I Charged My Kindle Today

This is more of a reference post, so when I charge it next time, I have some conception of how long the battery actually lasts me.

Today's Word Of The Day

Expeditiously

Rereading the Harry Potter Series

Currently at the beginning of Order of the Phoenix, when Harry is accompanied by Mr. Weasley on the way to his disciplinary hearing. And the elevator announces that they have arrived on Level Seven, which is home to a number of different offices, including the "Ludicrous Patents Office".

If I lived in the Harry Potter universe, I know where I'd want to work.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Read the book, and now have seen the movie. Or at least the Swedish version. Not the Hollywood version that comes out later this year with Daniel Craig and Stellan Skarsgard.

I am curious to know what someone who has not read the book thought of this movie.

Indy 500

Well... Looks like there's no more reason to watch next weekend.

Scott Speed and his team have apparently pulled out due to excessive crashitude.

Holy Crap, Sebastian Vettel/Red Bull

Of the last 10 Grands Prix (including the last 5 of last season), Sebastian Vettel has 7 wins and 2 second place finishes. And one retirement, where his engine blew at the end, when he was comfortably in the lead. And 7 poles.

In addition to his come-from-behind victory in the World Championship season, Vettel has a comfortable lead in the championship this year. Of 125 total points available this year, Vettel has 118. 2008 World Championship (and owner of a rather ridiculous looking chin-strap beard) is in 2nd place with 77 points. With 25 points for a win, Vettel is over a win and a half worth of points in the lead.

Good race today. A lot of strategy, and a really good drive by Vettel and Hamilton. Some tense moments as Alonso took the lead into the first corner from 4th on the grid, and pole sitter and Red Bull driver, Mark Webber, ended up 3rd through the first corner, and 4th in the race. By the way, Alonso ended up in 5th.

Today's Word Of The Day

Wimbledon

And Ice Cream

Yup, I want Ice Cream now too

Dammit, How It's Made!

Why are you showing how they make apple pies? Now I want pie.

More than usual.

Camping World Nashville Something Or Other 200

Kimi in 15th.
Nelson Piquet Jr. in 21st.

Take that, fiend!

Well done to Kimi in his first NASCAR start.

And now the burning question: Has anyone actually ever heard of Perky Jerky before seeing it on the side of Kimi's truck?

Random Place that Just Popped Into My Head

Bora Bora

Goodbye?

Apparently the world ends tomorrow, if certain parties are to be believed.

Or maybe its the Rapture... I'm not really certain.

So, just in case: Goodbye.

Today's Word Of The Day

Unthinkable.

Am currently doing something I never thought I would.

Watching NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Qualifying.

I guess it takes a former F1 driver to get me to watch.

Go Kimi!

Today's Word Of The Day

Matching!

Today, as I was changing into my climbing pants, I discovered that I, completely by accident, managed to coordinate the color of my underwear with the color of my work shirt.

I was a disturbed. And a little proud. But mostly disturbed.

Just thought you should know.

The Messengers

'07. A sinister darkness descends on a rundown farm and its new tenants. Starring: Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett, William B. Davis, Dustin Milligan. Director: Danny Pang.

Syfy Saturday movie from this past Saturday.

Dear Syfy Channel,

Please keep your gorram formulaic horror movies to October when you have your 31 days of Halloween thing. Make up your dang minds, and pick one, or the other. Not both. Also, while you're at it, get rid of the damn rasslin'. You are, after all, the damned Syfy Channel. Which is a homonym for Sci Fi Channel. As in Science Fiction. Which you should probably show some of. Rather than horror and rasslin'.

I think Kristen Stewart is from that Twilight series thing. But I don't actually know. Even though I have heard so much against those books and movies, I am a little bit tempted to try reading them. Just to see how they are.

Also, William B. Davis. Also known as the Cigarette Smoking Man or one of the Priors of the Ori.

I have previously reviewed a movie named Messengers 2, with some sort of subtitle, that I can't immediately remember. They both involved farmhouses. And were both terrible. And horror movies. I kinda wonder if they are related. I'm guessing they are, but I can't be certain. Especially because I don't actually care. Although, this one does involve significantly less Sean Patrick Flanery. Although, upon further review, they are related, and they both contain the same amount of Sean Patrick Flanery. But this one has significantly less Boondock Saints, as the other movie starred Norman Reedus.

Anyways, back to my letter to Syfy: Also, if you cancel Eureka or Warehouse 13 for more rasslin' or reality TV shit, I will end you. Also, please make that Alphas show thing not suck. Don't know nothin' about it, but I'm certainly willing to give it a go. So, like I said, make that show not suck. I need another good sci-fi show in my life now that I've got no more Stargate to hold me over. Add to it the fact that V got cancelled, things are looking pretty grim.

