Who watches "The Watchmen" answered!

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What did I come to see again??



Since I'm a time traveller, I went back two weeks and finally saw "The Watchmen". The best part of the movie was that I answered the question, "Who watches the Watchmen?" The answer is geeks...lots of geeks (well 10, approximately). Granted, I saw the movie at noon on a Monday, but still there were exactly 10 guys, by themselves, perfectly spaced out so they wouldn't have to talk to each other. And yes, I know that makes me a geek too. Takes one to know one.

Apparently, the marketing people know who goes to see these movies too. The trailers were just a giant nerd orgy. Star Trek Origins looks great, thank you J.J. Abrams. Though Sylar playing Spock makes me a bit leery. Then it was X-men Origins. Not a huge fan of the last two X-men movies or Liev Schreiber (he's going to take on Wolverine...come on!?) but it does look good.


Next up was The Terminator Salvation. Man, can Christian Bale be any hotter right now? (Said in a totally hetero way...) He is in everything. You can't be Batman, Pablo Escobar, John Conner and Jack Kelly... save some roles for the rest of the guys. When I was in 1992 everyone in "The Player" says "We'll get Bruce Willis for the lead!" Then Brad Pitt was Bruce, then Colin Farrel was Bruce, then they wanted Shia LaBeouf to be Bruce.


Anyway... I thought the movie was great! I loved Rorschach, he was perfect. The guy looked just like him and "the Batman" voice was great! I am not sure if they decided to hire actors just based on them looking like the characters in the book, or not, but they were uncanny.


Well... I think that's enough about the movie.

Have a nice day!!

Everything I learned, I learned by myself off of the computer

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Wii ! It's not just for breakfast anymore!

http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-build-an-infrared-smart-board-with-a-wiimote-174101/

Why is education so expensive?!? I could pay $2,000 dollars for one of these if there was a 10% chance it would make it through a budget... or I could offer a class in the district high schools where we teach the kids how to do this, then we send a team of students to each elementary school to make one in all willing teachers classrooms. When they set it up they train any other kids that want to learn how to do it. Total cost $200 + each student has a skill that just may lead to more innovation. The snowball effect of this would be enormous!! The only question would be how can we "no bid" contract this out to a company, who could then charge $1,000 each to oversee it, otherwise what is really the point.

This vidoe shows how to make a Wii remote, a marker, and a laptop into a smartboard.... go, go, go, Macgyver.

The Revolution starts now!!!

Things that make me laugh... EVERYTIME!!

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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

1 Wiener dogs- the are so long and floppy eared and overly confident.

2 My son with his underwear backwards. / when he gets right up to my face and breaths his stinky breath on me.

3 Some one laughing uncontrollably, tears in their eyes.

4 Myself in my sleep.

5 The words
Tickled / / Noodles / Boogie / Scooter/ Booboo/ scooby doo
Sherbet/ Schubert / Doofenshmirtz / octopus/ soup / shampoo
Wiener / Uranus / Nipple/ anything in a candian accent
Suessical / all Suess words pretty much./ turtle/ moose/ wood pecker

6 When people sing the wrong words to a song.

7 Team names at trivia night –Touched by An Uncle, Free Tibet with Purchase of a Large Drink. Nine inch Males.

8 A sit com set up that I see a million miles away

9 Will Ferrell’s President Bush- have some margaritas at Chi Chi’s

10 A platypus – especially Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb- Plus they sound like a beaver lay eggs like a bird, common.

11 Will Ferrell in Elf- I’m singing a song about…

12 How I met Your Mother...wait for it..wait for it…. I think it has some great writing you don’t find around much any more.

13 Ground Hogs Day… it is funny, over..and over..and over!!

14 Unnecessary Censorship – from Jimmy Kimmel

15 Phineas and Ferb- A triangle kids and a rectangle kid, whose sister is a half circle.

16 People act like they heard the words wrong- like a Grandpa saying “start” instead of “stop”
17 Old silent movies – love the physical comedy – “Modern Times”

18 A “SPIT- TAKE” always makes me laugh, mostly because you see it a mile

19 When I try NOT to laugh because it's an inappropriate time!!!!

I Had A Dream

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Marc Brown: It's Not complicated

I had this dream last night. I'll describe it the best I can, then tell you the back story. You know, since I don't follow time linearly.

So, I was in my southern mansion having a dinner party (Hey, a man can dream!). I was walking around entertaining and saying hi to all the families. I would say there were maybe 20 families. Suddenly I heard a ruckus in the library. I opened the door and it is a huge Sherlock Holmes style library, and there was a mess everywhere. There was this boy on the floor throwing all my favorite, leather-bound books as hard and spitefully as he could. There were other boys all over with cuts and scrapes and this boy was throwing the books right at them. There was blood everywhere, on the floors and on the shelves. I tried to stop him and he went crazy. I had to restrain him (thank you Denver Public Schools for the training). I was so mad and wanted to just punch him out to stop him, but I didn't and he kept getting worse. He was like a rabid dog, a la Stephen King. He just kept attacking, and attacking. Finally I got him to calm down and he just started to laugh at me.

