Yes blog I am sorry that we haven't been spending much time together. This year has been busy, busy. I have pictures...I have posts, but I have been too darn busy to get them up here. Don't cry blog..I still like you.
I will get back to you soon blog, but right now we are getting ready to head to San Antonio. Tomorrow is our ten year wedding anniversary and we are leaving town with the kids for a few days. We'll do some River Walk...maybe some Sea World...because nothing says love and romance like a giant killer whale.
So hang in there blog...dry those tears and maybe I will bring you back a picture or two.
Results..finally...from the poll: What Did You Think of Indy 4?
So awesome my face nearly melted
from the awesomeness (26%)
The Holy Grail of the franchise (0%)
Better than a bowl of monkey brains (43%)
I would have rather been covered in snakes (13%)
It was so bad, I wanted to rip out my heart (17%)
And...what is that...is that a new poll...might be....
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Dr. Jones
Unless you live under a rock, you probably know that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opens today. Woohoo! In a few hours I will be heading to the theater to enjoy "the adventure of a lifetime" with the "man in hat"...and other tag lines that have been used with these films.
I am reasonably excited, but not overly so. I waited 20 years to see some other movie sequels from a franchise I enjoyed as a kid only to walk away with a feeling of "meh". Thank god the guy responsible for "those" sequels isn't involved with this new Indy movie......oh wait...
My expectation is that it will be on par with Last Crusade, which was a good movie but had too much humor/gags in it for my taste. When I learned that Indy would have a tweenage companion I thought "crap..Short Round". Now I liked Short Round just like I liked the Ewoks....when I was 12, but now..not so much.
I've also been a little concerned that KOTCS would be too Crusade-like, but in reverse. So instead of clueless Dad along for the ride we have clueless tweenager asking dumb questions and chasing seagulls on the beach.
But...I am excited. It will be fun to go on one last adventure with Indiana.
Poll results for: Bad Jobs for Donald Duck...and we have a tie!!
911 operator (21%)
child care worker (5%)
english teacher (26%)
motivational speaker (11%)
opera singer (5%)
brain surgeon (26%)
yoga instructor (5%)
New poll is up!!
I am reasonably excited, but not overly so. I waited 20 years to see some other movie sequels from a franchise I enjoyed as a kid only to walk away with a feeling of "meh". Thank god the guy responsible for "those" sequels isn't involved with this new Indy movie......oh wait...
My expectation is that it will be on par with Last Crusade, which was a good movie but had too much humor/gags in it for my taste. When I learned that Indy would have a tweenage companion I thought "crap..Short Round". Now I liked Short Round just like I liked the Ewoks....when I was 12, but now..not so much.
I've also been a little concerned that KOTCS would be too Crusade-like, but in reverse. So instead of clueless Dad along for the ride we have clueless tweenager asking dumb questions and chasing seagulls on the beach.
But...I am excited. It will be fun to go on one last adventure with Indiana.
Poll results for: Bad Jobs for Donald Duck...and we have a tie!!
911 operator (21%)
child care worker (5%)
english teacher (26%)
motivational speaker (11%)
opera singer (5%)
brain surgeon (26%)
yoga instructor (5%)
New poll is up!!
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Home Alone
This week my wife took the kids up to Maryland to visit her parents, so it's just me and the fish. Woo..hooooo.........hoo sigh. I started missing the kiddos right away. While eating dinner and looking at the empty chairs, I must admit I got a little blue. Fortunately Wonder-pea has a lot of stuffed animals so I populated the table with Elmo, Mickey Mouse and the like. It was like when Cartman had the tea party. "Would you like some more tea Polly Prissy Pants?.....Yes please".
It became clear that playing with stuffed animals was no way to pass the time. Instead I focused my energy on doing stuff around the house. First thing was to rent a Rug Doctor to clean the carpets. Two little kids are hell on floors let me tell you. As I moved all the furniture I found Cheerios at every turn. Even in places you wouldn't expect to find them. I would like to know the ratio of Cheerios eaten by Lil Pumpkin, to how many he throws on the floor. My guess is he's not eating many.
Cleaning the floors didn't take long and with every fan in the house going full steam it was time to head outside....yay I love working outside! The big project was fixing, what we affectionately call, Shrek's Swamp. One side of our house gets little to no sun and it stays wet over there pretty much all the time. Over the years the grading has slowly flattened out and water just pools. Lots of mud, moss...lovely.
