Movie Mania 1: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
This Christmas brought movie tickets to the Christmas tree. I took my dad to see The Two Towers, which he read in college and I’m reading now. It is a thoroughly excellent movie.
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Movie Mania 2: The Santa Clause 2
Tim Allen does another respectable job as Scott Calvin/Santa Claus. This is a movie to take a family to, or perhaps a fiance/spouse. However, I don’t see how they could make another one, unless its about how he stops being Santa. I took my mom to see it for a Christmas present.
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Movie Mania 3: Die Another Day
The latest James Bond movie has all the elements of all the others: girls, guns, wit, and action. It satisfies on an action level, but has too much blatant sex for me. The lines are great, but the tech fiction that forms a basic plot thread is lame.
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Merry Christmas
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying,
“Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”
The 4 Fundamentals of Computer Programming
With a new semester starting after the new year, it might be good to help out those poor students who have to suffer through the rigors and trials of a semester of an introductory programming class. To that end, I’ve summarized all the code you will write this next semester into four areas: decisions, loops, data structures, and functions. Click on.
Maxwell Horse Coffee
We have a huge can of Maxwell House coffee at work. This stuff is crap. I don’t know how I’ve managed to keep drinking it, but it tastes awful. I brought in some good coffee Monday (a mint flavor), so perhaps I’ll stop complaining. My roomate Jeremy works at a company that can afford to make their employees pay for their morning joe, but it is actually decent stuff. In related news, I’ve found the computer case I want to build. Isn’t it beautiful?
Saddam Hussein is the most insane head of state in the world
How do I know this? He shot down one of our Predator drones. This guy, in my opinion, is as prideful and foolish as Hitler was. People blame Bush for instigating a war. All he is doing is trying to get the world to enforce its own resolutions. Hussein is the one who is shooting at people.
The Two-Headed Beast is Born
I splurged the other day. I got a monetary gift for my birthday, and I decided to save some and spend some, so I bought a MSI K7D Master motherboard, which has two sockets for AMD Athlon MP processors. Yup, my first multi-brained mobo. I didn’t get the processors, I’ll end up getting those later, but for now, I have the most powerful motherboard in the house, even if it can’t do anything but take up space. It will probably dual-boot Windows 2000 and Red Hat Linux, and no, I don’t know what the network name will be.
Announcing my Spam Museum
Hormel has their own museum for SPAM and I’ve been buried in e-mail SPAM lately. I thought it might be fun to open my own museum of it, highlighting, for you entertainment, the worst of all possible junk e-mail worlds. This will become a semi-regular posting topic, but reader beware: I get the worst crap in my inbox.
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Star Trek 10: The Wrath of Shinzon
Star Trek has never impressed me with its ability to create a new storyline. The one exception is the Borg, and even that has been done to death. I went to the latest movie, Star Trek: Nemesis, with my company today. About halfway through it I realized that I had seen this storyline before.
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