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I love Ghostbusters.  Love everything about them.  I even tolerate the second movie, that’s how much I love the franchise.  That being said, I do believe that I’d be beaten up if I wore this around.  I’m 29 now, and I’d still get beaten up.

Awesome idea, in any case!

You can grab this over at 80′s Shirts for $40.

Yes, this is a real book.  The only thing keeping me from actually get it is the very real fear my kids would find it (and they can read it to each other now).

Be sure to hit up the link (in the picture) to read the first few pages!

I’d vote for him!

I have three kids at home (two boys and a girl).  Keeping them entertained is always this constant struggle between finding something appropriate for their age and finding something that can be played over and over again without driving the adults insane.  We’ve had a lot of luck with TV series; episodes are shorter so you’re not sitting the kids down for two hours to veg, if you have an entire season stored up then you can watch any number of episodes, and not having to hear the exact same show over and over again saves your mind.

There is an issue where the kids catch on pretty fast that there’s more than one episode they can watch, in which case they then beg to see episode after episode after episode.  However, with proper parenting (it’s called “No”) that’s usually pretty easily avoided.

Like most nerds, I have been a Lord of the Rings fan since around the beginning of time. So you can imagine how I felt when I saw the new trailer for War in the North. (Don’t worry, I’ll link the video in at the end of the post so you can see for yourselves.)

It promises to be an amazing single player medieval fantasy action RPG, without the loss of story or the endless repetition of an MMO.

And I want to believe them. I really, really do.
It’s just that I don’t trust the developers.
Or the publisher.
At all.

I just watched a trailer for the remake of the Karate Kid starring Will Smith’s son as Ralph Macchio, and Jackie Chan as Mr Miagi. I have no problem at all with remaking the movie. It’s over 25 years old, and it’s not like we’re talking about Casablanca, Star Wars, or Caddyshack. It was a cheesy movie that is due for a remake. Frankly I’m amazed it took this long for it to happen. After all it has been 16 years since we saw Academy Award Winner Hillary Swank in The Next Karate Kid.

You may ask then, “What is your problem?”. For starters it takes place in China, Jackie Chan is Chinese, and the boy is learning Kung Fu not Karate (the spiritual nature of Kung Fu seems to be a central theme of the film). As my friend can tell you Kung Fu is a Chinese fighting style that is very different from Karate. China and Japan are very very very different nations who historically don’t like each other very much.

I was able to burn through a couple of my recorded shows last night, which is always a treat.  One of them was a “Premier Event” (whatever that means) of a new show on Fox, Human Target.  Based on the little-know comic book of the same name, it piqued my interest when I saw a commercial for it.  I told my system to record as many of them as were scheduled, and here we are.  The premier will have an encore showing tonight after American Idol, and the pilot (which is actually a different episode) will air Wednesday in the same time slot.  If you can’t watch it tonight, schedule your TiVo.  If you can’t do that, then I suggest you watch it here.  Long and short of it is, YOU REALLY NEED TO CHECK THIS SERIES OUT!!!

Ricky is looking kinda scary by the end of this!

And a helping of War Machine on the side?

Please stop trying to make a web browser.

People will claim that I am a huge Microsoft fan/spokesperson, but the honest fact of the matter is that I simply like what works.  If it does its job well, then it’s a win in my book.  If it goes above and beyond what it needed to do, then it gets bonus points.  Some special features aren’t really useful to me, so I don’t factor them into my grading.  Sometimes this means I rank Apple products rather highly.  Sometimes I prefer Microsoft products.  I rarely like Unix/Linux items (no features, no “above and beyond”, and requires three weeks of work to get it to do what I need?  No thanks).  Overall, though, I think I’m pretty balanced about what I consider “good” in the technology world.

So then why my plea to Microsoft?