Tuesday, February 10, 2009

"Scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the "Star Trek" feat of teleportation. No one is galaxy-hopping, or even beaming people around, but for the first time, information has been teleported between two separate atoms across a distance of a meter — about a yard."
What I want to know is when we can start mass producing these!



Friday, February 6, 2009

...done professionally!

I love the guy.... but I have to get my hands on one of these t-shirts!

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Well... a man who dresses up as a bat clearly has issues?

"It's official: Christian Bale has some serious anger management issues! Bale went absolutely ballistic on the set of "Terminator Salvation" at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico a few months back. He threatened to stop production after Shane Hurlbut, director of cinematography, accidentally ruined a scene by walking onto the set. Judging by the clip, Bale sounded like he was ready to beat some serious ass. Execs from the movie taped his rant and sent it off to their insurance company just in case Bale bolted on them mid-production." -hollyscoop.com

Don't mistake this so-called outburst for some stuck up Hollywood princess not getting green Jelly Belly's in their luxury trailer. This is clearly a case of someone messing up and being reprimanded for it. Please not, I will try to set my man-crush for Christan Bale aside when analyzing this situation.

Sure, people make mistakes in the workplace. It's easy to accidentally spill a cup of coffee or forget a TPS report is due. By all meand, things like that are easily forgivable and is often resolved with a sincere apology. We've all done it, whether it be intentional or not. But doesn't it piss you off when it KEEPS HAPPENING? Bale points out two things that make his arguement credible and validates a verble beating. One, the guy has done this before. Two, questions the guy's professional integrity. In addition, you're dealing with a person [Bale] who takes their career seriously, where their career calls for wearing emotions on a deeper level than normal.

Sure, Bale could've handled the situation much more calmly. However, I'm sure that guy, and anyone else for that matter, will never make the mistake of messing up any of his scenes again!




Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Barack Obama

8:25AM - I'm at work right now, but not working. History takes precedence today over everything. I'm honored to be an American today, as we welcome our first African American President, President Elect Barack Obama!

8:45 - Aretha Franklin walks to the podium to sing "America the Beautiful." Just before getting on stage, her microphone picks up some back ground noise... "Sing good!" LOL

8:55AM - Welcome Vice President Biden. There was something very heartwarming about seeing him kiss his family members.

9:05AM - Welcome 44th President Barack Obama! Wow, repeating the oath can be confusing, especially with the whole world watching you.

9:30AM - Time to start a new America... great speech!

Here's how I watched history in the making...

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Making it onto American Idol


For the record, I'm not an American Idol fan, but it's hard to stay away from the first few rounds of freak week!

It seems like "bikin girl" was the stand out performer on American Idol last night. Well, more eye candy with cat claws than performer, she managed to make Simon's eyes pop out of his head... and other things I can imagine. Not sure why she's so controversial considering girls like her are a dime-a-dozen on MTV. She managed to outshine the blind guy who has the voice of an angel!

Wow, talk about bitch-fest at it's greatest! The arguement between Paula, Kara and bikini girl is the best display of female hatered for one another. Woman love to hate other woman.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

As political as I get!

I'm not terribly political and the extent of my political inquiry rarely goes beyond headlines you'll find on the ten o' clock news, but yesterday, I couldn't help but watch and rewatch President G.W. Bush's final press conference. In President Bush's press release, he seemed to deviate away from the image of a political leader [confident and unshaken], rather, to a real person with real feelings. It seems all the jokes and criticism has finally caught up to him and he's admitting defeat in regards to the mark he's left in Presidential history. And it's not a very clean mark... which he knows. I actually felt sorry for the guy.

Imagine all of your closest friends. What if they suddenly all turned their backs on you? You make every attempt to make things better, to salvage your friendship by doing good, but all the while you are making things worse. Now multiply that feeling by a thousand.... I think that's the position Bush is in as his final days of his term is coming to an end.

Is leadership a refelection of the people? Or are people a reflection of leadership? Remember, America voted him in... for a second term... right?

Monday, January 12, 2009

Let's put a smile on that face!

As I was watching the season premiere of Fox's 24, I decided to randomly change the channel during a commercial break to chime-in on the Golden Globes. It almost seemed like some spiritual force made me do this, because the moment I swapped channels Demi Moore announced Heath Ledger as the Best Supporting Actor for his work as The Joker! I literally jumped from my couch in excitement. A standing ovation from the crowd was well deserved! I thought it was very fitting. What was even more fitting was Christopher Nolan's acceptance speech on Heath's behalf. What a gentleman that guy is. Sincere and gracious at the same time.

I sure hope this makes the Dark Knight a strong contender for Oscar time!

New Years Resolution

I rarely ever set New Year's Resolutions, simply because I don't believe in making ridiculous promises set forth by a calendar reset. In addition, resolutions seem designed to be broken to simply "try again next year." I decided to give myself a pretty arbitrary goals this year. To take my vitamins regularly everyday. So far, so good... I haven't missed a day. Let's see how long I keep this up.

Mehwedge!

The biggest news of 2008 was my engagement announcement to my longtime girlfriend. We are very much in love and I've been ready for a long time to drop-the-knee. Alas, it happened on New Years Eve. Without giving you the boring lovey-dovey details she accepted with an enthusiastic yes! I'm sure it will be a fun ride!

New Year

Goodbye 2008, welcome 2009!

Ringing in the New Year was more relaxed than I imagined. My friends and I decided to put aside the drunken craziness for a night of cooking, television and good old fashioned board games. One thing that stuck out was watching Dick Clark's New Years Eve show. I couldn't help but feel sad, seeing him in the condition he was in, slurring his words and definitely without the magically everlasting youth he seems to portray year-after-year. I didn't realize the guy had a heart attack that slightly crippled his speach. I admire his courage for still representing New Year's Eve, but I would've given him just as much admiration had he quietly passed his torch to Ryan Seacrest. What saddens me even more is that it also made me realize how old I am, and that Secrest is now going to be the voice of New Year's Eve. I'm nopt sure how I feel about that! I guess it's fitting considering Seacrest "idol"izes Dick Clark.