I saw Avatar in 3-D last night. Really, really awesome. About 20 minutes too long, but altogether wonderful. $220 million well spent.

I'm now playing Jurassic: The Hunted. Fun budget title, nothing more.

Last night before I went to sleep, I got to punch not one, not two, but THREE raptors IN THE #####ING FACE!

I picked up a #####-ton of new movies over at Big Lots, which is a closeout store.

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Broken Flowers
Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
Dogtown and Z-Boys
An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder
Kaena: The Prophecy
Memories
Midnight Eagle
Raising Cain
The Road to Guantanamo
The Squid and the Whale
Tekkonkinkreet
The TV Set
The Warrior

The Klendathu and Zephyr campaigns from the Roughnecks: Starship Trooper Chronicles series

Plus, a 4 disc martial art movies set with:

Blind Fists of Bruce
Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth
Chinese Hercules
Dragon Lee vs. the Five Brothers
Duel of the Iron Fists
Fists of Bruce Lee
Kung Fu for Sale
Kung Fu: Punch of Death
Militant Eagle
The Real Bruce Lee
Samurai Reincarnation
Snake-Crake Secret

I already wished you a happy birthday on Facebook, but I'll say it again. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DUMKOFF!

Man, it must be nice to be able to get paid for something you consider to be a hobby.

I beat Borderlands the other day. Not a fan of the lack of an ending, but I'm probably going to finish doing all of the jobs before I move on to another game, which will probably be Assassin's Creed II or The Saboteur. And then once the kids go home for Christmas break, I'll get my copy of Jurassic: The Hunted back from one of my student workers.

And then I get to punch a raptor IN THE MOTHER#####ING FACE!

If that alone isn't worth $40, I don't know what is.

No #####ing snowstorm. ##### you, Information Analysis. #####. You.

Edge will never have to take it in the butt ever again!

For money, anyway.

I'm praying that we get a freak snowstorm tonight/tomorrow morning. Or my professor's car breaks down. Either one is okay, but not both.

Whatever man, I've got my reasons.

Sure, it starts off happy and ends happy, but there's plenty in between that is downright depressing.

Maybe it was just me.

Probably the same amount as those who follow up on random e-mails. It costs next to nothing to send them, so it seems to be a worthwhile form of advertising for some.

It was really good, but it was really depressing.

I started examining my own life as I was watching the movie, and in all honesty...if someone had handed me a gun while I was watching it, I would've blown my brains out.

Steelers vs. Raiders

I haven't seen this many yellow flags thrown for quite some time. Somebody needs to alert the refs that these guys are getting paid to tackle each other, not play two-hand-touch football.

My pants are so tight right now.

SOON SOON

After I bulk up and get some nice sculpted muscles, definitely. I still got some hangy flab skin : (

TITS OR GTFO

That was a bull##### call by the ref on that catch. Absolute #####ing bull#####. Last time I checked, catching a ball with your hands and then landing on the ground with the ball in your hands was a fair catch, not "juggling".

I'm watching the Steelers vs. Chiefs game...and it has gone into overtime.

*sigh*

Steelers better win this.

What did Barnes & Noble do to you?

Barnes & Noble is currently running a 50% off sale on Criterion Collection DVDs, and my brother's library was having a book fair, so I went off to B&N today to get some new movies.

I picked up:

-Charade
-Ikiru
-Tokyo Drifter
-Youth of the Beast

I was thinking about picking up The Red Balloon, but that would be with money I don't have (so no go on that), and Salo: 120 Days of Sodom. But if I picked up Salo, it would've been nothing more than a curiosity that I would have probably only watched once - and hated myself for it.

That's... very nice of them.

Seeing as they usually run $35-60 a pop, yes it is nice of them.

This week has sucked.

-My stupid Wapanese roommate tells me that he's decided to take the whole day off (November 10) from both of his jobs. I had decided to do the same thing weeks ago and never even told him. So I had to put up with his dumb ass all day.

-Picked up Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (SWEET!). One hour of gameplay, and my 360 RROD'd (#####!).

-I have class tomorrow morning (Saturday), and this stupid textbook is becoming more and more unreadable. I am going to burn this book when the class is over.

For all of those that care, starting today and apparently running until the end of November (they may cut it shorter, I don't know), Barnes & Noble is selling all Criterion Collection DVDs at 50% off.

