Movie attendance on the decline....

So movie attendance has slipped 3 years in a row. The nice thing about this article is I don't see anyone pointing the finger at piracy. They're looking at hey maybe dealing with the sticky floors, screaming kids, and ringing cell phones doesn't make me want to go to a theater. Or maybe I don't want to see the 40th James Bond movie or Rocky 27. I guess the real question I have is why can't the record industry come to the same conclusion? Oh record sales are down it must be because of piracy not because radio stations play more commercials than they do music, or that they play the same songs 57 times a day, or that maybe people don't want to hear Brittney Spears sing Christmas songs or buy a greatest hits album from an artist with 2 or 3 CD's other than the greatest hits CD? Nope its piracy's fault lets sue dead people, little kids, and most importantly our own customers.

Finally! A Useful Flowchart....

Survival Guide to Drunken New Year's Eve Sex

In the year 2006 I resolve to: Sleep my way to the top Get your resolution here

Well if you can't find a member of the opposite sex in your own species...

you can always marry a dolphin like this woman did.

I feel sorry for the dolphin since it had to marry a lower life form.

I pray this is a joke!

From the article. "Crystal Sky is also planning a movie based on the venerable arcade hit Pac-Man. However, Paul wouldn't divulge any details at this time."

Come on this can't be anything more than a huge steaming pile of crap.

Ah Wikipedia

For those of you that don't know, since I've been home I've been doing a lot of wikipedia editing. But I found something that I thought I would bring to the attention of Molly and Anna. Just to show how much I love you both I thought I would tell you about an article that there is a delete debate about now, Yankees Suck. Granted I voted for delete but I thought I would let you two get in on the discussion if you want, plus it just makes the Red Sox look like they have an inferiority complex :)

My Grandfather

So just an update on my grandfather. He's still in the hospital (5 months now). But he got his feeding tube out yesterday. So he isn't dragging around any tubes anymore. He is also able to walk abour 30 feet at a time which is atleast enough to get him from the bedroom to the bathroom when he gets to go home.

I'm just really relieved since 2 months ago my parents were calling me daily telling me how he was going to die soon. And now it looks like he'll get to got home in a month or so. Its sad that he isn't going to get to come home for Christmas, but atleast he'll get to come home sometime soon.

I love it. The Flying Spegetti Monster made Wired.

Article is here. The FSM wikipedia article is here if you've never heard of it.

Ah stupid representatives....

So a couple of representatives have reitroduced the so called "Analog Hole" legislation. This bill basically outlaws DVR's or tuner cards for computers (the things that let you watch TV on your computer). The basic argument goes someone can take a digital signal (i.e. a DVD) convert it to Analog (any output of your DVD player) and record it back to digital (with the DVR or tuner card). For those of you that never hooked a DVD player up to a recording device, let me tell you what happens. The output is scrambled and garbled and generally looks worse than those scrambled porn channels. Because the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (and some regulation by the DVD player manufactures) already took care of this. Besides that Digital to Analog back to Digital kinda defeats the whole point. Its so much easier to take a DVD and some software and convert the DVD on the computer digital to digital. And basically that's what pirates are doing not this "Analog Hole" bullshit. Basically Hollywood is scared of TiVo and the like because your going to be watching your favorite TV show instead of that crappy remake of a remake that was only made 5 years ago but they have no fresh ideas movie.

So I'd recommend writing to your senators/representatives and let them know that this is a really freaking bad idea and we will come after them (or atleast not vote for them anymore) if they take away a legitimate technology and entertainment.

I'm amused (and only slighty depressed... thats a long time)

Bush Backwards

Seriously even if you don't like the clock below check the website... they have countdown keychains! How funny is that?

Top 11 Ways Geeks Were Naughty This Year

11.	Used GOTO
10.	Recommended the use of Internet Explorer
9.	Programmed Robosapien to steal
8.	Scratched strangers iPod Minis when they weren't looking
7.	Started a flame war because they were bored
6.	Uploaded mislabelled MP3s of Wham!
5.	Didn't ground themselves before working on a friend's PC
4.	Used genius for evil, not good
3.	Voted for cliché entry in Fark Photoshop
2.	Told user that the 'Any Key' was the big button on the case marked 'Power'
1.	Recommended review at Tomshardware.com

From bbspot.com.

Ok 11 for those non computer science people out there. The first thing you're taught in most computer science classes today is to never use GOTO. Number 3 (Fark.com) has photoshop contests and people frequently reuse ideas like thesquirrell with dangling nutsack or Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars saying "It's a trap" and if these actually win (or get any significant number of votes) people bitch. #1 Tomshardware.com reviews computer hardware and for the most part has kind of degerated into "Eh, the gave us the hardware. Lets recommend that everyone buy it even though its total crap."

So yeah I thought they were funny and needed to be shared. :)

Moving and The Buy Anna a Hearing Aid Fund

So I moved in to my new apartment yesterday. With the help of Anna and Derek, thank you both and Derek I still owe you dinner. The apartment is really nice, I'll be posting pictures when its more organized and actually has some furniture in it.

So onto the Buy Anna a Hearing Aid Fund. While Derek was helping me move the heavier stuff in, Anna was on the phone with Molly. And she grabbed a swifter and started cleaning. Derek and I come in and I was like "Awww she's cleaning. How sweet." I'm not exactly sure what she heard but it was something offensive because she flipped me off. Then later she was opening the door for us because we were carrying big, heavy stuff. This one time she didn't for whatever reason and so Derek was like "Hey, where'd the door girl go?" except Anna heard "Hey, where'd the door bitch go?" So anyway I'm collecting funds to get her a hearing aid so that she can actually hear maybe.

