Mar 30
My day got cut a little short today, sort of. I got out of my second class quite a bit early, so I ended up waiting around almost an hour for my last class to start. Only it didn’t because it was canceled. Whoops. Oh well. I was able to get a start on planning [...] [...more]
Posted: under General, School.
My day got cut a little short today, sort of. I got out of my second class quite a bit early, so I ended up waiting around almost an hour for my last class to start. Only it didn’t because it was canceled. Whoops. Oh well. I was able to get a start on planning a program that I am going to start on, so it wasn’t really a waste of time, but it would have been nice to know.
Also, I still saved an hour+ from that last class, so I had a chance to go get a haircut which I desperately needed.
I should mention as well that I moved the whole blog to the main page the other day (it was at blog.slaad.com, now it’s at www.slaad.com). I’ve given up on actually making a website for now. I don’t really have time. Or rather, it’s just not high enough on my priority list for me to ever get to it. Maybe when class gets out for the summer. Additionally, I don’t really have a whole lot to put up on a website besides a blog. This is why I didn’t start one 7 or 8 years ago.
Mar 30
I just cought wind that Family Guy is set to go back into production! This is the funniest show I have ever seen. On my list, it beats out the Simpsons and South Park hands down.
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Posted: under TV.
I just cought wind that Family Guy is set to go back into production! This is the funniest show I have ever seen. On my list, it beats out the Simpsons and South Park hands down.
Mar 30
I didn’t get a chance to go geocaching this weekend. I at least made it so far as to log into the site and check out what caches are around now. It’s a start anyways. They seem to have redesigned the site to an extent since the last time I was there. Maybe someday I [...] [...more]
Posted: under General, TV.
I didn’t get a chance to go geocaching this weekend. I at least made it so far as to log into the site and check out what caches are around now. It’s a start anyways. They seem to have redesigned the site to an extent since the last time I was there. Maybe someday I won’t just be a season geocacher.
We also watched the third season of Oz this weekend. That sounds like a lot, but it’s only 8 episodes, which is kind of sad really. My favorite part is how HBO always claims on the box that each episode is an hour long when they’re really like ~55 minutes long, not counting the 2-3 minute intro to every one of them. Maybe they get closer to an hour when you play the “last time on…” part too. At any rate, it’s a pretty good show, though it seems odd that in this season they’re just making to new years 2000.
We also checked out an episode of Century City. I thought it was interesting. It’s a sci-fi legal drama. That is to say, a legal drama set in 2030. The cases are sci-fi in nature, such as VR rape. I hope it does well, although I doubt it. Sci-fi usually doesn’t seem to do too well in mainstream culture. This might have enough ground in reality though.
Mar 29
I saw Cat In the Hat yesterday, or at least part of it. It was so bad that we turned it off half way through. I should’ve expected it. I think it only did about $100 million in domestic box office revenue, which certainly isn’t bad, but it’s nowhere near great either. And for a [...] [...more]
Posted: under Movies.
I saw Cat In the Hat yesterday, or at least part of it. It was so bad that we turned it off half way through. I should’ve expected it. I think it only did about $100 million in domestic box office revenue, which certainly isn’t bad, but it’s nowhere near great either. And for a movie that was promoted so heavily (There are STILL Cat In the Hat advertisements in my theater), it’s downright terrible. I never really wanted to see it in theaters anyways, but I thought it would be decent at home.
It actually doesn’t start off too bad. The first 20 minutes or so were at least mildly entertaining. But then the cat showed up, and it was all downhill from there. For the most part, he was annoying and not really funny. It totally drug the whole movie down. Eventually, we gave up and checked out TIVO instead. It would have been a waste of time to finish it.
I’m almost suprised such an awful film was able to bring in so much money. I’ve heard of this before though. Movie execs will preview the film a while before it’s released. They see how horrible it is, but there’s nothing they can do about it. They already have a huge investment and it would cost too much and take too much time to go back and fix it. So, they promote the hell out it. They hope for a big weekend opening so they can make some money before word of mouth gets out that it sucks.
That’s sort of the trend it made too. The first weekend it did $38, the second $24. A decent start. But then it drops to $7, $4, $2 in the following weeks. A steep decline for a movie that started so strong. Not to say that is untypical for most movies, but not for a movie promoted so heavily.
Anyways, my point was, it sucks. Maybe if you have the right kind of sense of humor you’d love it, but being older than 12, I don’t.
Mar 28
Bush’s speech about providing broadband to all Americans by 2007 is being covered all over the place.
All I can say is bullshit. I say this primarily because it’s all talk. It’s not being backed up by any explanations as to how it will happen. (and even then, it’s still just talk until it actually happens). [...] [...more]
Posted: under Politics, Rants, Technology.
Bush’s speech about providing broadband to all Americans by 2007 is being covered all over the place.
All I can say is bullshit. I say this primarily because it’s all talk. It’s not being backed up by any explanations as to how it will happen. (and even then, it’s still just talk until it actually happens). It’d be great if it did happen, but the networks have to open up. There just isn’t enough competition right now. That would take a lot of doing. Additionally, if the whole “broadband” over power lines thing ever comes to be, the power companies will have to do the same. It’s an awfully closed world of “public” utilities.
I’d love to see the world of DUN just go away. I get free (or rather, I’m forced to pay when I sign up for classes) dial up access, but It’d take an awful lot to make me ever go back.
At any rate, for now, especially since we’re 7 months away from elections, it’s all talk.
