Tonight Raina and I went and saw Taken, there was no one else in the cinema and when it started they had the wrong movie on.
I enjoyed taken, the story is a man’s daughter is kidnapped while she is on holiday he is some kind of special agent man (played by Liam Neeson) and goes after her. There was lots of action and we both really enjoyed it. I give it 3.8 thumbs up (Awesoments rating pending)
After the movie I said “even if they killed him, he would just return more powerful than they could ever imagine” and we had a laugh. For someone who is 56 he kicked some serious arse in a real physical role.
On friday I had dinner with a friend and watched some bsg it was good times, after that I watched a movie and finally went to bed at 3amish. On sat I went and saw pineapple express, it was a stoner/action flick and was rather amusing I give it a 3.5 thumbs up Rated: ExBmBrLqNAs. Afterwards Jason andI got some beer went back to his place and watched some mighty boosh and Starship troopers 3 which had crapy sfx and was probably lucky to get a 2 thumbs up Rated: ExGrBmRLBsMgFtMcBbSMAn. Then we went to the RSL and then the coast and I left to get a kebab around midnight I think.
Sunday I bought some more dvd’s Robot Chicken season 2, clerks 2 and a triple pack with some kung fu action. haven’t watched any yet but I will at some stage. There was some more beer and might boosh and another movie and then came home.
it was a good weekend, ashame there was no games because I wanted to play games but my computer sucks
I found This today at work and I think from now on movies will get a awesome rating according to this table in a similar fashion to geekcode
I saw forbidden kingdom yesterday with Jason.. it was an enjoyable martial arts movie with Jet Li and Jackie Chan and a bunch of other people. The fight scenes were cool the story was decent..although it woulda been better without a yank. I’ll give it 3.5 thumbs up.
And last night Jason and I went to Rubies Bday party and there was good food and drink and some ear destroying karaoke.
So I haven’t posted for a while I think its time for an update
So Karl what have you been up to?
I’ve seen a bunch of movies and watched a bunch of tv shows and spent time with friends. Of the movies I have seen Batman The Dark Knight stood out as the best one this year..what an excellent movie. Others worthy of mention mostly because I enjoyed them Hancock, Indiana Jones 4, Ironman, The Incredible Hulk. Movies that get a mention because you should avoid them Wanted, Love Guru.
On the TV front I have spread the word of dexter and got a few of my workmates and friends watching it, I have watched many a series and am currently watching the weekly episodes of burn notice, eureka, stargate atlantis, the middleman and weeds. I have also been rewatching babylon 5 and for the first time a show called John Doe.
Work has changed a little I am no long doing Level 1 support and my stuff has moved I’m now in the poorly named hosting unit and my duties are primarily System Admin stuff and some higher level support. I have to say the change has been good and bad..there are many things in use that I am now expected to manage that I know jack all about but fake it anyway, but the best part is not being on the phones even if I do have a manger I have to train.
Thats all for now..if you haven’t seen The Dark Knight see it.
So I have seen a few movies since my last post which was last month…
There will be blood – A movie set before the turn of the 20th century that chronicles the life of a silver miner who turns himself into an oil tycoon. I really enjoyed this movie although I hadn’t read the description before I saw it and I thought with that title there would be lots of blood and there wasn’t it was still an enjoyable flick I give it 4 out of 5 thumbs up.
Drillbit Taylor – A couple of kids who are being beat up at school decide to hire a body guard to protect them, after interviewing a number of candidates (including one played by Adam Baldwin) the kids begin to realise that no body guard will work for $100 a week, until Drillbit Taylora bum who passes himself off as a Green Berat shows up and accepts. I laughed more than a couple of times at this movie it was enjoyable but I would wait for it on dvd 2.5/5 thumbs up
Hitman – A movie adapation of a sucessful game about a hitman. Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood, Die Hard 4) plays Agent 47 the hitman..he did an ok job The action in this movie was well paced and enertaining to watch although the makers used some scenes from Dark Angel in the intro and the position of the Dark Angel kids barcodes was on their neck as opposed to the hitman barcodes on their head..it was dumb to do it so they loose points 1/5 thumbs up
Superhero Movie – This movie is made by one of the guys who worked on the original scary movie and its funnier than some of the other movies that have come from the group. Its a movie about a Superhero named Dragonfly who seems to have a life comprised of elements of Spiderman, Batman, Superman and an encouter with X-menish elements. I found it very amusing in parts and Raina describd it as School boy humour which it was. Still more entertaining than drill bit so 3/5 thumbs up.
I went shopping…and have cooked 3 times since weird.
I took the Thursday before Good Friday off and flew down to visit the folks. Gotta say 1hr plane ride then a 2 hour car ride isn’t great but it beats 9hr drive. This country needs some decent rail systems or something and better air coverage of regional areas.
I think a high speed train between towns would be great..not high speed like the XPT is supposed to be (180km/h my arse) high high speed..of course we would need an arse load of new infrastructure to do that.
My long weekend consisted of much austar, talking to parents, some beer, talking to brother, some car travel and some pool it was pretty good. I also had a tasty garlic sausage roll that I want more of.
I got back on Monday and had a great shower to wash the smoker smell off me then went to Raina’s and watched some sga, talked and had pizza!
I was browsing Digg and noticed this article http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3511818.ece
Its an interesting idea, a databank on the lunar surface that broadcasts back to repositories on earth (perhaps with some sort of auto activation by detecting objects with a sizeable mass on an impact trajectory (my idea)) and contains all or much of the essential information to rebuild stuff. I guess It wouldn’t even need to be on the lunar surface it could function from a satellite as well.
Either way I like the idea.
Albert Einstein is quoted as having said “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe. ” and I agree, human stupidity does seem to be infinite.
I have another one.
“i think laziness is the only infinite resource in the universe” – Me
The above was the original form of the statement however I then remembered Einstein’s quote and came to the conclusion that Human stupidity and laziness are both infinite resources.
Yesterday was the Inaugural Cake Day..that is from last week it was decided to have one cake day a month for each persons bday instead of a cake (or two) for each bday in a month, some months like May have 5 bdays in them..may is a popular month for bdays.
Additionally we were informed that one of the companies considering using the product the company I work for (notice I didn’t use our) develop is going to see two customers of ours and discuss their experience with us..I let out a loud laugh which probably was unwise. One of the customers is unhappy with us because something they heavily rely on always breaks the other was promised something at least a year ago and its still in development because resources kept getting reassigned from it.
Over the weekend I watched much arrested development its funny…in fact I watched all of arrested development, some dr who and I saw the latest Rambo movie.
Rambo was a very rambo movie, shooting, blood, explosions. Despite the fact Stalone is 62ish now he still did pretty well in this movie it was a good action flick i give it 3 thumbs up.
