15 minutes late never hurt so much

Schulte and I agreed to see War of the Worlds today at 3:55. Unfortunately, I was 15 minutes late, so we decided to see Fantastic 4 instead. Neither of us expected either of these movies to be good, it was just something to do.

Well, let me tell you, I have never so regretted not being on time. Fantastic 4 was so awful I was ready to leave the movie after the first fantastic 5 minutes. Schulte and I started in with a usual array of awful jokes. For example: “I hope I can follow this movie, I didn’t even see Fantastic 3.” Boo-yeah. Pretty much the highlight was the fact that Jessica Alba often wore low-cut clothing, which Schulte repeatedly referred to as “the fantastic two”. Other than that, the movie was uninteresting nonsense followed my more ridiculous crap. I think a 10 year old boy might like this movie, but by age 13 or so he would have grown out of it.

So, in case you had some remote thought of ever seeing this movie, even via a rental or illegal download, just get that idea out of your head. It’s really that awful.

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Great Onion Article: New Dad Thinks Baby Might Be Gay

This Onion article was great.

According to Oebrick, Michael is fussy during meals and picky about his clothes. When he hurts himself, he “cries like a baby.” Additionally, the toddler has a “very strong attraction” to a stuffed lion with a rainbow-striped mane, an apparent preference for bottle-feeding over breastfeeding, and an evident love for bouncing up and down in his jumper device “like some guy at a club.”

SuperSize Me – Vegetarian Style

As an experiment, I’ve gone vegetarian for the last 3 days. I’m going to see how long I can stick it out. Yesterday morning my stomache was killing me so bad I thought I was going to have to leave work. Someone should do a documentary like Super Size Me, but for vegetables.

One thing about limiting one’s diet in this way is that it naturally cuts back on portion sizes. Who really wants to eat more salad?

Quite an Upsell

Agressive Upsell
Typically when you shop at Amazon, they’ll offer you a suggestion of something to buy in addition to what you’re currently buying – sometimes they’ll even give you a discount on the combination. Say you’re looking at a Pearl Jam CD, they might suggest you buy it with another Pearl Jam CD and give you a dollar off the combination.

Well, today I was browsing for a bluetooth mouse. This was one of the less expensive ones – coming in around $45. What does Amazon suggest you buy in addition to it? How about a $600 iPaq! That’s definitely a sweet combo it’s tough to refuse… I’m sure you’ll catch a lot of people with that impulse buy. I just wanted a mouse for my laptop, but then realized, why not spend $600 for a handheld PC too!