Monday, May 31, 2010

Today's Word Of The Day

Regularly Scheduled Programming.

And now that I'm back from my trip, we can return to our regularly scheduled words of the day.

Didn't feel like busting out the phone at Roger's. Although he does have WiFi now. Which is really weird. Seeing people sitting on the porch with computers. Very strange.

Friday, May 28, 2010

Bonus Word of the Day

Foot pound

Had the pleasure of overhearing a conversation about the difference between pounds and kilograms. For upwards of three hours.

Those two guys are awesome

Today's Word of the Day

Rico Suave

Is a nice route. Hard, heady, but nice.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Bonus Word of the Day

Hooker showers

Are necessary

Today's Word of the Day

Fear on the Dark.

Driving down the interstate, Windows down, riding with Trevor, blasting maiden, on the way to a climbing trip. Happy fake Friday everyone

Do you know what this means?

Today is my last day of work for the week.

Do you know what that means?

Yup, Fish Tie Day!

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Bonus Word of The Day!

Cheese Fries

I kinda wants some.

Chuck Season Finale

Damned good finale.

Damned good show.

Today's Word Of The Day

Sling

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Series Finale of "Dramatically Convenient"

Chloe has my phone now as well. So, it turns out its a good guy phone and a bad guy phone as well.

Today's Word Of The Day

Bunny!

Saw a bunny on the way home yesterday. But forgot by the time Word Of The Day time.

And now I remembered.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Lost finale

Well, that happened.

I still maintain it would have been fantastic if they ended it after season 6.

It would have been amazing. It'd have pissed off everyone who follows Lost religiously so dang much

Today's Word Of The Day

Poop.

Had a very nice poop today. Was quite nice.

Yesterday's Word Of The Day

Ninja.

You totally didn't notice it. But here it is...

Sunday, May 23, 2010

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

Mark Addy, Stephen Baldwin (2000) Young Fred Flintstone courts heiress Wilma Slaghoople, while Barney Rubble romances Betty O'Shale during a weekend in Rock Vegas.

I am not entirely sure as to why this is showing on Syfy, but it does give me the opportunity to roundly insult Stephen Baldwin, which I haven't gotten to do in quite some time. And honestly, who would make a better Barney Rubble then our favorite of the Baldwin brothers. Or more accurately, the only Baldwin brother in this movie.

Mongolian Death Worm

Sean Patrick Flanery, Drew Waters (2010) Deep in Mongolia, people fall prey to giant worms.

Syfy Saturday Movie from 5/8.

Aside from the title, and the Sean Patrick Flanery-ness, its pretty dang terrible.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Friday, May 21, 2010

Screamers: The Hunting

Gina Holden, Jana Pallaske (2009) A rescue team encounters a race of half-human, half-machine hybrids on a distant planet.

Syfy Saturday movie from 3/20. Aired right after the original one. Which I watched, but didn't report on, mainly because I didn't feel like it.

And you might remember Gina Holden from her role as Dale Arden on the short-lived Flash Gordon TV show. Or maybe you won't. Because I'm pretty sure that I'm the only one who actually watched the entire series. Except for maybe Gina Holden's mother. And maybe Eric Johnson's mother. (He played the title role)

RA-6. Radioactive acid! And I quote: "It burns!" Rather than "Oh crap! My hand's being melted off!" or "Get it off! Get it off!" shouted in a very girly voice, this guy decided to just yell "It burns!" And thus sounded completely comical and quite moronic.

And this movie seems to have significantly less RoboCop than the first one. But I think I've been promised Lance Henriksen.

Also, for these folks, "defensive positions!" are to just go hide behind whatever's handy.

And in typical movie fashion, the black guy just died. First. Actually, I lied. The "Viking" guy died first. But no one cares about him. He was just the random ass yokel they left to mind the ship. Who did a rather poor job, as he let robits aboard.

And now I'm officially rooting for the robits. Because one just punched someone through the head. Full on, in the face, out the back of the head fist action.

Although Dale/Gina is significantly more attractive.

And now they're boning.

And I have chocolate sauce in my goatee. Its a bit annoying. Because its out of licking range. I do seem to have this problem quite office. Stupid ice cream. Being so tasty.

And then Lance Henriksen showed up. And shortly thereafter got electro-zorted.

And thankfully, due to jump-cuts, the main characters were able to get very far away from the facility they were deep in the depths of. In a matter of 30 seconds. Also, "deep in the depths of". Man, that was a particularly awesome turn of phrase. I am damned awesome.

