apple juice

A little Bogey news for all my car enthusiasts out there. The latest tank netted me 425.7 miles on 10.3 gallons of diesel, working out to 41.1 mpg. Not bad for a little tyke.

I’m still looking forward to the all-highway tank to see what that gets me. I think I’ll be able to give him a good workout on a roundtrip to Minocqua and back.

It’s really really tough to get a decent picture of a lunar eclipse on a
digital camera with no tripod.

I’ve sat here for a few minutes, staring at the screen, trying to come up with something coherent, intelligent, adhering to the rules of the english language, anything. and I’m having trouble doing that.

I’m pretty much in a state of shock. Everything I just saw has so completely knocked me on my ass, I won’t even try to give you some sort of review. I can only suggest that you go see this movie.

To try and give you an idea: I was so completely gripped, so completely engaged in the movie, I could not move for the last hour and a half. I sat, mouth agape, goosebumps all over, arms limp.

Maybe one or two observations: (I won’t give anything away)

• I had purposely avoided all media related to the movie prior to seeing it. However I had gathered a few things based on the one trailer I saw, and one story about the technology.
• It went far beyond what I had guessed was going to happen.
• The main action scene that has been hyped is, in my opinion, probably the greatest special effect acheivements in a movie, ever.
• I am so completely dissapointed and dissolutioned with Star Wars now it’s not even funny. (I may even consider selling my Darth Vader, okay maybe not)
• Seriously, first the Lord of the Rings, and now this? My new rankings:
  1. The Matrix
  2. Lord of the Rings
  3. Star Wars
• The soundtrack, once again, is awesome.
• If there was ever a sci-fi movie that was not a sci-fi movie (as I was trying to explain to a co-worker yesterday) this is it.

That’s all I can give right now. I’m going to see it again soon. Anybody want to go?

Some people from college will remember this, but when the original Matrix came out, I saw it right away (almost by accident) and then proceeded to see it about 8-10 times in the theatre as I went along with different groups of friends. I could definately see that happening again.

I found this quote at the top of the weblog for Karelia Software as I was browsing around this evening.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong,is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
— Theodore Roosevelt

Kind of flies in the face of those who say dissent is un-american.

Ever wondered what it was like to work as a sound engineer for a up and coming band? Here’s the inside scoop:

On Monday July 27, I begin a new project. I will be recording an album of a band for a very famous Producer. The band is relatively unknown other than within the Record Industry which, for the most part, is currently filled with bitter losers of the biggest bidding war in the history of the music business.

Maybe they should get Tony Scott in there to direct.

[Talking about the fact that the President is the civilian oversight to the military:]

Given that history, George Bush’s “Top Gun” act aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln ó c’mon, guys, it wasn’t about honoring the troops, it was about showing the president in a flight suit ó was as scary as it was funny.

Good one Ari:

But it does matter, enormously, for American credibility. After all, as Ari Fleischer said on April 10 about W.M.D.: “That is what this war was about.”