{"id":67,"date":"2005-01-04T13:19:28","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T20:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2005-01-04T13:19:28","modified_gmt":"2005-01-04T20:19:28","slug":"happy-new-year-and-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year and stuff!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting the movies out of the way first&#8230; just because.<\/p>\n<p><em>City of Lost Children<\/em> &#8211; odd.  That&#8217;s about all I can say.  Those French are some wacky people.  It was like a really, really dark Willy Wonka&#8230; actually, that might have been the inspiration.  Can&#8217;t really tell you to watch this unless you&#8217;re into strange forgien films.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jersey Girl<\/em> &#8211; What happened to Kevin Smith?  And could someone give Ben some acting lessons?  It had its moments I guess, I was just expecting a lot.  Watch it if you&#8217;re bored I guess, and don&#8217;t expect too much.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hannibal<\/em> &#8211; Disturbing.  Coming from me, that&#8217;s saying something.  Would have been better with Jodie Foster.  Good movie, but not if you have a weak stomach.  Just trust me on that.  I can&#8217;t even bring myself to describe the brain scene to you.<\/p>\n<p><em>Shaun of the Dead<\/em> &#8211; I actually thought it was hilarious.  Dark sometimes, yet hilarious.  I gave it a 4\/5 stars &#8211; which is a pretty high rating for me.  Those Brits, eh?<\/p>\n<p><em>Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy<\/em> &#8211; In contrast, I gave this 1.5 stars.  Jack Black punting the dog was the only funny part of this movie.  The rest was just&#8230; stupid.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lost in America<\/em> &#8211; The Griswalds meet <em>Easy Rider<\/em>.  This is an older movie (&#8217;85 or so) but still pretty funny.  Two yuppies &#8216;drop out&#8217; of society, get a motorhome and set out to wander the country.  They don&#8217;t get very far.  I love his advertising idea for the casino &#8211; classic scene!<\/p>\n<p>On an unrelated note, the &#8216;fridge here in the office smells like something died in it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/images\/Photo_122304_002.jpg\" WIDTH=\"256\" BORDER=\"1\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VSPACE=\"4\">  I got the PS2 network adapter for Christmas (yay!) and bought myself a USB headset for it, so I&#8217;ve been playing SOCOM II a little latley.  Pretty decent so far.  Rented Tony Hawk&#8217;s Underground 2 a few weeks ago.  It was decent, but I got bored pretty fast.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong, it&#8217;s a great game, I&#8217;m just not that into skateboarding I guess.  Speaking of the PS2 &#8211; everyone stay away from Datel products!  I bought the Action Replay Max Evo Edition (AR Max for those of you Googling it that way) because I needed more memory for my PS2.  For $30 you get the software and stuff and a 16mb USB drive.  Well now you&#8217;re thinking &#8220;Sweet!  So you can just keep all your saves on your PC then, right?&#8221;  Well, yes, assuming they last long enough to get put on the drive.  I needed space for SOCOM II (it wants 3mb free for some bloated reason) so I decided to move everything onto the USB drive except for my Grand Theft Auto data.  I figured I&#8217;d copy that, just to back it up.  Well I get all the moving done, and everything on my PS2 memory card just disappeared.  I used the Playstation&#8217;s memory browser deal, and it showed up as &#8216;corrupt data&#8217; &#8230; bummer.  Datel&#8217;s answer?  Format your memory card.  My personal favorite line was &#8220;The error you encountered should not regularly occur when using the product.&#8221;  HAHA!  Well I&#8217;d hope not!  How ever, it <em>does<\/em> seem to regularly happen &#8211; it happened to me the very first time I used the stupid thing, and there&#8217;s plenty of other horror stories out there &#8211; I found that with a quick Google search.  <\/p>\n<p>Yay!  I can dial 911 again!  I&#8217;ll explain later&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So how was your Christmas and New Year&#8217;s?  Mine was pretty tame&#8230; a ton of snow right before Christmas, that kinda sucked.  Hmmm&#8230; I&#8217;m not sure what I did with the picture of the little people&#8230; I&#8217;ll have to find that.  It&#8217;s not as good as the bear in pajamas though.  Let&#8217;s see&#8230;. anything else exciting?  I&#8217;m not the god of &#8220;SceneIt?&#8221; like I assumed I would be.  I&#8217;ve been demoted to demi-god status.  All this really means is that there are bigger geeks than I out there. \ud83d\ude09  I also discovered I make a mean chicken tortilla soup.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m bored&#8230; entertain me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting the movies out of the way first&#8230; just because. City of Lost Children &#8211; odd. That&#8217;s about all I can say. Those French are some wacky people. 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