Today's Word Of The Day

Wainscot

Further Adventures in the Life of Odors in Dan's Life

The mailbox smelled like overcooked pizza. Burnt almost.

Good day for things to smell like burnt stuff, apparently...

V

I just learned that one of the main characters in the show (the priest) is played by an actor who's married to William Shatner's daughter. I now have a ridiculous amount of respect for him...

Paul McGillion Returns!

In V.

You might remember him as Dr. Carson Beckett from SG:A.

Golden Fishes

Are So Delicious

Guess what?

The elevator smells like burnt toast. FYI.

Google!

Go to Google's homepage today.

And, yes, you can play.

And now you may thank me for wasting the rest of your day.

Friday!

Do you know what that means?

Yup. Its Fish Tie Day!

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Today's Word Of The Day

Rigatoni

30 Rock

Awesome cameo by Matt Damon on tonight's episode. Quite possibly the best episode for quite some time.

Dan's Drivel

There are apparently a number of blogs named "Dan's Drivel". But, on the plus side, I was here first.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Iron Man 2

Shit blowed up.

And whatsisname turned into Don Cheadle.

And all was good.

Also, Scarlet Johansson and Gwyneth Paltrow are hot.

More later? Who knows. Got the important stuff out of the way, though...

Twilight Saga: Dumbness. Or Dark Moon. Or Some shit

Saw the preview before Iron Man 2 tonight.

Apparently people run into trees for no apparent reason.

Today's Word Of The Day

Australopithecus

Spent a lot of time wondering whether Neanderthals were of the genus Australopithecus or Homo.

They're Homo Neanderthalensis, for the record.

Monday, May 17, 2010

House

Dear everyone.

Please don't amputate my leg with a saber saw. It seems unpleasant.

Today's Word Of The Day

Raclette

Sunday, May 16, 2010

RIP Ronnie James Dio

Title pretty much says it all.

The man was fantastic in concert. Glad I got to see him (and his band) live, even though I had no idea who they were at the time.

So, at the very least, go check out Holy Diver. Or the rest of his entire catalog.

Speaking of which, I needs to get meself some more Rainbow.

Today's Word Of The Day

Rocketship

Skinwalkers

Jason Behr, Elias Koteas (2007) As a half-lycanthrope boy approaches his 13th birthday, two factions of werewolves prepare for battle; one group believes the boy will lead the race into the future, but the other wants to kill him

Syfy Saturday movie from 5/1.

I've got little to no idea of what's going on. And I'm pretty sure that I'm not gonna care too much about actually finding it out...

Honestly, I'm hoping Sean Bean transcends into this movie and starts randomly killing these people. For no apparent reason. As is his custom. I've definitely got my fingers crossed. Well, not fingers. More like legs. As they're propped up on the coffee table.

And the apparent bad guys ride motorcycles and carry all sorts of guns. The folks who are probably the "good guys" seem to be a bunch of whiny wieners. So, I guess for the second Syfy Saturday movie in a row, I'm rooting for the bad guy(s).

But it seems the good guys all have guns in their bags. And the old Grandma has a pair of gigantic revolvers. But the main bad guy has a brace of Desert Eagles.

Although, for being werewolves, the characters are certainly doing a lot of not turning into wolfy creatures.

And this movie has just taken a significantly more interesting turn. In that it is at least partially written by James Roday. Also known as Shawn Spencer from Psych.

And then I ate a sammich.

Sammich was definitely the best part.

Today's Word Of The Day

Waiting

Saturday, May 15, 2010

2010 Monaco Grand Prix Qualifying

Vettel in 3rd. Which is OK.

Webber on pole. You might remember him as Vettel's teammate. Who won from pole last week in Spain. Who I'm definitely liking more and more, due to his propensity to have his picture taken with very strange faces.

Also, Robert Kubica from Renault (you might remember them as the awesomely yellow cars) in 2nd I do like Kubica. Although, it would have been cool had he gotten 1st in qualify, due to his Polish nature. The whole Pole on pole thing would amuse me.

Also, good to see that the Renault team has come quite a ways since languishing pretty far back the past few seasons.

Sadly, Kubica's ever angry looking teammate, Vitaly Petrov, ended up halfway down the grid or so, after a crash during qualifying.

