This is my Journey, but you can watch.
Charlie folded up a piece of paper tonight, held it up and said,
“Look, it’s a Sandcrawler!”
And you know what? He was right.
I think he’s an Origami prodigy!
Afterwards he laid on the floor playing with it singing “IIIII’m a saaaaandcrawler, IIIII’m a saaaaandcrawler, IIIII’m a saaaaandcrawler.” (sang to the tune of “Oh My Darling Clementine!”)
From now on, he gets to make his own Origami toys. 
I just discovered a new web browser called “FLOCK“
Supposedly, it lets you post to your blog with one click and lets you drag and drop photos from your flickr account directly into any html area.
So, here’s a test post with a test image.
It worked like a charm… and, it looks like it’s pretty easy to go back and edit a post too.
This browser might just be worth keeping around for it’s Blog potential.
I love going to the movies. I’m a huge film buff, especially the action/adventure/comedy genres. So, naturally I had high hopes this summer season with some of my favorites movies returning with sequels.
Again, I said I HAD high hopes. So far the scorecard for the season isn’t very good.
SPIDERMAN 3
I was incredibly disappointed with Spiderman 3. I don’t think it was entirely “the suck” as others have written, but it probably wasn’t far off. I kinda felt like I was watching a combination of action movie, chick flick and afterschool special that was more interested in flashy (and pointless) action sequences and silly one liners. Even Stan Lee had to preach at me with his only line in the film “Wow, I guess one man can make a difference.”
I wanted to see a kick-ass action flick featuring one of my favorite comic book superheroes. Instead I got to see a whiny Peter Parker, a jealous Mary Jane, and Aunt May filling in for my moral compass. I won’t pay to see it in the dollar theatre, I won’t buy it when it comes out on DVD, and I plan to never watch it again. Maybe, just maybe it is “the suck.”
SHREK 3
I saw Shrek 3 last night. The animation was amazing - a visual feast! It was only missing one thing… comedy. After sitting in the theater for about 30 minutes, I realized that I wasn’t laughing at all. I began thinking that maybe it was just me - maybe I just wasn’t INTO it. So I started watching the audience. They weren’t laughing either. I started checking the time every time I laughed, and I can definitely say there was a very funny part at roughly an hour into the movie, and another one about at about hour and 15 minutes in. Yeah, there were some other funny bits but most of them were shown on the commercials.
Also, this was another movie that wanted to preach at me. It just wasn’t all that funny seeing Shrek fret over being a father, Arthur being scared of taking the throne, and all of the villains finding their inner good. Overall, it wasn’t a baaaad movie, it just wasn’t very funny, which is the ONLY reason I went to see it.
A quick side note, if you have a daughter that loves the Disney princesses, this might not be the best movie to take her to. The princess are all portrayed as a bunch of whiny, backstabbing bitches without much in the way of brains. Several of them are redeemed towards the end of the movie though.
I really hope “Pirates of the Carribean 3″ doesn’t leave me wanting more.
I drove up to an ATM yesterday with Charlie. What was odd, is that after I put my card in, a female voice started speaking to me… with an English accent. Last I checked, I was over 4000 miles from the UK. I guess we must trust the English more with our money than our neighbors. Anyway, I’m getting off the point…
So, the bank machine was talking to me, At the end of the transaction, the voice said “Thank-You!” (in an English accent!)
Goofing around with Charlie, I threw out a big “Your Welcome!”
Charlie asked “Dad, why did you say that?”
At this point I thought that maybe I could have a little fun with Charlie and convince him that there was somebody in the ATM machine talking to me.
“I was just being polite! I was just telling that little person who works in the ATM, ‘Your Welcome’.”
Slight Pause
“Dad, there isn’t anyone inside there. That’s a program talking. It’s full of technology. There are just a bunch of wires inside.” after another slight pause “I see technology everywhere.”
“Are you sure Charlie? Because it really sounds like there’s a person in there.”
“I’m sure. There’s just technology in there.”
Great, my 5 year old son has found his inner geek.
I’ve heard almost every excuse why someone can’t come to work, but today I heard a new one.
Employee X: “Keith, I won’t be able to make it into work today.”
Keith: “Oh, why?”
Employee X: “I’m at the hospital. My boyfriend is about to go into surgery.”
Keith: “Is he Ok?”
Employee X: “He cut off his hand.”
ummm… ouch.
Picture this:
Dinner at an Italian restaurant.
Across the table is your five year old son eating a big plate of cheese ravioli drowned with meat sauce.
A Sneeze.
Yeah, it wasn’t pretty.
I called one of our sales reps belligerent yesterday.
She responded, “I thought only drunk people could be belligerent.”
It’s a good thing I didn’t call her pugnacious.
