Monday, June 22, 2009

FAIL

*waves white flag*

I done with the photo-a-day project. I knew this day would come. I even made mention of this in my first post of the project. The ultimate goal of the project was to get myself into a habit of carrying around my camera so I would take more pictures. I believe that part worked. My camera is in my backpack every morning. Sadly, what has happened is I've stopped uploading because I'm so far behind. So, I'm claiming photo bankruptcy.

I hope to get the remaining photos uploaded soon enough. Thanks for following my 88 day spree.

In other news...

I saw three great movies this weekend:

1. The Story of Ricky - The shining example of cult ultra-violence. I knew everything there was to know about this movie prior to watching it. It didn't disappoint. This gem is an example of how a movie can be so bad, yet be so good.

Overhear while watching: Person 1: "Seriously, how can he tie his tendon together?" Person 2: "I don't know, but it is awesome that he did!"

2. Night of the Creeps - Zombie movies are always a hit with me. Lots of Z-films will try to balance horror with humor and many fail. This movie is right up there with Return of Living Dead for good horror fun. Although, it could just be because of Tom Atkins' great catch phrase of "Thrill Me."

3. The Hangover - I laughed... a lot. The Hangover was fun. I don't want to talk it up to much. The Hangover didn't push the envelope on these type of buddy films, but I did laugh throughout the entire movie.

Monday, June 08, 2009

Philosophy of fanboy-ism

I'm trying to figure out if the reason that I disliked the original series of Star Trek was because I had been a fanboy of The Next Generation or if the reason I'm enjoying the original series now is because I'm a fanboy of the new movie.

I'm not sure why, but the paragraph above reminds me of the question, "Can God make a rock so heavy that even he can't lift it?"

Yesterday, I watched the first 4 episodes of the original Star Trek on Netflix's Watch Instantly. The episodes that are up are the newly re-mastered versions. I had expected the newly-done special effects to stick out like the effects in the re-done versions of Star Wars, but I've actually been quite impressed. They look like cleaner versions of older effect methods rather then mish-mash of old tech vs new tech in the Star Wars movies.

Spock rocks!

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Interesting way to pick a character.

Dungeon and Dragon's Book: Do you like fantasy fiction featuring dwarves or elves? Try building a character of one of those races.

In my head: What? If someone bought Dungeon and Dragons then they obviously like fantasy fiction. What is the other option? Do you like VC Andrew's books? Try building a halfling character.

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I realize I fell off the photo-a-day wagon. I might try to catch up, I might not. Haven't decided. I did keep it up longer then I thought I would, but I also still don't feel as though I've quit. I just quickly run out of hours in the evening.