“Counting Bears Is Not Rocket Science”

Last night’s Amazing Race episode ended in the saddest elimination ever, IMHO. I tried to Tivo their interview this morning on CBS, but woke up late again. I thought they would show it at 8 rather than 7, but luckily they have it on the CBS website. Check the hotties out. They ruled. What I liked about them was that they were the least combatative team left in the race. They supported each other throughout. Now what’s left? A bunch of the anonymous model teams and the bickering, quarreling teams. I have never felt so angry that a team lost. I have rooted for teams, felt sad that some lost, but never so disappointed. Lena and Kristy ruled. What a good run for them I shall miss them. And it seems that everyone will too.

Down and out in Stockholm

The hotties have been eliminated. No!!! Why are the teams I root for always eliminated first. I think I had a thing for Christy, another cute brunette. They were did in by the last roadblock. Even reaching it in 5th place, they could not find the clue. Actually, Lena couldn’t but I feel disappointed. Who to root for in the next round?

Not quitting her day job

Before hitting it big on Lost, Evangeline Lily, she was the spokesmodel for LiveLinks, a phone dating service. Her contract must not have run out yet, because they are still airing these commercials. I just saw the Christmas one. She’s still a cutie.

Cult Movies

This has been going around the blogosphere. Saw it here from a link at APCB. Since I like movies, a lot, I’ll bore you with my experiences with these cult movies. Bold items are the ones I have seen.

1 This Is Spinal Tap: Funny, funny movie. As many great quotes as any. “This goes to 11.”

2 The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Saw it when I was a young’un. Three times. Participated in the fun. But now it is just ridiculous.

3 Freaks: Alex Winters. ‘Nuff said.

4 Harold And Maude

5 Pink Flamingos: John Waters is a local legend in Baltimore. Grossest scene ever. I could take it or leave it.

6 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Scares me too much.

7 Repo Man: The movie soundtrack was all the rave when I was a youn punk. “You find one in every car.”

8 Scarface: Going to the U at the tail end of the 80s. This was a classic to watch.

9 Blade Runner: This is the movie which all sci-fi movies derive from. Classic.

10 The Shawshank Redemption

11 Five Deadly Venoms: Kung fu theatre rulez! They should bring it back for lazy saturdays.

12 Plan 9 From Outer Space

13 Brazil: Prescient. We are all going to die via paperwork.

14 Eraserhead

15 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

16 The Warriors: Why aren’t the gangs of today like this. Baseball furies.

17 Dazed And Confused: “I love high school girls. The older I get. They stay the same age.”

18 Hard-Boiled

19 Evil Dead II

20 The Mack

21 Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure: The Alamo’s basement!

22 Un Chien Andalou

23 Akira: I still don’t get it.

24 The Toxic Avenger

25 Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory: Oompa-Loompas! Ahh HBO in the summer at OC.

26 Stranger Than Paradise

27 Dawn Of The Dead: The original is still the best of the zombie flicks.

28 The Wiz

29 Clerks

30 The Harder They Come

31 Slap Shot

32 Re-Animator: The head that gives head.

33 Grey Gardens

34 The Big Lebowski: I’m the dude.

35 Withnail and I

36 Showgirls

37 A Bucket Of Bood

38 They Live: Rowdy Roddy Piper taking out alien invaders. What else do you need. “I came here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I’m all out of bubblegum.”

39 The Best Of Everything

40 Barbarella

41 Heathers: The young Jack Nickelson.

42 Rushmore: Bittersweet. Loved it.

43 The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension: Saw this when I was younger, I don’t remember much, but it must have been fun. As was all movies when I was a kid.

44 Love Streams

45 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

46 Aguirre, The Wrath of God

47 Walking And Talking Nicole Holofcener

48 The Decline Of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years

49 Friday

50 Faces of Death, Vol. 1

51 Monty Python and the Holy Grail : Funnier than the number 1 movie on this list. It gets funnier everytime.

52 A Clockwork Orange: Ultraviolence and a little of the old in-n-out, too.

53 Mommie Dearest

54 The Princess Bride: Good but not great IMHO.

55 Swingers: My movie. Defines the nineties for me. I saw a weekday matinee. Several business men, some college kids, and I. I think I was the only one laughing throughout the movie. Classic.

56 UHF

57 Valley of the Dolls

58 Fight Club: I shall follow the first rule of the fight club.

59 Dead Alive (aka Braindead)

60 Better Off Dead

61 Donnie Darko

Sideways

Caught the latest Alexander Payne movie, Sideways. You can sum this movie up in one sentence, “Swingers for the over 40 crowd.” You heard that right. Swingers. Instead of hapless actors roaming around LA looking for fun, you have a mid-40’s oenophile looking for the next bottle of pinot noir. It has the same loose, enjoyable feel. It has the same mopey main character. Can he find love? Or at least some hapiness with his life? This movie follows his journey through a week when he treats his best friend to the Napa valley before his wedding. I liked it, but was a bit too long. Surely, this film will be a critical darling.

4 of 5 stars.

Source Search

The fellows over at Forwarding Address: Mac OSX linked to a site that allows you to search source code. Brilliant. This would come in handy when it is time to write some code. You can search many source listings of various languages for ideas. It should help as it gives examples of how to use operations. As a software engineer it would be nice to use as you learn from examples.

Trip Toe Phan

Home from Thanksgiving with the fam. Full. Maybe I should go to the gym tomorrow. Maybe this weekend. Should I shop on black friday?

“I’m Not His Wife — He Doesn’t Need To Scream At Me”

Leg 2 of the Amazing Race has our contestants flying from Iceland to Norway. Again, they are traipsing in some of the countries that I loved visiting. The visit Holmenkollen ski jump. I wondered what I would be like to have launched from there. Now I know. This time around there is much bickering. I can’t stand any team especially, that Johnathon guy. He mistreats his wife. Hopefully, he really isn’t like that. Dude is intense. I am rooting now for the Mormon hotties. They’re cute and haven’t bickered once. They almost got last. This leg shows that one essential skill you should have is driving stick. You never know what you’ll find in Europe, but you can expect to be driving a manual car. Learn it. Know it. Live it.