I went to the theatre with Emma this past Friday and saw the movie Wanted. First off, I’ve gotten so spoiled with my home theatre. No annoying people. No lines. No sub-par seating. The movie was great though. Great effects, lots of fun, great cast, etc.. I had a very good time.

If you like that sort of fun action movie escape, it’s a great one. Go see it.

Also: I think that anyone who laughs or smiles or whatever when someone is getting beaten up in a movie, and mean graphically seriously beaten, is either a psycho or has never actually had their face pounded on. Or both.

Having your nose broken sucks. It hurts, it bleeds, you choke on your own blood, you feel like your face has caved in, and the noise it makes shattering is like no other. Your face is really a collection of very fragile, irreplaceable, things. Teeth, eyes, your brain, ear drums, jaw bones, occipital bones, and more. Contrary to what you saw in Fight Club, a detached retina isn’t cool. Having your jaw wired shut isn’t fun. Brain damage from your brain being knocked into your skull repeatedly isn’t sexy. Loosing teeth isn’t awesome.

I’ve had my nose broken a few times. Once badly enough that I need surgery to glue all the pieces back together. I’m not a pacifist. I’m sure I’ll end up in a fight at least once more. But when someone gets their face driven into a concrete floor, you won’t find me cheering, I’ll be wincing, and remembering that sound your nose makes when it breaks.

Flying Penguin

This ad was so awesome I had to share it. I managed to lose the original audio when I ripped it, so I used Springtime #2 by Venus Hum. Enjoy!

Emma’s Birthday
Yesterday was Emma’s birthday. As a surprise present we went paragliding at Mount Tiger. Paragliding is where you run off the top of a mountain and use a parafoil as a wing to fly around. Normally on a good day you can use updrafts and thermals to stay aloft for over an hour. Unfortunately the weather was against us and our ride was only about 5-10 minutes. But it was still totally amazing. You can see video of Emma launching off of the top of Mount Tiger in Washington.



After paragliding we also went out to dinner and I had ordered a speciality cake:

You can’t get the whole idea of how big he is, since he’s rearing up against the inside of the glass screaming obscenities at me, but he’s about 4″+ across:

I love Apple’s support, and can go on at length about how great AppleCare is, and Apple support in general.

I recently had a MacBook Pro in for service after the screen went dark. First they overnighted me a box to ship the laptop to them in. Then for each step of the process, I received an e-mail. Laptop received, diagnosing the problem, waiting for part shipment, repaired, shipped back. I could also track the whole progress on the website, which made it clear what was going on.

Compared to most places where your item vanishes into a black box for some unknown period of time, this was great.

Also, that’s REALLY quick turn around, especially considering they had to wait for a part to arrive.

Kudos to Apple.