tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25094578038594485182011-07-28T12:39:17.337-07:00Random topics, Random updatesFrancishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.comBlogger871100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-42001061077011977882010-10-18T20:54:00.000-07:002010-10-18T21:02:58.397-07:00

Well, it’s been a really long time since I last posted. Sorry about that. But, in good news, I actually have comments on a game and I’m not too late to actually chime in on it. Well, except that I beat it over a week ago, so I could have been right on the bleeding edge, but, no, I had to put off writing about it. So, now, there’s already a bunch of stuff written about it and I won’t actually

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-63105937851585209772010-07-12T20:27:00.000-07:002010-07-12T20:39:41.966-07:00

Okay, let’s make a couple things clear before I get too deep into this one. For one, I have no idea what the creators of this ridiculous anime were thinking when they decided that the appropriate acronym would be HOTD. Everyone knows that stands for House of the Dead. I mean, c’mon, it was made by Sega for crying out loud. That’s a Japanese company. They should seriously do a better job of

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-326019535460027482010-04-07T00:03:00.001-07:002010-04-07T00:14:27.181-07:00

Well, I’ve come to the official conclusion that I need to stop doing long summary posts where I talk about a lot of things in very little detail. That’s, like, the exact opposite of what I’m supposed to be doing. I’m supposed to be talking way too much about a single topic that I’ve been obsessing over. And, I have not been obsessing over Chuck. Or House. Or V. Or Stargate Universe. I have

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-33564867697266013502010-04-05T21:45:00.000-07:002010-04-05T21:48:26.866-07:00

Okay, obviously, I’ve been really, really lax about updating this recently, and, to be totally honest, that’s probably not changing anytime soon. But, this is me not caring. Also, this is me then insincerely apologizing immediately after stating that I don’t care. Sorry. About both those things, I swear. Anyways, what motivated me to actually write a post again? Um, it was a variety of

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-85718065241471168002009-11-25T20:11:00.000-08:002009-11-25T20:18:08.149-08:00

So, we’ve now seen the first four episodes of ABC’s remake of V. I think it’s probably safe to assume that they’re going to make more, but for the near future, this is what we have to judge. Now, to be honest, I hadn’t actually seen the original mini-series until SyFy (God, I hate typing that) was kind enough to air it shortly before the first episode premiere. I had always just assumed that

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-39310962150249171512009-10-29T22:46:00.000-07:002009-10-29T23:06:51.084-07:00

So, I know it’s been awhile, but it’s getting to be time for me to put my thoughts down on the shows that have been on for the past two months (wow, that’s a lot of procrastinating). Anyways, I’m just going to go by day of the week, starting with Monday. Not just because that’s the start of the work week, but also because there’s nothing on on Sundays, since I don’t watch The Simpsons or

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-3400180885605911032009-08-15T11:53:00.000-07:002009-08-15T12:04:06.277-07:00

Well, you’re probably not surprised, but I saw District 9 at midnight on Thursday. Hopefully, you’re at least a little impressed that I saw it even though I was at work at five that morning (hopefully, you’re impressed that I was at work at five that morning, period). Anyways, I saw it. Let me list what I knew going in. It’s made by the guy who was going to make Halo because Peter Jackson

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-26131670452118401092009-07-05T10:14:00.000-07:002009-07-05T10:26:52.951-07:00

So, I want to apologize because I’ve been meaning to write this post for over a week. And I’d been meaning to write the first half of this post for over a month, but, well, better late than never right? Right? Well, whatever, it was supposed to be a rhetorical question. Anyways, there are two new (well new a little while ago, but I think they still count as new) Fox properties that need to

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-25463250905685510722009-06-05T22:55:00.000-07:002009-06-05T22:56:55.928-07:00

Okay, so I saw Up.  And, well, I can’t really believe it, but it just won the award for best Pixar movie.  I’m still blown away.  I’m still recovering.  I can barely believe what I just watched.  All I want to do is go back and watch those first 10-15 minutes again.  And again.  And again.  I’ll just cry the whole time.   It’s that beautiful.  It’s that touching.  It’s that perfect.   It’s

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-15899465042188373812009-06-04T23:42:00.000-07:002009-06-05T22:19:57.285-07:00

Well, it’s that time of year again.  That special time of year when I am completely incapable of doing anything remotely like work and simply spend all my time refreshing gaming web sites pages to see if they’ve updated with any content that I care about (the answer: no).   And, I guess it’s cool that E3 is back to being “kind of a big deal”.  Yeah, since I can’t go I don’t really care either. 

