Sunday, July 22, 2007
I saw I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry this evening. First of all, the humor is more at a level of Sandler's Big Daddy and not The Waterboy. In other words, it's still stupid humor, but there's more of a maturity to it. The movie, atleast to me, seemed to preach tolerance and make fun of homophobia more than gay people. The premise is far fetched, but not as much as it seems from the trailers. Richard Chamberlain has a funny cameo. It is Ving Rhames, though, that steals the movie, which is a surprise since I didn't see him in any commercials or trailers for this film. Anyway, this movie rates a full price admission on my scale, but not repeat viewing.
Labels: movies
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
For those of you readers in the Philly area, I got tickets to the Pirates/Phillies game on Friday, July 27th. If anyone wants to go, I got an extra ticket. Let me know. I got great seats.
Also, don't forget to check out the lyric quiz below.
Also, don't forget to check out the lyric quiz below.
Labels: baseball, lyrics quiz, Pirates, tickets
I came home from work today to find a notice on my mailbox door that a package had arrived. I wasn't expecting anything. I thought maybe a free gift had arrived from renewing one of the many magazines I subscribe to. Instead, the desk guy brings out a big box about three feet high and two feet wide and deep. It took me the trip up to the elevator and partway down the hallway to realize what it had to be. I won the following in Mountain Dew's annual summer sweepstakes:
It's a Mountain Dew mini-fridge!
Actually, it's a fridge/warmer, but I doubt I'll ever use the warmer functionality. But I'm not as mystified by the warmer part of it as Bill is.
Anyway, it holds about a case or so of 12oz cans. It has a digital temperature readout on front. It has a car adapter which will make it great for me to transport stuff home from trips to Pittsburgh. And it has the friggin' Mountain Dew logo!
On a side note, I opened the box it was shipped in to find a second box. This inner box had "Fragile. Handle with Care." on it. The outer box, the one that the delivery guys could see did not have this label. Does this makes sense?
It's a Mountain Dew mini-fridge!
Actually, it's a fridge/warmer, but I doubt I'll ever use the warmer functionality. But I'm not as mystified by the warmer part of it as Bill is.
Anyway, it holds about a case or so of 12oz cans. It has a digital temperature readout on front. It has a car adapter which will make it great for me to transport stuff home from trips to Pittsburgh. And it has the friggin' Mountain Dew logo!
On a side note, I opened the box it was shipped in to find a second box. This inner box had "Fragile. Handle with Care." on it. The outer box, the one that the delivery guys could see did not have this label. Does this makes sense?
Labels: cool stuff, Mountain Dew, Prizes
Friday, July 13, 2007
To try and jump start some interest on this blog, I'm going to try an old trick. This was big about three years ago. It is to take the first ten songs on a random play on my mp3 player and post the lyrics. Then see who can guess the songs. When this was popular, I didn't have an mp3 player, so I used WinAmp on my computer to pick the songs, but I didn't have much of my music digitize, so the songs weren't too random. Now I have a good mp3 players with alot of songs on.
So these are the first ten non-instrumental english-language songs (obvious can't do a lyric test with no lyrics and I didn't feel like transcribing foreign language lyrics) off my mp3 player. (And no Googling for the answers. All but possibly one have either been on a greatest hits album or will likely be in the future.)
1. "I had a dream I was your hero."
2. "Burns like a red coal carpet, mad bull lost its way"
3. "Lady luck took him by surprise."
4. "This week he's moppin' floors, next week it's the fries."
5. "You can idolize your drum machine; say the Beatles suck and dis the King."
6. "Walking side by side with death, The devil mocks their every step."
7. "Now she's with one of my goodtime buddies. They're drinking in some crosstown bar."
8. "I'm the only John Wayne left in this town."
9. "Strapped in the chair of the city's gas chamber. Why I'm here I can't quite remember."
10. "Cause the good ones all got wedding rings. And the young ones are just too dumb. And I don't think I have anymore room underneath my thumb."
So these are the first ten non-instrumental english-language songs (obvious can't do a lyric test with no lyrics and I didn't feel like transcribing foreign language lyrics) off my mp3 player. (And no Googling for the answers. All but possibly one have either been on a greatest hits album or will likely be in the future.)
1. "I had a dream I was your hero."
2. "Burns like a red coal carpet, mad bull lost its way"
3. "Lady luck took him by surprise."
4. "This week he's moppin' floors, next week it's the fries."
5. "You can idolize your drum machine; say the Beatles suck and dis the King."
