Amidst all of the upheaval about the election yesterday, it seems that the death of author Michael Crichton slipped under the radar on election day.

This year is all about making me sad. What next? Is Brian Jacques going to croak too?

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/88455.html

Trailer for the upcoming 2008 Iron Man movie, exclusive to Comic Con '07.  Paramount already had it taken off of YouTube, so catch it while you can at Game Trailers.

My computer doesn't seem to want to recognize kanji when it's in text format.  Basically all I'm getting is a series of boxes on screen where the text should be.  Anyone want to give me a hand with fixing this problem?

I'm not hugely Windows saavy, so I can only assume that I don't have the right language packs for XP.

EDIT:  So it would seem that my ( Read more... )

1. How did you hear about the shootings at Virginia Tech?

Living in Virginia, it's hard to go around without hearing about it.

2. Do you know anyone who was directly effected?

I don't know if it's possible for anyone to be effected by it.  Affected maybe, but not effected.

3. Will you be observing a moment of silence at noon to honor those killed on ( Read more... )

This is probably old news but, WTF Google?

So it's been a while since I've posted in my journal, eh? A lot has happened in the last three weeks or so and I thought I'd let them build up and accumulate so I could make one uber post about them all at once.  They'll be broken down into different sections, each seperated into different LJ Cuts.  So here goes.

I flew home over St. Patrick's Day ( Read more... )

Our very own Strombada will be visiting the movie theater sometime after work tomorrow to partake in a viewing of 300. It is necessary to help wash away the memories of the retarded fiasco known as Borat.

Also, Little Miss Sunshine was alright. It had a pretty shitty, semi-cliff hanger ending to it, but overall it wasn't bad. Certainly wasn't ( Read more... )

End of Marvel's Civil War heralds the end of the old "Stars and Stripes".

Pics or it didn't happen!

Grandpa Davis died monday morning. I'll be going home next weekend to attend the funeral services.

So I've been absent from posting in my ElJay for a while. No real reason other than I didn't have anything I wanted to post/talk about. I figured after a little bit of build-up, I could make one big super entry ( Read more... )