Way of the Spatula

I found this article very interesting…

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STARSCREAMTake the Transformers Quiz

Starscream Starscream has delusions of grandeur. He chose to resemble an F-22 jet because it’s the pinnacle of human technical achievement. He serves Megatron but longs to fill his shoes. Like Starscream, you are evil, motivated by destruction and chaos. Your leadership skills are weak at best. You will never be the commander of the Decepticons. In addition, you enjoy being one step ahead of your friends as far as trends and technology.

 If you don’t like the weather, just stick around for a few minutes and it’ll change.  But, this is ridiculous…

Ann and I went to see this movie yesterday.  Summary:  I didn’t really like it much.

I’ve never read the books, but I feel like I should have before seeing this movie.  I was completely lost during most of this movie.  I never did really have any idea what was going on; and to make things worse, the film jumped from scene to scene without any kind of segue. 

It was completely different than the previous movies.  This was the darkest by far.  I’ve noticed them getting darker as they’ve gone on; I’ve heard this has to do with directors and such.  This one, though, just wasn’t fun at all, unlike it’s predecessors.  All the characters seemed very distant and cold in this one. 

The acting in this one was substandard to the previous movies as well.  The acting seemed much more scripted, as well; very reminiscent of SW I,II,III.  Additionally, the kids are all pretty much grown up now.  They didn’t look like themselves anymore.  On a side note, Hermione isn’t aging nearly as nicely as most people thought she would.    Were they supposed to be upper classmen in this movie?  I would have assumed so, but they never really even alluded much to that.  In fact, the whole being at Hogwarts seemed like mostly an aside in the movie.  Kind of, ‘oh yeah, they happen to be in school while this is going on’.  Which leads to the next point…

What was the whole subplot with the evil witch all about?  It never seemed to have a point.  As much as they played on that whole plot, it should have had something bigger to do with the whole story.  At the end when the Minister saw Lord V., he just said ‘he’s back’ or something stupid like that.  As much time as they spent on that, the minister and the old lady should have been in cahoots with Voldemort.

Also, what was the whole point of the thing with Hagred and the giants?  Seemed to be no point.  Additionally, the room that just appeared for the kids to train in.  What was that all about?  Although, it would be nice if a dojo like that would just appear at my house. 

Anyway, I was very disappointed in the movie.  Maybe if I had read the books it would have been better, but I think that’s the whole point of a movie:  you shouldn’t have to read the books for it to make sense.  *shrug*

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Why is it that marketing/sales/non-technical types seem to think they know how to write programs and have no problem telling programmers how to do their job; but when a programmer sees that aforementioned person is clearly doing something incorrectly in their field, that the programmer gets told to ‘bugger off’, in the UK vernacular, and that programmer cannot possibly know what programmer is talking about?

Do not teach your white/yellow belt student how to do leg blocks unless you really like purple toes and limping.

I’m convinced that PHP is the bastard love child of C and Perl.

For those of you interested, Ann had her 20 week ultrasound on Wednesday. We saw a definite 3 lines, and not a little ‘finger’. According to the lady doing the ultrasound, and all the other people who’ve already had kids, that means it’s a little girl. I guess I didn’t do a good job of putting the ol’ stem on the apple.

We were both a bit bummed out, because we were really hoping for a boy; Ann because boys are so much easier to raise, and me because I wanted a child to teach karate to. Oh well. I guess we can always try again. NOT! Really, though, I’m just happy because I saw 10 fingers, 10 toes, 2 eyes, a nose, 2 lips, 2 ears… you get the point.