn't need that start up period to get it's feet. Also, Heroes is amazing, but it takes forever to come out! I'm gonna blame Jeff Loeb cause he was always late when he was writing Superman / Batman... Sure he doesn't actually write any episodes but I think it works to blame him. So there are a few Wii games on the horrizon that I am looking forward too. Well, there's two out right now that look fun, Godfather and Cooking Mama, and then Super Paper Mario is coming out! That looks quite grand, but it might be a little simple in the long run.

But somehow I have to get a copy of Puzzle Quest for Danielle's DS... Cause damn! I played the demo (and so should you all) And it only let me play for a little while but it was SO GROOD! Good and great. great and good. I mean, it's a bejewelled RPG! It kicks so much ass! Go play it!

Crazy picture

Yeah it looks nice, but does it get you drunk?

For a good night's sleep