While I'm schelping around in the mud my foot feels way wet. Yanking my foot from the mud I see that my crappy outside shoes have stepped it up in terms of crappiness. The sole of my left shoe, about 90%, had come completely off. If my shoe and a flip flop mated and had a baby, it would look like this. Awesome I'm practicaly working outside in my socks.
With Shrek's swamp kinda, almost...most likely not entirely fixed, it was on to planting roses, flowers, jasmine and my much anticipated money tree; I hope it blooms $20s. When it came time to re-mulch around our trees, I found fire ants around most of them. At first I was like "yikes..stay away"...then the ghost of Steve Irwin appeared and said "Crickey mate I used to wrestle 10 alligators at once." By god your right...gloves on..and in I went and wouldn't you know...I didn't get biten not once. It was a Christmas miracle!
When I was finally finished with everything, I headed up to the Walmart because I like to hang out there...and I needed light bulbs. After two days of doing stuff around the house, morning to night, I was starting to feel pretty beat, almost to the point where my body was refusing to move. "We have decided that you have done enough, and if you won't stop moving by your own choice then we, being your arms and legs, will simply refuse to function."
Moments later as I was laying on the floor of Walmart, light bulbs clutched to my chest, I wondered what the kids were doing..
Poll results for: What do you think of the Indy teaser
Woohoo!!(45%)
May 22...get here NOW(17%)
I shed tears of joy (10%)
Looks great...but where is Jar Jar? (7%)
Meh(17%)
It's no National Treasure(3%)
And amazingly...a new poll is finally up!
It became clear that playing with stuffed animals was no way to pass the time. Instead I focused my energy on doing stuff around the house. First thing was to rent a Rug Doctor to clean the carpets. Two little kids are hell on floors let me tell you. As I moved all the furniture I found Cheerios at every turn. Even in places you wouldn't expect to find them. I would like to know the ratio of Cheerios eaten by Lil Pumpkin, to how many he throws on the floor. My guess is he's not eating many.
Cleaning the floors didn't take long and with every fan in the house going full steam it was time to head outside....yay I love working outside! The big project was fixing, what we affectionately call, Shrek's Swamp. One side of our house gets little to no sun and it stays wet over there pretty much all the time. Over the years the grading has slowly flattened out and water just pools. Lots of mud, moss...lovely.
While I'm schelping around in the mud my foot feels way wet. Yanking my foot from the mud I see that my crappy outside shoes have stepped it up in terms of crappiness. The sole of my left shoe, about 90%, had come completely off. If my shoe and a flip flop mated and had a baby, it would look like this. Awesome I'm practicaly working outside in my socks.
With Shrek's swamp kinda, almost...most likely not entirely fixed, it was on to planting roses, flowers, jasmine and my much anticipated money tree; I hope it blooms $20s. When it came time to re-mulch around our trees, I found fire ants around most of them. At first I was like "yikes..stay away"...then the ghost of Steve Irwin appeared and said "Crickey mate I used to wrestle 10 alligators at once." By god your right...gloves on..and in I went and wouldn't you know...I didn't get biten not once. It was a Christmas miracle!
When I was finally finished with everything, I headed up to the Walmart because I like to hang out there...and I needed light bulbs. After two days of doing stuff around the house, morning to night, I was starting to feel pretty beat, almost to the point where my body was refusing to move. "We have decided that you have done enough, and if you won't stop moving by your own choice then we, being your arms and legs, will simply refuse to function."
Moments later as I was laying on the floor of Walmart, light bulbs clutched to my chest, I wondered what the kids were doing..
Poll results for: What do you think of the Indy teaser
Woohoo!!(45%)
May 22...get here NOW(17%)
I shed tears of joy (10%)
Looks great...but where is Jar Jar? (7%)
Meh(17%)
It's no National Treasure(3%)
And amazingly...a new poll is finally up!
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Indiana Jones and the Teaser Trailer
Woohoo!!!!
Results from the poll: the New Years resolution I have NO intention of keeping
eat more vegatables (20%)
learn french (30%)
to exercise 3 times a week (0%)
no more milkshakes (20%)
to not worry about work (30%)
play less Team Fortress 2 (0%)
And its true. I most likely won't be learning French this year. Aaaand try as I might I will probably be worrying about work...it's in my nature. New Indy poll is up!!
