Indiana Jones 4, eh.

I went to go see Indiana Jones 4 and was not at all thrilled. If you're going to make Indy decrepit, then don't make him do those things. I'm sure they did their best to make him look young though. Also, all the references to every other movie. Below are spoilers.







The fact that it was an alien thing seemed apparent to me immediately. Whenever you have a movie and you know everything before the protagonist for no dramatic purpose at all, it blows.

Also, lets take a look at the Indiana Jones movies. Two of them, based on biblical events, kicked ass. The worst one hands down had nothing to do with the bible. They should've know better before hand than to do that.

I really don't have an issue with the whole love scene, it is cheap they brought the girl back though.

I think you really need to watch it, because taken alone it's a good movie. Taken as an Indiana Jones movie will make you want to cry.

Bioshock The Movie

Bioshock the movie is in production. Looking forward to seeing it, along with the Watchman movie.

Ctrl+Alt+Success

I've recently started reading Ctrl+Alt+Del with doubts about its content. After reading over half of the archives in a week, I'm proud to say I erred. Ctrl+Alt+Del features an exciting cast of characters, including a X-Box Bot. If you haven't read it, read it. If you read it, keep it up.

Vaginas @ Penny Arcade

The best Penny Arcade I've read in a while is today's. I could not stop laughing at the vagina jokes.

GMail Hates My Professor

A while ago, my professor sent me an e-mail with a practice test for the class. Apparently, she also knows how to write suspicious e-mails.

Facebook Lexicon

Facebook has released a tool to show word usage on walls overtime. Facebook Lexicon is an interesting tool and you should check out this phenomenon.

Apparently there's a spike in the usage of "vagina" during Valentine's day. Wonder why.
Penis V. Vagina

Ghost in the Shell In the Works

I recently found out that DreamWorks is working on a live-action Ghost in the Shell movie. I'm extremely excited for this, just as I am of the info I've heard previous of live-action Neon Genesis Evangelion.

The Coming of the AI

Apparently, fighting machines have been
disobeying their masters. I wonder how effective those little things are anyway.

Another Week in TV

New episode of the Office came out. I found it pretty funny, but mainly because I missed the human that the Office has brought me in the past. As always, it's Friday, so a new BSG is playing currently. I'm quite impressed by it so far.

I also want to send people to a great website I found called Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD), a comic about graduate school.

Bo Burnham, Funny As Heck

Ran across this guy who writes really great music. Hopefully we can expect great things in the future.

Bo Burnham's YouTube Site

Fucking Codebase

After messing around with Google Code Search and being reminded of great things to leave in source code.

Fucking Google Code Search

Bitch Google Code Search

Check it out and enjoy.

Updates! BSG, COD4 and More

As it's been a while since I've posted anything at all, let me say I have a really good excuse...

School has been eating up more and more time lately, and with my little bit of free time I've been addicted to Call of Duty 4, in my opinion best game of 2007. With new map packs released and gone this weekend, and earning double experience the entire time, I thought I should post a few updates.

Of course, with the the Writer's Strike gone and pass, a lot of great TV shows are picking up.

Journeyman was not picked up for next year's shows and I am very disappointed. I am happy that episodes of The Big Bang Theory are being showed. I find some of the episodes towards "geeks" offensive, but I'm leaving room for the existence proof that there are some people out there like that.

Last, and certainly not least is the TV show I'm adamantly watching every Friday at 9PM, Battlestar Galactica. The premier was this last Friday and I feel is getting back on the right track for BSG. I read about the rewrite of the second half of the season, and am looking forward to it. (As a note, I will not talk about anything BSG related this season until everything is over with.)

As a side note, I couldn't get together the people I needed for my ResHall Film Fest project, so it was never created and will possibly die in the annals of my script library.

The Strikes Are Down

The writer's strike is over, as of yesterday. Though I haven't been able to ascertain the exact terms of the new contract, I think it's safe to say that AMPTP made a few concessions. Now I can rely on BSG not being delayed and the season completely finishing. Oh, and the Academy Awards will still go on too.

Scientology Rick Rolled by Anonymous

Check the below video at the 4:25 in the video. That's how you know the Internet is Real. The Fresh Prince of Bel Air was a nice touch too.



Edit: In case of YouTube censorship, an alternative link is immediately available here. Thanks to a fellow digger pdoyley.

Edit: You can watch a face to face rick roll of a scientologist in Ottawa here on YouTube.

Harvey Birdman Attorney At Law Wii

The first game I rented from GameFly is the Harvey Birdman game available on a variety of systems. All and all, it's an interactive cartoon. Puzzle over the weird cases to the cartoon animation of the game. Be a lawyer and use common sense. Sometimes not completely intuitive in what you're supposed to do next, but you can stumble around until you find everything. Shallow, yes. Fun, yes. Buy, no.

Writer's Strike Over?

It appear that the Writer's Strike may be over soon. It's been agreed on by the union and it's up for a vote of the Writer's (on the 14th). More at the WGA Site.

Limiting Intellectual Property

DMCA, copyrights, the U.S. Patent Office, encryption - All of these are used to limit access to intellectual property. Rather it be movies, music, software code, they are all locked down. This leads to a clash in the people who consume, modify and recreate knowledge and those trying to gain an economic advantage from the work they've done.

In my opinion, we all are entering the Information Revolution. Just as in the Industrial Revolution, factory owners controlled the means of production and therefore the economy. Because of the issues that occurred, the government set up limits to what the company can do to the workers and what the workers must do for the company. But it wasn't that easy. Before unions were legalized, the U.S. government routinely sent in forces in favor of factory owners, and workers died.

I think that's to the point we're coming to today. The government is allowing the controllers of IP remain unfettered to punish it's consumers and the society we live in. Then the day will come when the people have a voice, and things will get better. You may not have your music for free, but it won't be outrageous and those who did the work will benefit from the reward. Not the person who signs the slip of paper behind the desk.

Giving GameFly A Shot

My roommate from last summer has offered me a free month subscription to the service. I am currently waiting for Harvey Birdman : Attorney At Law (Wii) and Armored Core 4 (XBox 360), which should be here in the next few days. GameFly seems like a decent way to get games that look fun enough to play, but not pay $60.00 to actually own the copy.

Val Kilmer > Will Arnett

I couldn't help but be filled with sadness when I found out two of my favorite actors were vying for the same position as KITT in the movie Knight Rider. Val Kilmer was chosen over Will Arnett for KITTs voice. Read a little more about that at Slash Film.

Careful Editing

Even though writing is a very important part of the movie making process, so is consistent editing. Today I deliver you inaccuracies in the Jurassic Park movie.



Bet you can't believe you didn't see them before. Shows you how well the movie grabs you.