I became an Amazon convert a couple years ago. Before that I hated Amazon, they were over priced and I could usually find a better price elsewhere. Well Amazon is still here, and many of those other companies that I did use have gone the way of the Dodo. Now, I may still do a little bargain shopping but 3/4 of the time I’ll be back at Amazon with my credit card.
Archive for August, 2006
My review of Broken Lizard’s Beerfest.2 stars
I’m a huge fan of Super Troopers, it is (in my opinion) one of the funniest movies released (probably a top 10 comedy). Broken Lizard supplied plenty of comedic genius in Super Troopers, and although there are flaws (and a few plodding sections of the film), it certainly gave me hope for the future of this comedy troupe.
On Tuesday I attempted to buy a dishwasher from Sears.com (after reading that their dishwasher rated well in Consumer Reports). At first I was stymied by the fact that their checkout process doesn’t work with Safari (that’s okay Safari users are only about 2.5% of your users, that’s not that many people right?)
Video game movies have a bad reputation. Maybe that’s because they usually suck. I just finished watching Silent Hill, and I have to say I’m not ready to change my opinion about the mass suckatude of video game movies.
I just finished The Pretender season four. I was an avid Pretender fan when it was on NBC in the late 90’s, so I was pretty excited when they released the first season on DVD. I gladly picked up the first few seasons. Sometimes things just aren’t as good as you remember them to be, and The Pretender is one of them. By the time the fourth season rolled around, the episodes are pretty stale, and if you didn’t think the first three seasons pushed the boundaries of believability, the fourth season surely would.
In October of last year I bought a pair of 250GB drives to replace the 120GB drives I was running. I’ve been running out of space on my computer a while (I’ve been juggling files between my two logical drives, and deleting unimportant stuff). This weekend (ten months later) I finally made the swap. I talked about crossing the terabyte barrier, but in reality my computer storage only consists of about 380GB of usable space (granted, that’s 150% of what it was a week ago).
I went over Saturday morning to help Justin work on his demo derby car for the Hebron Fair. It was an interesting experience. We pulled out all of the interior, all of the lights, and all of the glass. When I left at 2PM (after cutting a rough 7″ hole in the hood with the oxy acetylene torch the car sat pretty bare. I didn’t stop by on Sunday morning when Justin was to have installed his roll cage (the metal for the roll cage cost him more than the car itself, so at least his priorities are straight).
I don’t know why, but I’ve become increasingly impatient watching TV. I used to be able to just about rent anything from Blockbuster and be entertained by it, I would go to the movie theater a couple times a month, and I would watch most anything else once it came out on video. Now things are different. My last two Netflix rentals went back into the envelope after watching less than fifteen minutes of the movie (granted the movies where Derailed and Chicken Little). It’s not that my time is too valuable (hell I was stuck without internet yesterday and had nothing much to do, but I still couldn’t bare to watch Chicken Little), it’s just that… well movies, on average, suck.
Cara and I invited a bunch of friends over to our house on Saturday for a pool party. A lot of fun was had by all, and there was far too much drinking. I think overall it was a success, and we will be planning another party for next year.
We worked our asses off the last two weeks to prep for the party (including getting the pool light and deck lighting installed). Things weren’t perfect, but certainly good enough (and at least there was a bathroom door).
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