When Nerds Collide!!!

      So I hear face book is coming out with its own email, dubbed the GMail killer..  Really??  Ya know when I was a kid there was real drama in the world, real battles.  Reagan demanding Gorbachev to "Tear down that wall!!"  McDonald's Vs Burger king, Hell even Coke and the Pepsi challenge.  Nowadays we got one geek telling another geek, "My email is gonna be better than yours!"  Whats next?  Your Motherboard so fat jokes?  I'm a creature of habit, once I find something I pretty much stick with it.  I don't like change.  Call it a flaw...  Why would I dump my GMail and jump to another site?  Do you know what a pain in the ass that is nowadays?  Id have to email everyone that I know and say hey, don't use the one you been using for years and reach me hear.  Then going through all your online set ups, banks, credit cards, XBox Live and god knows what else and updating your info there.  Its like moving, it sounds good but after all is said in done you're spent and don't wanna move anymore... Literally.

In other random thoughts..

I read they are making a TOP GUN 2 and Tom Cruise has confirmed he will be in it.  Oh boy I cant wait to see if they get Kelly McGillis to reprise her role!!  Ironic her call sign was 'Charlie', she's a civilian so you DO NOT SALUTE HER!  Crank the Berlin!!

Movie execs announce that the follow up to Wolverine: Origin movie will not be a sequel but a stand alone story about the Adamantium laced bones anti-hero..  OK just so we're clear, its a movie with the same character, same universe and obviously follows the initial movie time wise and its NOT a sequel.  Too deep for me.

Until next time..

A little Splice of heaven...

     OK so Cristina is out of town and I'm home alone watching movies I know she'd never watch and first up was SPLICE..  I just got done with it and I gotta say, I was disturbed and left feeling uncomfortable with this whole movie and I think that's exactly what they were going for.  Ill leave out all the details but basically a couple geneticists splice some Human DNA and throw in some of this and some of that and voila'!!  Bald creepy chick who doesn't speak but chirps and has a tail with a stinger barb attached.  It goes from weird to weirder.  Adrien Brody was in it so I figured that was enough credibility for me.  Aside from that and the disturbing outcome I started thinking that even though this is fiction it would not surprise me at all if this kind of shit is going down in some government bunker somewhere. 

   I don't think its outside the realm of possibilities, didn't someone clone a sheep or something?  I read that they combined some spider DNA with said sheep so the sheep would produce spider web hair instead of wool.  True story, its not the Stella Artois talking!  (Thanks Dad!)  Anyway, so I'm sitting in the dark with my trusty companion (Sadie the Golden Retriever on loan from the in laws) and finding myself a little bit jumpy.  Woohoo just the feeling I was going for!!  Plus the sun's starting to go down so that only adds to my imaginary dread.  Well on to the next flick, the rebooted NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET!! 

I'm a glutton for punishment!!

Trends and Comparisons..

     Every generation I suppose have people that set a trend and spark some kind of fashion wave.  You look in the magazine's and see what they wear and its considered "In".  The Lady Gaga's and Taylor Swift's of the world are setting examples for people to follow.  I remember in my day it was Michael Jackson and Prince.  Now to be honest with you, I don't remember alot of brotha's wearing red jackets with zippers and blouses with purple overcoats, but hey that was considered cool.  I do remember Jerry Curl's though, hell even Ice Cube had one while he was rollin' with NWA.  Whatever happened to the curl?  Did people one day wake up and say "I'm tired of having to wash my pillow case everyday?"  The world may never know. 

  I'm trying to remember what fashion statement famous Latinos made back in the day but really, its the same one they make today.  I mean, would a Latina wear a meat dress to an award show like Lady Gaga to make some kind of statement??  Esta Loca!  Are you kidding me?  Her father would give her a putaso (Latino equivalent for a smack upside your head) for wasting all that carne. 

     I sometimes sit and watch the shows my older girls watch and they follow these shows like 'Sonny with a Chance' and 'ICarly' and they are basically the Kids Inc. of today.  If you don't know what Kids Inc. is then you're either too old or too young.  I have no problem with them modeling themselves after a Serena Gomez or Demi Lovato.. Well wait a minute, Demi's in rehab cause she's a cutter, Still these aren't the worst people in the world.  Ill take that over my kids being all EMO.  You know what im talking about, the kids that dye their hair black, wear eyeliner and listen to bands like Slipknot and Mudvayne.  These kids whose entire world is dark, brooding and filled with despair because no one understands them.  I find these kids the most interesting.  I always see them at the mall wearing their Doc Martens and jeans that either look way to tight (especially at the ankle area) or they're huge and have tons of pockets and zippers all over.  Then there's the lip piercings, WTF is that? 

     These are all styles I struggle to comprehend.  Maybe that's why I find it so hard to shop for myself.  I like jeans and T-Shirts.  Call me old fashioned. 

How do you Uninstall a Hammer on your Laptop???????

