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Okay, so my problem with this movie was that I HATE Iron Man.  I hate Tony Stark.

Always have - ever since the cartoon when I was a kid.  The Civil War thing just served to drive it home even further.
But I love Robert Downey Jr.  LOVE him.

So… it was a good movie.

The suit was awesome, Robert Downey Jr was awesome (and hot), Tony Stark was annoying - just like he was supposed to be - and Stan Lee had the best cameo yet.  Seriously - it’s all about Stan Lee.

Best Marvel movie I’ve seen in awhile.  But the best is (hopefully) yet to come -  round about June 13!

Oh, if you go see it - sit through the credits for the little secret scene at the end.

Samuel L. Jackson.

All I’m gonna say.

Also, 20 days to go:

When I was a kid, Megaforce and Red Dawn were the best movies in the universe.

I forgot to make a Busey birthday post!

Busey turned 3 yesterday! Happy birthday, Busey!

He’s our big grown-up boy now!

Wow.  We just had a magnitude 5 earthquake!
(Well, it was about 45 minutes ago.)
It was centered just west of Reno & shook the house for about 3 seconds hard enough to rattle stuff on the walls but not knock anything off.

It did freak out the birdies though, so we had to take them out of beddie byes and calm  them down for about ten minutes before they went back to sleep.

We’ve been having what they call a “swarm” of earthquakes west of Reno for the past two days.  This was the biggest so far, but they say we’re due for a “big one” soon.

HA!  WE JUST HAD ANOTHER ONE AS I WAS TYPING THIS!

Busey slept right through that one - only Kirby freaked out a bit.  It was a smaller one.

Our little girl is one year old today!

You can see all her bright blue & lavender feathers replacing her drab baby feathers.

I tried to make a little birthday hat for her to take a picture with, but she was having none of it.

Okay, so Apple has great gadgets. I love my iPod and the iPhone is really nifty.

Their computers? not so much.

Their games suck, they can’t be modded and if something on/in them breaks you can’t just swap it out yourself.

The whole “Mac never crashes and never gets viruses and is faster” thing is pretty non-applicable as well when you’re running an awesome system like my core 2 duo Tardly v4. I know the debate goes on and on and on, but honestly, I can do everything just as fast and well on my PC and also play some fucking awesome games. I would actually buy a Mac laptop just to have one for the clients that are all OMG MAC RULES and can’t figure out how to make fonts/files cross-platform compatible for print, but I’d never make one my main system.

Anyway…

So Rick’s iPod went on the fritz and he took it to the Mac store for some fixin’. Simple problem, fixed fast.

BUT when he walked in the door he was assaulted by a gaggle of hipsters in cool clothes with trendy hair wanting to help him. Macs seem to attract the people who want to be “cool” and are into the latest hip hot trends. They buy into that whole “image” that is supposedly connected to being a Mac user. The store is clean to the point of being sterile and everything is trendily displayed in a minimalist way.

I dunno about you, but that’s not what I want in my computer store.

I want to walk into a computer store (like our local PC Club) and be able to vaguely smell the funk of nerd somewhere in the store.
I don’t want to go to a computer store where no one in the damn place has a BMI over 22.
I want to see Dream Theater and They Might Be Giants t-shirts.
I want to have to actually try to get the tech nerd’s attention because he’s so engrossed in whatever it is he’s doing, be it porn, games or actual work.
I don’t want to go to a computer store where everyone has pretty hair. I want D&D ponytails and beards with pieces of lunch in them.
I don’t want someone to try to sell me on the “image” of a computer.
I want someone who gets wood explaining how to overclock your CPU and mod your case.
I don’t want spotless glass tables with one product and no information sitting on each one.
I want plastic drawers full of RAM and hard drives sitting in anti-static bags on the shelves next to the motherboard displays.

I dunno, personal preference, I guess.

I can almost hear “The Lonely Man” playing now:

This is gonna be good, I think.

Got a raise.

Jamie Myers called me today out of the blue!

Went to Cost Plus to look at furniture stuff for the new place and Rick found a “voice changer” toy that makes you sound exactly like a Dalek.

When you post an online poll to choose which song is played as the sing-along at the last Mets game at Shea Stadium and leave a write-in option, do you know what happens?
Yep.

RickRoll!

“Techmology. What is that all about? Is it good or is it whack?”
–Ali G

Okay, so our new house comes with swanky stainless appliances, so I had to go look up all the model numbers to viddy the pictures and look at the features.

Our wall oven has something called “Certified Sabbath Mode”.

The fuh?

Evidently it’s so that observant Jews don’t have to turn the oven on on the Sabbath - it just keeps it on at the right temperature or something.

Even after explaining this to Rick, all we can both think of is some switch on the oven that would make Ozzy sing to you.