Posts from — February 2006

I’m Impressed:

Usually I experience a movie trailer as a good reason not to see the movie: either the trailer is awful, or it has all the best parts, or it has all the plot, so why bother. (Or it has icky voice-overs by that deep-voiced guy who does all the voice overs, or the same intensifying chorus that they use for effect in so many action movies and expect me to react to in a Pavlovian fashion.)

But the trailer for ‘A Scanner Darkly’ not only has none of these, but it makes me want to see the movie.

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this looks like it could be a great movie

Ron DeCorte’s Notebook – TimeZone:

The McGonigle Brothers
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The Hublot Solo T Tourbillon
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some of these are too cool.

DevilDucky – Pirates and Emperors:

Pirates and Emperors

hehe hehe

You scored as Millennium Falcon (Star Wars). The world around you is at war. Fortunately you know how to handle that with the greatest of ease. You are one of the best at what you do and no one needs to tell you that. Now if only the droids could be quiet for five seconds. Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) 94% SG-1 (Stargate) 81% Moya (Farscape) 81% Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) 75% Serenity (Firefly) 75% Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) 63% Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) 56% Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) 56% Enterprise D (Star Trek) 56% FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files) 56% Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) 50% Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) 50%

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Wild accidents captured in Russia’s new Lefortovo Tunnel | Leftlane News – Car News For Enthusiasts:

Wild accidents captured in Russia’s new Lefortovo Tunnel

Security cameras in Russia’s recently-completed Lefortovo Tunnel captured some pretty wild high-speed car accidents.

Little people:

Wow. Amazing pictures. (Via Euan.)

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yep these are very cool.

from Phantomcity:

our results:
You are Jean-Luc Picard

Jean-Luc Picard 75% Geordi LaForge 65% Spock 57% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 55% Worf 55% Chekov 50% Mr. Scott 45% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 45% Data 44% Will Riker 40% Uhura 35% Beverly Crusher 35% Deanna Troi 35% James T. Kirk (Captain) 30% Mr. Sulu 30%

A lover of Shakespeare and other fine literature. You have a decisive mind and a firm hand in dealing with others.

Click here to take the Star Trek Personality Quiz

Four Things:

A Lists of Four meme that’s going around the Internets. I haven’t been tagged by anyone to do it, but it looked interesting:

Four jobs I’ve had in my life:

1. Instructor of Political Science, Director of VTOnline Director of CDDC
2. Teaching Assistant
3. Student Building Manager at the Gym
4. Golf Caddy

Four movies I can watch over and over:

1. Big Lebowski
2. Second Hand Lions
3. Brazil
4. Bullitt

Four TV shows I love to watch:

1. Firefly
2. Father Ted
3. Coupling -UK
4. Red Dwarf

Four places I’ve been on vacation:

1. Milan
2. Washington, DC
3. I don’t take many Vacations… I’m working on it though.
4. I went to Virginia Beach in High School.

Four of my favorite dishes (Wow, this one is pretty bad):

1. Homemade Perogi
2. Lasagna
3. Steak
4. Bangers and Mash

Four websites I visit daily:

1. Wikipedia
2. yahoo most emailed
3. Aberrant news (occasionally nsfw)
4. My.Yahoo.com

Four places I would rather be right now:

1. Oxford
2. Copenhagen
3. Turin
4. Brisbane

Four bloggers I am tagging (The sad thing is, I don’t think I know four bloggers that well):

1. Jason
2. Jean
3. Alex
4. Julia