Apple confirms rumors
Today Apple unveiled the Mac Mini and the mini iPod mini, the iPod shuffle. I expect to have one or both of these soon.
Skateboard madness
As a young dude, to while away the idle time during English class, I would doodle in my notebook drawing skateparks. You see back in the day when I skated (early 80s to mid 90s), there really wasn’t any places to skate. The public skatepark was on the decline and there were not many around. So this article describling how skatepark design has come a long way, brings out the young kid in me. I need to get a new board and ride some of these new fangled parks. Olle one-foots all day!
Meet the Fokkers
When I saw the commercials for this movie last year, I thought, “Why would anyone want to see a mediocre sequel to a mediocre commedy?” Imagine to my chagrin that it took top honors at the box office with $47 million and a total haul of $162 million. Meet the Fokkers is a mediocre sequel to a mediocre original film. Ben Stiller is not funny in it. Babs is funny thing. Robert Dinero has reached a new low in his career. I have already forgotten that I have seen it.
2 of 5 stars.
Quixotic Quest
Around October 2003 I had pledged to myself to read a book a week in order to get back into the groove of reading. I had spent lots of time reading stuff online and watching a lot of TV, but not much time reading any books. Therefore at that time I wanted to read more novels, some non-fiction and a few technical books. Unfortunately, I only read a handful of books within that year, and I stopped altogether around the summer of 2004. For a new year’s resolution, I want to read 3 books a month. That’s 3 times 12 equaling 36 books for the year. It don’t matter what genre, but I need to read a little more fiction. I would also like to reduce the number of non-fiction I read and limit my technical book reading. If you have any suggestions, please leave them in comments.
The first book for this is The Life of Pi. This has been on my bedside table since last year. I figure that I should try to finish it. Hopefully, I will be done within the week.
Half the hotties have a website
If you had been reading my blog, you know of my devotion to the Amazing Race, and you know of my love for the already eliminated team of hotties, Lena and Kristy. Well, look what I found, Lena’s website. Yowza! Still a hottie. Although, I think Kristy is more to my liking. These are Mormon’s?
The Aviator
Although it is the new year, the last film I saw was The Aviator. Since it was rather good, I should put it onto my year end best of movies list. Leonardo DiCaprio proves that he can act by portraying the obsessive-compulsive Howard Hughes. Not only did this guy make movies, but also designed, built and flew his own planes. Amazing. Are there still anybody like this nowadays.
4 of 5 stars.
Auld Lang Syne
The lyrics to the original song. If you feel like singing it again this afternoon.
Happy New Year!
Well hopefully 2005 will go better than 2004. Out with the old. In with the new. Happy New Year to all!
The Flight of the Phoenix
Went and saw this today. As an action flick it was pretty mediocre. Not much to say about it. I will not remember this movie next year. Catch it on HBO this summer.
3 of 5 stars.