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I still love this movie

I got WALL-E on DVD for Christmas and had to watch it again… then after I watched it, and checked out the deleted scenes, I went back and watched it with the commentary on. It’s that good. Easily my favorite move ever.

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let it snow, let it snow, let is snow…

best part of Christmas

I figured it out tonight. It’s obviously not the gifts, I hate trying to guess what to get others and I know no one is going to shop for me as well as I do… it seems like a big scheme to blow more money than you want on mediocre items and pretend like you love them. It’s not the food, which is a close second mind you and still very important. It’s not the music, the tree, or any of that cliche stuff. It’s the traditions.These are our family traditions:

Christmas Eve we go over to my Dad’s house to celebrate with his family. We have a bunch of various hor d’erves and sides instead of a big formal meal, we all sit around watching Christmas Vacation and eating, then go open gifts and scratch our lotto tickets.

Christmas morning we go over to my Mom’s house for omelets and opening gifts over there, and maybe to a movie later if we don’t just go back to bed. Then my sister and brother in law head over to his parents house that afternoon.

Sure, it’s pretty low key, but I like it that way. We don’t go overboard or stress out about anything, we just hang out with family.

OK, so maybe the food is a bigger role than I let on.

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more advice from a cookie

losing track of time

Since I don’t need to worry for the next couple weeks about getting to work, I’m already on an even more erratic sleep cycle… and I’ve forgotten what day it is. This is pretty ridiculous. Since apparently it’s only Sunday.

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hot seat…

preordered

Couple years ago when the Weta Rayguns first started showing up, I was very excited… The F.M.O.M. Wave Disruptor looked incredible (still does) and I really wanted to get one. Then, they released the prices… and $600 is a bit on the pricey side. So I filed it under “no chance” and went about oggling it from time to time knowing I’d never have one.

Then along came Comic Con, and I got a chance to meet the designer. After telling him about how much I wanted one and asking about the few other designs with miniature versions, he said that by the end of the year this was getting a little brother as well. And true to his word, here it is! Yes, it’s only at quarter scale… far less impressive at around 3″ long – but still, it looks so damn good I had to grab one. It should get here in January some time.

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misfortune

space noise

A friend linked me this a few hours ago, and I haven’t turned it off yet. It’s the live audio stream from an Air Force radar station in Texas courtesy of SpaceWeather.com. I’m not sure what the exact purpose is, and most of the time it’s just static. That is until a “meteor” passes directly over it and catches your attention. If you listen for a while you’ll probably hear a few strange blips, whistles, and other oddities intermittently, and by then you’ll agree: meteors my ass… I know alien technology when I hear it. So what you’re really doing is listening for flying saucers zipping across the sky, and occasionally this thing picks up the crazy sounds they make for a slit second. I swear I’ve heard the classic “pyew pyew” more than once. I’ll bet they’re up there zapping holes in the ozone and blaming it on cow farts.

Alright, I’m obviously making up the alien thing. Still otherworldly and cool, though it’s not something you really would want to focus all your attention on for any length of time (it’s by no means musical). For a more “on demand” trippy space sound fix check this out. But for some unobtrusive white noise you can’t top the strange factor.