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-71778663612025510962009-03-14T23:48:00.000-07:002009-03-14T23:53:52.685-07:00

Nathan Fillion has a new gig on ABC. It's called Castle. You're probably not watching it because you have standards. But, if you were like me and didn't have standards, then you'd be watching Castle and laughing your ass off. But, you do, so it's your loss. I'm moving on. Here's a quick summary to catch everybody up. It's starring Nathan Fillion. Um, what else do you need to know? Okay,

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-31011091017553784842009-03-08T23:02:00.000-07:002009-03-08T23:13:57.104-07:00

So, this last Thursday, Ubisoft released a 10 dollar add-on to Prince of Persia called Prince of Persia Epilogue. Now, a reasonable response to this action on their part would be to question why this wasn't part of the original game. I mean, it seems as though they effectively decided to charge 70 bucks for the game instead of the originally agreed upon 60. But, well, I take a decidedly

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-63294602684225680382009-02-24T22:42:00.000-08:002009-02-24T22:53:15.184-08:00

Okay, so a couple months ago I reviewed the demo for these games and pretty much said that they were amazing and that I was totally excited to play them when they came out. Well, at this point, I have now played through both of them and I thought I'd put my thoughts on them down now. Yes, I'm kinda sorta reviewing these games, okay?So, let's start with Mirror's Edge. Now, a lot of reviews/

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-5523326910764311992009-02-21T00:06:00.000-08:002009-02-21T09:09:37.634-08:00

Okay, so we're two episodes into Joss Whedon's new project. Now, before I saw anything except commercials this is what I was thinking: "Okay, it doesn't look very good, but it's Joss Whedon's new baby and so I should give it a chance...". Then I saw the first episode and I found another reason to give it a chance. It has Helo from Battlestar Galactica. Oh, and Badger get's to play a cop,

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-82231542649846201702008-12-08T00:51:00.000-08:002008-12-08T01:03:54.014-08:00

Well, I'd just like everyone to know that I've totally already beaten the new Prince of Persia. Yeah, it came out on Wednesday. And I beat it late last night (okay, early this morning, but it's the principle that counts). Admittedly, after I picked it up, my whole life consisted of work, Prince of Persia and sleep. Just to be clear, that means I didn't eat. Okay fine, I did bathe. You

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-74890782440056921012008-12-02T00:37:00.000-08:002008-12-02T00:52:11.052-08:00

Okay, so, I saw Twilight. Just to be clear, I totally swear that I really, truly am a guy, despite the fact that I do shit like this. Yes, I saw Twilight. No, I haven't read the books. No, I don't think Edward is particularly dreamy and I honestly couldn't even recognize him from Harry Potter, primarily because I hadn't paid any attention to his character (I can't remember if I was checking

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-14702319910063554372008-11-19T19:30:00.000-08:002008-11-19T19:43:11.565-08:00

Okay, I kind of put off posting for a while, so now I've just got a wide variety of things that I sort of had a lot to say about, but by this point I've forgotten most of it, so once everything gets added together, it will probably be pretty decently long. Let's see, I think I want to start with...Chuck. And Jordana Brewster. Well, I guess mainly Jordana Brewster. So, the dear Ms. Brewster is

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-62573123528519088702008-11-04T20:46:00.000-08:002008-11-04T20:50:57.546-08:00

Before I say anything, I want to link to this endorsement for Barack Obama. This former editor of The National Review summarizes my feelings for Obama in a very real way.I've never really been a politically involved person. It's just not something I care about. I've never voted (and I'm keeping the record going today, although this time I can honestly say that it's not entirely my fault...I'm

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-63223505651750227972008-11-02T19:08:00.000-08:002008-11-02T19:20:11.355-08:00

Yeah, that's right. I'm so freaking slow at playing through video games that I'm going to just review the demoes I've been playing. To put just how slow I am in perspective, I bought Disgaea 3 on the day it came it in late-August. Yeah, I think I'm about 40% of the way through it. And I've put in a good 40-ish hours into it, so it's not like I haven't been playing it. However, I had promised

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-18672473377034022282008-10-27T23:42:00.000-07:002008-10-27T23:45:51.771-07:00

So, pretty much per normal, I've been watching a fair number of horror movies in celebration of it being October and all. Yeah, it's quite the excuse, I know. So, yeah, somewhere in here, maybe, is a movie you might want to see. And my glowing review of it. But you'll have to read the whole thing to find it. Oh, and I didn't really have much of a theme this year. I watched a lot of 80s

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-29507092255883454802008-10-26T14:06:00.000-07:002008-10-26T14:13:44.278-07:00

Okay, so I'll admit right now that I've hardly played through this entire game. I haven't even unlocked a plane in World Tour Mode, so I've only gotten about 55-ish of the 85 total songs on the disc. I've done about half the drum trainer beats and again, a little over half the drum trainer fills as well. I've done, maybe, 10 challenges and I've submitted a score for a competition once as well.

