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[grindmonkeh]

How cool is this?

I watched Hellboy 2 the other night, and Kung Fu Panda and the Dead Space animated movie last night. While watching Hellboy I kept thinking that with his handling of the Prince Nuala character, Guillermo Del Toro has shown that a film (or films) based on Salvatore's Drizzt Duorden series can be successfully done and that he's probably the guy to do it. That would be something to look forward to as there isn't much of interest on the horizon...hell, I'm looking forward to the new Harry Potter flick more than anything else I can think of off-hand. Since Bran read the Twilight series I took her to see the movie. She didn't like it. She slept through most of it. I expected it to be worse.

And from the You learn something new everday Files...a "free kick" field goal? What the fuck is a free kick field goal? Well, I entered that in Google, as that's how I usually google for things I have no clue about ("who/what/when/where/how the fuck is/does/was/etc...?"), and found: "After a fair catch, an NFL team has the right to take a free kick from the line of scrimmage on the next play. If the kick goes through the uprights, the kicking team scores 3 points. It is also known as a "free kick field goal." I'll be damned. I wonder if Donovan McNabb knew that. I think I'm going to get smoked in fantasy foosball this week.

I've been loaded with work lately as the professors of the two classes I'm taking have thrown their end of semester gauntlets. I've got a paper, presentation, and take home test to complete in my IT class and I have to program my own test with PHP in my otra clase. My director is "highly encouraging" me to apply for a systems programmer position in our department. I applied for the same position last winter even though I doubted my qualification for it, but apparently he thinks I've got a shot at it again. I'd be replacing Champe. She passed away earlier this year from cancer.

That's about the size of it.

Comments

[brokn2pieces.livejournal.com]

Someone else was writing about the latest Hellboy today. I didn't like it. I wanted to but just didn't. That's all. Congrats on the recommendation of your director.

[charasan.livejournal.com]

PHP is surprisingly easy. I picked it up over the summer along with SQL. Go for that position. There's nothing like spending 8-10 hours staring at the same 2-3 lines of code trying to figure out what the #&#^@ is wrong with it. :D Come to think of it, that's how I spent my Saturday. Still staring, too.

[traballenguas.livejournal.com]

That is just crazy. However, I would support making it an Olympic sport.

BTW, playing against two guys is not at all impressive, and shows a flawed Kung-Fu mentality. I would be more impressed if the guy on the other end was a real, competitive ping-pong player. Those guys are insane.