Wow, I haven’t posted in a while. I just moved, so I’m gonna blame it on that.
I saw War of the Worlds this weekend. It didn’t really live up to my expectations, and I was rather disappointed with how it came out. I’m apparently not as bothered by Tom Cruise’s existence as it seems most everyone else is, but I don’t think that was the issue. The tripods were pretty freakin’ cool, but I think the problem was lack of substance. Not that there was necessarily a lot of plot elements to work with, but I think people wanted more. The entire movie is exactly one plot point. Aliens attack Earth. That’s it. You never find out why, where they come from, what exactly they want, nor why they just decide to “die” either. Maybe they were allergic to water?
NASA crashed their deal into Tempel 1 on July 4th and there are some pretty sweet pictures. Here’s a cool movie of the impactor approaching the comet.
I also went to Washington D.C. for the 4th to see the fireworks there since I’ve never been there for that, and it’s one of the top 10 places to be for Independence Day according to MSNBC. That makes me more patriotic than you, unless you were there too. Basically, that makes you a terrorist since you clearly don’t care about your country.
I got TiVo last week and let me tell you…it’s a hojillion times more awesome than the stupid crappy Time Warner DVR. It’s totally worth the small monthly fee, and I can definitely sacrifice being able to record two things at the same time. I didn’t do that very often anyway. So, as someone who had Time Warner’s DVR for a year and a half, I highly recommend getting TiVo instead. You can download stuff from the TiVo to burn it to DVD, schedule things to record via the internet, and the audio and video quality doesn’t suck ass. I think that alone makes it worth it.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince comes out in 10 more days and I can’t wait. It better be awesome or I’m gonna go to London and kick J.K. Rowling in the face. But I’m sure it’ll be fine. At least it better…. *shakes fist at J.K. Rowling*