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-37074682354789326052008-10-21T00:58:00.000-07:002008-10-21T01:08:01.416-07:00

So, my friend encouraged me to get back to writing stuff on the blog. Most likely, this means that I'll write a flurry of posts over the next two weeks or so, and then we'll see what happens. In the best case, I'll get back to writing posts, rather than just thinking of them. In the worst case, we'll get back to one post every other month. Or maybe I got those backwards, I don't really know (

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-89209336772654631842008-09-30T00:09:00.000-07:002008-09-30T00:23:52.728-07:00

You know, it's funny reading my posts from when I first started watching Chuck last year. In my memory, I saw Chuck and immediately fell in love and it was awesome. In reality, things moved much slower than that. I thought that the completely ridiculous story was kind of stupid. I thought that the action sequences were rather poor (but I pretended to tell myself that the poor action sequences

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-26718029720224000232008-09-23T00:31:00.000-07:002008-09-23T00:37:27.944-07:00

Okay, before I talk about Heroes, I have a very serious complaint. NBC is apparently so excited about Heroes that they put off premiering Chuck, the most awesome show in existence, to air an hour long Heroes pre-premiere...thing. Maybe it was totally cool and awesome, but it couldn't possibly have been more awesome than Chuck. Admittedly, I didn't watch it because Terminator: The River is

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-19330172179765739782008-09-08T22:58:00.000-07:002008-09-08T23:04:26.448-07:00

Well, the Fall TV season has officially begun with Terminator: The River is Really Freaking Hot Chronicles back and pretty much amazing. It'll continue with Fringe tomorrow, of course, but first I have to talk about Terminator. Or, rather, I have to talk about River. And how hot she is. Oh, River, how I missed you so. Anyways, things start off with a bang. Well, I guess they finished last

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-60032783855854061282008-07-29T18:17:00.000-07:002008-07-29T18:22:50.235-07:00

So, E3 came along a little while ago. I can distinctly remember a time when this mattered. I also remember that it was in May and I literally stopped going to classes so that I could keep up with all the crazy upcoming video game videos being released every couple minutes. I remember how important each of the Big 3's press conferences were and how each one had to be more awesome and more full

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-90104190418187010012008-07-20T12:49:00.001-07:002008-07-20T12:58:23.379-07:00

I actually wrote this post on Wednesday, before going to see The Dark Knight on Thursday. I meant to clean it up a bit on Thursday before going to see Batman, but then I got distracted by Rock Band, and so I'm finally posting it now.So, The Dark Knight comes out this week. That can fairly be called "good news". I'm pretty sure that everyone under the sun is excited about this movie (except my

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-26872487011400772662008-07-13T19:10:00.000-07:002008-07-13T20:28:54.742-07:00

So, if you haven't noticed, I've been way behind on putting up posts. Yeah, I don't have an excuse. No, I don't really feel like coming up with one. Just assume that it means I started having some semblance of a life or something (which, of course, is entirely false, but that's what I'd like people to presume in general).Anyways, I have still been seeing movies. Lots of them in fact. And,

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-22087250084714536302008-07-06T23:20:00.000-07:002008-07-06T23:27:17.612-07:00

So, Blizzard has finally announced Diablo III. Yeah, I'm kind of excited about it. Err, scratch that. I'm more than kind of excited about it. I mean, I know it's still at least a year away, and probably two to be honest. But, I can't help it. I mean, this is Diablo III we're talking about here. I can very clearly remember getting sucked into Diablo II (I never really got into the original

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-74507273524041597482008-06-09T22:28:00.000-07:002008-06-09T22:32:49.260-07:00

So, I've had Rock Band for a couple months now, but I haven't actually written a post on it yet. I've mentioned it in posts, but I haven't actually written a post dedicated to its pure, unadulterated awesomeness. There's a couple reasons for this. The main one being that there really isn't much to say besides that it is incredibly, ridiculously awesome. I mean, everything about it is awesome.

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-363248976026661552008-05-04T12:46:00.000-07:002008-05-04T22:45:32.491-07:00

So, I actually saw this on Thursday night at 8 o'clock, so if I had been really motivated I would have written this up then. But, well, I got distracted by something else that is going to earn a post one of these days, so I'll talk about that then.Anyways, just to put this in perspective, I knew nothing about Iron Man prior to seeing the trailers start airing sometime a little over a year ago.

