As has been my tradition for the last 6 years (see 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003 and 2002) I’m making a list of my favorite 10 movies that I watched for the first time this last year. Of course, I’m not recommending these movies for everyone, if you want personal recommendations, let me know. Here’s the list:
This movie came well recommended to me and it was a good, strange and profanity laced comedy. The main character was profound, confusing and yet remarkably consistent and believable. Some good lines in there and a nice change of pace from an action movie loaded with action to this one which seems to try to avoid it at every turn.
When a movie with a plot as benign as MLB drafting and trading using statistics instead of scouting intuition is this entertaining, you know they did something right. Great story that had both Heidi and I riveted to a sport that we really know and care very little about.
Ugh, this Christian movie was not worth watching. While it followed the plot of the Prodigal Son story closely, it seemed to lack all the great details that we had been learning about in the Prodigal God book study that we were going through. The acting was poor, most of the characters were poorly developed and the dialog was very local (to Texas) and didn't sound very natural to my Canadian ears.
From G&A, there’s a funny website based on Stuff White People Like, but for Christians, because if there’s anything Christians do well, it’s copy the best stuff of ‘the World’ and make it ours.
I’ll admit, there’s a bunch of funny ones in there, I’ll start you off with Famous Christians.
You may know that my favorite movie of all time is probably Memento. I’m a complete sucker for a thriller movie with memory loss being a core theme; it sucks me in. (probably why one of my favorite ST:TNG eps is Remember Me)
Anyways, I recently read an article that there was a real life guy who had exactly this short term memory loss condition. Fascinating piece of hardware, the brain is…
You may remember that about a year and a half ago, I postulated about how we could overthrow the current wacky time and calendar system and replace it all with Metric.
It seems that I wasn’t the first clever person to think of this. It so happens that the French decided to try it out in the late 1700′s and early 1800′s but it didn’t quite catch on because workers only got 1 in 10 days off instead of 1 in 7; so it eventually got canned. Slightly lacking in execution, but sooo close.
In my ‘research’, I also found out that our names for days of the week come from the 7 visible heavenly bodies (besides stars, except the sun, smarty pants). Didn’t know that there were 7 visible heavenly bodies? Now you do. (I’ll throw the French day names in because they stick closer to the source material).
A few days ago a guy came to our door and wanted to get us to sign with them to be our natural gas distributor to save a lot of money on our monthly energy bill with Terasen. He got a bunch of information from me then he wanted me to sign the form that he had been scribbling information on.
I refused because I said that I didn’t know who he was, who Summitt Energy was, and I didn’t feel comfortable signing anything. At that point he started to get a little upset that he drove all the way from Vancouver for this and he didn’t know the next time that he’d be in the area which made me feel more confident that I had made the correct choice in not signing.
I mean, if he was legit, he should know I can sign anytime but if he wasn’t, he would know that he wants to leave my house with a signature. He tried for a few more minutes to get a signature; I continued to refuse and told him that we were on our way out (we were) and that he could come back in a few days.
After doing a teeny bit of research my suspicions were confirmed that these guys are to be avoided; somehow, I doubt that he’ll be coming back anyways. Regardless, I called Terasen and told them to not let anyone change my distributor.
One good thing that he did fill me in on is that my kids are Indigo Children basically meaning that they’re bratty, arrogant and individualistic… but he made it sound a lot more exciting and rewarding.
This video is genious! Well made getting the rhythm right and the tune sounding pretty close to identical. The retro film-style is simple and artsy but it goes well enough; I like the label maker sticker that said ‘Hard Drive Speakers’ – awesome.
Here’s the real Radiohead doing it live on some British talk show.
After playing Forza for a total of 38 hours (plus about 20 drivator hours, they don’t count) over the last 55 days, I have finally finished it! That’s something I wasn’t able to accomplish last time I owned it because of the very difficult final race.
If you want to benefit from my progress, feel free to Download my profile and put it on your own system. You’ll need your HDDKey (you can get it with this program) and mine (it’s 82df15713d96a034e0f9c6b222bc80d1) and this program to transfer the profile to have it work on your system. After that, you’ll have a completed game, with a bunch of money and all the cars available.
If you’d rather do it in a simpler way, you can get a bunch of unlocked cars or money by creating a new profile named:
nOsLiW Starts the game at level 50 with all cars and tracks unlocked
I am a huge fan of Jones Soda. They do a lot of different flavors and they invariably taste awesome; it’s because of the sweetener that they use – cane sugar.
There aren’t many other soda’s that I really enjoy – I find most of them a little overpowering but Jones is always wonderful (Cream Soda is my very favorite but there are so many other good kinds). Just kinda tough to find at a store in a format that isn’t a big wallet lightener.
Sidebar – I found a little soda-hack that worked well for me, YMMV. At a fast food joint with self serve soda, I saw that the Sprite had a little lever that was marked soda. Mix this Club Soda half and half with whatever flavor you wanted to get and it’s a less intense version. It still has all the bubbles (unlike diluting with water) and the flavor is still there. Yum.
Since Heidi and I have arrived in Chilliwack we’ve been re-blown away by the sheer quantity and vitality of the evangelical church community here. Compared with Montreal which had a very small overall community of English Evangelical Believers, the Fraser Valley is huge!
When we got here, we decided it would be fun to do a massive church tour and see as many different churches as we could until we grew tired of it or Christmas came. We didn’t get tired of it yet and have really been enjoying going to a different service each week and finding things we like and meeting new people.
Here’s a mostly complete list of the churches that we’ve gone to since we arrived here in May (most of them are MB, but them be my leanings):
It’s been about 30 weeks since we’ve been here and I’m pretty happy with getting to see about 16 different churches already. Some we’ve been to a bunch of times and there are tons more good churches that we just don’t have time to see.
Our new year’s decision is to pick one that we want to attend on a regular basis – wish us luck!
While being a lower than usual quality episode in terms of action and having WAY too much Lwaxana (who is deadly annoying); this episode left me with something to think about for the last few decades and probably has even changed who I am a little.
The episode centers around a guy named Dr. Timicin who comes on board the Enterprise to do some science experiments with the big fancy ship; not much else there. What they do find out is that Dr. Timicin has only a few days left to live because he’s turning 60 and that’s the end of the line in their culture.
I don’t recommend assisted suicide or euthanasia at all but it did help me think through that dying earlier than we expect isn’t such a bad thing. I mean, if we really believe that heaven’s as great as we make it sound to be, shouldn’t we be rushing to get there?!?
Hence, my motto. “Death at 60″. Anything past that is gravy-years (grave-y years?!)
Hungry for some chips? No worries, death at 60 – don’t want to go too much past that.
I don’t want to exercise. No worries, death at 60. What’s the point of exercise anyways? Just to make it through the next session more easily? (yup, that’s a Seinfeld joke)
Sidebar: does that guy look like Lyf’s Dad, Eric, or what?!
