Have you seen EVERY ONE of these 10 Awesome Movies?

My list of 10 movies that did reasonably well at the box office, but didn't crush any records, and are MUST SEE films
	The Abyss - Ed Harris
	The Stunt Man - Peter O'Toole
	The Sure Thing - John Cusack
	No Way Out - Kevin Costner
	Doc Hollywood - Michael J. Fox
	Guys and Dolls - Marlon Brando
	Jeremiah Johnson - Robert Redford
	Swept Away - ?
	Monty Python's Life of Brian - M.P.
	American Graffiti - Ron Howard

The List of the Best 250 of ALL-TIME, as voted by frequent visitors to the Internet Movie Database (IMDB)

Say It Ain't So, Jack Bauer!

It may sound like a publicity stunt, but Fox spokesman Chris Anderson says the network isn't after bigger ratings. "We are publicizing '24's' commitment to climate change for two reasons and two reasons only: to inspire the public to take global warming seriously and hopefully to motivate other studios to make changes to their production practices as well," he says.

I've got NO problem with businesses voluntarily reducing greenhouse gases smog. It's a wonderfully environmental thing to do. But when the GOVT. creates costly financial regulations designed to meet Kyoto ( read Dumb-ass Arnold Schwarzeneggar, GWBush, & Tony Blair) that's when it's time to call time-out.

Just how much of the "Greenhouse Effect" is caused by human activity?

It is about 0.28%, if water vapor is taken into account-- about 5.53%, if not.

This point is so crucial to the debate over global warming that how water vapor is or isn't factored into an analysis of Earth's greenhouse gases makes the difference between describing a significant human contribution to the greenhouse effect, or a negligible one.

Water vapor constitutes Earth's most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95% of Earth's greenhouse effect (4). Interestingly, many "facts and figures' regarding global warming completely ignore the powerful effects of water vapor in the greenhouse system, carelessly (perhaps, deliberately) overstating human impacts as much as 20-fold.

Human Tetris And Life Size Tetris

Those wacky Asians..
And not to be outdone... Russian students with an empty apartment building, and time on their hands.... (oh to be back at Williams Village...)

Roswell: Now I Understand..

Can't confirm veracity, but interesting none-the-less...

July 1947 historical event

I thought you would enjoy this little blurb of nonfiction:

Many will recall that on July 8, 1947 witnesses claimed that an unidentified object with five aliens
aboard crashed onto a sheep and cattle ranch outside Roswell, New Mexico.

This is a well known incident that many say has long been covered up by the U.S.Air Force and the Federal Government.

However, you may NOT know that in the month of March 1948 exactly nine months after that historic day.

Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., Hillary Rodham, John F. Kerry, William Jefferson Clinton, Howard Dean
Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Charles E. Schumer and Barbara Boxer were born.

See what happens when aliens breed with sheep. This piece of information may clear up a lot of
things.

Comedy Friday

''This week in Iran, Iranian designers held a fashion show using Iranian models. For the 5,000th year in a row, burkhas are in.''
CONAN O'BRIEN, ON LATE NIGHT

Top Ten Least Popular Conversation Starters

"Can you tell I have drug-resistant tuberculosis?" "How do you like my Al-Qaeda t-shirt?" "Wanna see me drop my pants and fire a rocket?" "I once lived across the street from Maury Povich" "Here kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty..." "If you were a woman, I bet you'd be pretty" "Are you a cop?" "Hi, I'm Shecky" "Anyone watch 'Letterman' last night?" "Mind if I call you mommy?"

Teenager in 1901 Made Uncanny Tech Predictions

A website, Paleo-Future, describes itself as "A look into the future that never was." Fascinating stuff on the site. Sample prediction from 1901:

You may go to Europe in six hours by "The Submarine Line." The House-keepers will have an easy time; the dishes will be washed by electricity. In the year 2001, you will not see a single horse on Broadway, New York and only autos will be seen.

Tattoos Only Clark & Bruce Could Love

An insider post here, to a couple a' knuckleheads old college buddies of mine.
Temporary Tattoos On sale at McPhee

Our Commander In Chief

I simply can't trust the guy anymore... He continues to stare out with the lens caps on....

iPhone Cartoon

You Think YOU Had a Tough Week?

ATHENS, Tenn. — After being struck by a car Sunday and beaten by an intruder Monday, Tony Hicks returned to a hospital a third consecutive day when police investigating a convenience store robbery shot him.

The unrelated sequence of hospitalizations was not the first time police have dealt with Hicks, whose criminal record includes a shootout with police, Detective Bill Matthews said.

A police statement said Hicks was shot after making "aggressive movements" toward officers who wanted to question him about the Tuesday night robbery near his apartment.

KARMA... It works! This guy has a bit of a rap sheet....