Results from the poll: the New Years resolution I have NO intention of keeping
eat more vegatables (20%)
learn french (30%)
to exercise 3 times a week (0%)
no more milkshakes (20%)
to not worry about work (30%)
play less Team Fortress 2 (0%)
And its true. I most likely won't be learning French this year. Aaaand try as I might I will probably be worrying about work...it's in my nature. New Indy poll is up!!
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Sarah Connor
The other night I checked out the new Terminators series, the Sarah Connor Chronicles, which picks up about two years after Terminator 2. Yet again those pesky terminators travel back in time to kill John Conner and yet again a terminator is sent back to protect him. But instead of Ah-nold, John's protector is the lovely fembot, Cameron.
The thing that struck me immediately is that no matter how many times they blow up Cyberdyne or destroy Skynet, those damn terminators will continue to exist. What would be an interesting twist, is if John Conner is somehow responsible for Skynet, thus making him the disease and the cure.
Now if you were going to travel back in time and kill say....Hitler. Would you do it when he is a teenager? Seems like the killer robots from the future should be traveling back to the day John was born and.....asta la vista baby. Get it!!...cause he'd be a little bab-nevermind. Better yet go back and kill Sarah when she was a kid. But terminators aren't cold blooded like that. They want to give their victims a sporting chance.
Ok fair enough. But why send back one terminator? You want John Conner taken out, send back ten of those bad boys. Likewise for the resistance. One termi might be a good defender but 20 would be better.
Regardless of logistics and some silliness, I did enjoy the pilot and will continue to watch for now. But it could go down hill. If John takes fembot to the prom.. I will most likely stop watching.
Go Rudolph you red nosed freak!!
Favorite Rankin/Bass Holiday Show
The Year Without a Santa Claus (15%)
Frosty the Snowman (15%)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (62%)
Santa Claus is Coming to Town (8%)
Rudolph's Shiny New Year (0%)
Pinochio's Christmas (0%)
Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (0%)
New poll is up!
The thing that struck me immediately is that no matter how many times they blow up Cyberdyne or destroy Skynet, those damn terminators will continue to exist. What would be an interesting twist, is if John Conner is somehow responsible for Skynet, thus making him the disease and the cure.
Now if you were going to travel back in time and kill say....Hitler. Would you do it when he is a teenager? Seems like the killer robots from the future should be traveling back to the day John was born and.....asta la vista baby. Get it!!...cause he'd be a little bab-nevermind. Better yet go back and kill Sarah when she was a kid. But terminators aren't cold blooded like that. They want to give their victims a sporting chance.
Ok fair enough. But why send back one terminator? You want John Conner taken out, send back ten of those bad boys. Likewise for the resistance. One termi might be a good defender but 20 would be better.
Regardless of logistics and some silliness, I did enjoy the pilot and will continue to watch for now. But it could go down hill. If John takes fembot to the prom.. I will most likely stop watching.
Go Rudolph you red nosed freak!!
Favorite Rankin/Bass Holiday Show
The Year Without a Santa Claus (15%)
Frosty the Snowman (15%)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (62%)
Santa Claus is Coming to Town (8%)
Rudolph's Shiny New Year (0%)
Pinochio's Christmas (0%)
Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (0%)
New poll is up!
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Christmas Is Coming...
...the goose is getting fat...and I along with it. My lord there has been no shortage of holiday goodness around the studio. It would be rude of me not to sample each and every one. And so I have.....several times.
I had been doing pretty good. I was watching what I was eating...working out a little and loosing some weight but from Thanksgiving to New Years its just a hopeless cause. To hell with trying to do good....bring on the cookies!!
Results from the poll show that people hate the lemon pie....me too!! I put it on there for my wife and she didn't even vote for it. Take that lemon pie!! Pumpkin and apple will fight to the death to determine the true winner.
Favorite Kind of Pie
pumpkin (25%)
apple (25%)
banana cream (20%)
lemon (0%)
chicken pot (10%)
pecan (10%)
blueberry (10%)
And just in time for the holidays and new poll is up!!
I had been doing pretty good. I was watching what I was eating...working out a little and loosing some weight but from Thanksgiving to New Years its just a hopeless cause. To hell with trying to do good....bring on the cookies!!
