Team America is the movie I am waiting for. No computer graphics, just puppets and story. Oh yeah and Matt and Trey.

I wonder if a Cartman puppet will make a cameo?

I’d never sat through Sound of Music, The (1965), but I am glad I have now. It was really great even if it was terribly long!

The political overtones were not too terrible, though they did not add too much to the movie, other than Nazi men will sell out their supposed loves, Austrian or not.

So it was good to hear so many wonderfully famous tunes again, even some I had sung in elementary school. And I could use the message too - Stay true to finding yourself and maybe, just maybe you’ll be lead on a road of happiness and crossing mountain ranges with nothing but a picnic basket and a song in your heart.

Sadly, I have not see the original version of Manchurian Candidate, The (2004). The remake was entertaining however, a bit predictable and since I have heard that the ending is different than the original, I won’t spoil it.

I have to think that this was created my liberals though. Just seems to have that “evil republican will do anything to rule the world” overtone, no?

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) was a fun throwback to a film noir-esque movie but with all sorts of fantastic futuristic robots and the cinematography, of which there was none, was gorgeous.

The movie was shot entirely on blue screen and had old photos and animated this and that layered in, along with a look that is reminiscent of old film. Very cool.

I suggest seeing this one in the theatre, simply to see how it looks being projected via film.

The Screen Savers as not been the same since G4 bought TechTV and Leo left. But today’s show ,where co-host Alex smashed up a perfectly working Mac out of some childish anger, which could have at least been used by a school somewhere, that was it.

I don’t need to hear the 95% stories - Most of the world is Christian, and that makes it better? No of course not, just different.

So until management deals with guys like this, who literally and figuratively beat up on Macs and their users, they lost my eyeballs.

Too bad, guys! Leave it to PC hatred to sink the ship.

My homemade mount kind of fell apart in a hand swiping accident last week, so I ordered a Pro Clip.

This thing should attach to my mount in the car and let me slide in the iPod and plug in the cable. I wanted a more dock-like experience, but this will work.

The first public beta of NetNewsWire 2 is out. Get it now! Have been a tester for some time and it is still my RSS news reader of choice!

Much goodness in this new version, check out the read me.

Ok all you millions of people affected by this problem a couple of weeks ago, when LAX Central shut down and flights were cancelled all over. Turns out a technician did not do the “monthly reboot” of a WINDOWS server. They had moved from Unix to Windows.

When will people learn?

Fools, the lot of you I say.

FAA Uses Windows, goes belly up

It seems that the folks who lost the pictures used on the “I found some of your life” site found the site and now it is down.

For those of you who did not know, someone left a digital medial card in a cab or something. This guy found it, and since he didn’t know whose it was (instead of turning it into the authorities) he started posting the pictures and making up a story. It was pretty funny actually.

I have a tip for you though to help prevent this. If you spend the $30 or so and buy a “card reader” such as a Sandisk, then you can plug the card into the reader to get the images off the card, instead of going via the camera. Why does this help?

Because the card will show up on your computer desktop like any other disk. So what you do is never let the software erase the card. In the case of a Canon camera, there will be a folder named “DCIM” which you can just toss in the trash. On Mac OS X, you can even security delete the files at this point, making sure they are gone.

But how does this help lost media? Because you can, if you manage the card yourself, put a text file on the card titled “I own this card.txt” and inside put an email address (say to a yahoo or gmail account) that some kind soul can contact you with.

Then if the card is lost, there is a chance that someone might see the file. If they just put it into a camera, then no. But into a card reader, yes.

I lost one of those USB Keychain drives in the Seattle Space Needle and some kind soul read my resumé and found out how to contact me. Very nice of them.

One again, as reported by the NYT and Cult of Mac, Microsoft has shown no ability to innovate and is copying the iTunes Music Store for it’s own MSN store.

‘Apple set the bar very high,’ a Microsoft manger admitted. ‘We’re trying to match that. We told our developers, ‘Look at how Apple does it.”

Sigh. Why won’t MS users get it and go right to the source, and then we can have Apple innovating and be more profitable?

I like Kevin Smith, so i rented Jersey Girl (2004). Course after I started watching it, I realized I had seen it, within the last six month of course. I guess that does not say much for the movie?

Sucks, cuz I really like Kevin Smith.

Toshi Sushi is right around the corner from me on 185th. A traditional setting, traditional music and a warm staff.

The meal started with a traditional salad with some orange dressing (was good, not sure what it was), miso soup and hot tea.

Sushi was excellent, including maguro, unagi, sake and hamachi. I also had a “rock and roll” which consisted of unagi and avocado.

I finished the meal off with green tea ice cream intermixed with swigs of hot tea. Prevents brain freeze and I think actually enhances the flavor of the ice cream.

I give Toshi 5 geeks!

Napoleon Dynamite (2004) was a movie that reminded me far too much of my youth, haha.

Quirky, sad, funny, odd this movie is a fine departure from normal Hollywood Blockbuster crap. Check it out, I give this one 4 geeks. Ok I just made that up, I wonder what a Geek looks like. I’ll need little icons of my face hehe.

haha the Joy of Tech is pretty damn funny today. Look out, Steve, Woz is back!

In Bend It Like Beckham (2002), a talented indian female footballer is confronted with her culture, authority and womanhood. Feel good wrapped up in sports. I kept seeing Nila and thinking she’d run off the field as “not good enough” for her position.

It took me 19 years to finally see Kurosawa’s Ran, an adaptation of Shakespear’s King Lear. It was fantastic. I only took 2 breaks during the 160 minute saga. The pace was good, the story of course was excellent and as hoped, by the end, we’re left wondering why we’re such a dumb, violent, insecure lot.

Siu lam juk kau (2001) (Shaolin Soccer) is a wonderfully campy kung fu movie that meets hokie sports and modern computer special effects.

The original chinese version is more serious, even without the subtitles, the actor’s voices are more serious than the stereotypical high pitched/whining voices used in the Americanized version. Both versions are enjoyable and the gags are just hilarious.

TiVo’s one huge flaw is that it does not track season passes across channels. I had been wondering why I was not seeing any Deadwood episodes and now I realize why - They are on HBO2 now, not HBOW. The listing does not show them as repeats, so who is to know? So the episode IS a repeat. Sigh.

The data issues (every south park is considered “new” now) and this channel tracking problem really needs to be fixed!

Lucas has done it again. With the much anticipated release of the original Star Wars trilogy, he just could not leave classics alone. No, he had to fuck with them.

Who wants to see WHINEY Hayden Christensen??? My god! And he completely replaced the Emperor! And Han and Greedo fire at the same time? What the HELL is George smoking?

I’ll probably still get them, but more likely rent. Dumbass.

My brother sent me this telling data about why the Genesis probe crashed to earth after neither of the two chutes succeeded in opening.

It turns out that Genesis was on track to a proper snag by the helicopters but as it came through the atmosphere, Service Pack 2 was automatically installed and activated. Next, when the outgoing commands to deploy the chutes were executed, a dialog on the craft opened asking “if it was ok to open the chutes” Seeing that nobody was on the craft to click “ok” the craft plummeted to the earth.

One NASA official was quoted as saying “Who knew SP2 stood for Shitty Parachutes 2. At least with SP 1 the second chute would have opened”