MY 4th of July: The Good The Bad and The Ugly

I was happily lazing my way thru the 4th when my son walks up to me and asks "Dad, can I set up a lemonade stand?" My heart leapt with joy... my son is picking up on my entrepreneurial legacy and wants to EARN his dough. I looked outside, at a bird who was hooked up to an IV machine getting a dose of fluids, in the 101 degree heat. It was 11 AM.
"Sure!" I said. Oh man... a hot day... but I gotta support this kind of initiative... We spent $9 on lemonade, ice and cups... picked a good spot, and two hours later, we'd made.. $9. But I'd had a very good time making the signs with him, and tossing out little educational terms like marketing, advertising and location, location, location.

We went and saw "Ratatouille" and I might have enjoyed it more than him, although he was often doubled over in laughter. VERY good job, Pixar. Thanks for making the movies I wanted to see when I was a kid.

Then we went to our strategically parked car on the roof of the Valencia Town Center Mall parking garage, to watch the fireworks. Perhaps next year, we'll get a little further away, as fireworks shows are too damn loud that close..I don't know what was worse: the bangs, or the BIKERS constantly using foul language even though they were surrounded by dozens of families with kids. They reinforced every negative stereotype I've EVER had about bikers, and started brand new ones for my kid to believe. Idiots. Left the parking lot behind a guy who had taken great pains to put a ghetto-like lift kit on.... a Chevy Corsica... a Corsica? There is still one on the road? That was one of the worst cars ever made... My town, Valencia.. is turning into frakkin' Los Angeles slowly, before my eyes.... I hope it slows down, because Valencia is still far better than anywhere else in this state to live.

Music Trivia Posers Rejoice: Hail The MUSIC MARKER

You hear a song on the radio... it rocks... but the damn DJ doesn't tell you who it is.. Next time you hear it, press the button on this pocket device, it records a snippet of the music. Plug it into your PC when you get home, somehow it magically dials up Uncle Cliff, and he figures out the tune title/artist... Cheap at only $20!

Bleary Eyed After the 4th?

YOU PROBABLY THINK THESE PATTERNS ARE MOVING... THEY'RE NOT!

Haiku Movie Review: Ratatouille

Rat can cook mean grub,
Adults like me loved it too
Better than Paris.

Golf Cruiser Makes Me Want To Resume Golfing

The new 2007 Golf Cruiser is not your papa's golf cart, but more like Tiger Wood's kick-ass three-wheeler. It's electric, running on a 1000W engine with an upgraded 36 volts battery that gives you 8 to 10 hours of operation. And although the top speed is 9.3mph, it can carry 397 pounds of gear. I still prefer the strap-on beer cruiser, because anything with "beer" and "strap-on" in its name instantly gets my attention.
(VIA GIZMODO)

Drumming: NO Roadies Needed

Using the Wii, you can lay down some serious noise. (Not yet on sale.)

The Power Of Photoshop

Real Wrath of GOD Stuff

Finished editing some packages for a client of mine, Reporter Frank Mottek of KTLA News. This clip shows some rather amazing footage.. TRT: 1:27


FOR AN OVERVIEW FROM GODS Point of view,
CLICK HERE...

"TIVO" for the Web: My Beta Test first Impressions

I told you guys about a new website/software app called VEOH. It is a quick downlaod, easily installed, and gives you the look and feel of TIVO, whilst it searches out all the cluttered, ugly interfaces such as Google Video, YouTube, MetaCaafe and others, including TV NETWORK websites, and presents it in an elegant user interface.. There is NO GOING back to individual website surfing for video THIS IS THE BOMB!
It is configurable, allows you to store favorite clips you find, choose from video blogs, podcasts, create playlists of videos and much more...
107 Channels are available on the Channels Page.. some channels are:
National Lampoon
High Times Pot Cast
G4TV
TV Guide
NCAA
PBS/CBS/NBC/ABC/Fox/CW
Sportsbabes (LOVED IT)
News For Blondes
Wine Library TV
EcoGeeks
Billboard
MTV
I highly recommend it.

Your Next Ink Cartridge: Encrption Locked

My thimble-sized ink cartridge from HP costs $22 for black, 27 for color, and can be blown out with a 35 page color project. If I buy Office Depot's version, I save a big $4.... If I try remanufactured cartridges next time, the printer will tell me to piss off..... because it knows its not an HP cartridge... Bastards!

Hewlett-Packard, the biggest PC maker in the world, actually makes the most profit from its printer business: 46 percent of its total earnings in the most recent fiscal quarter were generated by its Imaging and Printing Group. And ink is a key.
Cryptography is a method of encrypting data so that only a specific, private key can unlock, or decrypt, the information. It's used in everything from credit cards to digital media. CRI plans to create a secure chip that will allow only certain ink cartridges to communicate with certain printers. Starting in early 2008.

The Gallatin Backpack!

