Okay, I was trying to install Flyakite which kinda tweaks your windows settings to make it look like a mac. I know, I know I was kind of bored and it kind of only really installed halfway-ish, y’know? So my computer messed up.
Half the stuff didn’t work, so I backed up what I could and re-installed windows. Now I can’t get connected to the wireless router from my mom’s computer and boy do I hate computers. Sometimes I just want to……
That site (click the picture above) is so cool, and a great advertising campaign.
Now that Lost is over, I’ve been looking desperately for something to cure my withdrawal (Season 3 doesn’t start until next September, and the season 2 dvds are yet to be announced, probably in September also) from it, I’ve watched a few episodes of the T.V. show 24 and I have to say that it’s pretty good.
Let me just tell you what makes this show special: Each episode takes place in “real time” over the course of an hour (except for commercials - but I guess that’s when they go to the bathroom) and there are 24 episodes in each season (tv series standard). This makes each season just one day! Although it may SEEM like the show will be slow-moving, boring, etc. it’s really not. I mean - a lot happens, but it’s pretty cool.
I think that 24 can best be described as a political spy thriller. Jack Bauer works for CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit, a fictional creation of the show) and does all sorts of cool stuff with mystery, nuclear bombs, virus outbreaks, and as you would expect: Most of these problems are because of terrorists. It’s rated TV-14, it’s pretty violent but not to the extent where it de-sensitizes you like other shows that are out there.
Overall, it’s just a really fun ride that deals with conflicting emotions, fun action sequences, and overall just an enjoyable show with a cliffhanger at the end of every episode. The only thing is: Once I get the DVDs for each season I don’t have to wait weeks or months for the next one, it’s right there! 5 seasons are just WAITING to be watched!
So yeah, that’s what I’m replacing Lost with this summer, hopefully 5 days worth of video will keep me occupied, and stop me from over-analyzing how many toes ARE on Not-Henry-Gale’s feet??? Because some people think that there are 6…
Okay, okay you may have heard on the news: Bill Gates is leaving Microsoft! The founder of the company…. 30 years….. retirement…… focus on charity…. no day-to-day duties… blah blah…. blah. The media is making it seem like he just died or something. But get real. Here are some points:
- Bill Gates is ending his “Day-to-day” duties - he’s not quiting! He’s still the biggest guy there - yeah whatever - maye not in writing, but I mean come on. So he goes into work 2 or 3 days a week as opposed to 6 or 7.
- This isn’t even happening until 2008 which is 2 years from now
- Everyone’s thinking that Microsoft will change drastically, but seriously - I don’t think so. Bill Gates is the richest man in the world - he’s still in charge.
On another note: I’ve heard a *A* lot *A* of *R* people *O* call *N* Bill Gates evil, even compare him to the devil! But seriously: He gives SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much of his money to charity - he just gave up his day-to-day duties at Microsoft to SPEND his earned money and save thousands of lives!!! I mean come on, last time I checked the devil didn’t do that.
Also, I found this hilarious website about a fake assasination of Bill Gates.
That’s all I have to say. Next week’s R&R (Rant & Rave) is about how the U.S. looks in the eyes of the other countries of the world, and why they hate us!
I’ve just found an amazing website. It has free games. Downloadable free games. Hundreds of them. FREE… not trials, just plain freeware free games. Caiman.us has lots of great games from fight games to fligh simulators to 2D and 3D racing games to puzzles to RPGs to the great classics like pong. And they are all P-R-E-T-T-Y good. Now these aren’t official commercial games made by EA games, they mostly personal game developers, I think. But boy is each game a fun game. And they all have AMAZINGLY low file sizes. Enough of my rambling, if your a PC user, check it out: Caiman.us.
My personal favorite: AttacCar
Well, yesterday afternoon at 5:30 I graduated from 8th grade! Right now there are only a few pictures, taken by my mom, but I’ll add some still frames from video that my dad took soon. Don’t forget to roll over the pictures on Flickr to see my notes! I’ve also updated my about page and the profile at right —->
Today was our second-to-last day of school! Well - kind of. Tommorow is the last full day of school. Thursady we only have to go for a test at 12:00 and then graduation, and then we have to do the same thing (except graduation) on monday, tuesday and some other day next week.
So yeah, it’s basically over. And then camp starts. Yay.
On July 4th we go to Elo and Andrew’s which will be a lot of fun. We did that last year too (second one down.) Oh yeah, that’s the new movie page - the entire crusader series is up, the trip upstate, florida reunion, the gates, and I’m younger than that now. All for download in less that 10 MB versions in .wmv format.
Despite the title, this is actually a very exciting and engaging movie. “The Constant Gardener” starts out as a love story, and ends somewhat as a “spy movie” - a thriller but most of it takes place in Africa. It’s really a mix of genres…
Starring Ralph Fiennes as the main character Justin, and Rachel Weisz as his wife Tessa who (this isn’t really a plot spoiler because the whole movie is based around it) is killed at the beginning. The story is then told flashing back to Tessa before you died, how Justin and Tessa met, and of course - what they are doing in Africa. It’s unclear of Justin’s business, but Tessa’s has to do with researching a drug company that she and other suspect of “testing” their HIV patients in Africa - testing in a bad way that might involve death. Tessa couldn’t tell Justin much about any of this, top secret classifed things. Then she was killed. So the rest of the movie is Justin running around Africa, London and other places trying to find out who killed his wife, and prove that these companies are evil.
What’s amazing is it’s not Mission: Impossible spy-gadget-gear-jumping-off-buildings type of mystery-thriller - but much of it takes place in Africa and it’s almost like a documentary. It takes you into the heart of poor towns in Kenya, with the HIV and AIDS all around, innocent kids - very skinny kids. It’s a great view of Africa that makes you want to go there.
Ralph Fiennes does a pretty good job in his role, his coping with his wife’s death, etc. and Rachel Weisz is even better. Even though she’s dead about 30 seconds into the movie, she is the star of the first third of the movie through flashbacks, and she does a very good job. The other characters are fairly minor, but also very good actors.
What makes this movie so amazing is it’s way of blending numerous genres into one movie that just WORKS. Unlike “The New World” it’s interesting, and pretty fast moving. The story is engaging and keeps you watching. I have to admit though, it does drag on a little bit in the end at 2 hours and 9 minutes, which doesn’t seem like that much so I was probably just tired.
There’s not much more that I have to say about this except that it was very well directed by Fernando Meirelles and has style and is just an overall very good movie.
9/10
I’ve just added 13 “movie desktop wallpapers” to Flickr. Most of them I originally took a poster from the movie, and somehow adjusted it for desktop size. For many of them I took a piece of the background and copied it, morphing it, flipping it around things like that. It works especially well for a cloudly sky. You can see them all here.
