Archive for August, 2005

One of my favorite horror flicks has been re-made

I wasn’t aware until today that they had re-made The Fog. The new version comes out in a couple months, in time for Halloween of course.
The John Carpenter original is one of my favorite horror flicks of all time. It was such a masterful use of suspense to heighten the anticipation–no huge special […]

A weekend without the Internet

I’ve been having some minor RSI-type pain in the left arm, no doubt a result of my new job where I have to email and IM with a lot more people than before. So I decided I needed to give myself some rest from keyboarding, to help ease the physical pain. I vowed […]

Retail interruptus

So I’ve been a member of the Rewards Zone program at Best Buy for about a year. It’s one of those loyalty programs, where you earn points for everything you purchase and eventually you get store credit back when you earn enough points.
The problem is that I normally don’t buy that much, a CD […]

Sad end for Excite@Home

What a way for one of the former Internet darlings to end–they liquidator is selling off the remaining domain names that Excite@Home had in its portfolio. Excite.com was sold off a while ago, eventually making its way into the hands of AskJeeves.
What an inglorious fate for what used to be a billion-dollar company. […]

Oliver Stone has lost the touch

After slogging thru the first 45 minutes of Alexander I am beginning to wonder what has happened to Oliver Stone. His early work was great–I loved Wall Street, he pulled great performances from Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen. But here in Alexander he’s wasting the talents of people like Val Kilmer and Angelina […]

Go see March of the Penguins

Went to the Baxter yesterday and saw March of the Penguins. Definitely recommended, it’s a great tale of the unbelievable lengths the emperor penguin takes to birth and raise its young.
It’s just breathtaking to see how determined these creatures are to breed, the male penguins go four months without eating and brave the freezing […]

Betty Crocker introduces single-serving microwave cakes

So I was wandering the aisles of the super Wal-Mart, as always amazed at the variety of consumer goods stuffed into one gigantic building, when I stumbled across a display for Betty Crocker’s Warm Delights. Apparently just introduced, and not even listed yet on the Betty Crocker web site, these are single-serving cake mixes […]

On the radio

Like the Donna Summer song says, I was “on the radio” this afternoon. My first radio interview, Shawn and I were on State of Affairs. It’s a public-affairs show broadcast by the local public radio station, and the topic was blogging.
The host, Julie Kredens, said she thought it went very well. As did everyone here […]

Just doing cardio

So I thought this elbow problem would only affect back-related exercises but it turns out it can impact chest-related as well. Like yesterday when I was doing flys it definitely hurt. Just the warm-up weight was hurting so I quit.
I think I’d better not do any arm-related workouts for a while, try and […]

Atkin’s slims down

Seems the company that was founded to push the Atkin’s Diet has run into hard times–Atkins Nutritionals filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday. Not only has the fad run its course, but a lot of the large processed-food companies jumped hard on the bandwagon and so their products are squeezing Atkins off the […]