LadyCrimson

Cable's been playing a lot of Eastwood's later, non-western movies. I always forget just how great In the Line of Fire is, until I see it again. Absolute Power wasn't bad either. P.S. Forrest Gump holds up pretty well, too. It's a film that's so easy watch...it always feels like it should be boring, but yet somehow it isn't.

Re: Boston ... I think Theo's been drunk for a while. I question some of his trades and decisions...while at the same time understanding. The 2004 caliber team can't last forever and many of them are old and petering out. The next couple years of trying to rebuild a new pennant-capable team will be interesting. That said....last night was very embarrassing, even past Smoltz. Smoltz should either retire or be put in the bullpen where his obvious lack of shoulder stamina might work out decently.

Btw, don't feel too impressed. That's just local. Anything near W. coast isn't bad/stays above 20-25, but you test from a server on the East coast and it sinks like a stone. It doesn't matter what your rated speed is vs:worldwide surfing...too many other factors.

I want to know what the star rating means. User ratings of service co? Edit: I did it again just to see how different it'd be moment to moment:

For a few months the only tune I listened to during aerobics was a slightly slowed down version of the Loituma song.

I'm debating, at this late hour, whether to send a quick out-of-the-blue email to someone I knew in highschool, that I haven't seen for 22 years. I always think it'd be cool just to exchange a few emails or something, but then I totally chicken out. Yeah, I'm a wuss. Beyond that...hubby had some interesting work related news today. I can't/won't go into details, but it's potentially exciting, that's for sure. Still, it could turn out it's not a good fit, so we shall see.

I don't personally care about no LAN, because I generally play on bnet or single-player/solo...but hubby won't be pleased. If he wants to play, he wants to play only w/me, and doesn't like using the internet when we're in the same room. Oh well.

Picked up TitanQuest/Immortal Throne again. Reloaded all my previous chrs. Obsessing over items and such is always fun for a while. It'll do until Diablo3 comes out..

The International. 2.5 out of 5 A strange movie where visually it's awesome and it keeps you watching, but the characters/story leave you cold and unemotionally connected. You don't care what happens to anyone. Yet as I said, you keep on watching. I don't think it was the actors fault...more the director and script. There was one great action sequence more than half way through, tho...and the actor playing the hitman in that scene was awesome. A small role but he was the only chr. who evoked a smidgen of emotional response. If the movie had been all about him, it would've been a much better film.

Elitist fans really get my goat. "If you've never been to Fenway, you're not a real fan." I live 3000 miles away on the West Coast you farking elitist "anti-bandwagon" sports nuts. So I don't want to spend lots of cash flying and traveling to Fenway. Sue me. That said...the Red Sox have been having a bad week or two. Hope they punch their way out of it, but regardless...I'm still watching. Painful as it is, I still watch.

Anyone see "Food, Inc.?" I hear it's great, and I love movies that bash the food industry...but the only place it's playing around here is in a small theater I don't like.

leroy jenkins is black Make up sticks. Creative license, too. Not to mention, while the musician Leroy Jenkins was indeed a black man, Ben Schultz, the face/voice behind WoW's Leeroy (yeah I mistyped it earlier), is most definitely not. Neither is the Leeroy on the WoW game trading card. I think Ben's original chr. had dark skin tones, but it's a game with green, purple, and blue skinned folk running around in silly outfits so who cares. He could be rainbow colored. Casting Bruce is still perfect.

Kevin Spacey on David Letterman last night, trying to explain Twitter. A highlight: (after Kevin posts a quick tweet on his account while on the show...) Mr. Spacey:

12 string guitars are actually quite common Although they're more typically used acoustically, such as in classical guitar. At least at one time. My mother had/has a 12-string Martin acoustic. Very nice.

Yeah, split-brain patients. They do that (rarely) for extreme epilepsy cases. It obviously has some...weird effects re: visual interpretation/correlation of information and also provided interesting evidence of the general "jobs" of the left and right hemispheres. Example, the left brain, by default, is much more geometrically incompetent.

I hereby request ... no, I demand ... that Bruce Campbell makes a cameo as Leroy Jenkins.

I haven't read the books (well I read the first, years and years ago) but if this is turned into an HBO series, I might have to order HBO again for that year. I think a lot of books, fantasy or otherwise, could be well served by a series-long format vs. the 2-3 hr film or 4-5 hr mini-series. Will be interesting to see how this develops, if it could start a new trend, etc.

I still remember a show about this girl, who as she got to be late teens or early adulthood or something, started getting very bad headaches. They finally got around to looking inside her head, and it turns out her brain consisted of a very skinny "thread" that went from back to front, with the rest of her skull filled up with that cushioning brain-fluid. Yet she had been functioning normally for years. The brain is very mysterious.

I'm sorry to hear. Even when it's not completely unexpected, it's still a sad loss for the family. Condolences & well wishes.

Went to Pier 39-Fisherman's Wharf area today, with sister-in-law, brother-in-law, and hubby. Brother-in-law was in town while his wife was attending some kind of medical meeting/test/I dont really know, and he had time to kill. So we wandered around, ate food, yakked...haven't been to that area in 15+ years, it's changed and yet is much the same. I guess it has a Hooters near Fisherman's Wharf, too. No, we didn't go in. heh If it was sunny, you could see the Golden Gate Bridge. Alas, it was cloudy and windy, like San Fran is 75% of the time. The end of Pier 39 is apparently "seal town." This man hid behind his "bush" and would reveal himself/scare passerby. People would actually tip him for this. One lady literally screamed. It was hysterical to watch. This was just...hilarious. Needs no explanation. :D

I figured it'd just be a dull 10 millionth photo series of backyard raccoons, but ok, here's a small collage of some of them. And here is a picture of a part of Oracle's park-like walkways/areas that surround their offices. Seriously luxurious, ponds, paths, huge grass fields/trees and a gazillion Canadian geese. Makes a great place for an afternoon walk during warm days. It's right up against a local marsh reserve/bay inlet park, too, making it feel kind of like all one place.

It's weird, because I liked Morrowind quite a bit. Not in a "best game evah" kind of way, but I enjoyed it and loved mucking around with the alchemy, wandering aimlessly around, and other tinkering stuff. But I recall becoming annoyed halfway through the actual game plot/sidequests and just editing my way to supergear-hood and doing freaky things with the editor for giggles & entertainment, or trying to do things like stay lvl 1 forever (to keep the monsters low), rather than truly finishing the game. With Oblivion, it didn't take me too long to realize it was going to make me feel the same way, so I stopped playing before I even really began. I did think it was pretty, tho.

I'd like to be playing (or at least trying it out) Majesty2, but apparently it's now going to be released in Sept. SIGH.

There are a lot of raccoons around here that roam around looking for dog food dishes and gardens to raid, I suppose - tho they've never even tried to touch our garbage cans. They make loud fence-climbing noises by the windows every night and a couple nights ago I finally went outside...and even followed a mama and her 4 younglings down the street where they hid from me via a sewer drain entrance. Tonight I left a big dish of peanuts as a lure and another one showed up to eat them. The peanuts were the prize for it tolerating my camera flash going off constantly, for 10-15 minutes. :D Who needs to go out to see the common wildlife? It comes to me. Hahaha

"Righteous Kill" w/DeNiro/Pacino. ...some funny lines but the movie itself is a C grade crime thriller with a big lack re: the "thriller" part. Plus, I guessed the ending in the first 15 minutes.