TV Shows

Best Drama: 24 (The Kief can do no wrong! How will they pull it off again next season?)
Best Comedy: Arrested Development (Makes me want to see the Blue Man Group the next time I'm in Vegas)
Best New Show: Lost (Honorable Mention: Grey's Anatomy... check out their soundtrack)
Favorite Guilty Pleasure: Las Vegas (The Fear Factor episode scene with Sam was the best 30 seconds of TV all year)

A year of blogging

Well it seems that I've been trying this blog for a year now. It's tougher than I thought to keep posting entries regularly. Last month seemed really busy or was it just March Madness? I was posting on average about once a week, so hopefully I can keep that pace up for year two. Remember tho, I'm a sprinter not a marathoner.

I don't really know who even checks out my blog, but I hope you're enjoying it. For me, this is just a virtual venue where I can express and organize my thoughts on all the different facets of what's going on in my life. By publishing them, it keeps me honest and also gives me a creative outlet.

This Weekend @ the Movies

I didn't even plan it, but I saw three very different perspectives on robots this weekend.

• I, Robot: Takes Asminov's three basic laws and then turn it into a popcorn fest starting the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Really, I wonder how much they paid just for the geek cred and so that they could have a cool title.
• Ghost in the Shell 2 - Innocence: Took eighteen years to release the sequel, but it was worth waiting for. An interesting mixture of hand-drawn and CG animation that ponders how close man and machines really are.
• Robots: My first babysitting experience with my three year old niece. It was entertaining but nothing really too memorable.

Sorry for the delay, I'm having some firewall issues with my new server. Updates should be more regular now that this year's March Madness is over.

Grammar checking

So I type:
"Gaining access to the MTA is done by contacting the Regional Distribution Unit (RDU)."

But MS Word suggests:
"Contacting the Regional Distribution Unit (RDU) does gaining access to the MTA."

Didn't realize that I had the Yoda grammar check turned on! Reminds me to catch the Revenge of the Sith trailer on The O.C. tomorrow night.

Oscar 2005 Weekend

Finally got around to watching a few more movies, including two nominated for Best Picture this weekend. I'm sure you'll figure out which one of the three won't be taking home an Oscar.

Ray - Didn't realize how messed up Ray Charles was... But his music was very inspirational and Jamie Foxx'es portrayal was dead-on. Didn't realize "Georgia on my Mind" had was related to the racist views of the aforementioned State back in the 60s. Just thought it was about a gal or something... Totally changes my perspective of this song and many more that he sang...

The Aviator - Scorsese touched on Howard Hughes quest for perfection in all faucets of his life: business/money, flying, and women. Blanchett's and Beckinsale's acting seemed larger than life, but I don't really have any reference to go on for Katherine Hepburn and Ava Gardner respectively. If I knew the latter actress was in this flick, I would have popped in the DVD a lot sooner.

Ong Bak - Take two handfuls of Muay Thai kickboxing, sprinkling in liberally some Jackie Chan, and add a pinch of Van Damme. Let simmer for five minutes... Voila... Ong Bak! Pretty crazy stunts, which they reshow from multiple camera angles to make sure you didn't miss it. Like did he really slide underneath a running van? Some of the killer moves were a bit lame, but you do have appreciate most of them. The acting was quite horrible overall, I did notice that the subtitles in the movie and the DVD (released two years ago) differ in a few places.