001) The picture on your license to kill looks only slightly better than your driver's license.
002) Angry at all the destroyed cars, Q gets your driver's license revoked. You're forced to chase Largo on a bicycle.
003) The other Double O's laugh at you because you manage to evade several armed guards in your Aston Martin, but crash trying to evade your reflection in a mirror.
004) You get confused when facing down Blofeld, you accidentally call him Dr. Loomis, Kojack, and that guy from Rocky Horror Picture Show.
005) Constant arguments between yourself ("Nobody does it better") and Wolverine ("I'm the best at what I do") over who is actually the best.
006) You keep having trouble telling who is CIA agent (and seemingly master of disguise) Felix Leiter.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Cell Phone Etiquette (Or, Don't talk about that here).
I don't have a cell phone. I had one for a couple of months, but decided that I didn't want it. So far, I've been able to live without it. It still amazes me that so many other people can't seem to do the same. Worse still, it seems that most of these people have no common sense or common decency.
Take this past weekend. I went to dinner with my parents at one of the local fish restaurants in the area (not my choice - I hate seafood). We were seated fairly quickly, which is unusual for this place because it's pretty nice and usually pretty busy.
Everything was pretty nice until someone in a nearby booth had to make a phone call on his cell phone (or got one, I'm not really sure about that). Immediately, this once quiet gentleman starts talking loudly. As near as I can tell, it was simply because he was on a cell phone. This is usually the first thing that I find annoying about a lot of cell phone users. They have this need to talk louder. Sometimes it's to speak over a lot of noise, sometimes it's to compensate for a poor connection (the same logic that Howie Mandel says most people use when they are speaking to someone who doesn't understand the language). Most times, I think it's just a status move to make other people around the cell phone user think, "Hey, he's important."
I'm not really sure why he was talking louder. Frankly, I didn't care. I cared more about the fact that he was speaking loud enough for us to hear his side of the conversation clearly. Not just our table, but the table next to us as well. Every word of his work related call was very clear.
Oh, did I mention that this guy was either a coroner or a medical examiner?
You can probably imagine that much of the conversation left us a little less hungry, even before "Quincy, M.E." got to the instruction, "Put 'im in a body bag and freeze him." After that, I really didn't feel like eating my prime rib anymore.
So, remember, if you need to discuss making a Y-incision in a body over your cell phone at a restaurant, please, GO OUTSIDE!
Take this past weekend. I went to dinner with my parents at one of the local fish restaurants in the area (not my choice - I hate seafood). We were seated fairly quickly, which is unusual for this place because it's pretty nice and usually pretty busy.
Everything was pretty nice until someone in a nearby booth had to make a phone call on his cell phone (or got one, I'm not really sure about that). Immediately, this once quiet gentleman starts talking loudly. As near as I can tell, it was simply because he was on a cell phone. This is usually the first thing that I find annoying about a lot of cell phone users. They have this need to talk louder. Sometimes it's to speak over a lot of noise, sometimes it's to compensate for a poor connection (the same logic that Howie Mandel says most people use when they are speaking to someone who doesn't understand the language). Most times, I think it's just a status move to make other people around the cell phone user think, "Hey, he's important."
I'm not really sure why he was talking louder. Frankly, I didn't care. I cared more about the fact that he was speaking loud enough for us to hear his side of the conversation clearly. Not just our table, but the table next to us as well. Every word of his work related call was very clear.
Oh, did I mention that this guy was either a coroner or a medical examiner?
You can probably imagine that much of the conversation left us a little less hungry, even before "Quincy, M.E." got to the instruction, "Put 'im in a body bag and freeze him." After that, I really didn't feel like eating my prime rib anymore.
So, remember, if you need to discuss making a Y-incision in a body over your cell phone at a restaurant, please, GO OUTSIDE!
Monday, March 13, 2006
Roller Coaster
I wanted to try something a little different. Actually, I just wanted to try adding pics to my blog. Since I wanted to get this list out anyway, it seemed like a good way to kill two birds with one stone.
