Rendezvous

Gears of War 2 is coming! I think I will bust out the first one and play it again. Right now running through Assassins Creed, don't know why I stopped playing it. It gets a bit repetitive, but the story it great. I am thinking all the great writers are making video games instead of Hollywood hits. GTA IV, BioShock, Assassins, Gears of War I could go on and on.... Let me know what you think of this trailer, not sure I like it as much as the GoW 1 trailer with "Mad World", I think I may like it better :-)

"I Have a Rendezvous with Death"

by Alan Seeger.

I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air-
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.

It may be he shall take my hand
And lead me into his dark land
And close my eyes and quench my breath-
It may be I shall pass him still.
I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.

God knows 'twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear...
But I've a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Went and watched The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor at Billy Joe's Picture Show. They should have called it The Mummy: Steaming Pile of Dog Shit. I knew this movie was going to be bad, I had no idea it was going to be worse than Hell Boy. It was so bad am not sure which I would rather see, The Mummy or the new Indiana Jones movie. They both sucked. The bad part is I really liked the first Mummy, and kinda liked the second one. This movie was so bad I had to get drunk to try and forget most of that night, but some things are forever burned into my brain like :

Yetis! Not the fact that there are Yeti, more that you can speak Chinese and English to them and they understand. Even beyond that, after they kicked a man over a building one of the freaking CGI yetis signals "THE KICK IS GOOD" and they laughed. I didn't laugh, I vomited a bit in my mouth and heard Mike say "That just happened." Oh you readers are lucky, I found all of the Yeti clips on You Tube!


The Dragon Emperor after dieing and being reborn (Why she made that curse I don't quite know, why not make one that he dies forever, not one where he can be reborn and all powerful?) can freeze things and shoot fire out of his eyes maybe it was his mouth. Then turns into Tiamat, and a hedgehog, and a flying dragon. Terrible, real silly. Why does he need his army to be brought back from the dead? Why not just freeze, burn, eat, and out race(a Sonic joke there) the enemy. On the other hand, wouldn't modern (1948) weaponry outmatch 19th dynasty weaponry of the army he brings back?

How/Why do 3000 year old machines still work? It is a bit old to be able to pull a switch and have a floor open up with a pulley system. It is just old and tired. Why in the HELL did they have to blow open the door to the tomb if other explorers had already been inside and were found dead? What, they closed themselves inside after they died?


Step Brothers next week. I could hear Ferrell say "I'm burying you!" a couple times a day and not get tired of it.

Cyclones didn't lose.
Squawks did.
Gators did.
Trojans did.
The Irish are.
Hope the Vikes win tomorrow.
I gotta say, it was a good day.

WOOT OFF!

They hatin'

Got these from a buddy. I know lame and lazy but after the travel back from New Jersey, I-State, The Vikings all you get lazy. I see on the counter we are nearing 1000 served... Maybe I should think of something to go along with that.....

But for now these will have to do. I have my favorites, do you?

Cool vid or two

Went to the I-State game Saturday. Man oh man 2 - 0 is soooooo much better than 0 - 2. The DM Register ran something I think that said last season 44 or so teams won their first two games and all but 3 were bowl eligible at the end of the year. Not saying this is that kind of team, but they are scoring more, the QBs seem to pass it better, and the "D" flies all over the field. Big game next week.

Vikes play tomorrow. Pumped for that.

not sure if you heard. Fa-vruh played for the NY Bretts eerrrr I mean Jets today. Oh yeah, Brady got hurt too. That is inside information I got so you prolly never heard a thing about either of those...

Feeling a tad lazy so thought I would pull a JB and just post a vid **wink**

This has been around for quite a while, but I am still amazed. Starts off SUPER slow, but gets really cool around 0:52 in......


the Lidell Vs Evans carnage from UFC 88(if it stays up):

HELL BOY and Birthday gift

Oh, big red, you disappoint me.

I learned I was expecting waaaaayyyyyy toooooo much for this movie. Probably because I kinda liked the first. This one felt like they were just going through the motions, only this time they had 75 Million for special effects instead of 5 Million. I don't even have the energy to write all of the things that I hated about this movie (not sure when I turned so cynical, probably around the time the Palin was deemed worth fo the VP nomination. I am not even a political type of guy, but man does the hypocracy of the republican party this week piss me off. Like some how trotting your 17 year old daughter and her unborn bastard child out is a rallying call for the party. What is going on in the world? Use a rubber losers.)

Larry tells me there are things in this life that are meant to be Fantasy, and I get it. I live in fantasy land most of my life. Less now that I am not in College, but I still live there. This movie is pure fantasy, bu that doesn't let them off from silly things like tossing Hell boy through concrete (makes him madder) and then hitting him in the face with a locker room locker door (almost knocks him out). Things like this are not excussable...... I give this movie a D+. Next week is Hancock, and I am really excited for this one. **EDIT** Tuesday night will be the night for the movie for me as the Vikings will smash the Packers on Monday **EDIT**....

GUBBY actually did have a birthday gift for me, not that I ever doubted him.... It was an Autographed copy of "A Feast of Crows" from George R.R. Martin (my favorite author... maybe Piers Anthony, But he IS probably number one) The series (hopefully) is being made into a show on HBO. They are going to turn "A Song of Fire and Ice" into a mutli-part show. His series began in 1996 with "A Game of Thrones" and the intention is to have each of the series' 4 novels fuel one season each. As each novel is at or exceeding 1,000 pages a season should be no issue for each book. SO thanks for the gift Mike, time to read the 4 books again and hope (pray) that "A Dance with Drgons" will ever get turned out. It was to come out literally years ago, but he isn't happy with it so it waits. in the mean time I guess I can read them all again. So here is to hoping that Jon Snow, Tyrion, Daenerys and the rest will soon be available for consumption!

It look s a bit like this (can't find the camera to take a pic)


From the rest of the Fam-damn-ly I got an I-pod Nano, great Polo Shirts, I-tunes cards, Madden 2009 for the x-box, and bottle of Hennesy and Rosetta Stone Spanish among other things. All in all a pretty good haul if you ask me. And as always, everyone is way too generous.....

Google Chrome

Well, I went and got Google's new Browser (first browser?) Google Chrome.

I am wondering if anyone else has got Chrome and what your thoughts are on it. I an just in the "feeling out phase". The look is a bit spartan at first, and I miss some familiar clicking spots, but it seems to load pretty fast, which I have no idea what that would be. But then I just write software for a living....

I'll add things as I come across them I guess

• Can't play at pogo.com it says I don't have Java installed. I follow their directions, and it still won't play. can play on every other browser
• Was at a web site that you had to click you are of age. if you click back you had to re-click age verification. May just be an option but I am just starting.
• I do like how you can just drag you address you have at the top into your shortcut bar.
  
• I like the fact that "make Chrome the default browser" WAS NOT checked.  that was refreshing.
• I mis a lot of the extensions that I have with firefox.  I also miss that I had a cyclone theme
• man it does seem fast