RT @macguier @DrZibbs Feeling lonely? Try yakmatch.com. >Ha. I just want to see if anyone has the courage to tell me.
My hamster, Harry, has a bit of a temper. He's got his own blog. See what he has to say about me, the big dumb guy.
My first attempt at making a video with my iPhone 4, using the mobile version of iMovie. Not much editing here, I’m afraid, but it was fun anyway. This features my three bluegill sunfish and one hybrid sunfish (the big one with the big mouth) at feeding time. There are also two crayfish in this tank, but you can’t see them. They hide until I feed them separately.
Man, you scared me, Chuck.
By Chuck, I mean the character Chuck Bartowski on NBC’s “Chuck,” the geek-turned-spy who’s the hero of many nerds.
Spoiler alert: If you’re into “Chuck” and haven’t seen the season finale yet, do not read the rest of this.
I’ve always thought this show was one of the best-made on TV. It’s well-written, well-acted and the premise is hard not to get excited about. Add Yvonne Strahovski’s sex appeal and Adam Baldwin’s machismo, and you’ve got a show that’s hard to forget.
But the season finale almost had me really scared. They arrest the leaders of the evil “Ring,” Chuck’s dad gets killed, his sister finally knows his CIA secret and asks him to quit being a spy and the Buy More blows up.
It smelled a lot like a wrap-up, like the end of the series. But thankfully, at the end, he gets a secret message from his departed (and also spy) father that hints that his mother is still out there, and that Chuck’s spy work is not done.
Thank God. Also, from some looking on the Internet, I’ve found that the show has been picked up for a fourth season.
Regular everyday guys (like me?) can’t help but be inspired by tales like “Chuck.” I’m glad it will be around for a bit longer.
I haven’t given up yet, but so far I’ve only been successful in
netting one small minnow for my natural fish tank. I plan on trying
again tomorrow. For now, it’s one small eastern mosquitofish. I’ve
named him Junior, after Indiana Jones.
You really must check this out. Some amazing photographs documenting an interesting time in American and human history.
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After just watching it in HD, it’s hard to figure out a lead for this review of James Cameron’s “Avatar,” possibly the last written.
Cameron and I go way back, from “Aliens” (one of my favorite movies of all time) to “The Abyss” to the “Terminator” series, and yes, to “Titanic.”
But this one was different. Better? Not in all ways. It’s hard to turn your eyes from the beautiful colors everywhere on the planet Pandora. The Na’vi also were beautiful, but something about them distracted me. The plot? I figured out how everything would play out in the first 30 minutes, right down to the very last scene – which I saw coming from the beginning of the movie.
The message? Well at least there was a little more meat here. Obviously, it’s a cautionary tale on our plunder of our own rain forests. But there were other things jumbled in there, as well. There was the “Dances With Wolves” parallel of Jake’s rise in the clan of the natives. There was also a little “Romeo and Juliet” going on with his native girlfriend. I thought they were all going to turn into Jets and Sharks and have a rumble after the two first mated. And in the end battle, there was definitely a “Return of the Jedi” thing, paralleling the Ewoks victory over the Empire in the forests of Endor.
The whole thing made me a feel a bit like I was watching our old family movie from the 1950s of my Uncle Bill trying to overstuff the trunk of his Mercedes and not being able to get the latch to hold. Cameron may have put too much in.
And then there were the Na’vi themselves. Blue, tall, graceful – did I say blue yet? And for some reason, with all of this technology and the 3-D and everything, they still can’t get the mouths to move naturally when they talk. It still didn’t look smooth to me. I was disappointed. So, I spent much of the time trying not to dwell on the mouths by checking out how “Barbie-ized” all of the Na’vi female figures were.
Then, there were the obvious names. Not real obvious, like if you named your new town “City.” We’re talking super obvious. The planet itself, Pandora. Obviously humans opened up quite a Pandora’s box when they went there. The magical stuff they’re mining (we’re never really told what it’s for) is unobtainium. Lol. That’s right. You can’t get it. Then, during the military set’s final bombing sequence, a bombing run is code-named “Valkyrie,” just like the German plot to kill Hitler that failed. So it was doomed by its obvious name.
What have I taken away? That James Cameron now writes by formula, comes up with dorky, obvious names and still can’t get his animators to do digital speech right. And with it all, he still somehow made the highest-grossing film of all time in North America.
Well, at least we still have “Titanic.” Now there was an obvious movie. We all knew how it was going to end. But at least he didn’t name any characters “Drowned.”
This has been a made for the Internet sensation, hasn’t it? I wasn’t sure what to think of the whole thing (Was it a stunt? Was it just a bunch of exhibitionists?), but given this news, as much as I’m for the idea of something like this, maybe some natural disasters are better left unscrewed with. Click “via” link for more.
Now this is kind of scary. I love my FB and my Twitter, but I have no problem unplugging. Looking forward to doing it while fishing this spring! Click “via” link for more.
I’m going to have to check this out. I was never very good at transcribing my music, which is why I can’t remember a lot of my earlier tunes. Click “via” link.
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