Anyway, stating for the record, I don't like roller coasters, never have. It's not like I'm afraid to go on one, it's that I'm deathly afraid to go on one. Yet, in my mind, there are those special people who I believe would be able to get me to go on a roller coaster.
They're called women.
Granted, it's not every woman that could make this happen. Barbara Walters couldn't get me on a roller coaster if my life depended on it.
Naturally, a list like this is constantly changing, especially the top five. And I've limited it to celebrities (though I know of one or two women that I know who aren't celebrities who could get me to ride a roller coaster). At this particular moment, the list tends to lean towards the shallow ("she's so hot, I'd go on a roller coaster with her"), but, as I said, it's constantly changing.
The Shallow List (in order, yet in no particular order).
1) Elisha Cuthbert
Kim Bauer from 24. While it did get a bit tiresome watching Kim constantly get into trouble every season, Elisha has that girl next door look (unintentional pun). If she asked nicely, I think I would ride a roller coaster, just not one that loops.
2) Willa Ford
Singer, Ultimate Fighting host, Lingerie bowler, Willa Ford makes the list not only because she's quite attractive, but she appeared in a Six Flags ad campaign riding a roller coaster. Seeing that ad made me want to ride one.
3) Paris Hilton
While she is attractive, her naivety as to how real people live is a real turn off (it's a nice way of saying she seems a bit elitist to me). She does, however, have a big bank account. She could pay me enough to ride a roller coaster.
4) Pauley Perrette
Abby from the CBS show NCIS (Think CSI in the Navy). This is the one person on the list where it's the character (perky Goth lab tech Abby) and not the actor behind the character that would make be say "okay, the Wildcat it is."
Lead singer of Evanescence. She is quite talented, so I wouldn't mind being seen on a roller coaster with her for that. And she is quite attractive, so, again, being seen on a roller coaster with her isn't a bad thing.
Anyway, stating for the record, I don't like roller coasters, never have. It's not like I'm afraid to go on one, it's that I'm deathly afraid to go on one. Yet, in my mind, there are those special people who I believe would be able to get me to go on a roller coaster.
They're called women.
Granted, it's not every woman that could make this happen. Barbara Walters couldn't get me on a roller coaster if my life depended on it.
Naturally, a list like this is constantly changing, especially the top five. And I've limited it to celebrities (though I know of one or two women that I know who aren't celebrities who could get me to ride a roller coaster). At this particular moment, the list tends to lean towards the shallow ("she's so hot, I'd go on a roller coaster with her"), but, as I said, it's constantly changing.
The Shallow List (in order, yet in no particular order).
1) Elisha Cuthbert
Kim Bauer from 24. While it did get a bit tiresome watching Kim constantly get into trouble every season, Elisha has that girl next door look (unintentional pun). If she asked nicely, I think I would ride a roller coaster, just not one that loops.
2) Willa Ford
3) Paris Hilton
While she is attractive, her naivety as to how real people live is a real turn off (it's a nice way of saying she seems a bit elitist to me). She does, however, have a big bank account. She could pay me enough to ride a roller coaster.
4) Pauley Perrette
Abby from the CBS show NCIS (Think CSI in the Navy). This is the one person on the list where it's the character (perky Goth lab tech Abby) and not the actor behind the character that would make be say "okay, the Wildcat it is."5) Amy Lee
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Playstation and Playboy
At Christmas, I made a decision. With the growing complexity of computer games coming out, my graphics card was becoming obsolete. Correction, it was functionally obsolete. So, I decided to look into getting a new graphics card. After checking out the prices, looking at the requirements of the games out now, and considering that I would have to install it, I came to the conclusion that it would be cheaper just to buy a Playstation rather than upgrade.
So, my Christmas present became a PS2. Damn that thing is addicting!
I've been hooked. And given that the PS2 is going to be obsolete probably by the end of this year with the release of the PS3 - okay, maybe next year if the price quotes I keep hearing are accurate - that's really something. It's pulled me back into the EA NHL world (which I left after I think 2003... I lacked the skills to direct my shots, even at beginner). And allowed me to play a lot of the games that I wanted to play but couldn't because I didn't have a PS2, or a graphics card capable of running the games (those would be the Silent Hill Games).
