I'm scared...

I've just stolen some time off the office just to watch the movie clip for Aliens vs. Predator (yeah, I've been pretty slow at updating myself on pop culture recently), and good Lord, that clip sucked. It was like watching a Monday matinee TV-only movie. Seriously. And to think I doubted my friends when they said the show sucked. These are the same guys who said Mar Attacks! sucked. Hey that was a great show!! A real return of the classics, paying homage to all the 70's flicks about aliens. Too bad the same can't be said of AvP. AvP has gone so far back beyond the words "classic" and "homage" that they now just spells "suck". Not lollipop suck. More like, sucking an egg type of suck. An ostrich egg.

I've always been the guy to say that trailers always look a whole hell lot better than the actual show itself, and that maybe life on the silverscreen should just be limited to trailers. I mean, look at the Grayson trailer and you'll know what I mean. But like the Star Wars Episode I and II, they can be used as of a part of a greater conspiracy to make today's people watch some really crappy stuff. This AvP trailer... its part of the biggest conspiracy in the world. To make us watch the crappiest movie ever made.

The movie clips proved to me that the show
Just so you know, I was actually planning to buy the DVD for that show. Now I'm scared. And I feel the need to wash myself clean. With a steel brush.

Or sandpaper.

Smoking Ringgits Away

Well, the government has done it again. They've pulled another trick out of their hat and frankly, I'm not impressed.

What they've done this time is to increase the price of cigarettes (henchforth known as 'ciggies'). Perhaps they think its a pretty clever thing to do to promote better health and life without ciggies. But when you think about it, its not what its all cracked up to be.

Ask anyone who knows anything about drugs, or who has taken drugs, and they'll tell you that it takes alot to quit the habit. In fact, finance is never truly the issue, whether you're rich or poor. The rich can simply shrug off the cost, and the poor will resort to stealing more. Its a willingness to break the habit, and consciously say to yourself, I have a problem, and it needs to change. I've seen friends jump hoops (not literally) to get their fix.

I'd like to think that the government is just really stupid, and hasn't realized that short of a ban, we can't begin to hope to reduce ciggy purchases. I'm beginning to believe that this price hike is nothing more than the government's evil ploy to get more cash to line their pockets. That's right guys. Its a conspiracy that has reaches through all levels of government..

Maybe I'm just jumping to conclusions here.

Its more likely that the govenrment is not invovled in a conspiracy, but rather, blatantly announcing that they're robbing smokers in broad daylight. It'll just be too much work to do conspiracy. More than the folks at Parliament are really willing to go through anyways.

I'm getting way ahead of myself here today... Hope something interesting happens before I write-up more bad fiction.

Santa Not Coming to Town?

Salt Lake city is soon to curb Santa Clause's habit of flying dangerously low. Yup, so they'll have santa-free skies and lots of really upset kids once they figure out what City Hall did.

I suppose Santa doesn't get to visit the White House either, cause of the anti-aircraft artillery mounted on its roof. What with the 9/11 attack, I'm sure official are not going to take any risks from flying gift baskets. Who knows when Al-Qaeda will hijack Santa's ride and put a plastic knife against Rudolf's neck?

Santa : Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas!!

(Sleigh arc's towards the White House upon which two Secret Service agents are manning the AA guns.)

AA Gunner 1: Fuzz*, its coming right for us!
AA Gunner 2: Its Santa. George's daughters must have been good this year.
AA Gunner 1: Ya fuzzin' kidding me? These are the Twins we're talking about!
AA Gunner 2: Good God, you're right! Frag that sleigh!!

Santa : Ho ho ho, peace and joy to...

(And little Timmy, who lived a street behind the White House, never received his presents that Christmas Day)

*edited for the kiddies

I've got WORK!!

Can you believe that? I've finally been given a project to help out with. Thankfully it doesn't really be engaged into full gear until the following week, so my trip to Frasier's Hill this weekend won't been jeopardized. Yay!

Don't get me wrong, its not that I find the work an inconvenience. Its just that I've been doing nothing for so long, I've gotten quite used to it. So I'm actually glad that the MD finally gave me something to do.

Yahoo!

Found out that Yahoo just updated itself and is now allowing Yahoo users 100MB in their mailboxes. Woohoo!!

Now if I can only figure out what to do with the extra space...