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Bob Hope died today at 100 years old. The world has lost a great and funny man. But no doubt Bob Hope got us a line he had been saving for St Peter to hear for some years.
About 100,000 gags were part of the personal effects he donated to the Library of Congress in 1998. But as his spokeman noted at the time, "There are some duplicates, of course. He was recycling jokes before recycling was in fashion." –USA Today
Funny, I fail remeber him not smiling.
Dean, my brother had not remembered Tuesday was my birthday. Now before you jump all over him, we have not remembered each other birthdays since we were kids. But this year he got some grief about it. Remembering my birthday is not what makes Dean a great brother. He is a great brother because he is someone I am proud to know and he is still my brother. We have seen each other though a lot, and had outs. Like all brothers. So I am 35 and still want to be like my older brother.
Yesterday I found out I will not be getting the scary job. They have decided not to hire a Dallas person. They said they really like me but at the time they are holding off hiring someone. I am very disappointed. It is not just that it was a really cool job, but that it meant staying here. Now they funny thing I still have not heard from the Oregon job. So it is back on the hunt.
I pick up a CD on a guess a couple of days ago. It has turned out to be one of my best finds in a while. Aimee Mann former lead singer for Til Tuesday. She is very folk and lyric based. You can here some of the tracks on the web site, give her a listen. I would loan you my CD, but it seems to be stuck in my CD player.
Moth
The moth don't care when he sees the flame
He might get burned but he's in the game
And once he's in he can't go back, and
Beat his wings 'til he burns them black
No the moth don't care when he sees the flame
No the moth don't care when he sees the flame
The moth don't care if the flame is real
Cuz flame and moth got a sweetheart deal
And nothing fuels a good flirtation
Like need and anger and desperation
No the moth don't care if the flame is real
No the moth don't care if the flame is real
So come on let's go ready or not
Cuz there's a flame I know hotter than hot
And with a...
Away
The moth don't care if the flame burns low
Cuz moth believes in an afterglow
And flames are never douzed completely
All you really need is a love of heat
No, the moth don't care if the flame burns low
No, the moth don't care if the flame burns low
So come on let's go ready or not
Cuz there's a flame I know hotter than hot
And with a...
Away
Well today I am 35 years old. That is half the average life span of a US male. I am not married yet, have gray hair, spend too much time playing video games, and still do not know what I want to do when I grow up. So yeah I like where I am overall. So with out further ado, Heydan presents on this day:
July 22
1963 - The Beatles' first U.S. album, "Introducing The Beatles," was released
1376 - The legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin leading rats out of town is said to have occurred on this date.
1934 - John Dillinger was mortally wounded by FBI agents at the Biograph Theatre in Chicago, IL.
2000 - Astronomers at the University of Arizona announced that they had found a 17th moon orbiting Jupiter.
Other people born on this day
Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls) 1963
Richard Davies (Supertramp) 1944
Don Henley (Eagles) 1947
Bob Dole 1923
Alex Trebek 1940
Albert Brooks 1947
Danny Glover 1947
William Dafoe 1955
David Spade 1964
I started making movie tonight. No I have not bought the big expensive camera I want yet. Instead I started play with the movie capture on my digital camera. It saves avi movie clips of up to 60 seconds. Editing with Microsoft Movie Maker that comes free with Windows XP. The results are bad, but I am learning. I have made a ton of mistake! Editing is hard, I have no lights, and the result looks like a low bandwidth web cast. But it is amazing. I filmed myself having a conversation with myself. Just by cutting the shots together better I change how fun it was for me to watch. I saw things get better. There are lots of things this setup does not do, but it amazes me what I can do with it.
This was my first attempt…
I show you some as soon as I can con people into acting.
Well Priates rocks... LXG not some much...
First it was great go see it. Now if you really hate spoilers you can stop reading.
This is not a James Cameron movie. I think that is a good thing. I doubt he could have made the movie this well. Not to say it was better then one or two. The Terminator series is the only movie serial I can think of the currently where part one, two and three each get better then the last.
Cameronn’s movies were very much moral plays. T3 is not a moral play. It does not answer any of the moral questions it brings up. Oh and it brings up a couple big ones. Like destiny, can you avoid it? So as you already know Skynet rises, John Connor lives and the world is destroyed. But even though you know this is happing, you are riveted to the story. Because this is an action movie, much like the Hong Kong action movie the moral issues are used by the characters too drive action.
Now about our favorite character the T-1000. In the first movie he was the bad guy. Next Cameron turned him into the good guy. In T3 he is neither. He is on the side of good but not a good guy he is a machine. He does not have a morality. He is self-aware and has character and does grip you with his struggle in the movie. But it is clear he is not emotionally attached to the good guys. He is a machine, a tool, and a set of programs and still a great character.
Though you see the underlying issue is the same in Matrix reloaded. Free will, the power every living thing has too follow it morality or not. The matrix force-feed you the moral play of free will. In T3 it is not even brought up. It is the reason the T-1000 is not a good guy, and the machines will ultimately loose. You have to figure it out on your own.
