Well, given my recent time on Jury Duty over the past week, I figured I would give you guys a few pointers as to how to stay occupied while you’re sitting, waiting for something to do. Also, given that I was on Jury Duty, I didn’t deem it prudent to come up with a post on “How to kill everyone” so my current How to list is on the back burner for next month, where I will hopefully have some time to make it better.
Now, onto some ways to stay busy during Jury Duty
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Whoever this is officially has the greatest wireless network name ever. The only thing I ask of you is if you are out there, send us an email. Because we want a picture of it with no encryption for just a second so we can say “The shield is down!”
Oh, and this was also while waiting in line at the Apple Store in SoHo Wedensday night.
While waiting inline at the Apple Store in SoHo last night to see Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway promote their new movie Get Smart, this car passed by which clearly has the Zune logo on it’s spare wheel cover, and on the side window. Clearly that person is obsessed.
Here’s a bonus picture of me and John Hodges after the event.
We missed Steve, and Anne apparently, but John was walking around, and caught a picture with him. Stephen Colbert was also there, he did the interview, we missed him walking out too.
I has it.
So there will probably not be many updates this week. But I’ll try to get some in in the evenings anyway.
Alright, after a very lack luster response to my Photo survey from last week, I have some winners. Only 9 people responded, and one I had to not count cause they checked all of them, and that’s not what I was looking for.
Here are the 4 that you choose:
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| IMG_2735 copy - 8 | chicago clouds (00) copy - 5 | IMG0021 copy - 4 |
And here is the overall breakdown:
I agree with IMG_2735 copy, and chicago clouds (00) copy. However, personally, I liked IMG00023 copy better. The first two I’m deffiently gonna get ptinted out. Now I just need to go pick out 2 more from the rest. They’re all tied, so I don’t know what I should to…
M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie The Happening came out yesterday. I saw it. I enjoyed it. Now I want to talk about it. Or, more specifically, Shyamalan himself.
It seems that no one (at least critics, and well, people in general I guess) respects him as a director. And I don’t know if they ever did. The 6th Sense is pretty much universally agreed to be 1. an amazing film and 2. his best work. However, every single movie he has made since is being held against that high horse, and to me that just doesn’t seem very fair.
I remember when Unbreakable came out. Most of my friends did not like it one bit. And critically, it was compared endlessly to The 6th Sense, and how it didn’t hold up to it. That is fair, and unfair at the same time. Even though it had the same writer/director and lead star, and it had a “Shyamalan twist” doesn’t mean it’s in the same category as The 6th Sense. Personally, I think Unbreakable is his best film. Far better then The 6th Sense in every aspect.
As a director, Shyamalan was much more mature in Unbreakable then Sense, and he ironed out some of the things that you see in all of his following movies. But, I’m not a film student, so I can’t begin to tell you how he does it compared to others, what I can tell you is that I enjoy it.
Signs is my second favorite film of his. It brought many things to the table that I enjoyed, and, most importantly, had a very good message: “Everything happens for a reason.” That stuck with me.
The Village, and Lady In the Water, I will admit, those two films were his worst. Lady was far too fanatsy, and there was no real…anything about it to make me want to see it other then Shyamalan’s name (and yes, there are a handful of people who no matter what their name is attached to, I will pay to see regardless). And The Village was predictable. I don’t care if it was apparently based on a book, it was predictable, and kinda boring. To me it felt that Shyamalan went to “gotcha!” moments in film showing those creatures, instead of the mystery and suspense of his first 3.
The Happening is a return to that mystery and suspense. Unlike Lady, where I could care less what happened to Paul Giamatti’s character, I actually cared for Mark Wahlberg, and Zoey Deschanel.
I don’t want to say much more about it because I don’t want to spoil it. But I will say that it is very current event driven, not politically, (although that could be questioned), but the whole point is subtle, but in your face at the same time.
I rate The Happening as 3.5 out of 4 stars. It’s good, but not a masterpiece. Hopefully it marks the return of the M. Night Shyamalan who gave us The 6th Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs. It certainly belongs among those 3 as one of his best, and possibly, one of the best films of recent years.
So, I like to take pictures, lots of them. Up until December, I had just kept them either as digital files on my computer, or as the original 4×6 printed versions (I still use a 35mm SLR, I’m old school). However, in December, I had one of my pictures enlarged, printed out, and framed as a gift, and I don’t know why it surprised me, but it was a beautiful photograph.
So now that I’m home from school, I’ve decided that I want to get anywhere between 3 and 5 of my photos enlarged (like 8″x10″) and framed and hang them on my wall. The only trouble now is I don’t know which photos I like (I like them all). And which sizes I should make them, and so on. This is where you come in.
So, after the click, take a look at the photos I have chosen, and choose the ones you like best, and fill out the form at the end (it’s a Google Docs poll).
I’m sorry in advance for the photo names, I never got around to giving them proper names.
And yes, I took all of these photos myself.
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The entire server will be unavaliable for an unknown length of time starting anytime after 8am (EST) Friday, June 06, 2008. The reason being, we’re upgrading the cable at my house to digital tv, and phone, and apparently that requires a new modem, and I’m not allowed to install it myself. So Cablevision is coming over between 8-11am and setting it all up.
I say the server will be unavaliable because I don’t know what they will be doing. The server won’t be off, but the physical connection to the internet won’t be there so the site wont work.
As soon as I know for sure it’s back up, I will post an update for you all.
Have a good weekend.
I’ve had a bad week or so, not many thing have gone right, and those that have were small. In short, I’m pissed off. So, to honor that week, I’ve decided show you 4 steps needed to piss someone off. Just like convincing someone that you are crazy, pissing someone off is kind of easy, and, it will probably be a multiple lister.
After the click are my ways:
I’m here to appologize for the lack of posts since friday. Unfortunately, there will be less posts as this week progresses. I just got back from school, and I’m moving all my stuff back into my room at home, that is a less then easy task. Also in the process, i broke the heatsink on my desktop, so I need to get a replacement for that. I have my laptop, and I’m using that, but, I just don’t have the time or resources right now to make 2 or 3 posts a day.
I hope to get a few in before the end of the week, but it’s unknown if that will happen. I have a graduation party to go to, and people to pick up at airports. So, there wont be as many posts, sorry.