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-4704886887372809712008-04-27T23:26:00.000-07:002008-04-27T23:35:40.753-07:00

Well, I finally got around to checking this movie out. I swear I added it to my Netflix queue not long after I first got a PS3, but it took forever for it to become available. In fact, even this copy had to be mailed from Massachusetts or somewhere like that, which means that they didn't have it in stock anywhere closer to me, and probably that they had gotten tired of it sitting at the top of

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-16764902021132138792008-04-20T16:32:00.000-07:002008-04-20T16:47:19.734-07:00

So, I just saw The Forbidden Kingdom. And, well, it was really fun. Totally awesome watching Jet Li and Jackie Chan playing around and having fun. Of course, there were totally cool fight scenes and plenty of funny lines and general silliness. So, yeah, I liked it.There were some interesting things about it. For one, I have no idea where the title The Forbidden Kingdom comes from. I'm

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-48568315738241642632008-04-14T22:31:00.000-07:002008-04-14T22:34:06.692-07:00

Well, New Amsterdam's over now. I'm not certain, but I'm suspicious that Fox Network has no intention whatsoever of making a second season. To be honest, I don't think they ever did (I think they were embarrassed that they paid for someone to make the first season). But whatever, I wouldn't mind if they let it keep going (read as: I would probably keep watching it). Overall, it was pretty

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-32684863957362746382008-04-12T21:17:00.000-07:002008-04-12T21:21:34.321-07:00

Well, I finally got around to playing Portal. Yeah, I'm slow. Oddly, the thing that motivated me was that they're releasing the ending theme song, "Still Alive", on Rock Band for free next week and I wanted to have beaten the game before I got the song. So, I bought The Orange Box and played through Portal (yes, I spent $60 dollars so I wouldn't feel guilty listening to a free song). And,

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-45284176874503545792008-04-08T22:57:00.000-07:002008-04-08T23:04:07.560-07:00

Well, I started watching this TV show Jericho about two weeks ago, today. Ironically, the day that I started watching was also the day that it was canceled (note that I started watching with the help of Netflix, I did not start with the final episode). And, well, I've been pretty much blown away by how good this show is. In fact, I think it's probably the best show I've watched since

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-87708643375724873532008-04-05T21:44:00.000-07:002008-04-05T21:50:02.433-07:00

So, you know those topics that you have something to say about, but you don't want to admit that you have something to say about them? Well, this is one of those. I think both these animes are interesting to discuss and analyze, but I would much prefer not to ever admit that I'd ever even heard of these, let alone downloaded them and watched them in their entirety. I mean, discussing these

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-70903018294225566332008-04-01T22:11:00.000-07:002008-04-01T22:30:54.495-07:00

So, I've been kind of kicking this around in the back of my head for a while, and it seemed like a good time to finally get around to writing it down (I think I first started contemplating this in, like, mid-October, or something). Anyways, all I hear in the tech press is how someday (in the near, but not too near, future) we're going to be moving away from physical media and digital

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-86438292739647399982008-03-30T23:47:00.000-07:002008-03-30T23:51:07.642-07:00

So, I've been meaning to get around to writing this post for a long while. However, each time I think about it, this post gets longer. And, well, I've thought about it a fair amount by this time. So, we'll just have to see what happens.Anyways, I've been playing Assassin's Creed (when I'm not watching Blu-ray movies or playing Rock Band...okay, so actually I'm only sorta playing it, but

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-70279039403319429602008-03-16T14:56:00.000-07:002008-03-16T15:11:02.607-07:00

So, I'm sitting bored at work on a Sunday afternoon, so I thought I'd write a blog entry. Besides, there's a couple random topics I wanted to post, so this is as good an opportunity as any to get them out there before I totally forget about them.Of course, before I get to them I have to give a little background on why I would be sitting at work bored on a Sunday afternoon (as opposed to sitting

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-79986154084895431792008-03-12T22:51:00.000-07:002008-03-16T09:29:00.212-07:00

Man, I love Netflix. You see, my queue is, like 40 movies long. I screw with the order regularly, but I make a fair effort to allow the little random movies I add to eventually make it to the top. In the best of cases, I no longer have any clue why I added it to my queue, nor do I have any idea what it's about (this works especially well when Netflix has no idea what the movie's about either, so

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-46069601669797069082008-03-11T22:50:00.000-07:002008-03-11T22:53:23.084-07:00

So, I'm finally getting around to watching this movie. I can't actually remember why I didn't bother to see it while it was in theaters. I mean, obviously, it's something I should have taken the time to see. But, for some odd reason or another, I didn't. Clearly, I don't always make the right decisions. But what else is new?So, it's out on Blu-ray now. And, I have to say that I think

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-36816461090294892152008-03-04T22:55:00.000-08:002008-03-04T22:57:22.010-08:00

So, now that Terminator is done, I thought I'd check out this show, New Amsterdam. Yeah, I'm not really sure why, considering I basically never like police-investigation-type-drama-thingies. I assume it has something to do with the main character being immortal. So, anyways, I checked it out. And, well, it's alright. I guess. Nothing special. I'll give it another week or two.In any case,