6. "Walking side by side with death, The devil mocks their every step."
7. "Now she's with one of my goodtime buddies. They're drinking in some crosstown bar."
8. "I'm the only John Wayne left in this town."
9. "Strapped in the chair of the city's gas chamber. Why I'm here I can't quite remember."
10. "Cause the good ones all got wedding rings. And the young ones are just too dumb. And I don't think I have anymore room underneath my thumb."
Labels: lyrics quiz, music
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
This is for those of my readers who don't like Ford Tauruses. You know who you are.
The full article explaining the pic is here.
Labels: car, Ford Taurus, weird picture
Monday, July 09, 2007
Yeah, I'm still trying to getting used to the new job, or at least that's my excuse for not posting more. Also, I'm trying to get more of a social life. One way to do this, I figure, is to try to be not in my apartment. Anyway, I'm hoping to post more.
It's July, the year is half done. So a quick rundown of my yearly goals might be in order. I've completed two goals. I've been to a state I've never been to. In fact, I've now been to Delaware four times. I've also been to a away game of a Pittsburgh game. As for the other goals, I'm only a third of the way through the movie list (I blame the quality of tv shows on tv and dvd.), but I'm a half of a book away from my five books. I'm only a third of a way through my goal for dates, but being unemployed tends to mess with getting dates. I say this goal is still achievable. A Las Vegas trip will have to wait til I'm more established at work, but I have the money for the trip, so I plan to go near the end of the year. I going to try and make a shore trip in August. I honestly haven't even thought of anything new I haven't done before or places I've never been. My shape is as good (or bad) as it was at the beginning of the year, but I've just started exercising again. Finally, my apartment is in as bad of shape as ever (since I'm never here) and while out of work, my mind had nothing better to do, so I've been dwelling on negative stuff. So, my goals aren't as far along as I would hope, but they're not hopeless yet.
On the movie front, I'll do a quick rundown on summer movies. Die Hard and Knocked Up, I've seen twice in the theatres and I'd go again. Ratatouille was worth a full price admission. It's up to Pixar's usual quality. Worth full price, but I don't intend to see it again. Spider Man, Fantastic Four and Pirates are worth full price if you like the previous films. Ditto with Ocean's 13, but only if you like the first one. I guess you could compare the second Ocean's movie with the Halloween movie that didn't have Michael Myers. It doesn't really belong. Evan Almighty is a good family picture. Nothing like Bruce in tone or purpose. Except Morgan Freeman as God, it's a totally different movie. But it's a good, not great, lightweight movie that's safe for kids and church group. Finally, Transformers was alot better than I feared. It was worth full price of admission, but the end fight scene went on too long. Also, sometimes it was hard telling the robots apart.
It's July, the year is half done. So a quick rundown of my yearly goals might be in order. I've completed two goals. I've been to a state I've never been to. In fact, I've now been to Delaware four times. I've also been to a away game of a Pittsburgh game. As for the other goals, I'm only a third of the way through the movie list (I blame the quality of tv shows on tv and dvd.), but I'm a half of a book away from my five books. I'm only a third of a way through my goal for dates, but being unemployed tends to mess with getting dates. I say this goal is still achievable. A Las Vegas trip will have to wait til I'm more established at work, but I have the money for the trip, so I plan to go near the end of the year. I going to try and make a shore trip in August. I honestly haven't even thought of anything new I haven't done before or places I've never been. My shape is as good (or bad) as it was at the beginning of the year, but I've just started exercising again. Finally, my apartment is in as bad of shape as ever (since I'm never here) and while out of work, my mind had nothing better to do, so I've been dwelling on negative stuff. So, my goals aren't as far along as I would hope, but they're not hopeless yet.
On the movie front, I'll do a quick rundown on summer movies. Die Hard and Knocked Up, I've seen twice in the theatres and I'd go again. Ratatouille was worth a full price admission. It's up to Pixar's usual quality. Worth full price, but I don't intend to see it again. Spider Man, Fantastic Four and Pirates are worth full price if you like the previous films. Ditto with Ocean's 13, but only if you like the first one. I guess you could compare the second Ocean's movie with the Halloween movie that didn't have Michael Myers. It doesn't really belong. Evan Almighty is a good family picture. Nothing like Bruce in tone or purpose. Except Morgan Freeman as God, it's a totally different movie. But it's a good, not great, lightweight movie that's safe for kids and church group. Finally, Transformers was alot better than I feared. It was worth full price of admission, but the end fight scene went on too long. Also, sometimes it was hard telling the robots apart.
