Archive for the year 2004
The Bourne Supremacy
Posted on July 25, 2004 by Ching under Movies.
Brian and I watched The Bourne Supremacy this evening. I loved it. It was great. I love Matt Damon, anyway, so he can’t do anything wrong in my eyes.. Except, of course, Stuck on You. That was a dumb one.
The only thing I didn’t like about The Bourne Supremacy was that it had sexist undertones. I mean, give me a break. Pam couldn’t figure out that something was off. Like, seriously, did she really think that Jason would leave his fingerprint? This is a guy who is trained to be invisible. It took a young and lowly peon to figure out that something was off.
The impression I got was that it took a man to figure out that Jason was being framed by someone else. He was low ranking in the organization and kind of dumb but he was the first one to actually figured it out.
It took a tape for Pam to finally figure out what was right in front of her nose. And I didn’t like that too much.
The was the only thing that bugged me. Overall, I really enjoyed the movie. I felt bad for Marie, though, because she didn’t play much of a part in the sequel. Oh, well. At least she’s still in it.
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Legends of Bartending
Posted on July 25, 2004 by Ching under Life.
We were watching the Legends of Bartending World Championships last night of The Food Network. Gosh, these guys (and girls) do some pretty amazing things. I thought bartending was bartending. I had no idea there was such a thing as flair bartending. After you advance to the finals (only twelve finalists get to advance), the competition has four events or rounds: speed, accuracy, working flair and entertainment flair.
The reigning king of bartending, Christian Delpech won first place. His brother came in second and his girlfriend came in 11th or 12th. I can’t remember specifically, but the narrator made a big deal out of it considering it was her first competition.
You thought Tom Cruise was hot in Cocktail? Christian makes Tom look like a chump! Here’s a video showing some highlights of what these entertainment flair bartenders can do (it’s a large video file so it may take a while to download, you may want to skip it altogether if you’re on dialup). I don’t know if Christian is still bartending these days. I believe he’s retired. If he’s still bartending, I would sure like to see him perform in person. It’s very impressive stuff.
[update] If you go to the Flair Devils website, it says that he’s still working at Carnaval Court in Harrah’s Las Vegas. I don’t know if that info is outdated but it sure makes me wanna go! [/update]
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Incubus Canceled
Posted on July 24, 2004 by Ching under Life.
I just got word that the Incubus concert for which we been holding tickets for over two months now has been either postponed or canceled. Blah.
No one knows what is going on. I called Dillon’s, where we purchased our tickets, and they don’t know anything either. The guy gave me the phone number to the Select-A-Seat box office at the Kansas Colliseum but they freakin’ closed at 2PM. The tickets are still being sold on the website. What gives?
I guess, I will just try to Google it. Google always has the answers.
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Online Photo Sharing
Posted on July 22, 2004 by Ching under Web.
There’s a great article about the growing popularity of online photo sharing in the July/August 2004 issue of Technology Review. It’s about time someone noticed!
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Flickr
Posted on July 21, 2004 by Ching under Web.
I’ve been messing around online a lot lately. I get off at six o’clock now and I usually have a couple of hours before Brian’s gets home from work at eight so I’ve had a couple of hours to myself to just goof around the internet.
As you can see, I’ve discovered Flickr which truly is the coolest thing since sliced bread. It’s what generates the row of random thumbnail pictures above. Too bad it’s a Canadian product. Just kidding! No offense to all you Canadians out there, eh?
Anyway, have you all tried the newest version of Yahoo! Messenger? It’s loaded with features! I can still remember back in the day when it was still Yahoo! Pager. Now it’s capable of all sorts of things. It’s really neat. Then again, I’m easily amused. So maybe it’s not so neat to normal people. But then you won’t find out if you don’t try it now, will you?
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