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-87391887766370993052008-03-03T22:50:00.000-08:002008-03-03T22:56:01.839-08:00

Well, this evening was the season finale for Terminator: The River is Crazy Freaking Hot Chronicles. I'm kind of surprised that Fox hasn't officially renewed it for another season yet. I don't know what it's numbers were, but I know they started out very high. Of course, I doubt they finished nearly that high, but I'm sure they were still quite strong. On the other hand, I bet it's a fair bit

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-2887708671471604352008-02-27T23:14:00.000-08:002008-02-27T23:22:18.216-08:00

So, the internet meme of the day was this website called Garfield Minus Garfield. This was a very impressive meme, considering that I think 3 of my daily addictions linked it (and considering that one is an Apple blog, one is a web comic, and one is a movie news blog, that's pretty impressive). Anyways, I agree with them. This is something amazing and special. I have to admit I'm not sure I

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-33597808394318377332008-02-25T00:23:00.000-08:002008-02-25T00:30:36.225-08:00

So, I saw the new, cool, R-rated teen comedy, Charlie Bartlett. And, well, I gotta say, I'm liking this whole "R-rated comedy craze" right now. You know, it all started that couple of summers ago with The 40 Year Old Virgin and Wedding Crashers, and it's moved into teen comedies like Superbad and now Charlie Bartlett. Obviously, those first R-rated comedies just used the rating as an excuse to

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-22837298645070972482008-02-14T23:52:00.000-08:002008-02-14T23:57:37.803-08:00

So, as a special for Valentine's Day only, thing, I decided to do a post on love. This will probably be the most emo post I will ever allow myself to write, but, well, sometimes it's hard to resist, you know? Especially since Stanford just managed to totally blow an overtime basketball game at ASU, but that's neither here nor there. Anyways, I wanted to talk about love through the context of

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-26711653006828826612008-02-06T23:50:00.000-08:002008-02-06T23:55:21.667-08:00

Well, about every two to three months, I suddenly get this powerful urge to write about how awesome Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender is. This cycle is based upon Nickelodeon getting around to releasing the next disc of the show on DVD, which is on a rather slow schedule. But, I'm addicted so I don't really mind.Avatar is interesting for a couple reasons. The first thing that I think is

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-45063125726706618152008-02-05T22:08:00.000-08:002008-02-05T22:22:19.170-08:00

So, I finally got around to watching Once. I think it was Moriarty at Ain't It Cool News who finally convinced me to see it. I know it made it in his top 20 movies of the year, but I'm not totally sure where exactly it fit in. So, yeah, he liked it and I tend to like his judgment so...now I've seen it.Well, my thoughts are mixed. Personally, I thought it was pretty boring. Also, I'm quite

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-21884828331198577142008-02-04T23:08:00.000-08:002008-02-04T23:21:29.450-08:00

So, I'm still watching that terminator TV show. Yes, River is still the only reason I'm watching it. I'm actually starting to get a little concerned for the show. Mainly because Sarah is somehow managing to just keep getting increasingly lame. I'm really questioning whoever it was that decided "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" was a good title. I mean, seriously, who could have thought that

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-23730880022089805542008-01-29T23:05:00.000-08:002008-01-29T23:08:56.857-08:00

So, I'm proud to say that I've finally watched my first Blu-ray movie. Pretty cool, huh? I probably could have gotten around to watching it a couple days earlier, but I kept getting distracted. But, I'm distracted no longer.Anyways, I watched this anime movie called Paprika. If you haven't heard of it, all I can say is that it's about dreams, I think. There's also some weird plot about

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-41346694331096425622008-01-23T22:23:00.000-08:002008-01-23T22:29:47.994-08:00

So, I guess it's time I admitted that I've finally entered the next generation of the video game consoles. I bought a Playstation 3 last week. It's funny since as recently as a month ago, I would have told you that of three consoles, the last one I was considering was the PS3. And, well, it's not hard to see why. It currently has no good exclusive games. It costs more. It typically gets the

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-22309936062016506632008-01-22T00:04:00.000-08:002008-01-22T00:14:40.843-08:00

So, I actually waited until Saturday night to see this movie. Late Saturday night, in fact. So, clearly, I was only somewhat excited about this movie (nowhere near I Am Legend caliber excitement...or even 30 Days of Night excitement, but moving on). I was excited about this movie for a couple reasons. I felt that the advertising campaign had been quite admirable. I respected this as a cool

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-31437023976264137112008-01-18T22:46:00.000-08:002008-01-18T22:50:30.894-08:00

Well, it's been quite a while since I last wrote about anime. Which is odd, considering that I've actually been watching a fair amount of anime (even odder considering that I've actually drafted a couple posts about the anime I've been watching but haven't actually posted any of it). But, well, whatever. Anyways, I've just started watching this anime called Mushi-shi. I picked it largely

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-38126648310481388992008-01-14T22:05:00.000-08:002008-01-14T22:42:11.250-08:00

Okay, so apparently, I'm an idiot (what else is new?). For reasons I don't totally understand, it appears that the terminator series (here I'm referring to everything not just the TV series) has always called the terminators cyborgs. Personally, I still think they should be androids, but I'm not really into quibbling over semantics unless I know I'm right (and I'm only pretty sure I'm right).