It's just a shame that since Christmas, the only blog thought that's gone through my head was "Blog later, play now." (Just imagine 2 months worth of entries like that).
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Undoubtedly, many of you have heard the story already (link). The gist of it that Jessica Alba wants Playboy to pull their March issue off the newsstands because she appears on the cover. Her argument is that the cover shot gives the false implication that she is naked within the issue. Needless to say, I felt it was necessary for me to throw in my 2 cents.
The issue in question has been on the newsstands for two weeks prior to when the story of Alba's displeasure at being a cover girl came out. So, for two weeks, we've heard nothing about this. Granted, it is possible that maybe some Jessica Alba fan site's been flooded with letters condemning her for posing nude in Playboy (after all, she's on the cover, she must be naked within, right?). Somehow, though, I severely doubt it.
Take into account a few other facts. As Playboy has stated, a number of women have appeared on the cover, but remained clothed within. Also, she was voted in a reader's poll as 2005's sexiest star. It doesn't hurt that two of the three Alba movies released this year (Sin City - great flick - and Into The Blue) featured her as a stripper and a bikini clad vacationer (I have to admit, I haven't seen Into the Blue, it looked too much like The Deep, which I thought was dumb). Given the number of stories that came out when Sin City was released about her lack of a desire to appear nude on film, I don't think that there are many Alba fans out there would would have made the mistake of thinking she was nude inside.
Let's also look at the common sense issue of this. If Playboy actually had Alba nude, the headline wouldn't have read 25 Sexiest Celebrities. It would have probably been more like Into The Blue: Skinnydipping with Jessica Alba or Jessica Alba: Sin City Sinsation.
She should be happy that readers thought enough of her to vote her into the list and take the free (good) publicity instead of trying to generate her own (bad) publicity.
So, my Christmas present became a PS2. Damn that thing is addicting!
I've been hooked. And given that the PS2 is going to be obsolete probably by the end of this year with the release of the PS3 - okay, maybe next year if the price quotes I keep hearing are accurate - that's really something. It's pulled me back into the EA NHL world (which I left after I think 2003... I lacked the skills to direct my shots, even at beginner). And allowed me to play a lot of the games that I wanted to play but couldn't because I didn't have a PS2, or a graphics card capable of running the games (those would be the Silent Hill Games).
It's just a shame that since Christmas, the only blog thought that's gone through my head was "Blog later, play now." (Just imagine 2 months worth of entries like that).
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Undoubtedly, many of you have heard the story already (link). The gist of it that Jessica Alba wants Playboy to pull their March issue off the newsstands because she appears on the cover. Her argument is that the cover shot gives the false implication that she is naked within the issue. Needless to say, I felt it was necessary for me to throw in my 2 cents.
The issue in question has been on the newsstands for two weeks prior to when the story of Alba's displeasure at being a cover girl came out. So, for two weeks, we've heard nothing about this. Granted, it is possible that maybe some Jessica Alba fan site's been flooded with letters condemning her for posing nude in Playboy (after all, she's on the cover, she must be naked within, right?). Somehow, though, I severely doubt it.
Take into account a few other facts. As Playboy has stated, a number of women have appeared on the cover, but remained clothed within. Also, she was voted in a reader's poll as 2005's sexiest star. It doesn't hurt that two of the three Alba movies released this year (Sin City - great flick - and Into The Blue) featured her as a stripper and a bikini clad vacationer (I have to admit, I haven't seen Into the Blue, it looked too much like The Deep, which I thought was dumb). Given the number of stories that came out when Sin City was released about her lack of a desire to appear nude on film, I don't think that there are many Alba fans out there would would have made the mistake of thinking she was nude inside.
Let's also look at the common sense issue of this. If Playboy actually had Alba nude, the headline wouldn't have read 25 Sexiest Celebrities. It would have probably been more like Into The Blue: Skinnydipping with Jessica Alba or Jessica Alba: Sin City Sinsation.
She should be happy that readers thought enough of her to vote her into the list and take the free (good) publicity instead of trying to generate her own (bad) publicity.
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