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This is my last post for the year (number 682 for 2005), so I want to wish everyone a Happy and Safe New Year! Heeeeello 2006!

OK, I have satellite TV now, but I still don’t get the FX channel. So, I am watching The Shield Season Four on DVD — rentals from Netflix. The last season got really good in the end, and this new season has started with a bang — mostly because of Glenn Close’s character. [...]

The director of Into the Blue, John Stockwell has directed two movies that were pretty decent. