Archive for January, 2007
So the PS3 may now get a nice little price cut. Good for consumers, bad for Sony. They were already losing a ton of money on the PS3 and now they’ll lose even more.
Losing money, plus production delays (now Europe won’t see the PS3 until March) and fierce competition from the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. Sony just seems to have completely bungled the launch of the PS and it will likely cost them market share.
Wow. I had forgotten how bad this movie was.
It’s two hours of George Lucas showing off all the stuff ILM can do and how poorly he writes. It’s also two hours Lucas making the Jedi’s, some of the coolest people in the galaxy in the original 3 movies, look like complete idiots. They really don’t know that Anakin is bad?? Really?? And they can’t tell that he is breaking almost every code of the Jedi by being married to and impregnating Padme?? Damn. Just look in their closet and you’ll see his clothes!!! It’s not that hard to figure out. And their idea of protecting the twins is to send one with a Senator the emperor is hunting and the other to Anakin’s family??  I can’t stand that Lucas makes all the Jedi look like incompetent jack asses.
It’s also two hours of Lucas trying to fit the back story to match what happens in the original 3. It just doesn’t make for a good story. And did we really need Chewbacca in there?? What was the point of that??
Basically, it’s two hours of crap. I could edit it down to about one hour and tell a better story that makes more sense than the piece of junk Lucas threw together.
This morning I rode I was behind a white Honda Accord the whole way to work. The lady driving had a constant stream of cigarette smoke coming out of her window the entire time. She was chain smoking in her car.
I don’t understand that at all. How can people chain smoke?? Don’t you need a break in between, so that your lungs can recover and you can get that nasty taste out of your mouth for a few minutes?? Maybe I just don’t completely understand the how people can become completely addicted to something, since I’ve never really been addicted to anything. Sure I have my vices. I enjoy an occasional cigar or beer. But if haven’t had one in a while, my body doesn’t crave them to the point that I want to murder someone to get one. So I just don’t understand the addiction and the need to have something so badly.
Now if you’ll excuse me, it’s been 16 hours since I played Guitar Hero and I’m starting to get the shakes.
Dude, you’re gettin’ a Dell…trade secret.
Looks like HP may have been acquiring trade secrets on the sly from Dell.
My only question is this: why would you steal Dell’s trade secrets?? If you’ve ever used a Dell, I’m willing to bet that you’ve had problems with them. They are dirt cheap because they use cheap components in their machines. Why would HP be worried about Dell making shoddy printers to match their shoddy computers?? HP has a virtual stranglehold on the pinter market and Dell’s sub-par machines wouldn’t make a dent in their market share.
But then again, HP did waste tons of money merging with Compaq. Who knows what they thinking.
Apparently, bloggers were bored to tears with the State of the Union address last night. While they thought Bush did a good job under the circumstances, they found the event to be “lethargic,” “tepid,” “substanceless” and “on Dramamine”.
Maybe those bloggers should have played this.
Remember my post a few weeks ago about the porn industry deciding the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray battle??
Well, turns out the biggest issue the porn industry has with the HD formats is razor burn.� HD makes physical imperfections more apparent on the videos.
Two great quotes from the article:
“The biggest problem is razor burn.� I�m not 100 percent sure why anyone would want to see their porn in HD.” — Stormy Daniels, on the the issues with HD
“We kept stopping and trying to hide it. We put on makeup and powder, but there was no way. We just changed positions.” — Savanna Samson, on how she dealt with a tiny, ill-placed pimple
I’m holding out for a hero til’ the end of the night
After a month off, Heroes was back on the air last night. It’s well written and is a great story. The only flaws are that the show can be slow at times and there are a lot of characters, which makes it harder to really learn about or care about the characters (sort of the same problem as Lost - too many different little sub-plots). But over all its a great show.
More importantly, it’s a new show that is not a reality show. And I’ve noticed that there seem to be less new reality shows being released. And this a good thing. We may finally be exiting the era of reality TV. Which is good, because all reality TV shows are the same. Take beautiful people whose personalities won’t mesh well, put them in situations that in no way mirror reality and let them interact, with the intention of having them form factions and hate each other.
Heroes is my hero for helping to erase the reality TV era.
He’s been dead 185 years. Why are they just now doing an autopsy on him?? And isn’t there something better that these researchers could do with their time and money??