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-3654463292391156732008-01-13T22:21:00.000-08:002008-01-13T22:52:00.660-08:00

So, since Heroes is all done until next Fall (at least) Fox decided to make its own ridiculously awesome TV show that has time travel and is targeting nerds and plays on Mondays at 9. What this means to me is that I have something new to spend all my time thinking about (and I don't have to only talk about NBC shows for once).So, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. My thoughts: I like.

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-43644114513257562532007-12-24T12:34:00.000-08:002007-12-24T12:50:59.190-08:00

This may come as a surprise, but I saw this movie opening night. As a working class citizen nowadays, I was unable to attend a midnight showing (largely since I'd gotten up at 5:30 am that Thursday and was really looking forward to sleeping all the way till 7:00 am on Friday, which would be less enjoyable if I didn't get to bed before 3). However, it's taken me awhile to get around to putting

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-14491062691317956132007-11-28T23:07:00.000-08:002007-11-28T23:12:10.246-08:00

So, the theaters are finally starting to play movies I want to see again, so I thought I'd write a pair of reviews of two movies I saw recently. First off, Enchanted. Now, it's probably fair to wonder why I wanted to see this movie at all, let alone be motivated to see it in theaters shortly after it opened. Well, I can certainly tell you that it had nothing to do with that first trailer they

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-26391144076855717172007-11-11T13:01:00.000-08:002007-11-11T13:10:40.005-08:00

So, for Halloween, I've been watching some horror movies. I try to be fair and watch a decent variety of movies, but I have a slightly different definition of variety than most people. So, in the spirit of variety, I checked out: 1 big budget zombie movie (28 Weeks Later), 1 low-budget, Australian (well, it's probably from New Zealand) zombie-sheep movie (Black Sheep), 1 low-budget Japanese

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-56256787320228761662007-11-06T21:37:00.000-08:002007-11-06T21:44:43.904-08:00

Well, it's time for a long, serious discussion of Heroes. Monday's episode was obviously meant to be the key episode to let everyone know that it's time to get back to business, and, well, we should respect that. I would like to start by saying that, while I'm glad they finally got around to giving us Monday's episode, I still feel disappointed in them. For those first 6 episodes or so, they

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-23100757094748898992007-11-04T16:30:00.000-08:002007-11-04T16:42:33.137-08:00

So, maybe I'm a little obsessive. It's not my fault. Anyways, a day or two after I wrote about 30 Days of Night and proceeded to pin all of my hopes for the future of awesome vampires movies on I Am Legend, they released a new trailer for it. This trailer was a little unusual in that it basically gave the entire plot of the movie from start to finish. For this reason, I'm not going to link it

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-78574774799968420592007-10-31T22:13:00.000-07:002007-10-31T22:22:28.995-07:00

So, a couple months ago, NBC announced that Apple sucks and that they were going to be doing their own thing with digital media, specifically movies and TV shows. I thought this was a little stupid at the time, because NBC shows have been a huge success on iTunes and I would assume that NBC would want to at least keep that in place until they already had an alternative in place that was doing

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-32288612515589844422007-10-28T17:50:00.000-07:002007-10-28T18:01:04.142-07:00

So, Guitar Hero III came out today. And, um, I bought it. A couple weeks ago, I bought numbers 1 and 2 as well. I intend to never touch the "Rocks the 80s" collection. And, well, I have to admit, my feelings are mixed. On the one hand, it's more songs. And, well, more songs are always good (except in the aforementioned "Rocks the 80s" case). On the other hand, this is the first Guitar Hero

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-2433983576929656182007-10-19T22:12:00.000-07:002007-10-19T23:29:30.699-07:00

Well, I was initially planning on titling this post "In Loving Memory of Zombies". But, well, I'm happy to report that I don't think zombies are dead yet (on a completely unrelated note, I take no responsibility for any and all of the stupid, entirely intentional puns contained in this post).For the past couple of months, I've been telling anyone who'll listen that vampires are going to be the

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-12122485545205030912007-10-09T23:02:00.000-07:002007-10-09T23:12:33.053-07:00

