Me: Just got done watching The Happening
Brother: and?
Me: Wow
Me: That's all I can say
Brother: I know, right?
Brother: pretty miserable.
Me: To put it lightly
Me: I'm just sooooo glad I didn't pay for it!
Me: How the hell does Zooey Deschanel keep get acting roles!?
Me: She's terrible!
Brother: She...yeah, I can't defend her. Especially in this movie.
Brother: yeah, it was pretty awful
Brother: I thoroughly enjoyed John Leguizamo smashing his jeep into a tree, then slitting his wrists. It was like they filmed the extremes an actor was willing to go to get out of that movie.
Me: I have not seen Zooey in a movie where she's a good actress
Me: She's just terrible
Me: She's beyond terrible, because she keeps popping up in movies
Me: Yeah that was cool
Brother: I liked her in that Will Ferrell movie.
Me: It was a mixture of War of the Worlds (the newer movie), Final Destination and whatever the worst episode of the X-Files is.
Brother: with a healthy dash of M. Night thinking everything he writes is gold.
Me: Was "Joey" even in the movie?
Brother: Joey?
Me: Yeah
Brother: who's Joey?
Me: The guy that was calling Zooey's character
Brother: oh, was that M. Night?
Me: That's who M. Night played
Me: yeah
Me: I didn't recognize him by the caller ID, though
Me: because it said....Joey
Brother: I don't know dude, the plot was so ridiculous I barely paid attention to it.
Me: I'm just glad that someone else paid for it so I didn't have to.
Brother: Yeah, I'm glad you didn't pay for it. It would've made you angry I suspect.
Me: Yes
Me: It would have
Me: I'm still a little pissed about taking up my evening with it
Me: But I can get over that because at least I'm not out $18 also
Brother: yeah, true.
Brother: and it's worth it if you can stop just one other person from inflicting it upon themselves.
Brother: like reverse Amway
Me: Can they pay me for watching it?
Brother: if you can find a way to make that work, let me know.
Me: I don't think I've ever been this disappointed in a movie.
Brother: did you expect it'd be good?
Me: Well not after the bad reviews from after it came out...but I didn't expect it to be
Me: ....to be.....
Me: ....whatever the hell THAT was
Brother: yeah, it sucked big ones.
Brother: anyway dude. I'm crashing. I'll talk to you in the morning.
Me: Alright.  I'm gonna go to bed here in a bit and try to recover from that movie.
Brother: It'll drain ya.
Me: Yeah, it did.
Brother: anywho, night bro.
Me: Night

I spent this past weekend up north with my parents, as well as with my daughter.   I've got quite a few pictures that you can see on my Flickr page.   A couple of them I turned into 1440x900 wallpapers for my notebook and I thought I'd share that here.  

 

 

 

 

I was a little bored today, and since I happen to have a Flash project at work I figured I'd play around a little in Flash to familiarize myself with the interface again.   After all, it's been years since I've really done anything with it.   Hopefully it'll be another few years before I have to do anything else again.    Anyway, I did a little MP3 player.    I'll be the first to admit that it's really just created by someone else and modified by myself, but it works.   That's what matters.

However, I did run into an issue.   I didn't want to upload a bunch of "illegal" MP3s that other people could then find the XML that leads to it and just copy the actual MP3s down from my server then causing a rampant hit of bandwidth on my server causing my ISP to realize that I am hosting "illegal" material and calling in the black helicopters to delete my entire website and also kidnap me in the process and sell my internal organs to the lowest bidder on the Nigerian black market so that I would end up as one of the poor people you read about in the e-mails where all you have to do is give the kind person informing you of my untimely demise your bank account number and they will transfer millions upon millions of dollars into your account making you happiest beyond your wildest dreams and causing the end of world starvation because I'm sure that if you had that sort of money you would donate it all to some sort of charity that would put a complete stop to the world hunger and thereby causing the people that sent the e-mail to no longer be hungry so they would come and thank you in person probably with a P90 or some other form of weapon found in Call of Duty 4 which happens to be a very fun game and I think I will play it once I am done explaining just exactly why I didn't upload any "illegal" MP3s to my server. 

So now you know why.   So I uploaded the music from my old band instead.  Check it out here.   I'll even open a new window for you to enjoy it in.  But you get to resize it to whatever your little heart desires.   I was going to resize it for you, or even embed it here but I didn't feel like doing anything more than clicking a checkbox to pop it up in a new window.   So I didn't.   Luckily you have some good music to sooth your sorrows.