I went to lunch at Arby’s today. It should be noted that I haven’t been to Arby’s in a long time. They’ve apparently “friendlyicized” their restaurants. When I walked in the door, no less than 6 people said, “Hi!”, “Welcome to Arby’s!”, or “How’re you doing?” It was disturbing…it almost made me want to just turn around and leave. I don’t know about you, but I don’t wanna be subjected to an onslaught of greetings by Arby’s empolyees. Then to top that off they have a bell that you can ring on your way out if they, “made your day.” They did…but not in the manner that I believe was intended. And on the way out, I received two “Bye’s”, two “Have a good afternoon’s”, and a “Drive safe.” Oh, I was actually planning on driving recklessly today…but since Arby’s has instructed me not to, I think I’ll change my mind.

Thanks for saving my life today Arby’s! I owe you one.

Don’t you hate it when people on TV call slashes backslashes when they’re telling URL’s to people. Then they trip up trying to say backslash and they’re like, “I get tripped up saying backslash.” And all the while you’re screaming at the TV, “IT’S SLASH, NOT BACKSLASH YOU MORON!” I didn’t think it was that hard, cause one points forward and the other points back. That’s like confusing open parentheses and close parentheses.

That, frankly, will not fly

Funny story…so I was reheating some chicken in the toaster this afternoon for lunch and I walked away for a minute while it was cooking. I proceeded to go back to the kitchen after a couple minutes to retrieve the chicken from the toaster oven, but what do I see? Flames shooting out of the toaster oven!!

“Not good,” I thought.

So I was putting out the fire in the toaster when the smoke detector went off. And I’m all like, “I know it’s smoking in here, the toaster is on fire…stop beeping at me!” So I go to push the button on the smoke detector to try to cut it off. It cuts off, so I go back to trying to get the windows and doors open to fumigate the smoke…when the smoke detector goes off again. I go and cut it off again. This happens two more times before I’m really mad at the smoke detector, because it’s not even really smokey or anything. So I had to tear the stupid thing out of the ceiling since there aren’t batteries in the smoke detectors.

Luckily, I got there when I did and was able to put out the fire before anything got destroyed or the building burnt down or something.

So the moral of the story is…don’t use your toaster oven for it’s intended purpose or you’ll probably burn down your house.

We didn’t start the fire, No we didn’t light it, But we tried to fight it

I swear we live in the most moronic state in the country. Only in North Carolina can a third of an inch of snow warrant six straight hours of live coverage on the news.

Then…after the roads are basically 95% clear and perfectly fine, people decide they still need to drive really really slowly. There were no accidents and no construction delays (I called the DOT 511 line) on I-40 and it was backed up for twenty-six miles. That’s right, 26 miles! 20 miles of which is four lanes. This was also at 8:30 PM. Not even close to rush hour.

If all these dumb people who get freaked out over a third of an inch of snow ever moved to somewhere where they actually get winter weather, the people who live there would probably euthanize them all for being terminally retarded.

What we’ve been saying for years has now been proven true…women are bad at math.

Now to just do a study proving they’re also bad at driving and all the myths will be busted.

Men – 1, Women – 0

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So this week I watched The Return of the King: Extended Edition, Octane (finally), and Swimming Pool. I thoroughly enjoyed all three. They’re all from completely different areas of the movie genre spectrum, however.

The Return of the King: Extended Edition – Well, it’s RotK so you know it’s gonna be awesome anyway…the only thing I was kinda disappointed about was them leaving out the scouring of the Shire. That part is just so important to the story that I thought it would be been included. *shrugs* oh well.

Octane – After looking for it anywhere for like a year and a half, I finally found it being shown on some movie channel on TV. So I watched it. It was pretty good. It was one of those movies that just gets weirder and weirder as it goes along…then it all makes sense in the end. At least I liked it…

Swimming Pool – a French film about an English novelist at her publisher’s house in France writing a new novel, and her publisher’s daughter shows up. It’s a mystery…and probably sounds lame from that little summary, but I don’t wanna give anything away. It was good and reminded me, stylistically, of The Hours.



I also got to tour the Executive Briefing Center at work the other day. It was pretty cool seeing the elite conference center that only like 5 people have access to. There were free cookies.

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White Noise – it’s really great….if you like looking at super zoomed in images of tv screens, stereos, and cassette tapes. If you — like most people I assume — don’t, then you’re going to be in for a huge let down. Based on the trailer alone, this movie looked awesome. The minute long trailer was actually all the good parts of the movie put togeter one after the other and the shown to people. The good news however, is that this movie was slightly better than Darkness.

Darkness – well, you can’t say too much about this movie except that it was bad. Maybe it was more entertaining and enjoyable in Spanish (it’s original release was in 2002 in Spain), but I doubt it. The lesson we learn from this movie is that darkness can do whatever it wants…as long as it’s dark, otherwise you’re cool.

We also happened to watch the last half of You Got Served on tv…this movie needs English subtitles is what it needs. I had no idea what was happening most of the time. In addition to that, it was obviously crappy. The best part is at the very end when all the people on the winning “crew” start chanting, “Served! Served! Served! Served!” Retarded…

What an aarboob was

Article about BitTorrent – with the creator, Bram Cohen.

Another double header tomorrow night. We’re goin’ to see Darkness and White Noise on the same day — both of which look freakin’ sweet. I’ll let ya know. The rule now is, we only do double headers for horror flicks, since we first did it with The Grudge and Saw in the same day.

It’s gon rain!

1.) Fox’s show “Who’s Your Daddy?” that aired yesterday. Sure it’s retarded and just wrong…but the Raleigh-Durham Fox affiliate was the only one to not broadcast the show. I’m not sure which I’m bothered by more — the censorship or the fact that a show called “Who’s Your Daddy?” actually got produced…

2.) It’s like 75 freakin’ degrees outside…did I miss January through May and this is really March or is something terribly wrong? Michael Crichton couldn’t ask for better divine publicity though…a tsunami about two weeks after State of Fear was released, which had a tsunami in it, and it being 75 degrees in January…

Good article if you don’t know how the scene works and want to know more about it.

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