Okay, I've spent well over 70 recorded hours of my life on this game (which is a low estimate since it only counts the play time I kept, and this is the type of game that requires multiple save states). It's probably time to write some sort of reaction to it, if only to try to explain why a game like this can so thoroughly take over my entire life (not that this is all that hard). Anyways,

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-65662143673426688482007-10-08T23:49:00.000-07:002007-10-09T00:01:16.517-07:00

NBC Mondays, Week 3 ReviewSo, the shows have gotten a chance to finish warming up. I'm happy to report, I think it was a good thing. The stride has been hit, and they're all starting to get fun.First off, Chuck. Wow, this show is so amazing. So stupid, yet so amazing. This is what pointless comedy is all about. I still find the action parts to be just silly and vaguely annoying (although it

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-32639517856209063742007-09-24T23:55:00.000-07:002007-09-25T00:02:06.356-07:00

So, I watched all three of NBC's big shows this evening. That would be Chuck, Heroes, and Journeyman. Personally, I had very low expectations for Chuck, fairly high expectations for Heroes, and somewhere in between for Journeyman. So, my thoughts:Chuck was at least a bit better than I expected. This might be because I am totally biased by the fact that the main character went to Stanford and

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-72265588848438585202007-09-24T23:03:00.000-07:002007-09-24T23:07:29.171-07:00

So, recently, I've been watching Nickelodeon. To my surprise, and general amazement, they actually have some pretty awesomely hilarious live action TV shows right now. This is surprising to me, because I haven't really liked much of what they put on with living people in at least 8 years, and probably more. What was even more surprising to me, however, was that all these awesome shows are

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-6035715118022155812007-09-11T23:26:00.000-07:002007-09-11T23:35:57.771-07:00

Well, here's the top five list of my top ten albums of all time, with commentary. Lots of commentary. And so, let us begin...1. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandYes, I know, this is pretty much everyone's greatest album of all time, but that's totally not the point. The point is that it deserves it and anyone who doesn't give it to them is a dirty liar. They're pretty much

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-39257337318324485322007-09-10T23:11:00.000-07:002007-09-10T23:32:20.737-07:00

I'm really bad at making lists. All sorts of lists, really. When asked to name my favorite albums, I tend to list about a dozen and say they're all in my top five. Typically, people are nice enough not to point out that twelve doesn't fit into five very well. Other times, I can only come up with two-ish and can only say they're in the top ten (and that I'm sure there's some other really good

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-2146576968935247462007-09-10T23:09:00.000-07:002007-09-10T23:33:10.945-07:00

So, I haven't posted in a really long time. There is actually a really good explanation for that (read as: I think it's a good explanation). You see, I bought this little game called Persona 3.And, yeah, there went my life. Literally. I swear, I've started, like 3 different posts on Persona 3, and each one ends the same way: I get distracted and start playing Persona 3, instead. It's pretty

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-73067417523024574932007-08-28T17:48:00.000-07:002007-08-28T17:54:50.339-07:00

So, I've been thinking about ethanol recently. Not really so much as an alternative fuel (because it pretty much sucks at that) or as a beverage. No, I've been thinking of it a little differently recently. My interactions with ethanol start pretty much at the beginning of the day. Before I touch anything at work, I sanitize my hands with a little foamy spray of 70% ethanol. Normally, I don't

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-44760520843530288482007-08-24T18:27:00.000-07:002007-08-24T18:28:02.787-07:00

So, yesterday I missed a post. It won't be the last time. Luckily, I had never gotten around to specifying what I wanted my post pattern to be. So, technically, I didn't really miss a post yesterday, because I had never specified that a post should have been expected (Yay for excuses!).In any case, I am now specifying the post pattern that I intend to follow. The goal is 4 posts a week.

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-8686092099770368822007-08-22T18:12:00.000-07:002007-08-22T18:15:02.394-07:00

So, this morning, I made myself cereal like normal. Except it wasn't normal at all. I ran out of Cheerios yesterday and haven't gotten around to refilling my supply. This means I was eating an alternative cereal, stolen from my little brother, with about 2-3 times as much sugar as the Cheerios I know and love. Needless to say, I was doing my morning reading on a bit more of a sugar high than

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-59496257440646420862007-08-21T19:22:00.000-07:002007-08-21T19:29:09.484-07:00

I just wanted to throw that out there. I can't really imagine there's too many people who are going to disagree with me on that one, since music really does pretty much suck. I mean, it kind of sucks how much sucks. I wish music didn't suck today, but it does.So, then the question becomes: who we can blame? Supposedly we're entering this awesome digital age when anyone can post their music

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-44268650335000794962007-08-21T12:36:00.000-07:002007-08-24T18:28:24.981-07:00