Argh I tell ya people, I have had it!!  This laptop of mine is pushing me to the brink of madness!  So one day Itunes just decides to up and quit on me, next my laptop is slower than molasses in January..  So I start troubleshooting, googling ideas, answers and remedies.  Hell, I even went to that MyCleanPC.com website and downloaded their software.  Small product drop here but my Internet speed is back to normal and runs fast.  So Ill give them that.  Now back to the ITunes dilemma.  I find out that I had some virus and I had to resinstall Framework and THEN uninstall every bit of Apple software on my LT, then reinstall it and according to the web geeks that should resolve the Error 7 (Windows Error 999) problem I keep getting.  OK, boom!  Got rid of it all.  While doing this I watched one of my Animated movies (Batman & Superman: Apocalypse.)  I highly recommend it if that's your thing.  I'm a big child, sue me.  Anyway back to my issue, so its gone.  I go to Apple.com and get the new software, install it, load it and sit back all happy thinking I'm some kind of super genius and just when I'm about to get misty eyed and get my itunes back... Nope.. This time it just fails with one of those  'Windows encountered an error while trying to start it, we're gonna send an error report.'  Side Note: where the hell does that report go to and does anyone ever read it and get back to you???  I highly doubt it. 

I did about 3 times, even tried an older version of ITunes thinking its possibly due to my laptop being older than Christ.  Nah that didn't work either.  My goal was to get this working so come Xmas time I can get an IPad rather than a new laptop.  But noooooooooooo...  I cant get no damn cooperation!  I might call apple support and listen to some 20 year old kid tell me what a dumb ass I am and fix my shit in less than 10 minutes but I'm not sure my ego can take it.

I'm gonna just resign to the fact that my laptop is allergic to apple and is rejecting it. 

Not at the table Carlos..

Maybe its just me but I have a pretty big abundance of patience when it comes to my children but other peoples kids, yeah not so much..   So Im having lunch today with my boss and we are in this restaurant and there's a crying toddler that won't settle down no matter how hard his mother tries to calm him down.  Now he's at the age where he can scream but he can't talk.  So while his mothers back is towards me I make eye contact with the little bastard and mouth the words "SHUT UP!" to him and make a face at him and point my fork so he knows that I mean it.  He got wide eyed and shut right up then and there.  Now am I a bad guy?  I dont think so, in my opinion that lady should give me a thank you or something.  It just seems this happens to me all the time, the other day at Exxon while I'm getting gas this lady in a minivan is parked next to me with her window down and a screaming kid inside.  Again, she looks away I look inside and the kid looks at me and I make a threatening face and mouth silently SHUT UP and boom...  A calmness rushes over the child.  Then the mom says "Oh good girl..."  Good girl my ass, ya need to thank the big bald dude scaring your child into silence.  If I wasnt doing what I do, I think I could work in a daycare..

Bad Movies

For some reason I really like what are considered "Bad Movies"..  For instance Im once again up watching Wild Wild West... Now everyone knows this movie was a collossal bust as far as movies go and is considered a hiccup in the epic career that is Will Smith's.  Nevertheless, this movie comes on I watch it.  I guess I enjoy the onscreen back and forth between Jim West and Artimis Gordon played by the highly underrated Kevin Kline.  I suppose I could man up and put on the Monday night football game but I dont like the Steelers or the Bengals and could care less about the outcome.

OK well here's another example, Wild Wild West is now over and I'm flipping channels and look what else is on. Another failure of a movie considered horrible by most but has an underground cult like following.  I'm talking about none other than Howard The Duck!!!  How can you not get a kick out of this movie??  Lea Thompson branching out on her own, trying to set the world ablaze with her own franchise.  Tired of playing second fiddle to Michael J. Fox and his Back to the Future franchise she sets out and defies her agent and takes the role as Beverly, young musician aspiring for greatness but comes across an alien life form in the shape of a midget duck.  Toss in some Tim Robbins and the Principal from Ferris Bueller's day off and you have yourself a blockbuster right???  FAIL!!!  George Lucas may be a god in the Sci Fi world but this was a swing and a miss.  Still its a train wreck and I cant change the channel.  Plus whats with the sexual innuendo between Howard and Beverly?  Perhaps this is some kind of window into the mind that is George Lucas?  Perhaps he has some kind of bestiality fantasies he's letting loose on the world?  I dunno, personally I think I'm just really tired. 

Hello All!

I,  like everyone else in the world do the Facebook thing and I didn't get into the Twitter thing but decided to do the Blogging thing.  I have way to much on my mind and its way to random for the confines of Facebook.  Here I shall dive into the random, here I shall share my thoughts while pumping gas.  Here I will divulge what I had for lunch and my body's reaction.  You'll either follow or you won't but I promise you this, once you see what's inside my mind, there's no turning back. 

First thought that comes to mind, the Chilean minor who was compelled to run in the NYC marathon.  I know if I were trapped underground for 70 days the first thing Id wanna do is run 26 miles and further torture my already withered body.  Ahhh yes, what a testament to the human spirit!