Shooter

I just watched the movie Shooter with Mark Wahlberg and Danny Glover. It wasn't original, but it sure was entertaining. Marky Mark continually shows us that he is a much better actor than he was a rapper.

The basic plot is a Marine Force Recon sniper is set up so that it looks like he killed the president. He then has to find out who set him up and why, all the while shooting the crap out of the bad guys. Lots of action, and a semi-intelligent plot make this a good summer action flick.


In contrast, I watched the movie Syriana last night, and could not find one good thing to say about it. I found the plot and movie disjointed. The actors, while all good normally, had nothing to say or do in this movie. I find it hard to believe that Clooney was nominated for an award for this movie, since I think he had about 5 lines in the entire thing.

100th Post

I was going to say something about the movie Shooter here, but then I noticed I was at 99 posts, so I wanted to make a special 100th post.

Wasn't that special?

Mr. Beer, first batch - The Outcome

I unintentionally created a light beer. Or rather, something that tastes remarkably similar to light beer. Something that tastes almost exactly the polar opposite of how it was meant to taste. Which is to say, I like dark beer. This, this is not dark beer. This is kind of a watery tasting beverage with a slight molassesy beer after-taste.

Don't get me wrong, it's not bad, it's just not good. It was well carbonated, though, so that was good.

Oh well, I drank this one after one week of fermentation, one week of carbonation, and two hours of chilling in the fridge. Maybe I will let the twelve 22oz bottles I have left of it condition in the fridge for a couple of weeks and see if it helps the taste at all.

In any case, I now have one batch of Blueberry beer and one batch of Raspberry Wheat beer fermenting, so I will see how those turn out before I give up.

SWG Crafting

Someone (Pat) asked what I thought about the crafting in Star Wars Galaxies. I started to type up a response for my blog, but it became so long that I decided to submit is as an editorial at MMORPG.com. I will post a link here once it is finished and published.

Upek Eikon

A couple of days ago I ordered a biometric device for my PC. I was sick of having to remember all the passwords I have set up for all of the websites I go to. I end up having to use the "forgot my password" option all the time. Annoying. So I read a bunch of reviews, and ended up picking the Upek Eikon due to its sterling reputation among the reviewers.

My fingerprint scanner came in today. I hooked it up to a USB port, and installed the software, and in no time I was signing in to websites with the swipe of my finger. This thing is great. And, it didn't cost a fortune. In fact, it only cost $40 US.

If you hate trying to remember all your passwords, I would give one of these a try.

New Tattoo Design

I finally came up with a design I am happy with for a new tattoo. It's been four years since my first tattoo, so it took me a lot less time to find this one. My first tattoo design took me nine years to come up with, and it took my friend Tony's art skills to flesh it out so that it didn't look like crap.

This design is a gryphon. Once again, I got the overall idea from a t-shirt, but I had to draw the design myself so that I was happy with it. Now I'm just trying to decide where I want to have it placed. Ali thinks my left calf, I was thinking that or my left arm. It's fairly small, so it works either place. What to do, what to do...

Of course...

So I bought myself a pair of New Balance sneakers earlier this month. I couldn't find any that I liked that fit me in the local stores, so I ordered them online from New Balance. For $80, about twice what I wanted to spend. I was really looking at this pair of green ones with some orange accents, but when I found out they don't make them anymore, and they haven't gotten any new ones in recently, I figured that I would be able to find them in my size.



Then, almost a month later, I am shopping with my wife in the local mall, and happen upon a pair of the sneakers that I really wanted, in my size.

Stupid Murphy, I despise you.