Results from the poll show that people hate the lemon pie....me too!! I put it on there for my wife and she didn't even vote for it. Take that lemon pie!! Pumpkin and apple will fight to the death to determine the true winner.
Favorite Kind of Pie
pumpkin (25%)
apple (25%)
banana cream (20%)
lemon (0%)
chicken pot (10%)
pecan (10%)
blueberry (10%)
And just in time for the holidays and new poll is up!!
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
It's a Wonderful Bug's Life
Results from the poll:
The Ant Bully (19%)
Antz (14%)
Bee Movie (5%)A Bug's Life (62%)
A new poll is up just in time for the holidays!
Friday, November 02, 2007
Bee Movie
Bee Movie opens today. Yes its out right now!! Go....hurry.....time is running out!! ReelFx did some promotional spots for the film. I have a couple shots I did up in the animation section. Enjoy.A new poll is up as well. Here are the results from the previous:
Favorite Team Fortress 2 DEFENSE character
Demoman (33%)
Heavy (33%)
Engineer (33%)
A three way tie!! You're all winners!!
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Team Fortress 2
TF2 is out!! Yes its true. I have been playing the Beta Orange Box release for a few weeks now and its a lot o fun; I'm actually doing pretty good...who would of thunk it possible. Now you can join in on the fun by going HERE.
Big congrats to my buddies up at Valve: Andrew Burke, Hamish Mckenzie, Karen Prell and Matthew Russell.
Poll results...for: Of my 5 shows, which will rock the hardest this season
HEROES (40%)
The Office (47%)
LOST (7%)
24 (7%)
Smallville (0%)
Monday, September 24, 2007
TV Returns
It's a week of premieres!! Three of the five shows I watch come on this week; LOST and 24 don't start 'til next year.
Check out the commercials:
HEROES
The Office
Smallville
Poll results for: What I did over the summer
Wrestled a lion (7%)
Got thrown out of a theme park (13%)
Saw a crappy movie (47%)
Went out..got drunk..threw up...repeat (13%)
Embraced internet dating (13%)
Spent a couple hours in jail (7%)
New poll now up!!!
Check out the commercials:
HEROES
The Office
Smallville
Poll results for: What I did over the summer
Wrestled a lion (7%)
Got thrown out of a theme park (13%)
Saw a crappy movie (47%)
Went out..got drunk..threw up...repeat (13%)
Embraced internet dating (13%)
Spent a couple hours in jail (7%)
New poll now up!!!
Monday, September 10, 2007
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
From Comingsoon.net:Full Indiana Jones Title Announced!
Source: Paramount Pictures
September 10, 2007
The title of the new Indiana Jones adventure, now in production under the direction of Steven Spielberg, is Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, it was revealed today by actor Shia LaBeouf.
LaBeouf, who stars in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone and John Hurt, announced the title during today's MTV Video Music Awards, which were broadcast live from Las Vegas.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a Lucasfilm Ltd. and is being distributed by Paramount Pictures. It will be released in the U.S. and simultaneously in most territories worldwide on Thursday, May 22, 2008. Frank Marshall returns as producer, with Kathleen Kennedy joining George Lucas as executive producer.
Interesting that in the poll "Of the many rumored titles for next years Indy 4, the most LIKELY title is:" Kingdom of the Crystal Skull got a whopping 0%.
Poll results:
THE FOURTH CORNER OF THE EARTH (14%)
THE QUEST FOR THE COVENANT (21%)
THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (0%)
THE LOST CITY OF GOLD (21%)
THE CITY OF GODS (36%)
THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS (7%)
A new poll is now up...woohoo!!
Monday, August 20, 2007
The Phantom Blahs
Not surprising that the poll for WORST Star Wars film resulted in Phantom Menace(55%) being the winner. Second place went to Attack of the Clones(36%) with Revenge of the Sith(9%) coming in third; not a lot of love for the prequels...shocking. No votes were cast for the original trilogy...the Ewoks rejoice!Keeping the Lucas theme going...a Indiana Jones poll is now up!!
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Polls Are Now Open
If you look off to the right you will see I've added a poll. Yes it's true! I saw this on another site I frequent and thought "my god....I must have one". So every week to two weeks (I will mostly likely post new ones on Mondays) look for a new poll with topics ranging from almost serious to mostly absurd.
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