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Terminator Salvation movie review aka Terminator 4

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 No Comments

…Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present. Tonight…
October 26th, 1984….thats when I first read those words on the opening screen of a new movie at the local AMC theater.  In the course of one [...]

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Come wth me if you want to live…but you look so creepy

Monday, May 25, 2009 No Comments

Its been a long time since the first Terminator movie came out, but the same creepy feeling you get when you look at a Terminator then comes right back at you now.  The reason is simple, the uncanny valley your brain creates when it sees something that looks almost human.  Sure you can try and [...]

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) movie review

Thursday, May 21, 2009 No Comments

Living life in reverse has advantages, and surprises.  The Curious case of Benjamin Button follows a unique and though provoking life of one Benjamin, as he slowly learn about himself, his family, and his place in this world.  Sweeping accross over 75 years of American history, this movie not only shows a man growing up, [...]

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Nothing good has come from this…if you lost 1.4B you may think that too

Monday, May 18, 2009 No Comments

So we all have our own opinions…as the saying goes…they are like armpits, everyone has them, and they usually stink.  Sometimes however, and opinion wafts forth upon us with such stench and rechid stupidity and lack of forethought, that it just has to be called out.  This week, it was once again, Sony showing us [...]

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iPhone required! Tuition not included

Sunday, May 17, 2009 No Comments

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University of Missouri, Columbia students entering this year have been given an interesting if not stupid requirement.  Along side things like your school text books, a computer, and other normal class essentials, the university is now saying that they REQUIRE all students to purchase an Apple iPhone, or iPod Touch.  The reasoning is suspect at [...]

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Star Trek (2009) our movie review

Sunday, May 10, 2009 No Comments

Star Trek is one of the most successful failures in television history. Today, over 30 years since its original television series, Star Trek is playing somewhere in the world, every hour of every day. With multiple spin off shows, and two decades worth of feature movies, its no surprise that another movie has [...]

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You don’t touch the other elves envelopes like that

Saturday, May 9, 2009 No Comments

photo courtesy of joetelling

Most of the time we can all agree that being treated fairly is a good thing.  There are those times when you have to discriminate between a few different people or options for the overall efficiency of things, but in the grand scheme of things it is typically better to be fair.  [...]

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Free for a Year…but how will you pay after that?

Monday, May 4, 2009 No Comments

It takes a little bit of convincing to get me to move to a new operating system.  Microsoft fail compeltely to get me to commit to Vista on two fronts, it wasn’t a good upgrade (as in it offered absolutely NOTHING to me) and it cost way too much.  The new Windows 7 is looking [...]

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X-men Origins: Wolverine movie review

Saturday, May 2, 2009 3 Comments

X-men Origins: Wolverine

When your trying to figure out how best to take advantage of a successful movie franchise without wearing your audience too thin, a prequel may be your best bet…as long as it isn’t Friday the 13th.  Taking a favorite character from the X-men world, Wolverine provides the audience with an action packed sarcasm [...]

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