My dad….

I have a G4 iBook.

Best. Christmas. Present. Ever.

mir-ack-u-fucking-tab-ulicious

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One thought kept coming back to my mind amidst the movie…

How can George Lucas ever dare to call himself a film maker after this? Peter Jackson takes a book written half a century ago by a man no longer with us, and does a masterful job. Meanwhile George Lucas can’t even keep up with the plot holes introduced in his own movies.

Jackson takes CG and makes it breathtaking.

Lucas brings a pathetic looking Jaba the Hut, a pixelated Mos Eisley, and Natalie Portman eating a floating piece of fruit from 6 inches away.

Jackson brings us an outstanding performance combining computer animation and real life acting in Gollum, via Serkas.

Lucas brings us… Jar-Jar? Wtf?

Lucas brings us the directors cut: Greedo shoots first, Han walks all over Jaba (literally), a few longer scenes of freaky dancing aliens, including one seemingly pop-star-esque one in Jaba’s Palace, including new scenes of Darth Vador with someone other than James Earl Jones doing the voice(!), adding in old and unnecesary friends of Lukes, and other nitpicks too numerous to mention.

Jackson instead of trying to reinvent the movies, adds the details that the true fans will appreciate. Things that would have been nice to see in the film, an hour of footage that you just can’t expect normal people to sit through, in addition to the rest of the 3 hours they just saw.

So any Star Wars fans still out there? Why?

Great quote.

“I used to be an agnostic, but now I’m not so sure.”

I Am A: Chaotic Good Elf Ranger Mage

Find out What D&D Character Are You?, courtesy ofNeppyMan (e-mail)

Rain down, rain down, come on rain down on me

From a great height, from a great height, height

Ettore Perazzoli, the lead developer of my favorite e-mail client, Evolution, passed away in his sleep last night. From everything I read about him, he was a great guitar player, a good and loyal friend, and a fun-loving guy.

I obviously didn’t know him, but he was a good person, and an incredible programmer, so here’s a moment of respect.

I’m so happy, ’cause today I found my friends. They’re in my head.

I’m so ugly. But that’s ok, ’cause so are you. We’ve broke our mirrors.

So it would seem that the validitiy of the “eviction” notice was… uhh… less than… valid.

Right. Basically, the complex is being sold to another company (though its not sold yet, and is possible that it may not be). And that company does intend to sell these apartments as condos. However, we signed a lease, and that lease can’t be broken by them, so we’re here for at least another what, 10 months? At which time the new owners will either ask us to leave, or if they don’t intend to remodel our building yet, ask us to stay for another few months. So in other words, no big deal.

The more I read about it, the more (crimanitly, I keep having to correct typos, maybe I shouldn’t drink and journal ;o) I really wanna try out Linux 2.6… though I’m not so sure I’m ready to take that plunge yet…

In other news, Christmas will likely suck. The entirety of this pay check will be going to paying bills, and my next paycheck which I get the day after Christmas will be going to rent. So if you get nothing or very little from me this Christmas, its not cuz I don’t like you. On top of that, certain members of my extended family on the Mills side have hit on a nerve or two recently, and they are who I’ll be spending Christmas with. At least Mollie will get to go back to Chicago for hers, though. Thats a bit of a relief.

About a week ago, Tres burned pasta. I’m still working on the logistics of how one actually burns a wet noodle soaking in water, I’ll get back to you with more on that later.

I finally got to meet the infamous Cari. She seems really cool, and didn’t look at all bored while she was over. She went to WHHS, too, so we talked about that for a bit. All in all that was a nice night that could have lasted a bit longer.

Oh. That’s also the night I setup my 50 gallon fish tank as a community tank! Yeah, that damn thing finally has fish in it. Now I just need a couple glasstops and lights for it. Nothing terribly fancy in there… a fiddler crab (cept mine is a girl, so she doesn’t have that big claw), some rosy barbs (some more goldish than that), a flounder, kuhli loach, a pair of bamboo shrimp, school of white clouds, and a bunch of hi–fin platys… oh and a butterfly pleco :o)

On a side note, I took the Wedding Date Predictor and it looks like I’m getting married in September of 2006…. of course, that leaves me what 3 months of matrimonial bliss? I am however forced to question the accuracy of such a thing, though. Aside from the fact that I’ve never fantasized about a man shampooing my hair, the thing is written in jsp! JSP for crying out loud. Real Cool Kids only trust Wedding Date Predictors that are written in perl ;o)

I think thats all for tonight… I’ll tell you about McDonalds tomorrow.

Interesting note left on the door today… here it is, word for word.

Merry Christmas – You’re Being Evicted

Villagio has decided to sell these poroperties and turn them into condo’s – and sell you out in the process. This is not a Joke. Your 30 – 60 day eviction notice will be on your door in days. Several people have talked to the front office, Villagio is telling everyone a different story – they are lying. They care about the money – not you – and will tell you anything to keep you away.

Don’t settle for 60 days notice – that is not enough time to reorganize your lives after they toss you out on such short notice. REMEMBER – since the fire, there are a shortage of apartments in San Diego. Plus, how will you find a moving truck when 300 apartments will have to move on the same weekend. How will you find movers?

You CAN do something.

• Get the city involved. Call BRIAN MAIENSCHEIN on the city council @ 858.673.5304 and let him know that this isn’t fair.
• Get an attorney. Join together and let Villagio know that you won’t be treated like a commodity.

I guess we’ll see how legit it is…

I’m tired of fighting, I’m tired of fighting;

Fighting for a lost cause.

Yeah, just finished the ending. Yeah. It’s definitly… dumb. The ending sort of follows the Italian proverb, “At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.”

I doubt I’ve convinced many of you to watch this last movie, so I’ll go ahead and spoil the ending. Michael Corleone dies quietly, old and alone. Thats not the big surprise, though.

Dammit, I feel so… cheated. I’ve wanted to buy the Trilogy on DVD for quite some time, but I’m sure as hell not going to now that I know how bad the third one is. Maybe I’ll buy the first two and then wait for Tres or Melinda to become Flash Pro’s and have one of them make a remake. I’ll write the script, and we’ll call it…. Godflasher! Ok, so the title needs work…

Did you know, on IMDb, The Godfather is the #1 rated film?

Hmmm. Guess that fits.