My blog. Personal thoughts, anecdotes, and musings.
It’s been one year since I started this blog. I’m happy to say it has gone reasonably well. I don’t have a lot of people logging in to check out what I’ve written, but there’s enough people reading this to make it worth doing. Plus, as I’ve said, it’s quite therapeutic to do this. Simpsons was pretty funny tonight. I thought Tony Blair’s lines were the best in the show tonight.
It’s hard to say what I thought about that movie…. when it finished, I looked at my wife and yelled “What the hell was that??” I felt a bit cheated and I really had no desire to ever set foot in a movie theatre again. The movie wasn’t bad by any means. In fact, it was rather good, exciting, and well planned out in my opinion.. …all but the last fifteen minutes.
This has been one busy week. I’m working on a script for Neal’s band so they can have a cool message board on their home page and it’s not going as well as I had hoped. That, and I am trying to get my new design for this site completed by the 19th. I’ve got the photo gallery all done, I just need to add the theme to it so it looks better!
Wow… what a week. There was so much going on and so little hours to do it in. Work has much going on, including several database projects that seem to involve me in one way or another. I’m also stuck on a web template and I am finding out that there are some bugs in the new Fireworks version. That, and Ana is home and I want to spend time with her.
That’s right… Season 15 of The Simpsons started tonight. I usually don’t like the “Treehouse of Horror” episodes too much, but this one was pretty good. Good writing, lots of good jokes, and of course the over-the-top violence often found in the Simpsons Halloween shows made this a very good time.
The new Photoshop CS (8.0) has some cool new features. Here is an exaple of how easy it is to completely fix the lighting in a photograph. There’s a new tool called the “Equalizer” that, with one mouse click, gives you results like this. There’s a whole bunch of new features in there too, but most importantly, there’s an annoying Product Activation feature that is sure to tick off the legitimate paying customer and only stop the hackers for about two seconds, considering that volume customers will not have to activate… just home users.
Sometimes things are out of your control. That’s just the way life is. No matter what you do, there are certain things that you ultimately have no control over. Lately I’ve been feeling pretty crappy because of the situation with my mom, and it’s really getting to me. I miss my parents. I miss the way they used to be when I lived at home. I remember them being very happy, lively people. After my dad lost his job, things changed. Then Mom got sick and things got worse. I get a strange feeling when I’m around them lately, like there’s something that they don’t want to tell me, or maybe it’s something I don’t want to ask. Whatever it is, it’s making me wish more and more for the good old days when I was miserable in school but I always had them to come home to.
Max Payne 2 freakin’ rocks! I can’t believe it. Right from the very beginning we have a great plotline going, and the same little things that made the original game fun are still there. It’s even more like a movie than ever, and the music is haunting. It ties in closely with the first game and even brings you back to a few locations. I’ve only had time to play for a little bit, but it’s worth it.
Test your knowledge of music with this Music Game. Thanks to Chris for this one!
I cruised the net today for about an hour looking for the actual quote that Arnold Schwarzenegger made in a 1975 issue of “Pumping Iron” in which he says he admred Hitler. I had heard that he was misquoted. I did find the actual quote buried in an article on NewsMax and another site (because NewsMax isn’t always accurate) and here’s what it says: