Techless days

The in-laws have departed, and, hopefully, I can get to work on that laptop software tonight. Seeing as how my wife and I just napped for a good 3 hours, I should have plenty of energy to work on that, eh? There’s nothing better than Sunday afternoon naps, can I just say that?

While they were here, we went to see Monsters Ball the new movie with Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry. How was it? In a word, bleak. It was portrayed as more of an uplifting movie experience than it really is. I, personally, did not leave the theater thinking about how good the human race has the potential to be, but how awful. Maybe that’s just because I am a cynic at heart :). Or maybe it was because we went to one of those 30 screen mall theaters, which normally is tolerable, but this was a new one for me and it was not very pleasant. There were too many people walking into the theater and trying to find seats after the lights went out and the previews were playing, and being rather rude about it. It occurs to me, however, that this doesn’t happen in other theaters for this simple reason. The people who built this place obviously flunked math. 30 screens, however many hundreds of people coming in and out, 1 (ONE!!!) concession stand with maybe 5-6 lines. You had to get there plenty early if you wanted popcorn, and if you didn’t, you had to find your seats in the dark. Blah!

OK, off to have some food and then to get some work done.

Similar Posts

  • 4 years running

    A quick look back to the beginning of the archives shows me that come Oct. 8. this here weblog will be 4 years old. That’s a whole lot of posts and a whole lot of writing, but I’ve enjoyed doing it and think it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. More importantly,…

  • The Observed Life

    I saw this post titled Living the Observed Life, and thought it was an interesting idea. You should go read it too, and follow all the links. It’s true that no one expects to be sued, I certainly don’t. On the other hand, at my previous job as the IT guy, I did have to…

  • Whew!

    OK I was up until 4AM making sure everything here worked and writing the full article on the problems I had with That Hosting Company. It seems everything is ok with the exception of comments from Sunday and Monday. Sorry, those seem to be gone. Given that much work, I’m taking most of the rest…

  • Round up

    Links to interesting things: DDNS Service to block faulty Linksys routers. Yahoo! IM contains security flaw. Keeping it fun -Kevin makes a good point! Lockergnome releases shareware feedreader Follow these topics: Uncategorized

  • Plans? We don’t need no stinkin’ plans!

    Josh has run into that wonderful bit of managerial incompetence known as “no planning skills” He assumes that some people just don’t know what a plan is. I’ll go you one better Josh, have you ever had someone hand you a memo with the “Plan” on it and noticed that two of the intermediate steps…

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

To respond on your own website, enter the URL of your response which should contain a link to this post's permalink URL. Your response will then appear (possibly after moderation) on this page. Want to update or remove your response? Update or delete your post and re-enter your post's URL again. (Find out more about Webmentions.)