I went out and looked around for his dad, but when I found him I couldn't speak . It was like my throat was clogged. No sound would come out. I finally got some words out and he just shrugged, "so what". I walked him around explaining to him and showing him how other families were playing games with their sweet kids and others were sitting around doing crafts and laughing. I told him I would have to have him pay for the damages his son did to my moms house (yes ownership somehow changed). He walked over to some other guys and they discussed something, while they hung out downstairs in the basement.

I went outside and saw this bird or pterodactyl on the roof by it's nest. While I was watching, some eggs started to roll off the roof. I caught one and as I did it hatched and a baby came out. I thought I didn't want it to look at me because then it would think I was it's mother and I wasn't. Then another rolled off and I tried to save it to, but it landed on the ground and when the shell cracked we saw it was already dead.

Meanwhile, in the basement, my Mom and my (deceased) step Dad were working on their room, when the men asked them why they were living in the basement of this house. Why weren't they living on the main floor, which was were I was going to live. They started getting mad explaining that it was illegal to rent out the rest of the house because it was a single family dwelling. "No! No! We are just renovating - that's all!" they explained. Things started to get heated. The guys said they were going to turn everyone in. I tried to stop them by saying that they were just trying to get out of paying for the crazy boy's behavior. They said all the damage was my problem, too bad, I would have to deal with it myself.

Now here is the back story: it's complicated.

My mom moved in to my house over the summer, she lives in the garage that we renovated. We just hooked up the water last weekend ourselves, no permit. (hypothetically) We are adopting two kids from Ethiopia in the next few weeks. My son woke up last night at 1am, and was screaming and arguing like he has done for the last 3.5 years. I finally got him to stop and go down to his room, where I put him to bed, but then I was to hyped up to go back to sleep. I was up until 4:30, when I finally drifted to sleep and had this dream.

I'm thinking I probably don't need a dream analysis on this one.

Top 19 Media About Time Travel

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If you are ever bedridden, here are somethings to do.

Only slightly in order. And just some quick thoughts -- not long winded reviews.

Primer (movie) Great Movie so minimal and washed out. Love the idea that business uses technology just to make money- see how the Porn industry has driven our top tech inventions. Like VHS, DVD, Internet.

Donnie Darko (movie) Love the 80’s sound track and remember Frank is just trying to help you – maybe. I Love how time travel is always blamed on symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.

12 Monkeys (movie) One of Brad’s top 5 performances. Love how Brad and Bruce have possible symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.

Time Bandits (movie) Why does there have to be evil? Supreme Being: I think it has something to do with free will. Look, do you want to be leader of this gang? No, we agreed: No leader! Right. So shut up and do as I say..

Rant – An Oral Biography (Book) Can’t give anything away, so I’ll just say this is a delightful story, just like all of Chuck’s books, if you are a twisted soul. A quick read I finished in only 3 months, with time travel factored in.

Does Groundhog Day count? (Movie) I had groundhog for breakfast! I like to see a man of advancing years throwing caution to the wind. It's inspiring in a way.

The Butterfly Effect (movie) one of the only movies with Ashton I can watch…. Plus it goes with A Sound Of Thunder (see below).

A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury (Short Story) The movie sucked, but I love the idea of changing history by stepping on a bug. Some rich business men pay big money to hunt a T-rex. Trivia Ray actually didn’t coin the phrase “butterfly effect” though; it was an MIT dude in the 80’s

The Simpsons episode "Time and Punishment" which was part of Season 6's Tree house of Horror V. The spoof of the short story above. Later stolen to make the butterfly effect.

Time After Time (movie) My name is H.G. Wells. I came here in a time machine of my own construction. I am pursuing Jack the Ripper, who escaped into the future in my machine. One of those movies you saw 50 times because it was the summer you got HBO.

Timeline by Michael Creighton (book) Movie sucked. Book makes sense though, you know if you suspend disbelief.

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (movie) High school movie to watch over and over and over.
Back to the Future 2 and 1 (movies) I really like the second one when Biff uses his time travel to make money. But the popular answer is the first one.

Terminator 2 and 1 (movies) He was right, he did come back.

Planet of the Apes (movie) Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape! You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

Lost (TV) who doesn’t love this show freckles? Think of how so many of us thought they were dead and in purgatory.

Peabody's Improbable History (TV) Talking dog historian/time traveler, Mr. Peabody and his pet boy Sherman. The two would jump into their time machine called "The way back machine". Getting up at 5:30 as a kid to watch the Lone Ranger and this was on after it. With Rocky and Bullwinkle.

Once in a Lifetime by the Talking Heads (Song) 1980 “…and you may tell yourself. This is not my beautiful house! And you may tell yourself .This is not my beautiful wife!”

Time Splitter 2000 (PS2) I know it is an old game but its one of the few I have played- as referenced in my Blog Unstuck in Time. I am cheap and only have old games.

Time Machine by HG Wells (Book) was published in 1895. Are you kidding me?! The Island Of Dr. Moreau, War of the Worlds The Invisible Man. HG Wells was a true Futurist.

And finally a poem:

A mammoth, frozen

in Siberian tundra

for twice 10,000 years
Is exhumed at last.

