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:: Friday, April 22, 2005 ::
:: Calvin 3:45 PM [+] ::
Revenge of the Sith is officially finished. George and Rick finished it on Wednesday according to fans at Celebration III as posted on TheForce.net.
You can visit the site for more info, but spoilers are RAMPANT at this point:
http://theforce.net/episode3/story/C3_Rick_McCallum_Rocks_Our_World_91582.asp
It will run 2 hours, 11 minutes, and it has 2185 effects shots.
Kewl.
Time to hit the road -- happy weekend, everyone.
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:: Calvin 9:02 AM [+] ::
One week to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Fourteen days to the release of the Episode III video game. Twenty-two days to my last SAT class for the year in Orlando. Twenty-seven days to Star Wars. Thirty-five days to the end of the school year and the start of summer vacation.
Two hours and twenty minutes to lunch. Seven hours until I am on the way to Gainesville.
Huzzah.
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:: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 ::
:: Calvin 6:12 AM [+] ::
The Kaplan SAT workshop was worthwhile -- I got a stress ball shaped like a lightbulb, and a teacher edition and a class set of some pretty good materials I can use.
Gilmore Girls was a WONDERFUL fresh episode last night, and it is pretty much back in form. It opened with the girls in line to say goodbye to a neighbor who has had deathbed visitations for the past twenty years, segued into Lorelei getting interviewed for a magazine, dogging out Emily, and then regretting it and having the reporter pull the whole thing, and it centered around Taylor driving everyone crazy turning the old man's house into a museum. Dean planted seeds of doubt in Luke's mind about the ephemeral nature of relationships with Gilmore Girls, and Carol King played a music store owner!
Scrubs was also quite funny (I really like that show - the narration, the non sequiturs, the Walter Mittylike imaginings of Mr. Braff, the idiosyncratic nature of the supporting characters, especially the janitor and the misanthropic attending).
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:: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 ::
:: Calvin 6:23 AM [+] ::
Well, I got through the SAT class fine (and got an extra hundred for no reason -- which is always nice :) and had dinner Sunday evening at Iavarrone's -- small Italian place with a nice atmosphere, wonderful bread, great Caesar salad and okay pasta (I knew I should have ordered the calamari).
Stayed up until 11 finishing grades which had to be uploaded yesterday in the AM. Had fun with the kids with the Wally test:
1. If a ton of coal costs $30 and a ton of coke costs $25, what will a ton of firewood come to?
2. Removing an appendix is called an appendectomy, removing tonsils is called a tonsillectomy. What is it called when they remove a growth from your head?
3. Why are U.S. soldiers forbidden to carry rifles any longer?
4. What three things that you can can never have for breakfast?
5. If a farmer raises wheat in dry weather, what does he raise in wet weather?
6. What would you call a person who did not have all his fingers on one hand?
7. Which is greater: six dozen dozen or half a dozen dozen?
8. What is the best way to get down from a camel?
9. How could a man be severely injured being hit by some tomatoes?
10. Why do Chinese men eat more rice than Japanese men?
taken from:
go there for answers.
Watched Shaun of the Dead last night and then 24 -- of the two, Shaun was MUCH better.
It walked that fine line between "psycho"-pathos and comedy that very few films have been able to accomplish. It is hard to be scary AND funny at the same time (Thirteen Ghosts and the Frighteners, anyone? -- Peter Jackson, what were you THINKING???), but it helps to be British.
Simon Pegg, who wrote and starred in the film, is a HUGE Star Wars fan, and his flatmate Pete was played by the actor who voiced Darth Maul -- you didn't really think that was Ray Park TALKING, did you?
Nick Frost stole the show as the loser/slacker flatmate who is always holding Shaun (the senior member of a crack electronics store sales team of a bunch of snotty 17 year olds. Shaun hangs out at the pub and nods at his girlfriend, hates his stepdad, and just tries to stay out of trouble until the day that a strange virus creates zombie havoc in suburban London.) The ensuing heroic zombie slaughter is fantastic -- throwing records (Purple Rain? Sign of the Times? No don't throw those!) and toasters at them before settling on a cricket bat and a Winchester rifle. The acting was wonderful, and the extras on the DVD, including a flip chart version of the script, were fab.
This was an intelligent and scary version of Return of the Living Dead. Whereas the former went for the easy joke and satire, this film was much more subtle.
I'm off to the Crowne Plaza Hotel for a Kaplan seminar on SAT -- whoopeee!!
Talk at you later.
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:: Sunday, April 17, 2005 ::
:: Calvin 7:00 AM [+] ::
Well, I'm off to Orlando for my penultimate SAT class for this year; I will be quite glad when I am released from this responsibility for two months -- no one should ever be awake this early on a Sunday.
Had a WONDERFUL "Big Red" chicken sandwich with INCREDIBLE onion rings last night at the Tampa Alehouse.
Well, I have one shoe on and I will try to be considerate of my lovely wife and get off the computer so at least she can sleep.
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