Coleman Exponent 2L Gallatin Hydration System

I shoulda been on American Inventor... (actually... some OTHER
Gallatin came up with this ingenious
way to keep drinking water while on casual hikes, without stopping to open bottles and stuff... You have a constant flow of H2O avail. via a straw... from Coleman ($27.95 at Amazon)

Moisture management polyester mesh on back panel and shoulder strap > Omni-directional bite valve

2 Jokes

A guy goes over to his friends house, rings the bell. The wife answers.
"Hi, is Tony home?"
"No, Chris, he went to the store."
"Well, do you mind if I wait?"
"No, come on in."
They sit down and the friend says, "You know Sara, you have the greatest breasts I've ever seen. I'd give you a hundred bucks if I could just see one."
Sara thinks about this for a second and figures, what the hell, a hundred bucks is a hundred bucks. She opens her robe and shows him one. He thanks her and promptly throws a hundred bucks on the table.
They sit there a while longer and Chris says, " They are just so beautiful! I've got to see them both. I'll give you another hundred if I could just see them both together."
Sara say what the hell, opens her robe and gives Chris a nice long look. Chris thanks her and throws another hundred bucks on the table and says he can't wait any longer for Tony and leaves.
A while later Tony arrives home and his wife says, "You know, your weird friend Chris came over."
Tony thinks about this for a second and says, "Well, did he drop off the 200 bucks he owes me?"



A drunken man walks into a biker bar, sits down at the bar and orders a drink. Looking around, he sees three men sitting at a corner table.

He gets up, staggers to the table, leans over, looks the biggest, meanest, biker in the face and says: "I went by your grandma's house today and I saw her in the hallway butt naked. Man, she is one fine looking woman!"

The biker looks at him and doesn't say a word. His buddies are confused, because he is one bad biker and would fight at the drop of a hat.

The drunk leans on the table again and says: "I got it on with your grandma and she is good, the best I ever had!"


The biker's buddies are starting to get really mad but the biker still says nothing.

The drunk leans on the table one more time and says, "I'll tell you something else, boy, your grandma liked it!"

At this point the biker stands up, takes the drunk by the shoulders looks him square in the eyes and says... "Grandpa,....... Go home, you're drunk!"

Wii: Now I Get It

Since its launch last October(?), The Nintendo Wii has made fools out of Microsoft and Sony, outselling them both... I've seen Nintendo systems in the past, and they kinda sucked. I thought the Wii was selling because people couldn't afford $599 for a PS3 or $400 for an XBox 360... Nope. it's because it is playable by ANYONE. Our family played TOGETHER for 2 hours last night, and it is a great bonding tool, unlike other game systems where a kid closets himself for hours....I am amazed at how realistic the bowling is... At $4.50-$6.00 a game at the alley, I just might be done renting shoes....
$300... plus extra controllers...
We're taking it to a pool party today. The pool will be empty. Photo at left is of someone's Grandma playing... Get off yer butts people.. Time to Wii.

We've officially got a new gadget-related medical term on our hands people, coined by Dr. Julio Bonis, who woke up one morning and realized his Wii was causing him sports-injury like symptoms. Wiiitis is the name, learn it well. it has been canonized in a letter published by the New England Journal of Medicine, Unfortunately, the treatment may be worse than the disease for some: Bonis prescribed "ibuprofen for one week, as well as complete abstinence from playing Wii video games".

Wanna see what the gameplay looks like? CLICK HERE.
It is an EXERCISE machine...
(And I need it..) It comes with 5 games, in Wii Sports: (In order of my favorite)
Bowling / Tennis / Golf / Baseball / Boxing

Picture of the Month: The Car Grill

A guy actually sliced his old car into 3rds, and kept the front, and turned it into a barbecue grill....

Clinton Joke

Bill and Hillary are at the Yankee season opener sitting in the first
row, with the Secret Service agents directly behind them. One of the
Secret Service guys leans forward and whispers something to Bill.

At first, Clinton stares at the guy, looks at Hillary, looks back at
the agent, and shakes his head.

The agent then says, "Mr. Clinton, it was at the unanimous request of
the entire team, from the owner on down to the bat boy."

Bill hesitates...but begins to change his mind when the agent tells him
the fans would love it!

Bill shrugs his shoulders and says, " Okay, if that's what the people
want."

With that, Bill gets up, grabs Hillary by her collar and the seat of
her pants, lifts her up, and tosses her right over the wall onto the
field. She gets up kicking, swearing, and screaming, "I'll kill you!"

The crowd goes absolutely wild. Fans are jumping up & down, cheering,
hooting & hollering, and exchanging high-fives.

Bill is bowing, smiling and waving to the crowd. He leans over to the
agent and says, "How about that! I would have never believed how much
everyone would enjoy that!"

Noticing his agent has gone totally pale, he asks what is wrong.

The agent replies, "Sir, I said they wanted you to throw out the first
pitch."