Current World Championship leader Jenson Button (10 points over Vettel) qualified in 8th. Current second place guy (and tremendous cockbag) Fernando Alonso (7 points ahead of Vettel) crashed in Saturday morning practice, and didn't take part in qualifying. Therefore he starts 24th. And the 3rd person in the championship (0 points ahead of Vettel) is blog favorite Sebastian Vettel. Pole sitter Mark Webber (7 points behind Vettel) is in 4th place in the championship. Kubica's currently in 8th (16 points behind Vettel). But, with 25 points for the winner, and points all the way down to 10th place finishers, these numbers are still quite in flux.

And this would be another good time for Su to predict that the car that qualified third would win the race. Because last time she did that, Vettel won from 3rd on the grid.

Also, I don't like Button much anymore. I didn't particularly care for him last season, but he won me over with some nice drives at the end of the season, and a good interview on Top Gear. But he's since lost my favor with an interview where he stated that he was in the lead in the championship, a position he tends not to give up. It just annoys me, because that has happened all of once. So, he seems very (unwarrantedly) cocky. I hope he was joking, but I didn't see the whole interview, just the quote, so I can't judge for certain. And in true blog fashion, rather than gaining all the information, I'm just gonna jump to conclusions...

Friday, May 14, 2010

Dangit, Stargate Universe

Again with the boning?

You had a couple of episodes without it, and now the past 2 episodes have it back in full force...

Although the guy did just get brained. Lt. Scott, or whatever.

But apparently it was all hallucinations. Good old hallucinaboning.

The Hitcher

Sean Bean, Sophia Bush (2007) Two traveling students pick up a hitchhiker, unaware that he is a serial killer who intends to pin his crimes on them.

Syfy Saturday movie from 4/17.

Opening scene is a bunny rabbit being run over on the highway. I hate all of the characters in this movie already, and they haven't even showed up on screen. Except for Sean Bean. Because he's awesome. And he likely is the serial killer from the description. Which means that he's probably gonna kill almost everyone else in the movie.

Although, the main character is one of the doctor guys from Flash Forward. And I kinda like that character...

And, not 2 minutes in, the female main character is taking her top off. Apparently she's changing shirts in the car. So, good start to the movie, I guess.

And I'm pretty sure that Doctor Shaggy (the guy from Flash Forward) has my old phone.

And I've finally decided to get back to reviewing Syfy Saturday movies, after a long absence. So, there you go.

Did you know that the first few DVDs I had all had Sean Bean in them? I was almost not considering buying DVDs unless they had him in it, but then decided that that was far to restrictive.

And I'm rooting for Serial Killer Bean. Even though he doesn't have his standard Sean Bean Accent. Which is really a shame.

Also, "fondouta" is fun to say. Apparently its some sort of sauce that Olive Garden makes.

And now for a shower to wash of volleyball sand. And then I should probably start my laundry. And eat dinner.

We shall see if I decide to post this when I return, or get back to the movie. Who knows? It'll be a surprise.

Except not for you. As if there is another paragraph after this one, I'll have come back and started watching again... Unless I try to fake you out. Which, lets face it, I'm definitely going to do. Because I'm all mature like that.

And after an unspecified amount of time, I'm back...

And Sean Bean just chucked a pickup truck off a mountain at the main characters... I'm liking him more and more.

And now he just ran 4 cop cars off the road, and took down a helicopter. With a car and a pistol. And suffering exactly no damage to his car.

Apparently this movie should be called "The Continuing Exploits of Sean Bean as he Tracks Down Annoying Characters Through Increasingly Ludicrous Circumstances". But I guess "The Hitcher" works, too. If you're lazy and dum.

And he just turned a truck and trailer into a Rack. And pulled Doctor WhateverICalledHimEarlier in half.

And now he's just de-throated a guy with a handcuff.

And now he got shot in the face with a shotgun.

Female main character survived. Despite taking her shirt off in the first 2 minutes, and wearing a tiny miniskirt for the entirety of the movie.

And they still don't explain why Sean Bean was on the murderous rampage, or why he wanted to frame those 2 yokels.

Which improves the movie significantly, in my opinion.

Although, I think that if this movie had starred anyone other than Sean Bean, it probably would have been pretty painful to watch. But I do enjoy me some Sean Bean.

Today's Word Of The Day

Elbow Macaroni

Fish Tie

Cause everything's better when you're wearing a tie with fishes for no apparent reason.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Fringe

Looks like the 2 part season finale is gonna take place mostly in the alternate universe.

Should be pretty dang cool.

Also, Anna Torv/Olivia Dunham looks a lot better as a blonde than a brunette. Although, I'm definitely not saying that she isn't attractive as a brunette. Just thought you should know. Although, she's not really a blonde, per se. Sort of dirty blonde. Or whatever that color hair is called.