Fun puzzle thanks Anna. Here is the solution: 0111000001101001011100000110010100001101000010100 1100011011101010110001001100101000011010000101001 1000100110000101101100011011000000110100001010011 0010101100111011001110000110100001010011011000110 0001011101000111010001100101011100100000110100001 0100110110101101111011101010110111001110100011000 0101101001011011100000110100001010011100000111001 0011011110111000001100101011011000110110001100101 0111001000001101000010100111010001101111011100100 1101110011000010111010001101111000011010000101001 1001110110010101100001011100100000110100001010011 0010001101001011100110110100000001101000010100111 0010011010010110111001100111000011010000101001110 0110110001101110010011001010110010101101110 You can decrpyt it here.

Oh yes!

Holy crap! A Fraggle Rock Movie!

Schroedinger's cat

So for any of you that never understood the Schroedinger's cat story. Here it is Dr. Suess style. Yes, I'm a dork and already got it the theory at least the basics.

Graduated!

Woohoo I just graduated. I got a 3.5 this semester. Gor power hooked up at my new apartment. My parents are here. Man life is good. Now I just need to find a girl and I'll be all set.

Done!

Done done done done done done!

I got an A on my project so either an A or B in that class.

I just got approved to move into my awesome new apartment.

And congrats to Rose on her new job.

Great week. :)

Oh and I graduate tomorrow morning.

Finally!

So Bush finally admitted that we went to war on bad intelligence, and is taking responsibility for the intelligence problem. This is all I've wanted him to do since we didn't find WMD's in Iraq. This is turning out to be a really good day.

I'm amused

"Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience."

Almost done!!!!!

Woohoo just took my last final ever! Just have to turn in my project tomorrow. :)

Wow, a dumber guy than the Iranian president....

Wow, this guy has gotta be the dumbest person on the face of the planer. He claims he has the right to "chastise"the Jewish people. But he's actually saying that the Jewish people caused the AIDS virus, ebola, and the 9/11 attacks, I think that crosses the chastise line. Granted is this trial worthy, I dunno not in this country atleast but I don't know Canadian law about hate speech, but any way thought I'd point out the moronic behavior.

Apple holding back the music biz.

The most logical reason, the one I'm not hearing in the article, is that the vast majority of music that has come out lately sucks.

I wanna know when the RIAA will accept that its their fault that their sales are so freaking low. If I was a group that sued my own customers, gave my employees (in this case artists) a penny on the dollar of my profits, and keep promoting horrible products... I think I would look in the mirror when looking for the problem, but thats just me.

And also when did a 0.44% drop in sales start a panic?

Wow what a great mom...

So this mom left her baby out in an unheated car. The thing that makes this really unique is that it was at a strip club at 3AM. Man, definately mom of the year material.

Cool Idea

I think this is a pretty good idea and a little more practical than naming a star after someone or that kinda thing. Granted it is sorta tree huggerish.

Coffee as art?

Wow this had to be difficult. Wow the things you find on the internet.

Ok I'm a dork...

So I was looking for some information about A&M yesterday. And in order to find it I had to look at about 10 different websites. So I started an Aggie Wiki. Yep I'm a dork.

Woohoo New Apartment

So this is the floorplan of my new apartment. I think I'm getting a great bargain. To quote Anna "It's a NICE place."

Its at The Lodge at Warner Ranch. Great place. I'm really happy.

Wow a dumber President than our own...

So apparently the Holocaust never occurred, at least according to Iran's president. So I guess its official, he's dumber than our President since ours just can't pronounce "Holocaust." But seriously how can someone be so dense as to actually believe that the pictues and records of the Third Reich were counterfit, the death camps were just built to stage this, and that all the witnesses including hundreds of Allied soulders are lying... I mean come on the "Jewish conspiracy" (if any exists) can't be that massive. What a moron.

Finally... a version of It's a Wonderfull Life that I actually like!

Finally... a version of It's a Wonderfull Life that I actually like!

Bunnies are cute.

Bumming people out is fun...

Your 2005 Song Is

Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day "My shadow's the only one that walks beside me My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating" In 2005, you bummed everyone out. Like you care.

What Hit Song of 2005 Are You?

Beer goggles

Forbes 10 reasons to drink during the holidays

My favorite is : "Beer goggles -- who said the holidays have to be lonely?"

Because we all meet such wonderfull great people when we're drunk :)

Good Day :)

It was a good day. Just one class left to go. Got my start date finalized from Dell. I start January 16th by the way. My final project is working well. And I'm going to Austin to look for apartments on Thursday. Life is good sometimes :)

"Fundies" decide to forget what the Bible says....

So these two men beat up a college professor in Kansas (Article) . Presumably because he bashed Christian Conservatives and canceled the class he was going to teach on intelligent design. I guess they forgot about "Turn the other cheek" and "Let he that is without sin cast the first stone"

Waiting for the Puritanical outcry.....

I'm amused. Apparently a group of Protestant youths in Germany created an "erotic" biblical calendar. It depicts scenese like a topless Delilah cutting off Sampson's hair and a nude Eve with an apple. Apparently it is an effort to show bible stories in a way that are "interesting" to today's youth.

NSFW (Not Safe For Work) link.

Sticking with the Firefly theme...

I'm ammused. I wonder if they actually did the thing as an actual puppet show.

Windows and Trash

Just an amusing thing I saw when watch Firefly on DVD. This one episode they're reprograming a trash bin and there is this image on the screen of the bin. So at last we know what Windows is good for... running trash bins.