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My priorities.
2 The best things in life are free
But you can give them to the birds and bees
I want money
While listening to the “Money” cover by Thee Headcoatees:
Him: I thought girls “just want to have fun?”
Her: No… money. Money is for doing fun things. Specifically shopping.
Oh, and what shopping I have done! I believe I was even called out on the podcast by Tom for “shopping or something” when he called me this week. Clearly! What good would a vacation be without shopping and eating copious amounts of delicious foods? No good at all. I can’t believe the week is almost up already! Vacations never seem long enough though, do they? I keep making promises of pictures, but that might have to wait until I get back.
I have been doing some reading on this trip, and if you have a taste for quasi-rediculous sci-fi and horror then you should probably go take a look at John Dies at the End. Probably one of the funniest and most inventive works I’ve read in a while. Also great reading is Pointless Waste of Time, which is probably my new favorite site on the Internerd. How can you go wrong mixing WoW humor, satire and sci-fi?? It gives me faith in humanity again. Ok, I have out-nerded myself once again, and I haven’t even had coffee yet today!
SoaP! The Trailer.
7The trailer for Snakes on a Plane has finally surfaced. Boy oh boy… does this movie look stupid. In the best kind of way! Who wants to crash the premiere?
UPDATE: According to an e-mail I just received, that is NOT the official trailer. Rather, it is “sneak peek footage with unfinished CGI.” The letter came from Crew Creative Advertising, who has New Line Cinema listed as one of their clients. So, per their request, here are the official SoaP links:
Apple + Blockbuster = Stupid
4In yesterday’s edition of I, Cringely, PBS writer Robert Cringley wrote that he thinks it makes sense for Apple to buy the floundering Blockbuster. His plan is relatively simple:
Take your Video-out iPod to Blockbuster, drop it in a kiosk dock then download from the local xServe your choice of 50,000 movies. You can rent the movie or buy it and you can even choose the resolution, which may or may not affect the final price. Take the iPod home, drop it in the dock attached to your TV and watch the movie. H.264 decoding takes place in the iPod in hardware.
That sounds like a very pleasant idea, except for one thing: The reason Blockbuster is losing money is because… wait for it… PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO LEAVE THEIR HOUSES.
Why leave your house, go to Blockbuster, and plug your iPod in when you can do one of the following:
Get Netflix and have the movie delivered to your house.
Wait two months and TiVo it.
Bittorrent.
Vongo
If Blockbuster really wants to save itself, they should make some deals with the major movie houses and have movies available for download off of their website in multiple formats. That way, they won’t have to tether themselves to one company (read: Apple).