Never really realized how much manufacturers expect people to use their remotes until recently. I lost my remote to my DVD player and just tried putting in a DVD to watch Firefly and realized I couldn't navigate the menu with the buttons on the physical DVD player. All there is your standard VCR menu (at least on mine) which only lets me play the ( Read more... )

Caught Grindhouse this weekend. I didn't originally plan on seeing it but a bunch of my friends were going and it's free at the school so I figured why not. I wasn't expecting much, I thought it looked rather stupid. However, when with a bunch of friends, these movies are pretty hilarious. Planet Terror is great in it's classic horrid zombie plot. ( Read more... )

Lewis Black is coming to the Wharton in November. Steve and I just found this out yesterday and instantly purchased tickets. This will be so fucking awesome.

LEWIS BLACK MAN! SHIT YA LADIES.

THE RULES ( Read more... )

So I just tried to see how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.

Except by "licks" I mean computer crashes. And by "center of a Tootsie Pop" I mean Windows corruption.

I noticed I never posted anything about the Transformers movie... which people should go see if it's still in their local theater. It's actually pretty good and I was completely surprised at how well it was done. They didn't go and rape one of my childhood fandoms ( Read more... )

I don't consider it a good omen that all the computers I've been regularly in contact with have been breaking down in one fashion or another. Let's go down the list from bad to worse ( Read more... )

Harry Potter = finished.

Overall: Awesome! There's maybe like two things that bothered me but not enough to ruin the book or anything. Can't wait to see it in movie form.

( Things that bothered and things that were awesome. SPOILERS )

Okay, I've been trying to tell enough people in person as I can about my successful plans from a few posts back. However due to a lot of people on my friends list now no longer being in the area, it's kinda hard for me to do that. So enough secretive stuff, now I'd like to just spread the good news as it has been a few weeks ( Read more... )

I swear to whatever superior being is in existence, if I see so much as one Harry Potter 7 spoiler without a warning in any of your, yes all you reading, journal or AIM profile, I'll kill you SEND YOU TO THE NEXT DIMENSION.