I just finished watching Mitchell. It was a terrible movie with that terrible 70's wakachika guitar noise soundtrack. Mitchell, played by Joe Don Baker, is an edgy cop with a penchant to break rules. He follows a case he's been ordered off of, throws his hooker-junkie-girlfriend in jail, and climbs out of a helicopter onto a boat to murder two people.
I give it one permanently empty seat—Joel's. This was the episode where Joel took the escape pod and left the Satellite of Love forever.
I watched Gunslinger since for some reason I couldn't fall asleep. I figured a Roger Corman stinker should do the trick. Well, it almost did. I'm sure it would have if it wasn't for Joel and the 'bots' jokes.
I'm still not really clear on what the plot was, but let me try to sum it up: female sheriff vs. female bar owner. Yeah, I think that about does it. The bar owner is buying up land in speculation of selling it to the railroad company that is planning on building through the area, but they end up going a different direction. The bar owner hires a man to kill some people, but she falls in love with him. And he's in love with her, and the sheriff, whose husband died years earlier, hence her pants-wearing, gun-slinging old west attitude. Hit man kills bar owner, sheriff kills hit man, quits her job because she was in love with him and just couldn't take it anymore.
I give this movie eight empty seats, for the number of horses that weren't harmed in this film. Had it been the number of people harmed, I'd have to cite everyone that's ever watched it, which must be in the hundreds. Hehe.
As I'm lying on the couch waiting for a nice afternoon nap, I put on The Painted Hills, a Lassie movie starring "Pal as Lassie as Shep." That's a talented collie, playing two parts at the same time.
This movie is about an old prospector, a young boy named "Tommy" (not Timmy), and a friend or two. The friend goes gold crazy and kills the old prospector, Pal as Lassie as Shep goes after him for revenge. It also stars a holy-rolling Christian prospector that provided the eulogy.
I give this movie fifteen empty seats, five for each of the three Indians they had in the movie spouting gibberish pretending to be some kind of language. At least that's what it sounded like me.
I watched this a couple of weeks ago and totally forgot to review it. This seemed to be another one of those "teen-sploitation" movies about some drifters that are accused of creating trouble in a town that has been peaceful for twenty years.
Girl in Lover's Lane was forgetful and pretty boring, which is probably why I forgot to review it in the first place. I give it 100 empty seats for each percentage of boring it had.
If you give a speech in public, don't start it out with "I didn't really prepare anything to say."
Even if you really didn't. People (like me) instantly lose focus and stop caring when you admit you didn't take the time to prepare.
- Just finished book 11 of the Horatio Hornblower series. It was...well...nautical. #
- Seriously, though, Forester wrote a great series there. #
- I'm just not sure what to read next. Probably Otherworld by Tad Williams. Richard Bartle recommended it to me last summer. #
- I really should consider going to bed. Had a headache all day. Think it was all the zombies. They're everywhere lately. #
- Always trying to eat your brains without so much as a "by your leave" #
- I save my best broadside attacks for them. The only thing worse than zombies are ninjas. The smell never washes out #
- Think I'll get a twitter plugin for my blozzle. That's the "urban" word for blog, right? I'm so behind that "jiggy" isn't in my vocabulary #
- I knew it, I really shouldn't tweet when I'm about to sleep. I get too chatty #
- Wife was watching some strange show about primordial dwarves, very creepy stuff. Late-night TV is almost as scary as daytime TV.. #
- I hate waking up with the same headache I went to bed with. A different one would be nice. Or none at all. #
- Or, for you grammar enthusiasts: I hate waking up with the same headache with which I went to bed. Better? #
- Zombie fan? Try http://www.urbandead.com and http://www.quarantine2019.com #
- Happy Tax Day everyone! #
- Today is also the deadline for the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest: http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ #
- Cooking a chocolate crock pot dessert in my office today. It's for dinner at some friends' house in Coeur d'Alene tonight #
- The entire office will start smelling it in an hour or two. Mmmm, chocolate. I'm so evil... #
- Wading through 18 gajillion pages at Microsoft.com to renew my Action Pack subscription #
- Heh. Opened up an ncFTP session to my main desktop and forgot what I was doing. It timed out. #
- Still haven't heard anything about the wireless connection. Today would have been a great day to get it set up. Nice and clear skies. #
- So...chocolatey. Good thing I have several girl scouts in the kitchen constantly baking cookies for me #
- Oingo Boingo just came up on random play. Life is good. #
- Testing in miniscule increments on our shopping cart is just killing me today. Think I finally tracked down the problem. #
- Aaarrrggg! All my grief was due to an unset array variable in the API that I didn't know could be unset. Stupid! I should have checked it. #
- You would not believe how wonderfully chocolatey my office smells right now... #
- Hanging out at Ellie's chatting #
- Setting up a game of Mwahahaha! to play with Ellie #
- Ellie won with Herr Livervoldt using the giant laser doomsday device. Round two coming up, I'm playing Doctor Dookie!! #
- Ellie won again with the bomb with High Viceroy Roboticus #
- Doctor Dookie failed to cow the planet with his dinosaur army. #
- I switched to "unleash dinosaurs" when my attempt to destroy the world by accelerating global warning failed from my lunar lair. #
- Mwahahaha! is a seriously fun game! #
- Going to read a few minutes and then hit the sack. #
- Hey look it's morning! Wait, didn't I do this yesterday? Wish it would skip right over to late afternoon.. #
- Off to my weekly development team meeting #
- Promised Jeff I'd take him to lunch this week. Looks like today's the day #
- Wesley (my youngest brother) is going to see Monty Python's Spamalot in Spokane with my other younger brother Jared. #
- Off to the Boss's office to help out with his router config. Cisco routers can be really annoying sometimes. #
- Just now returning from the bossman's office for a quick breather and to track a program down--then it's back into the lions den
# - I'm going in, wish me luck! #
- Zombie Macs are on the prowl: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3157 #
- Just saw a stupid teenage driver try to tear out of a gas station and hit another car. #
- He failed at the first, but succeeded at the latter #
- I told my wife I'd be home before she left at 6:30 for her meeting. I was late. #
- Mmmm, cheese sammich for dinner! #
- It was a long day today, it started before 6am for me, a scant 5 hours after the previous one ended. Off to bed as soon as I finish blogging #
- I'm really itching to finish the file I/O on my MUD server so I can get back to working on the world map... #
- No Cord for Mr. Cord. Apparently the cord they need for my new wireless antenna is backordered #
- Working on the Cisco 881w router again #
- Refreshing my memory on apache error log formatting #
- Proud to not follow any of the "top 25" twitter users. Woot is #26, though. I love @woot. #
- In fact, I only follow 5 out of the "top 100" #
- Grabbing some essentials at costco--peanut mms are on sale #
- Typed wrong PID into a certificate for a license at Cisco. Four open tickets so far and no resolution. One type equals extreme frustration #
- It wasn't even MY typo #
- Going to do some network wiring cleanup today to get ready for the new wireless that will hopefully get hooked up next week #
- I think I finally have a corrected license file. Heading in to the office to get it in place. #
- At the office working on the router again #
- Just wrapping up at the office. Made a lot off headway with the boss and his router. #
- Took a much-needed nap today. Awoke to tasty lemon chicken dinner. I should do this more often #