The Simpsons Movie

I’m a pretty smart guy, and 41 years old.  Is it wrong that I dug The Simpsons Movie?  Tough.  I did.  Go see it.  It made 70+ million in the first weekend, so it can’t be all me.

The Hangover workout

Went our for a birthday party last night at Joseph’s in Hollywood, and as usual drank WAY too much.  Pam went golfing for my Mom’s birthday, so I got to watch Padraig Harrington win the British Open, and then go work out to kill my hangover.

I informed Brandon of my situation, and we agreed that the best thing would probably be to just do an all-around workout, minus legs, thanks to the tendonitis I have in my left knee.  We’d do light weights, 15 reps, 2 sets each.  Sounded good.  After 10 minutes on the elliptical warming up, we did 19 exercises – multiple chest, back, trceps, biceps, shoulders and abs – and it was incredibly effective.  My hangover was gone.  Came home, got in the pool, and napped for an hour.  For a hangover Sunday, it was a great one.

iPhone freaks Kent out

Went to flying club meeting last week with my new iPhone – friend/flight instructor Kent Yarnell was there, and immediately wanted to play with it.  Picked it up and started checking all the icons – hit “Google Maps” first.  Funny thing was that the last person I showed it to wanted to see Google Maps too.  So I pulled up a contact, and clicked the address – goes right to Google Maps with a pushpin labeled for that contact, on their house.  Not funny so far – I know.  What was funny was that I used KENT as the demo.  So when he picked it up, and hit Google Maps, it had a pushpin with HIS name on it on HIS address.  He FREAKED.  “How did it know it was me?” he asked.

“Dude – it’s an IPHONE.  It knows EVERYTHING.”

The iPhone

SO much hype – hard to believe, really.  MONTHS of people talking about it, speculating, etc.  It finally came out on Friday at 6pm.  Much as I wanted one, I decided it would be wise to wait a while and see what people thought.

I waited right around 16.5 hours.

Zipped over to the Apple Store in Northridge.  8 people in line.  The entire transaction, including picking out a case, lasted 5 minutes.  Paid, left.  Had lunch, and brought it home.  Having read some stuff on Digg (the comments on which, by the way, have become absolutely worthless) about people having problems activating the phone.  I can only assume these are retarded stoners, because it worked flawlessly for me.  Inside 10 minutes my Razr was deactivated (thankfully – what a hunk of TRASH) and my iPhone was receiving calls.  I had also transferred a bunch of music and pictures, synced all my contacts and email profiles and calendar, and got it fully charged.

Don’t believe what you read on Digg – the thing is awesome.  Gorgeous device, full featured, and absolutely, hands-down the best interface I have ever seen on a computer of any size ever.  The web browser kicks ass, the ipod will play through the speakerphone, it works great with the Bluetooth in mty car, and is a loud, comfortable, easy to use phone even.  The visual voicemail is cool too.

Go get one.  Now.  Go.

Definition of Christianity

Christianity:  The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

Going away to camp

Sydney is going away to camp.  For two weeks.  Very exciting,  except there will be NO WAY to contact her.  We get to visit at the halfway point, but this is still killing me.  i worry about her when I CAn get ahold of her.  This will very likely make me insane.  i have enough going on with work right now that i can keep myself distracted (plus Pammy’s birthday celebration and yet another Vegas trip) – but man.  This is bad.

MTV Movie Awards

Bill has really done it this time.  Got himself nominated for an MTV Movie Award for Casino Royale with Cheese.  This is serious.  If you are reading this, you should go vote for it.  He’s funny as hell, and this clip is just outstanding.  I may be wrong, but I think it’s because my dog is in it.

Update:  Hollywood BULLSHIT.  Bill didn’t even make the final 3, which is just absurd.  I’m calling my cable company to have MTV turned off.  Quite apart from my utter disgust with their complete lack in taste, the broadcast itself was just plain annoying.  The “red carpet” show was nothing but an ad for that stupid Transformers movie, and the hosts of that were absolutely brain dead.  So there.

The 86 Rules of Boozing

An excellent list of rules, all of which I agree with 100%, brought to you by Modern Drunkard Magazine.