In completely other, and significantly more distressing news, it looks that despite the fact that Chuck was renewed for another season, the next season will be the last one. Although, I guess its a good thing that they're deciding to end the show on their terms, rather than just letting the show go on endlessly until they run out of original material and the show takes a definite down-turn.

Bonus Bonus Word of the Day!

Rigatoni.

Not as fun to say as farfalarfale, but not too bad in and of itself.

Bonus Word of The Day!

Resident

There is a crumb or something underneath my question mark key

Tis annoying.

FYI.

Yesterday's Word of the Day

Thanks Internet!

I managed to accidentally pull a part of my dashboard out. So, in an attempt to figure out how to return it, I went to the Internet. Which easily provided me a quick pictorial of how to replace it.

Today's Word Of The Day

Spammers.

I randomly decided to go through the comments on all my posts this morning, after a rash of spam posts recently.

I managed to catch over 150 blatant spam comments. Apparently someone has an impressive amount of free time...

Because, in my mind, all of the anonymous posts are the same person. Who has little to do with his time, other than post on my blog, and try to sell me things in Russian. Or more accurately, free movies and viagra in russian.

Today's Word Of The Day

Electricity.

Turns out cars need it.

Bangkok Dangerous

Why is Nic Cage's hair so very dumb?

Also, alternate title: Nic Cage Wanted to Ride Motorcycles.

In other news, he rides a yellow BMW. Which is pretty awesome...

Alternate title 2: Nic Cage Can't Find Love Due to Excessive Shooting People In The Face

Alternate title 3 (With spoilers): Nic Cage Can't Find Love Due to Excessive Shooting Self In The Face

Random Place that Just Popped Into My Head

Winnipeg

Chuck

Damn good show.


Shame there's only the season finale left this season. Shaping up to be a really good one, though.

Stargate Universe

I will admit that when I heard that the ending of the series would be a cliffhanger, I was certain that my final impressions of the series would be anger and disappointment. Especially because they were supposed to make a Stargate: Atlantis movie following the finale, but that hasn't materialized, and likely won't. So, the chances of resolving the cliffhanger are pretty damned low.

SG1 ended the only way it could have in Unending, with the team on one very long mission aboard the Odyssey, and then stepping through the gate on a mission.

Atlantis ended well in Enemy at the Gate, with the ending shot of the main cast on the balcony, overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Although, that episode did feel rather rushed. Would have been better as a 2-hour finale, but it worked.

And, as much as I was expecting to hate it, I have to say, that it was a very good finale. Rather powerful. Ended up with good closure for characters that I had developed some emotional attachment to. Which actually surprised me.

When the last few episodes started airing, I was fully prepared to just watch the remaining episodes out of a sense of loyalty to the Stargate franchise, as it had provided 15 seasons and 3 movies of quality entertainment in the past. But, even though, in my opinion, the first half of the second season was relatively weak, they stepped it back up in the second half of the season, and finished strongly.

Good on them. Hopefully there is a future for the Stargate franchise, but if there isn't, I am prepared to say that the franchise ended well.

Each series had its weak points. The Lucius Lavin storyline on Atlantis, for example. However, all in all, they were all good series.

So, thank you Brad Wright, Jonathan Glassner, Robert C. Cooper, Joseph Mallozzi, and Paul Mullie for running these 3 series.

Today's Word Of The Day

Zippedeedoodah.

Almighty Thor

'11. The young hero, Thor, protects the Earth from Armageddon after Loki destroys Valhalla. Starring: Cody Deal, Richard Grieco, Kevin Nash, Patricia Velasquez, Jess Allen, Chris Ivan Cevic. Director: Christopher Ray.

Syfy Saturday movie from this past Saturday.

In case you were wondering, this is in fact made by The Asylum. If you didn't figure that out by yourself, you really should have. A movie that has a similar title, and nominally a similar plot to a famous movie that just came out. Who else could it be.

Also, the Thor in this movie is a gigantic wiener. Super Gigantic!

In fact, I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna talk about this movie any more. Because it is shit.

On the other hand, the movie named "Thor", without all this "Almighty" B.S. is a pretty dang fantastic movie. Tis a shame that I am watching this movie, instead of watching that one again.

The thing with Thor that made it really good was that the guy playing Thor (Chris Hemsworth, or whatever) really seemed to enjoy playing and being Thor. Whereas Cody Deal, from this crappy version, is just a whiny little jerk.

So, in case you haven't seen Thor, you really should. I really enjoyed that movie. Its up there with Iron Man as an enjoyable movie, with a believable lead character, and the appropriate amount of comedy.

