April 22, 2008 at 3:44 am (Digg, Games, Humorous Links, Movies)
Tags: Azeroth, Blizzard, German, Paul Sams, Uwe Boll, World Of Warcraft, WoW
Blizzard has essentially laughed the German director out of their offices, and certainly right out of Azeroth.
“We will not sell the movie rights, not to you… especially not to you,” was apparently Paul Sams reply, to which Azeroth was pronounced saved!
April 21, 2008 at 2:37 am (Digg, Interesting Links, Movies)
Tags: Batman, Comic, Dark Knight, Hulk, Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Marvel, Movie
Holy Comic Book Crossover Batman! with bonus Dark Knight trailer teaser at the end of the article.
April 21, 2008 at 2:27 am (Digg, Games, Humorous Links)
Tags: Best Buy, Install, Rip Off, Video Games, Xbox, Xbox 360
Are you one of the tens of customers who has trouble inserting their XBox 360 games? Do you find the whole concept of optical media frightening? Well, Best Buy has a service for you! For a low, low price, Best Buy will come to your home and professionally install those complex XBox games.
April 21, 2008 at 2:02 am (Digg, Humorous Links)
Tags: Loner, Mac, Old School, Pen and Paper
From Digg, a classroom full of macs, and the one Soldier of the Old School
April 20, 2008 at 10:42 pm (Interesting Links, Opinion)
Tags: Financial, Google, Market, Stock
Yeah, the news is two days old, but I’m posting it anyway. Friday Google’s shares rose 20%. In one day. That means that for every dollar you have invested in them, you got $.20 for free. Doesn’t sound like much, but imagine you had 300 shares. Each share went up $89.87. Thats $2696.10 profit from the markets open to close. Granted, in order to get 300 shares you would have had to invest $134,862 by the closing bell on Thursday. Thats a lot of money to have invested in one company, but with a one day payoff of nearly 3k, it seems like it might be worth it.
Now, for dealing with all of that financial BS, enjoy.
April 20, 2008 at 2:44 am (Opinion)
Tags: Boot Camp, commercial, Mac, PC, Pepsi
Here you are, the latest in a long mud slinging campaign:
Mac disgusts me. Their ad campaign is based solely on slander. I’m getting tired of commercials like these. After watching this did I learn anything about a Mac? Did they mention new features that are better than Windows? Did they says that I could finally play games on my Mac without having to resort to some 3rd rate hack program? Speaking of which, where is my Mac emulator for Windows? Oh, thats right, I can do everything a Mac can do, but better, OUT OF THE BOX!
These ads remind me of the commercials that Pepsi used to run:
That is why I try to avoid Pepsi products whenever possible. Maybe I am the only one who thinks this way, I hope not.
April 19, 2008 at 6:47 am (Humorous Links)
Tags: Batman, Passport, Singapore, Superman
Yeah. Apparently that is real. Read up here.
April 19, 2008 at 6:15 am (Humorous Links, Interesting Links)
Tags: Apocalypse, Conspiracy Theory, R.E.M., Twitter
…because its the end of the world as we know it. At least, thats what The Apocalypse Times wants to prove. Take a gander at it, read up on all of the strange occurrences of the day and catch up on your conspiracy theories. Its like Weekly World News, but based more on real life than shotty photoshops. Just don’t expect anything fancy, like an RSS feed. Their mentality seems to be, “The world is gonna end soon anyway, why waste the time.”
Thanks to @bloggerblog on Twitter for the heads up. Also, sorry about the cheesy intro. Its 2am and I am tired.
April 19, 2008 at 6:03 am (Movies, Opinion)
Tags: De Niro, Gangster, Goodfellas, Scorsese
Goodfellas also came in the mail today. I don’t really need to give it a review, so I won’t, but i will tell you what I thought of the movie in general.
This is the second time I have seen it, and for some reason I can’t remember the first, so this was like the first time all over again. This was a very good movie, but not a gangster movie in the realm of Godfather. It had all of the usual gangster stuff, but near the half way mark it took a turn from the “Everything is great,” to “What the hell am I doing?” mentality that ultimately brought down organized crime in the late 70s and early 80s. I didn’t expect it to go there, but it did, and it was a better movie because of it. It went from a throw away plot about “The life,” to a real world, “this is what happens when you start messing with drugs.”
My only disappointment with it was the ending. Not that it ended badly, but like with other Scorsese movies, he pays attention to every detail, and then just kind of throws the ending at you. While everything gets resolved, it feels a little lacking. 2+ hours of emotional investment and all you get is 5 minutes of closure. Please, refrain from associating that to my love life.
Well, this turned out to be more of a review than I thought. Oh well.
5/5 stars, regardless of the ending.
April 18, 2008 at 9:17 pm (Movies, Opinion)
Tags: 1927, Metropolis, Netflix, Silent Film
In the mail today was a nice present from Netflix. Metropolis, a silent film circa 1927, was waiting for me.
I will say that this is the first time I have seen a silent movie, and I wasn’t sure what to expect. I was more than pleasantly surprised. It was dark and dingy, very moody, and chock full of religious symbols. Everything I like in a movie. According to the preface to the film, about 25% of it was lost over the years so there are moments where the movie lapses time, but they did a very good job of filling you in on what you missed. I won’t go into the plot too greatly, because you can read that anywhere, but the movie revolves a revolution in the future between the worker class and the upper class, and the man who is destined to stop it.
Overall this was an excellent watch. Well worth the 2 hours it runs. If you have never seen a silent film before, i would say this is a good place to start. If you have seen a silent film before, then i ask, why haven’t you seen this? Go out and rent it, Doug commands it.
5/5 stars.