I saw Saw VI on Friday. I thought was a lot better than Saw V. The series is getting more and more unlikely, yet it is still pretty well written...but I'm really looking forward to the conclusion of the series. It needs to end, and soon - like, within one or two more movies.

Supposedly if my college gets two more confirmed cases of swine flu, the whole place will be shut down for a week and decontaminated. One week of paid "vacation"!

Here's hoping it happens the week of Modern Warfare 2.

I'm also using Firefox. Don't know if that has anything to do with it.

oh god the page is broked what have you done

It is working fine for me.

Here's the whole article from Ebony about stars in the year 2000

http://books.google.com/books?id=7dgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=ebony+potraits+of+the+stars+what+they+may+look+like+in+2000&source=bl&ots=w8VFy8NC5b&sig=bYOfyayAr5h3F5h5nZtRgWaagMw&hl=en&ei=zNzcStqOAo3Q8Qbas623BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false

I like how Emmanuel Lewis is in there. The whole article itself is an interesting read...not the "What will they look like part", but the part dealing with a survey among its readers. Nearly everyone agreed that there would be little to no chance of having a black president or vice president by 2000 (honestly, I thought we'd have a black vice president before a black president) - who would've guessed 8 years later we'd have Barack "C-C-C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER" Obama in office?

And Infamous is decent, cruddy aiming though.

Oooh yeah, I want to play that too.

For the time being, just about any game that's out on the PlayStation 3 or Wii and not on the Xbox 360.

I'm not a console fanboy - I was originally planning on getting a Wii before I decided to get the 360. I've just got so many damn games for the Xbox 360 (according to IGN, I have 166) that I don't have time for other consoles.

For the Wii, I would like to be playing The Conduit, Madworld, and the various Super Mario and Zelda games. Oh, and that Epic Mickey game? Hell yeah.

For the PlayStation 3, I'd like to be playing the Uncharted and Uncharted 2, God of War 3 (when it comes out) and the Resistance games.

I'm playing Assassin's Creed now. The graphics are beautiful and the plot is oddly intriguing.

The game is a nice change of pace for me; I'm no longer the one-man army that I'm so used to being, and I have to constantly be stealthy and watch my ass. Coincidentally, those same reasons as to why it's a nice change of pace are also the reasons why I'm hating this game.

That was awesome as all hell.

I beat Gun the other day. If you want ALL of the achievements, you have to play the game four times. ##### that noise, especially with the final boss.

I'm either going to focus on Assassin's Creed or Brutal Legend.

Ever look at someone and think, "I totally want to be best friends with that guy/girl"? Yeah, I feel that way about the dude with the Frosted Flakes box around his neck.

What the #####?

Someone get a tarp...my brain feels like it's about to explode.

Some of them. Like this awesome one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6J7QtwEyN8

Dude, if everyone looked like Billy Dee Williams, the world would be a classier and smoother place.

I'm not a fan of it either; I like the word "Wapanese" instead, because then it causes white anime fanboys to get all butthurt and yell "YOU'RE RACIST!"

Third Watch was a great show. My only problem with it was that as the show went on, it became more of a cop show than firemen/EMT/police.

Thanks dude.

Advice Dog is telling you what to do.

I'm watching the Pittsburgh Steelers play against the Detroit Lions. Currently the Steelers are winning (YAY!), but I will be super-pissed if they lose to the Lions.

Hungover. Not sure if I should sleep or play some more Gun.

Update: Made spanish rice and played Gun. Almost typed "I made gun and played spanish rice".

I'm #####ing drunk as balls right now. I asked the guy who works with me on Sundays if he's in first or if I am, and he told me...but I kind of forgot. I called him back, but he didn't answer the phone this time.

>bandage up the wound with some of the linen on the floor.

I thought they said that BN and SF aren't related to the other series.

Hey,

While working on some stuff for my class that started two hours ago, I started thinking about this old game I used to play on my Macintosh back in the day. It was based on Asimov's "Foundation Trilogy", and you had to visit 20 planets within 1000 years and get them to join your empire before civilization completely crumbled. Very early RTS game, although I got to be pretty good at it when I was a kid.

Does anyone know the name of it? It was something like "Galactic Empire" or "Galactic Conquest", but I can't find any information on it. I'd love to play that game again...

>untie the mummy.

It looks like a pissed-off Amish guy to me.

it's all quick and dirty.

That's what she said!

In all seriousness, I like it. It looks like an MS Paint version of Sin City.