Embedded in the right tusk:

a tracking device

-- Keith Allen Daniels

The Problem With Being Unstuck in Time

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It’s not cool until I say it’s cool.

Sometimes I feel like I am Billy Pilgrim in Slaughter House Five, or Desmond (from LOST) in “The Constant” episode. I seem to have problems with slipping around in time. Sometimes I’m in the future. Mostly I’m in the past, mostly, and many times I hear Tyler Durden telling me “This is the greatest moment of your life and you’re off somewhere missing it. Stay focused on the moment, don’t think about other things just enjoy the moment.” How often am I in the present, not thinking about what happened today or what I will do later, just enjoying right now? I digress.

This week I have been obsessed with the White Stripes. I listened to them for the first time a couple weeks ago. Now of course I’d heard them years ago… and changed the station, but I never really listened to them before. The song was Blue Orchid – wow, soooo good -- then I listened to Seven Nation Army. Also awesome. I even created a crush for Meg. I know, I know they have been around since the late 90’s but to me they are a brand new band, because I just slid back to that year for a week. I didn’t really listen to Nirvana until their MTV Unplugged CD was playing at my friend Pat’s house in 1997. Kurt wasn’t even alive any more. You see, I spent several weeks crashing at Pat’s house in Tucson, not knowing he had no TV until I got there. I remember in 2001 I was living in the 1990’s and discovered Paul Oakenfold and electronica music. That was an amazing summer. Of course my wife says I am not time traveling but rather I never listen to FM radio or new music or her. True. I have a closed loop for music, kind of like the Amish and breeding.

The best part is I ALWAYS say I don’t like things that I have never actually heard, tasted or seen, just because the masses think it’s cool. I used to think that started when I was in high school when Joe, Pat, Mickey, Brian and I were punk rock guys. I loved to hate everything people loved. I was totally different and unique, exactly like my friends were. However I realized I had been doing it years before. I remember telling my friend Jay Penny in middle school that I didn’t want to go with him to see U2 at Red Rocks. Yes. In 1983. I have spoken to 14,000 people that went to that concert and, yes, it holds just under 10,000. It’s just like how I have met at least 40 people now that were with Darent Williams the night he was shot and died. I am sure he had a big posse that NYE, but I don’t actually know that many cool people that he would have hung out with. Anyway, I didn’t want to go to the concert because I thought he was talking about the B52’s which were popular, therefore I didn’t like them. I know in 1987 at college I always listened to them and proclaimed they were the best.

The same can also be said for TV and movies. I finally watched Weeds, season 1, this summer. Loved it! Welcome to 2005. I started watching the Wire (one of the best shows ever made) when season 3 started in 2004. When I make it back to 2004 I can finally start Battlestar Galactica -- I’ve heard it’s good. Just thinking of the irony of watching Donnie Darko three years after it was out and thinking “I used to love this INXS song” when it was big in the 8o’s. That is some real time traveling.

I just finished the last episode ever of “The Shield”. Yes, I am currently living in November 2008. Wow!! That’s all I can say. The end is so perfect and soooo disturbing it would be wrong to describe it… it really must be experienced. I was going to post the trauma I suffered from watching this… but I will save that for another digression.

This Christmas I was stuck in 2001, My wife bought me one of those hats that looks like a snow hat but it has a bill on it. I LOVE this hat. I remember when they came out and I said ‘I hate those hats, and those dumb kids that think they are sooo cool wearing them.” Two years ago I was in 2002, where I bought cargo pants for work. I love them, so I bought 4 pairs. Just like the hats with the bill, I hated them until that then. Too many kids wearing them…and why do they need so many pockets? I don’t need so many pockets. Heck I figured while I was there I might as well buy some skateboard shoes too. I wear them every chance I can. Now I am trying to buy a black leather jacket for spring as long as I land in any year from 1980 – 1999. Unfortunately for me, my wife acts as Doc Brown as I go backwards in time, preventing me from buying anything that might change the future. Therefore I am not allowed to buy a leather jacket because she says they are “out”. Hello McFly??? Anybody home!! I guess she may be part Biff too. Of course my wife would say I’m no time traveler it’s just that by the time clothes are 75% off on the clearance rack at Target I am finally willing to buy them.

When I think about it, I have never experienced electronics in the present. I am always a year or more behind. I would never think of buying a new computer in the $1500 range with whatever is new and great. What do I need 4 gigs of ram for? That would explain why I have never played a video game in the present, only the past. I would never consider buying a blue ray until they are two years old. What do I need 1080 dpi for? I would never buy a blackberry, what do I need to check email on the road for? I almost bought a PS3 the day the came out … but they were 600 bucks. I can still use my PS2. Plus when I jump back two years, a year from now, I will be able to buy it for a quarter of the price. I would never buy a brand new, on-the-market video game. I can wait a year and get it for half price. Sure this means I play Madden football when the players have already been traded or retired, and it’s on a Sega, but I am still enjoying it. I am an expert of all sports players and the team they were on 3 years ago.

Of course my wife says she can explain my time traveling and there is a logical scientific explanation for all this… I am extremely cheap!!