Archive for April, 2004

Kill Bill, Vol. I

Grade: B-Just saw Kill Bill, Vol. I this past weekend at the cheap theater, and while it was a bit gory I thought it was decent overall.
It’s your basic revenge film–for reasons not fully explained in the first movie, a bunch of assassins tries to kill Uma Thurman’s character but only succeed in leaving her […]

GMail first impressions

I recently got a GMail account and I had a few quick first impressions.
I really like the fact that it doesn’t always put ads next to your emails. It appears that if it cannot determine a useful match to the email content, instead of displaying any old ad it just displays nothing. Very […]

Good deals on Mitsubishi cars?

So the pinstripe suits at DaimlerChrysler finally showed some common sense, and have decided not to fund a bailout of trouble Mitsubishi Motors. Guess they finally realized it would just be throwing good money after bad.
I assume the reason they made the initial investment was the hope that they could duplicate the […]

Gravity probe launched

What a great time we live in–the Einstein gravity probe was launched and will begin investigating General Relativity. Trying to see if certain predictions in that theory, related to mass warping space-time, hold up.
This will be cool to see, though the results are still a couple years away–it’s a year of gathering data, and then […]

Denmark the leading e-commerce nation

A recent study ranks Denamrk as the leading e-commerce nation. In fact of the top 5, all but Britain are Scandinavian countries. Some of the parameters that went into the ranking include PC ownership, and apparently in the Nordic countries PC ownership is a lot closer to 100% than it is here in the […]

HIV scare shuts down porn movies

In a way this is actually good to know–apparently the major studios in the porn business test the sex workers regularly. One male star tested positive for HIV and so the studios have shut down production.
One thing I thought funny in the article was that it calls porn a “$4 billion to $13 billion-a-year industry”. […]

CNET releases Q1 results

Not bad–my employer released its Q1 results and they’re okay. Not gangbusters like Yahoo was, but a strong gain and higher guidance for annual revenue. Both good things.
Now if I can just get a raise…

Sorority girls told to lie during blood donation

Well this is comforting–the blood drive coordinator for a sorority in Missouri told her fellow sorority girls to lie when donating blood. For example, you’re not supposed to donate if you were recently sick and this girl told her sorority sisters to lie and go donate anyway.
First off, they must really take this blood drive […]

Big Fish

Grade: B+Tim Burton’s latest flick, Big Fish, finally made it to the dollar cinema so I went to go see it this past weekend. And while it isn’t the kind of movie I’d want to watch over and over again, it was nonetheless a pleasant little flick.
The story is about William Blook (played by Billy […]

I’m an old man

It’s official–I’m an old man. Went to the doctor today and walked away with three prescriptions. Three. Anybody who has to get three prescriptions filled simultaneously is an old old man. Or very ill. Or both.
Luckily I’m not really that ill. One of the meds isn’t for daily use–it’s […]