Wow. I just saw what the font looks like on PCs. Here I'd been reading all these blogs about the differences in font rendering styles between Macs and PCs. Up until now, it was totally theoretical to me since I basically just use a Mac. I would look at the little picture differences and think to myself: "Whatever". Now, though. It just hit home. And, apparently, Windows sucks. I can't

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-33740410835720141892007-08-20T21:00:00.000-07:002007-09-25T00:02:32.425-07:00

So, I'm something of a fan of Firefly/Serenity. Admittedly, basically everyone is these days, so that does little to make me cool (or uncool, for that matter, phew). There are many things I like about the show, but the thing I like the most is most definitely our dear Captain Reynolds.In the same way that Jack Sparrow made it so that Pirates of the Caribbean could never be an ensemble cast, so

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-43619546532579767092007-08-19T23:34:00.000-07:002007-08-21T18:11:42.744-07:00

So, I've been doing the same stretch of traffic for a little while now. You'd think, as a chemical engineer, I should be able to figure traffic out. Everyone says, "Yeah, traffic is just like fluid flow." Whatever. For designing highways, I can certainly see why it's just like fluid flow. However, I don't have overly much experience as a water molecule, so I can't really relate my own

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-9786018822151652432007-08-16T23:21:00.000-07:002007-08-16T23:25:11.508-07:00

Similar to Transformers, watching this movie elicited a response so strong, I started feeling the need to create a blog, just so that I could write about it. Not that this is relevant...I remember adding the movie to my Netflix queue, because there was some stupid Stone Cold Steve Austin movie playing in theaters that was getting poor reviews. A large percentage of the reviews compared it to

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-78016226609631524122007-08-15T23:32:00.000-07:002007-08-15T23:39:37.578-07:00

So, I was eating my Cheerios this morning and reading Time magazine (shit, I just admitted to reading Time magazine. Damn it.), when I happened upon an article about the lack of romantic movies being made anymore. The author, who was female, seemed bothered by the fact that major movies these days don't really focus on romance or relationships. Even worse, I guess, it's been years since a

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-15668870027596544612007-08-14T21:08:00.000-07:002007-08-14T21:44:31.379-07:00

I recommend reading the above title the same way that Michelango screams "I love being a turtle!" at the end of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Not that this is relevant at all...Anyways, today I was approached by a coworker (also a chemical engineer) for input on a problem he had been thinking about in the back of his head for the past couple days and couldn't come up with a

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-68812751750187977682007-08-13T18:46:00.000-07:002007-08-22T18:16:59.224-07:00

So, I was reading Megatokyo earlier today (damn it, I just admitted that I read Megatokyo. Shit. Anyways, moving on...), and there was an ad on the top of the page (craziness, I know). This was a special ad, though. It was special because it wasn't for some stupid and most likely very bad anime series. It was for an anime called Slayers. This got me to reminiscing...Slayers was the anime I

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-45117653406089495372007-08-12T13:19:00.000-07:002007-08-14T21:38:40.729-07:00

So, I pretty much had to write this post. In fact, in some ways, this post is the reason I felt the need to start a blog in the first place (or at least inspired me to create a location for pointless rants). Okay, enough context. Moving on...I guess I saw the Transformers movie about a month ago. I was fairly excited about the movie. Although I hadn't really been a fan of the cartoon series

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-89236565761812722482007-08-11T15:51:00.000-07:002007-08-14T21:45:22.996-07:00

I was thinking I should probably write a positive post, sooner or later, just because. This is supposed to be it, although I make no promises.So, in April, there were only two things on anyone's mind (okay, my mind, at least): Spiderman 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean 3. By June, it was generally agreed that May was a pretty disappointing month, with many people going so far as to say the above

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-35857695367682636082007-08-11T14:30:00.000-07:002007-08-11T15:50:00.870-07:00

So, Linkin Park's first single off whatever their new CD is called is "Bleed It Out". You might have heard it on the radio. Stranger things have happened at least.My initial reaction to the song: wow, oh my god, I can't believe they are so lame that they need to recycle lines from previous songs.Then I was like:"Wait! Maybe they are super-cool and this is one of those totally meta things where

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-28679499382032000052007-08-11T14:24:00.000-07:002007-09-25T00:03:23.242-07:00

So, I hate Ginny. Absolutely despise her character and everything she represents, really. Basically, everything is her fault.Alright, I admit that was an exaggeration. But, seriously, I blame her for a lot of things. Here's my problem: she is the motivation Harry needs to give up being a hero, and I never wanted him to stop being a hero.Harry Potter is our hero and we love him for it. He is

Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845741452633733283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509457803859448518.post-65383126432333224582007-08-11T13:11:00.000-07:002007-08-14T21:22:46.249-07:00

I always wanted to write that...Too bad I've never been so obsessed with a site that I was actually able to... I guess that's why it's worthwhile to create my own.That is all.Francis

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