Spiderman

It’s past midnight and I just got back from seeing Spider-man.

It rocked. Get off your computer and go see it now.

I won’t give anything away since I hate reviews that ruin the movie. Basically they did a great job of bring the comic to life. J.K. Simmons steals the movie as J. Jonah Jameson. He is so dead on to my mental image it’s scary.

The special effects are great. Seeing Spidey fly from building to building looks smooth and natural. They replicate several classic comic images of Spider-man crouching and hanging perfectly.

The battle scenes are good and don’t rely on Matrix style effects many directors are leaning on these days.

The Hero’s Dilemma is well done and classic form. I see where they edited out the Twin Towers scene and replaced it with a post 9/11 scene as a nod to New Yorkers. In 10 years, the scene will stand out as strange, but for now it works.

The romantic angle is well done, but not to my taste. Saying more would give away too much. After seeing the movie, you’ll know what I mean. The sequel is perfectly set-up and ready to rake in another few hundred million.

Lastly, Kirsten Dunst is hot in the movie. In the one scene she is dressed up and wearing make-up, she’s supra-hot.

OK, I’m going to sleep now.

Damn my eyes

My eyes still hurt. It’s been weeks waiting for new contacts. I can’t take much more of this. I feel like a vampire that can’t go out int he sun. The daytime sun kills my eyes and gives me a splitting headache.

The damn doctors need to figure out something to fix my eyes. It’s getting ridiculous.

The pain makes me grit my teeth all the time. Now my teeth hurt from the grinding and my jaw hurts as well. I’m fucking falling apart.

I’m going to sleep. Hopefully tommorrow I’ll get the new contacts and ease out of this nightmare.

I got a check for $26.25 in the mail from Amazon. They paid me. All from the affiliates program. So, go to Amazon and buy some stuff. I want the cash to buy a DVD burner. So start spending. It’s the patriotic thing to do.

Let me mention again that you should be visiting HomeStarRunner on a daily basis.

In fact there a few other sites you should visit daily:
Zombo.com
Google Answers
Cool stuff at eBay
Team Knightrider

WTF am I doing. Typing while I should be sleeping? Fucking internet.

Ruh roh, part II

Even my Mom is on my case. This email recieved today:

Hello Mike,
Regarding: Fuck. A bad hard drive? Fuck, fuck, fuck. (Three extra 'fucks' because my Mom is reading this and it makes her squirm...)
I think my next computer WILL be a Mac and I am glad I still have my old one!
Love, Mom
P.S. Feel better!

All my work to bring her to the dark side of Windows is for naught…

Ruh roh…

Michele finally read my page. It’s been about 6 months since she last read it.

She said, “I read you page… You better watch it talking about me…”

She was giving me a one hipper. That means she wasn’t too serious. If she had given me the two hipper or the dreaded two hipper with lean and point, I’d be scared.

Quote

I’ve been looking for this quote for a while. Google Answers found it for me.

“I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I believe that every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.

I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living and that economy is a prime request of a sound financial structure, whether in government, business or personal affairs.

I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man’s word should be as good as his bond; that character-not wealth or power or position- is of supreme worth.

I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free.

I believe in all-wise-and all-loving God, named by whatever name, and that the individuals highest fulfillment, greatest happiness, and widest usefulness are to be found in living in harmony with His will.

I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world; that it alone can overcome hate; that right can and will triumph over might.”

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. quotation as inscribed at Rockefeller Center, New York City

Mac Geekness

Thanks to Dan and Nathan at the office, two Mac gurus, I have this running at home.

Yes, they got OS X running on Michele’s old Apple 8500 Mac. It originally came with a 120MHz 604 CPU and I upgraded to a 233MHz 604e CPU a few years later.

Michele has no embraced the dark side and runs a Win98 box, but the old Mac was too good to let let fade into a closet.

The OS runs well, and allows Mira to surf the web easily. Finally, each girl has a computer to use.

I was impressed with how easy it was to get Apache up and running on the box. Just point and click. Smooth.

Bandwidth Consumption

I guess I am now realizing what it means to be slashdotted, even in a minor way.

On Thursday, I posted in a comment thread a link to the quicktime movie of me riding a Segway HT. In under three days, the link got over 5000 hits and used up over 11 gigs of data transfer bandwidth. My web host allows for up to 10 gigs of data per month after that it’s 4 cents a megabyte. The quicktime movie is a little over 3 megs, so the extra charges added up quick.

I got up this morning and checked my email. I saw the note from the web host about the new charges for bandwidth. I was already $40 in debt by the time I read the email.

I’ve moved the page and movie to another site I own that has unlimited data transfer and used a redirect from the old URL. I’m sure the pace of hits will drop down soon, but for now I’m trying to avoid the $40 per Gig charge.

More news later, I have to go take a shower…