Archive for the year 2004
A Walk on the Moon
Posted on July 18, 2004 by Ching under Movies.
Brian and I just finished watching A Walk on the Moon. Pearl (Diane Lane) cheats on her husband Marty (Liev Schreiber) with Walker Jerome “the blouseman” (Viggo Mortensen). I felt so bad for Marty because he plays such a nice guy. He didn’t deserve to be cuckolded. By the way, you can catch Liev in his new movie, The Manchurian Candidate. It looks very promising.
At any rate, have you ever noticed how Diane Lane is always cheating on her movie husbands and getting away with it? What’s up with that?
I’m so glad that Viggo has since stepped away from the “lover” roles. I realize that he has been a movie actor forever but I didn’t really notice him until A Perfect Murder (Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow). He’s such a great actor and I feared that he would get pigeon-holed. Thank God for The Lord of the Rings.
To other Viggo fans out there. If you haven’t already seen A Walk on the Moon, I highly recommend it. There’s a tremendously sexy waterfall scene that will get you dreaming of Viggo for weeks.
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I, Robot
Posted on July 18, 2004 by Ching under Movies.
Brian and I were going to play poker at Whiskey Creek after dinner at Abuelo’s but when we found out that I, Robot was playing in the balcony (main auditorium) we decided to watch it instead. We figured we were going to go play poker tomorrow night at Fingers anyway, might as well watch a movie tonight.
We really shouldn’t have gone to dinner at Abuelo’s because we are broke, but Brian doesn’t ever like to go there so when he asked if we could go there for dinner I agreed. The mature thing would have been to say no because we are broke.. But usually I have to beg and plead and even then he doesn’t want to go. I figured I had no choice but to take this opportunity.
Of course, we could’ve gotten regular seats instead of sitting in the balcony too. We could’ve saved money there. There are just some luxuries that one cannot forgo. Much like some people can’t drink any kind of water except for Perrier, if a movie is playing in the main auditorium of 13th Avenue Warren we have to see it in the balcony.
I, Robot was really good. I won’t ruin the movie for you by giving you any details. All I can say is that the twist is really good. It’s kind of an action-packed feel-good movie. The ending is all warm and fuzzy.
Okay, that’s all I’ll say. Go watch it.
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Movable Type
Posted on July 16, 2004 by Ching under Web.
Mom and Dad’s website has suffered major comment spam in the last few months. I’ve been really lazy to do something about it. I feel really guilty too because the fix was pretty simple.
I mean, comment spam has been an ongoing problem for Movable Type. It’s their Achilles’ heel, so to speak. I guess it’s an easy hack. Bots just swarm and post one worthless message after another. If you’re like me, who doesn’t really check comments regularly, then it takes months before you even detect the problem.
Anyway, I finally got around to installing MT-Blacklist and it works great! I had problems adding the master blacklist at first because I wanted to add it all in one shot and the list was just too long. I chopped it up into bite-sited sections (I love cut-and-paste) and finally got my blacklist going. That should be the end of the comment spam (for now, at least, until the bad guys figure out a way around the blacklist).
Jay Allen is my savior! Â
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Secret Window
Posted on July 16, 2004 by Ching under Movies.
Brian and just got done watching Secret Window. It’s not bad. The story is pretty good. It’s just a shame that I figured it out within the first ten minutes.
I kept hoping that there would be some kind of plot twist to prove me wrong. But there wasn’t. That was the disappointing part.
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Sushi Pig-Out
Posted on July 16, 2004 by Ching under Food and Drink.
Brian and I had another sushi pig-out session last night. If we had our way, though, we would drive all the way to Kansas City and pig-out with sushi from Kona Grill. Just thinking about it makes my mouth water. Here in Wichita, there is nowhere else that has better sushi than Sumo.
Last week, we were craving sushi. We decided to go to Sumo, only to find out that they were closed. They closed for a week and half for Fourth of July holiday. It’s kind of a mom-and-pop operation — it’s not a chain restaurant — so they must’ve gone on vacation or something. Felipe’s Jr. does that “we are closed for two weeks” stuff all the time.
We ended up at Hana Cafe because we didn’t know anywhere else that served sushi. It’s just not the same. It’s nowhere near Sumo calibre and it’s not even in the same galaxy as Kona.
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When we went out to eat at Sal’s (another Japanese hibachi steakhouse) for Misty’s birthday, I found out that they serve sushi there. Brian was upset when he found out because I think he would’ve gone. They’re not even as good as Hana Cafe, though. And your sushi choices are very limited.
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Brian tried to get us some sushi from Sumo on Tuesday but he said it was very busy. I guess everyone who tried to go the week prior thought of going that week to get their sushi fix. Sumo is never busy on weekdays. I’m thinking that the closing for a week thing was a marketing ploy to rejuvenate interest in their restaurant. LOL! Anyway, Brian ended up bringing me PF Chang’s for dinner instead. Which is good, too.
We finally got our Sumo sushi fix last night. The financial damage wasn’t too bad. But, I must say, Kona gives you better quality sushi and more quantity for the same price. We really have to go there again sometime.
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