Archive for May, 2004
If the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King had not come out last year, the Last Samurai would have taken home the Oscar for Best Picture - at least in my book. What a great movie. Very strong, epic story and really great acting by everyone. I think Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe both deserved nominations, even though only Ken received one. I also thought the woman that played Taka, the wife of the samurai that Cruise’s character killed, did a very good job as well. Kudos to Edward Zwick for making this movie!
May 31st, 2004
Cheaper by the Dozen, starring Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt, was a typical family movie with the exception of the size of the family. It had the basic formula of introduce family, family has problem, family rises above adversity to solve problem. There were some pretty good performances by most of the kids and even by Tom Welling (Smallville’s Clark Kent), but Hillary Duff just sucked. Her lines seemed so rehearsed it wasn’t even funny. I’ve seen her on Lizie McGuire and I never thought that was a problem. Maybe it was because it was her first big movie, I don’t know. The other kid actor that stood out was the kid that played Mark, Forrest Landis. So, overall, it was a typical, but good and clean movie that the whole family can see and enjoy.
May 31st, 2004
Foiling Rick’s office was a complete success and was also a ton of fun for all involved. I really wish I could be there to see his reaction. The pictures are here but it may not show up because I have it protected at the moment. My coworker, Allen, wants to blur out anything that might come back to haunt us, like network topologies and company logos. So, until I do that manually, I’ll have to keep it protected.
May 31st, 2004
I really liked Intolerable Cruely. It was a smart comedy though a little predictable. I thought George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones had very good chemistry as well. A very original story, which is about a rich divorce lawyer falling in love with a woman who’s career is divorcing rich men.
May 31st, 2004
We watched Cold Creek Manor last night. I thought it would be one of your typical thrillers, but it wasn’t even that good. It was extremely predictable in plot and even in the script. I actually said one of Dennis Quaid’s lines right before he said it. For the 2 hours that it ran, there was hardly any character or plot development done early in the movie. It just sorta picked out little pieces of the plot so it could be called a story. Nothing was molded. And it wasn’t even scary or suspenseful - at all. You could tell it was supposed to be, but nothing really made me tense.
I’d have to say that I don’t recommend this movie to anyone. There are plenty of other choices out there.
May 28th, 2004
I obtained the latest album from A New Found Glory called Catalyst. I haven’t listened to quite all of it yet, but I want to get at least 2 run-throughs before I make my final review. But I will say this: it’s not as good as their last album, Sticks and Stones. But, there are some good tracks that can’t be ignored like the title track. I can’t quite put my finger on what makes this album not as good as the last. The songs on the last one just seemed better. I’ll probably have to listen to Catalyst all the way through one more time, then listen to Sticks and Stones, then listen to Catalyst again.
May 27th, 2004
Rick, one of the managers in my department with whom I’m good friends with took my big stack of Linux Journals to read over his vacation. Problem is, he didn’t tell me he was doing so, which left me with a big mystery to solve. Accusations ran wild and people were hurt, but my friend, Trey, suggested that Rick might have taken them. I called and he confirmed this, but that just wasn’t good enough. 
So, I and some of my fellow coworkers have decided to give him a nice welcome-back present. We are going to cover his entire office and everything in it with FOIL! To get a good idea of what we are using as an example, click here. I will post updates and pictures on our progress.
May 27th, 2004
So, I check my e-mail this morning and my boss tells me that I have to give a demo of an app I wrote to our company’s Chief Information Officer. Yeah, I freaked out at first. But, it turns out that it wasn’t that bad. It was short and sweet and he didn’t drill me on anything about the app. Needless to say, it was kind of a big deal for me since I’ve never really met the man one-on-one.
May 25th, 2004
Well, it seems that there was one brave soul that decided to challenge the norm and turn the lights on. I’m pretty sure it was our department director since she tends to challenge most things.
It was fun while it lasted…
May 24th, 2004
Ok, this is so funny. Since my friend, Trey, and I usually are the first ones to get into work, we leave the lights off because we just like it that way. But we usually don’t get to because one guy, Jerry, always gets here first and turns them on. But on the days he doesn’t, we leave them off. No one else minds until a certain person walks in, turns them on, then comes to her desk and says, “why are you guys sitting in the dark?” - which irks me to no end, but is understandable.
So, Jerry is on vacation for the next 4 weeks. We decided today to see how far she would go to get them turned on, so we taped the switch shut. To our surprise, she didn’t turn them on and just chalked it up to the construction guys doing work down the hall. But now it’s kind of scary cause our boss is wondering why they are off because he is now in a completely dark office. I really want to see if we can make it to the end of the day. If we do, I’ll just take the tape off on my way out.
May 24th, 2004
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