Archive for May, 2006

Team Fuller, Handicap 63

By | 31 May 2006 | Rant | 2 Comments

Since I was unable to golf this evening, I whipped out the old/crappy camera phone to capture the event. Hilarity ensued.

I took several extremely low quality cell phone videos in order to assess the quality of Jason’s swing. To say the first two swings were comical is the understatement of a lifetime.

  1. Jason’s First Swing
  2. Jason’s Second Swing
  3. Jason Get’s a Good Hit

In a somewhat of an odd occurrence, there is an archaic hunting “blind” up in a tree near the tee for the third hole. The rot, I would guess that it predates the golf course by a considerable amount.

So…how many stokes do you count when someone fishes their golf ball out of a pond?

I’m proud to say that our lowest score was within 22 of par. :razz:

Freak Weather aka Michigan

By | 30 May 2006 | General | 4 Comments

Well, it appears that we seem to be suffering through a bit of an excessively warm spell. I spent nearly the entire day in front of the computer feverishly trying to finish my case write up for Managerial Operations. As sweet was pouring over my face during a break I decided to check out Lake Michigan Cam to see what was going on downtown.

To my amazement, there were a ton of people down at the beach. This seemed a little odd to me, even more so seeing people actually in the water. Given the fact that only a few days ago, it was 49F, and the water was less than that. So, I had to go down that and check it out.

When I got to the beach, it was in fact packed with people, as the photo illustrates. When I got there it was a stifling 92F. According to the state park, the water temp was 62F. That is pretty chilly by my reckoning, and even more so if you consider that going in is a 30F drop.

On a side note, since there were so many people at the beach, I thought that it would be pretty to stick a picture of ninja vanberge in there some where as a kind of “where’s waldo.” I even stuck up a full size version of the photo so you might actually be able to spot him.

X-Men 3 (2006)

By | 27 May 2006 | Movies, Rant | 1 Comment

There is not really much to say about this film. It was not as good as the previous X-Men films. There is basically not logical to the sequence of events that transpire throughout, characters are one dimensional and lack any kind of authentic motivations. Basically, it was just a typical special effects extravaganza, as they say. In other worlds, it was a bad film. But, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

My major complaint about the film was how it portrayed characters in entirely “unrealistic” manner. Or, I should say, not as how they acted in the source material. The treatment done to Magneto was positively shameful. He was essentially an entirely different character altogether. Perhaps that most distressing change was his complete lack of loyalty. As, when Mystique lost her powers, Magneto simply abandoned her. In the comics that is much less likely to have happened as loyalty has always been one of Magneto’s biggest hang ups. But, the list just goes on an on. In addition, there are several negative changes to characters across the board, but I am not going to get into that.

I will admit that the film was not entire awful, as there was particularly amusing scene, where juggernaut makes a pop culture reference by stating, “DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?! I’M THE JUGGERNAUT, BITCH!!!” Unfortunately, I am afraid many of the people in the theater did not get it, as I was the only one that laughed aloud.

Basically, if you like action, and hate stories, you will enjoy this film. If you like the X-Men you will probably hate the film. If you don’t know anything about the X-Men, it does not really matter, but nothing makes sense in the film. I think it is supposed to be that way.

Spider Ball

By | 25 May 2006 | General | 3 Comments

Apparently, the old boat has become the home of a message “swarm” of spiders. I have never seen so many spiders all in one place at the same time. The photo above is cropped, but the entire spider ball was about the size of plum. Furthermore, I haven’t the slighted idea what kind of spider these are.

Any ideas?

24 Season 5 Finale

By | 23 May 2006 | Rant, Television | 6 Comments

The fifth season of 24 has officially come to an end, and Jack Bauer is officially efing pissed.

As per the new annual tradition, I ventured out to the (now farther) home of one, vanlandw. This year, the turnout was a little smaller than usual, but not bad. Everyone else who totally bailed needs to be issued a stern “pick it up,” and that means you, vanberge!

Anyhow, the finale of 24 was pretty decent this year. However, the unfortunately cliffhanger ultimately rendered it inferior to last year’s offering.

The first twenty minutes of the 23rd hours were essentially flawless. Unfortunately, as a consequence of this, Jack took care of all his killing right away, leaving the finally tally for bauercount below that of last year as well. I was pretty glad to see the two annoying minor bad guys finally put out of Jack’s misery.

The last 100 minutes pretty much a mixed bag. It dealt mostly with trying to get Logan to implicate himself through some elaborate scheme. I did not think it worked very well, but lesser vans seemed to like it quite a bit. Fortunately, there were a few comedic events that transpired. The first, was the apparently inadequate sexual performance of the President of the United States. By my reckoning the entire event transpired in less than a single minute.

Perhaps the single funniest event, was when Logan walked into an airport hanger and bitch slapped his wife.

All things considered, I guess that I would have to put this season as the worst so far. However, this summer I do plan on re-watching the second and third seasons again in order to get a better bearing on everything. Historically, I have always liked the third the least, but I am pretty confident that the fifth has sunk a little lower. Probably because of the horrid over use, and poor acting of Kim Raver.

At this point, I am not exactly sure what they are going to do with the sixth season considering that they sent Jack to China. I have to admit that I hope they don’t pull the bullshit they did between seasons 2 and 3, and just skip ahead 18 months without telling you what transpired in the middle. Seriously, if Jack Bauer is running CTU field ops again as the beginning of season six I might stop watching the show. :razz:

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