Also, Leonard Nimoy is hilariously old and wrinkly. He and John Noble seem to make up a Dream Team of wrinkly old people.

And now to wait for a week until the second half of the season finale.

Bonus Word of The Day!

Racketeering.

Not sure what method of criminalness it is, but it is sure fun to say.

Flash Forward

Didn't recognize James Callis at first.

You might remember him as Gaius Baltar from Battlestar Galactica.

He seems to have pretty good range, being able to swap between pompous, power-hungry guy and the crazy hobo type guy.

Also, he doesn't seem to be shy about reminding folks about the size of his hippocampus.

Such a quote almost became my Google status update. But then it felt like cheating on Chuck. Which I wasn't prepared to do yet.

Stargate Universe

I finally got around to catching up on Stargate Universe.

A couple of good episodes means that its earned itself another season in my book. At the very least, I'm not giving up on it in the break between seasons.

The Offspring

I wonder how The Offspring feel in the knowledge that after trying for 16 years and 5 more albums, they still haven't come up with anything that rivals Smash. By far their best album.

Today's Word Of The Day

Aerodynamic.

In honor of my new haircut

The World Needs A Hero

Was listening to the Megadeth song "World Needs A Hero" yesterday.

I came to the conclusion that it would be a much more interesting song if you were to replace the word "Hero" with "Evil" throughout the song.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Bad Timing

In addition to being poorly timed in terms of pay periods at work, my trip to Hawaii was also poorly timed in terms of Bad Scifi Movies.

I missed the Riverworld remake thing, and a movie with Jewel Staite in it. I was intrigued by that Riverworld thing, and Jewel Staite is hot.

Dangit.

Bonus Word of The Day!

Schnitzel

This week on the show that I have renamed "Dramatically Convenient"

The bad guy has my phone!

I've never been so excited to have my phone!

Today's Word Of The Day

Carlsbad

Monday, May 10, 2010

Bonus Word of The Day!

Rafflesia

Randomly popped into my head. And I'm quite surprised I spelled it properly.

Facebook thoughts

The email you get from Facebook when you get a friend request seems really pathetic...

For example "Aloysius Finklestien wants to be friends on Facebook".

Just seems so needy. And pathetic.

I don't really know if its just me, but it amuses me quite a bit...

The Weather Report

Watching week-old TV is weird when the weather report comes on during the commercials. I have to keep realizing that this weather is a week old...

Today's Word Of The Day

Stevedore

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Today's Word Of The Day

Buffeting

Pretty windy today. Especially noticeable on the bike.

Yesterday's Word Of The Day

Oops.

Was totally gonna do one after I got home last night. But forgot and went to sleep.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Today's Word Of The Day

Ackbar

Admiral Ackbar got to go for his first ride today.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

The Office

They should really abandon all the characters, except for Creed. And maybe Stanley.

Gots to pee

Yup. Really gots to pee.

A lot.

But my episode of TV is almost over. So, I shall be holding out for a few more minutes.

But that doesn't stop me from needing to pee. A lot.

But, hopefully I should amend that situation shortly.

Today's Word Of The Day

Manatee.

This one actually has a little bit of meaning behind it. Not directly, but sort of convolutedly.

To figger it out, you need to figure out what rather famous event happened on today's date, something rather famous about that event, and then a random-ass internet picture meme thing slightly related.

Good luck. Bonus points to whoever figgers it out.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Flashforward

If someone's set up a gun thing to shoot your buddy using a pistol, you should just pull the slide back out of battery, and it can't fire.

If only Agent Benford knew this with his multitudinous years of FBI experience and training. And then I wouldn't be yelling at the TV...

Instead, he is trying to push forward on the trigger. Which is gonna be pushed by some sort of ridiculous garage door opener contraption. Which is probably stronger than his puny hoo-man fingers.

Today's Word Of The Day

Edge

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Fred Willard...

... is awesome.

He's just so awesomely smarmy.

From his role as Vala's dad in Stargate SG1 and now his role as Spy Dude on Chuck.

He's dang awesome.

I am amused.

http://comics.com/f_minus/2010-04-30/

Today's Word Of The Day

Slalom

Monday, May 3, 2010

Today's Word Of The Day

Dangit

Had a good one. But forgot it before I could post it.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Today's Word Of The Day

Traverse

I've traversed half of the Pacific already, and am now about to set forth on my traverse of the continental U.S.

Can someone tell me what's wrong with this picture?

Showing a thing about polar bears on a red eye flight.

Absurdity I tells ya