If Star Trek ran on MS Windows…

Slick video that shows the importance of running Windows, even well into the future.  Funny!

I got it from Kim Komando’s newsletter today.

What a card trick!

OK this video is an excellent card trick.  I was an amateur magician many, many moons ago and have never seen anything quite this good.

Yes, it takes almost 5 minutes to watch, but I think it is well worth it…watch and see.  He performs the trick to the words and rhythm of the song “Shape of My Heart” by Sting (not one of my favorite groups, matter of fact I never listen to them) but it works well here.

Very good sleight of hand there Shawn!

Shawn Farquhar

Oh nooooooo…

Being an aquarium owner also, I realize now that I must not perform exercises near it.

Of course, I already don’t perform any exercises; anywhere.

New Favorite TV Show, Warehouse 13

I highly recommend this one…so far at least.  I found this on Hulu.com, since I don’t get the SyFy Channel.  I liked it as it seems to be a combo of, “Indiana Jones”, “National Treasure”, “Moonlighting” (for us older folks) and one of any other cop show over the past 15 years.

You can also get it at the new SyFy.com site but I’m partial to Hulu.

Here is the link since I can’t seem to get the player to work here…drat.

These Skating Babies have it all over the Dancin’ One from years ago

What a hoot … an ad for Evian water but hilarious non-the-less.

 

Microsoft Office 2010, The Movie

What a hoot!  Why doesn’t Redmond put this stuff on TV. I know it is supposed to be for an online ad campaign but this would even put Apple to shame.

 

Donald Trump Fires Miss California USA

By John Rogers, Associated Press

Los Angeles (AP) – Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, who stirred up a hornet’s nest of controversy when she expressed her opinion that gays shouldn’t be allowed to marry, got the word from pageant poobah Donald Trump on Wednesday: "You’re fired."

Trump and other pageant leaders said Prejean was being sacked not because of her controversial remarks but because she hadn’t been holding up her end of the agreement she signed when she entered the pageant.

"This was a decision based solely on contract violations, including Ms. Prejean’s unwillingness to make appearances on behalf of the Miss California USA organization," the California pageant’s executive director, Keith Lewis, said in a statement.

Lewis had complained at a news conference last month that Prejean was skipping Miss California USA events while speaking out against gay marriage at unsanctioned appearances.

There are two sides to every story though?

Inkheart

Today Robin and I went to the movies and saw Inkheart.  We both enjoyed it.  It was good to see a movie without profanities sprinkled throughout and decent enough for kids to enjoy too.

Kind of of a fantasy adventure.  As always full of the standards; good guys, bad guys, misunderstood guys, wackos and of course the evil bad guys and a the very few good guys who may conquer.

If like this kind of movie its worth the admission price, but if the previews looked stupid to you it probably will be.

Paul Bettany is very good as he most always is and Brendan Fraser is good with some OKs as he most always is and yes I wrote it that way.  But that’s just my opinion.  Brendan Frasier’s high point (or low if you didn’t like it) was “George of the Jungle” and I don’t think he’s reached that since.

The Last Templar – starting Sunday night

The Last Templar looks like it could be good…the only problem I see is that it may interfere with Jack Bauer on Monday night?!

I read the book several years ago and I believe I remember it as being pretty good…although the books are always better than the movies, we will see.  (If I remember to record it.)

No Country for Old Men

Well OK, I was talking to my brother and his son around New Year’s day and a conversation about movies came up.  I was commenting that my wife talked me into going to see “Marley & Me”.  The first half was pretty good, the end hideous.  I was saying that movies I like usually involve things blowing up and bad guys getting shot, etc.

A conversation ensued where everyone but me thought “Mama Mia” was good.  Now I haven’t seen it…yet, so I could just say that it looked like a looser to me.  My wife loved it (nope I didn’t go, she and a girlfriend did).  My nephew, Jim, who also likes blowups and shoot-ups said that “Mama Mia” was good.  I was dumbfounded but decided to let it slide.

Jim suggested I order two other movies from Netflix to go along with MM so that I could get my fix, my wife could get her happiness fix and he also guaranteed I would like MM; doubtful, but I’ll watch.

So he said to get “No Country for Old Men” and “Eastern Promises” along with Mama.  I only get one at a time and received NCFOM last week.

Well to all of you and Jim I have to say, “I have a list of about my 10 top least favorite movies and I think this one is 11th or higher.”

Why? 

1. No dialogue.
2. Not much of a story.
3. Violence for no real reason.
4. Characterization must have been low since I didn’t even care when the girl gets it in the end.
5. Speaking of the end, the Cohen brothers must have been on crack when they did this one…it didn’t have an end.
6. Boring.

The only positive thing I can say about it was that Tommy Lee Jones was in it.  I usually like anything he does but he must have had some slow time and decided to do this one for a bad charity or something, he wasted his time.  But he is always fun to watch.

Finally, we got “Eastern Promises” the other night but haven’t watched it yet – I’m worried Jim but don’t worry we still love you.  And the final finally, my wife raves so much about “Mama Mia” I bought it for a birthday present for her (tonight, 01/16), so I bet I get to see that several times.

Pretty exciting isn’t it.

Oh wait, the third finally.  The Academy Awards are (IMO) always given to looser movies and to prove my point look at this:

 BEST PICTURE are you kidding me?

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UPDATE –>

Oh man…”Eastern Promises” must have been even worse, Jim you scare me.  I got tired of it right after we met Vigo, maybe 15 minutes into the movie and pulled it out of my machine before I had to have it condemned.

I can hardly wait for Mama Mia…ewwww.