New MacBook Air

Okay, yesterday I slammed Microsoft, even though I use all their stuff. My picking-on is equal opportunity. Now it’s Apple’s turn. This is hilarious.

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Microsoft iPod

Imagine how different iPod would be if Microsoft had designed it instead of Apple. This video shows how even the package would have been created differently.

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Upgrade your pillow

Everyone has hugged (or continues to hug) their pillow.  This pillow hugs you back.  Great for singles, neglected spouses, or first-time practice kissing.

Clark Bunch as Easy Rider

Peter Fonda’s getting too old to do it.  He was unavaible for comment.  Seriously though, my friends know that I went through a fiasco last year where I thought I was getting a Yamaha motorcycle, and got doublecrossed.  We made a deal, and later that night he sold it to someone else for more money.  All water under the bridge, but that’s twice I thought I was getting that bike and didn’t.

My friend Roy (the only guy from high school I’m still in touch with) is selling me his Honda 500 since he bought a bigger bike.  I haven’t seen it yet, but he now rides a newer model 1100.  I thought I was getting a Yahmaha last year, thought I was getting a Suzuki earlier this summer, but it looks like I will finally be buying a motorcycle for real; unless Roy flakes out on me.  He’s a good guy; I believe in Roy. 

Pictured above is a Honda 500 Shadow, but not actually the one I’m buying.  Sadly, I don’t have a picture of Roy either.

Get Smart

We saw Get Smart last night and I thought it was great.  Sometimes old t.v. gets made into good movies, and other times, well… not so much.  I hope, for instance, that the Incredible Hulk is a big improvement over the Hulk movie made a few years ago.  They got a new actor, a new director, and tried to rethink the concept.  Everything I’ve heard has been good.  When the Brady Bunch updated in the 90’s, they left the family stuck in the 70’s and brought the setting up to modern day.  It was funny, but in the original series the Brady family was perfectly normal; chronologically speaking anyway.  I think they did a good job with Get Smart.

Steve Correll is hilarious.  He makes deadpan funny, and not just everyone can do that.  (If you haven’t seen Evan Almighty, give it a chance.  I didn’t think I would like it either, but it’s great.)    I didn’t care much for Matthew Broderick as Inspector Gadget, but Correll nailed Maxwell Smart to a T.  Don Adams would be proud.  Anne Hathaway plays agent 99, and if you don’t know who she is, go educate yourself.  She was in the Princess Diaries and The Devil Wears Proda.  If anything, Correll’s Smart is a little too smart.  He really knows his stuff in this movie, and has just been moved up to field agent.  At the beginning of the film, he’s an annalist.  With no field experience though, he is bumbling, and hilarity ensues. 

There are a couple of send-ups to the original series, notably the Control museum tour at the beginning.  I don’t want to spoil it, but watch for the shoe phone to make an appearance.  The movie does deliver some action toward the end, so it’s not just nerd jokes and 3’s Company style sitcom humor.  The movie is mostly clean, perfectly cast, and plays out very well.  This might be one I buy on DVD.  I wouldn’t mind a sequel in a year or two, either. 

I’m on the Real Internet

The guy came yesterday and installed our DSL.  That’s right; for the past 8 years we’ve only had dial-up.  I found out just a year or so ago that my 2000 year-model Gateway, running Windows 98, doesn’t even have a 56K modem.  Up until about February, we were using a 28.8 modem.  That was the only internet access we had at home.  So anytime you see a blog post with pictures, that means I uploaded them from school.  It’s not a big a deal as it sounds.  I can walk from here to my classroom in about 10 min if I’m in a hurry.  But still, I have stayed in the Ministry Center office blogging until 2 a.m. on more than one occasion.  What a comfort to my wife to know that instead of being in the office at work until 2 in the morning, I’ll be in our office here at home until 2 in the morning. 

Seriously (although that wasn’t a joke) I can check my e-mail, glance my blog stats, and catch up on CNN Headlines News blog what I missed overnight all before heading out the door in the morning.  We can be on the internet for hours without worrying who’s call we’re missing.  My boss once tried calling on a Sunday night to see if our Men’s Bible study was meeting the next morning, and never got through.  All my family lives in GA, and I’ll be able to stay in touch with my brother more often.  He updates his MySpace like every hour it seems like.  Teresa’s family is in Germany, and she can fially video conference her mother like they’ve been daydreaming about for years.  It will be a lot of fun, but this will also make me more productive.