Also, it has Natalie Portman in it. And she's hot. Also, she's significantly more attractive in Thor, as compared to Black Swan, even though she remains fully clothed throughout the movie. Mainly because she's not bat-shit insane in Thor.

OK, I lied. Thor just pulled an Uzi out of nowhere and just started shooting Loki. Not entirely sure where he got it from... This movie is weird. And sooper dum.

Also, Loki somehow managed to kill Odin while Odin was wielding the "Hammer of Invincibility". Not Mjolnir, but the Hammer of Invincibility... And the Hammer of Invincibility doesn't seem to bestow any sort of invincibility on the bearer. Making it seemingly rather mis-named.

In addition, its a wonder that there is any scenery left for them to have on-screen, due to the large amount of scenery chewing that the actors are doing. And by "the actors", I mean "all of the actors in this entire damn movie. Every freaking one". Although, they are kinda bipolar. In that they seem to enjoy randomly switching between overacting in a ridiculous fashion, to just reading their lines without any sort of expression, in a very monotone voice. Except for Thor. Who just overacts. And whines. And in between whining, he just whines even more.

And you know what this movie is lacking? Awesome Loki hats. Because Loki from the movie Thor, and I imagine from the comics, had all sorts of a wonderful hat. With gigantic horns and all that.

Also, in other news, I find it hard to think of these Norse gods without thinking of little gray aliens. That don't wear pants.

Another thing: I was thinking that the Thor movie would be a fantastic movie to have Peter Stormare play a large role. Alas, he did not. But they did get Stellan Skarsgård to play a pretty big role, so there was appropriate awesome-Swedish-person representation. He isn't as awesome as Peter Stormare, but pretty dang awesome himself.

And perhaps this hammer that Thor has just forged with his bare hands is Mjolnir. Whatever it was, even though Loki was wielding the Hammer of Invincibility, he just got his ass beat pretty handily. More like Hammer of Intense Wieneritude. And I do mean intense. Hardly a higher concentration of wieneritude has been seen...

Also, I think I recognize some of these stock footage shots of destruction from other The Asylum productions. Can't remember the name of the movie exactly, but it was the one with the annoying preacher guy who ended up getting struck by lightning...

Also, I have just learned that Stellan Skarsgård is going to play Martin Vanger in the upcoming The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie. Which will be amazing, because he should play that role perfectly. Oh, damn. And James Bond is gonna play Mikael Blomkvist. That is gonna be a pretty fantastic cast.

Roadkill

'11. A gigantic predatory bird stalks two siblings and a group of friends in the wilderness. Starring: Diarmuid Noyes, Kacey Barnfield, Colin Maher, Oliver James, Eliza Bennet, Stepehn Rea.

Syfy Saturday movie from 4/23.

Bunch of annoying people vs a big ugly bird thing. In Ireland.

Plus, there are apparently 2 siblings. I haven't quite figured out which of the two annoying folks are the siblings...

In other news, I'm rooting for the bird. And the bird seems to be winning for now. But I'm gonna guess that'll change by the end of the movie.

Also, for being set in Ireland, it certainly lacks a sufficient amount of accents.

And apparently I can add locations to blog posts now. So, consequently, I shall add the most appropriate place to this post. Because Bolivia is always appropriate.

And given the number of times they've cocked that shotgun, they've got to have ejected all of the shells they started with, unfired... Actually, now the main character seems to have gone batshit insane, and is just wildly shooting at the sky. But I think all that cocking earlier did her good. As she was able to get two shots between pumps a few times.

Also, its a wonder that they haven't hit with their car yet. Aside from the couple of folks that they did. Because they keep driving on the proper side of the road. Which might normally be a good thing, but I'm pretty sure that they drive on the wrong side of road in Ireland...

Also: Yay, bird!

How Its Made

Did you know that frogs like to lay eggs in pineapple crowns?

Test

Man, this is so much easier than posting from the browser on my phone.

Yay blogger app!

Thanks Trevor!

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Today's Word Of The Day

Insurmountable

Hilarity

So, there was a car in the garage at work with a Washington Capitals bumper sticker attached to the trunk lid.

Until yesterday. In its place was a discolored spot of dirt and fadingness and all that, which was unmistakably in the shape of the Washington Capitals logo.

I laughed. A lot.

Which caused some other guy in the garage to look at me strangely.

Which just amused me even more.

Washington Capitals

Well. That was... special...

Today's Word Of The Day

Flaunt

Washington Capitals

Dear all:

Have you considered not being terrible? Seems like it might be a decent idea...

Stargate Universe

While Col Young may have similar glasses to me, he certainly seems far too cool to aim.

Although, I do wish that I could hit my targets as easily without aiming. Would simplify certain matters...