Now, that all of that is out the bottom line… This is an action movie and a good one. It follows the old rule of when in doubt shoot at some one or have a car chase. There is only one real conversation where there is a lot of dialog. It was about half way though the movie and about half the theater went to the rest room.
So go see it.
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Thank you to every one who stops by.
Hi Sarah... it is nice to have you in my life.
This has kind of been my first day off. Really since my last day, I have been out of town. Well it has been a very interesting day. As days go I would say this one has had lots of things in it. So lets go over them shall we…
One Cache started the new job. I miss her already. She will be gone until Friday. I am in the position of the person who is here while the person I love is off in harms way doing heroic things. Most of all I am proud of her. She found a dream and is chasing it.
The interview I had last week asked for some more references. I heard from one of them that they call him. So that is going well. More on that when I hear more.
The company that I just left call and want to know if I would be available to do some contract work. They wanted to know when I would be able and what I would charge. I told them I would get back with them tomorrow after lunch.
Speaking of Lunch I am having lunch with someone about the job that most interests me tomorrow. I hope to find out more about what they are looking for and get a feel for the place. This is an informal meeting so what to ware?
Pat had a very positive news on the job front, not sure how much of that I can tell. I am very happy for him. My opinion of him is very high and I know he will do well. No matter what he thinks… grin
I called Dad tonight. He and Zara talked. Her first question was is Cache coming to visit during that time? Dad and Zara seem to like Cache, that is nice. Dad asked a interesting question about her. “Is it a strong relationship?” I think so. She is a very strong person and we talk very well. The where is it going, how are you too doing seem worse questions then is it strong. It is a very good question.
Dad and I talked about the car stuff. He covered the ‘is this the best thing for you’ stuff. Could the money and time be spent more wisely? It was funny. The same things I brought up to Cache. I sound like my father. We cover the whole thing. It was me and Cache all over but this time I was saying what Cache said and Dad was saying what I said. I think the same point of view won out.
Last I went to see T3. More on that tomorrow … Hey something has to happen then, you cannot have it happen all in one day.
and now a run on sentance! I got up this morning and realized, after getting all caught up in returning from the trip and getting ready for Cache to leave at 5 this morning I forgot to call Dad!...
I built Cache a Blog. She would love it if you stopped by.
I called Dad about spending some time with him rebuilding a car this summer. The call went mostly as I thought it would. At first I got the impression he thought I needed a car and was asking him to build me one. Not that at some points in my life that would be the best guess. He asked if I wanted something to drive everyday or once in awhile.
Getting across the idea of what I wanted to do was easier then I had thought. As I tried explaining it and I felt I was doing a poor job. Then Dad said “We have not spent much time with each other since you have been a man.”
Dad sounded excited about rebuilding a car, he started suggesting cars. The first one was an old station wagon he was very excited about. You could tell he hard had his eye on it. We talked about it for a while.
He asked what kind of car I hard in mind. I had not really thought about it. I told him I was more the 60’s or 70’s muscle or sports car type of person. He said two months was not much time to rebuild a car so we would need one that was in some stage of complete. A friend of his has a ’68 Camaro that might fit the bill.
We talked about how much money we could spend. When I would want to start and the other details he would need to know to talk to Zara about. I said I would call him back on Sunday as I am going to be out of town for the 4th.
After I hung up with Dad, Cache and I talked about how I felt and the options. She is very supportive. This is one of my dreams and she is big on following dreams. I am still not sure if I want to leap. Taking two months to and a great deal of money to fallow a dream is not how I have lived my life. I have lived an adventuresome live, but most of the time it has been the easy path.
Making a movie about my relationship with my Father and a car is not going to be the easy path…
With the very late flight and every thing going though my head tonight I cannot sleep. Monday was my last day at Wyse. Monday night I flew out to Oregon for an interview with a company in Wilsonville. The interview seem to go well, so I should hear something this week or next. I have a lead on a very interesting job here in Dallas. Next week I am supposed to have lunch with someone from that company. So things look good.
Tonight I have spent time thinking about things I want to do. Here I am in a place where I have some time and resources to change things in my life. In life we get so few chances to really take time to do things. I have been thinking more about making movies. On the flight last night I finished Robert Rodriguez’s book ‘rebel without a crew.’ If you remember this has been on my mind since February. “Stop aspiring, start doing.” So there is a dream.
I have been thinking about my Dad. He and I have not spent much time around each other. We do not know each other very well you could say. I have been thinking of something I want to do. Dad has a love of old cars. He is a wizard of finding, collecting, tearing apart and fixing up old cars. Myself I love old cars but have never been very mechanical. What if I took sometime off and had Dad and I find some old car and fix it up. Take a couple months off and spend it getting to know my Dad.
I have not talked to him about this yet. I need to call him.
These are the things that are rolling around in my head. So I could pay off some debts, take a new job do the logical thing or spend that money on time. Oddly I feel like I about to define who I am… at 34. If this part of my life was a film would you watch it? Would I?