16th
August
2007
Ponderings For 2007-08-16
- Happy 25th birthday to the Compact Disc!
- I had an interesting experience tonight. Went to go catch the midnight sneak screening of The Invasion at the only local theater running it. Got there and was overwhelmed by the insanely huge hoard of people there to see the midnight sneak of Superbad. I had to stand in a line of about 30-40 people waiting to use the ABO machines, as the lines for the ticket counter were even longer. It was insane in there. Then, while I’m still in line with at least 25 more in front of me, they announce that Superbad has sold out, which causes quite the civil unrest with the already rowdy crowd. Many start falling back to The Invasion, and I decide that I don’t wanna deal with this audience for The Invasion, if I even got a ticket before that sold out, so I just left and went back home. I’ll catch The Invasion tomorrow (Friday) and get my review posted. I knew Superbad was gonna open strong, but come on. The crowd there was staggering - one of the most insane I’ve experienced for a midnight sneak evening, and I’ve been to quite a few. Judd Apatow is going to quickly be named king of the raunchy comedy genre.
- Dell admits to fraud (well, “admits” isn’t quite the correct choice of words). They’re in for a wild storm over there at Dell corporate headquarters…
- Wow, talk about being on the wrong side of the tracks.
- Ever wonder why your taxes are so high? Perhaps $998,798 costs for 19-cent washers might have something to do with it.
- Check out this awesome shot of lightning striking a tree
- So, Adobe is rumored to be launching their own Office suite? Let’s see, is there an application company that I’d be less likely to want to produce an Office suite? Probably not. Well, not other than Lotus’ SmartSuite (that thing still around?). I can’t imagine what Adobe, the king of bloat-ware, would produce for an Office suite.
- And you thought you got stuck waiting for a long time on the last flight you took.
- You know, you’d think that if China could just strike a deal with Russia over their rapidly declining population…
- The Ford Fusion puts many gas guzzlers to shame
- For those of you who doubt the huge size of Alaska
- I recently posted about a new version of Notepad++. Well, since that post, the app has already gotten 2 more updates
- Now, where did I put that leg?
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