Archive for June, 2006

Superman Returns, Part Two

  • June 29th, 2006
  • Posted in Movies

I reread my previous post on Superman… and I think it needs some more positives.  I really did enjoy it. The movie is cool.  Very cool.  It moves the franchise forward, and makes a great bridge between the Richard Donner movies and the future Superman movies with Brandon Routh.  It is also very entertaining.  While not [ READ MORE ]

Superman Returns! Kinda.

  • June 28th, 2006
  • Posted in Movies

I have mixed feelings on the new movie. First the positive. Kevin Spacey is a good Lex Luthor. Self-serving, kind of manic, and continuing many of the finer points that Gene Hackman established in the first two movies. Spacey lent a bit more “nemesis” feeling to the role, where as, Hackman was kind of cheesy [ READ MORE ]

The quickest way…

  • June 28th, 2006
  • Posted in Rants

…To kill a good story:  Overly flawed immoral main characters.  The AntiHero is ok, but characters that are weak, ineffectual and just get whipped around by the forces about them does not make for a good story.  It creates a whole bunch of apathy for your main character.  By the time I was halfway into the [ READ MORE ]

Digging out

  • June 27th, 2006
  • Posted in Stuff

There are two universal laws when dealing with vacations or time off. One – the amount of work left to do will inversely increase to the time left as you approach your vacation. Two – the amount of work waiting for you will exponentially increase the longer you are gone on vacation. I was gone for two weeks. [ READ MORE ]

Home again, home again

  • June 24th, 2006
  • Posted in Stuff

Tomorrow I hit the safety of my personal shores. Then come Monday, cleanup at work. I know that plenty of doodie has hit the fan so to speak, and I of course will have to clean it all up. Then come Friday, my wisdom teeth are getting the five finger discount from my ortho surgeon. [ READ MORE ]

Two Blogs!

  • June 15th, 2006
  • Posted in Stuff

What the dreck? Two Blogs? Yeah that is right. For the next two weeks I am posting here: http://www.upwardbound.org It is just temporary while I am on tour. I am the UB Admin on all the posts. I get back the 26th of June and regular programming will continue at that point. Someone had to do the UB [ READ MORE ]

On Tour Day 1

  • June 10th, 2006
  • Posted in Stuff

Wellllllll…. On Upward Bound tour finally. Left home at 4:45 am this morning. Been kind of dreading it for a while just due to the amount of work that it takes on my part, the amount of stress it puts on my wife, and the amount of time it takes out of vacation time at work. [ READ MORE ]

Photo Album Feature

  • June 8th, 2006
  • Posted in Stuff

Wordpress and widgets are waaaaaaay too cool.  You can basically nest features into wordpress without having to change hard code or anything.  Take for instance the Photo Album… All my photos are hosted on Flickr (link to the left). Yet, the Flickr pages are “nested” inside my blog.  Almost seemless too.  Pretty neat. Readership is still just [ READ MORE ]

Kidnap!

  • June 5th, 2006
  • Posted in Stuff

We kidnapped the new freshmeat freshmen over the weekend for our church’s youth group. It involved driving around at 7 am in the morning on Saturday (for an hour!) picking up the post-eighth graders and pulling them out of bed by suprise. Sometimes the parent was waiting for us outside the house [ READ MORE ]

Flickr is the bomb

  • June 5th, 2006
  • Posted in Stuff

Just for those that may not have known it… Flickr is way too cool for anything that I could possibly write. Hosting is hosting, and I could use Gallery or Coppermine or whatever.  But Flickr sure makes it easier… and full blog intergration to boot. Waaaaaay too cool.   Cool like Fonzie without the lame “Heeeeeeey!”. [ READ MORE ]

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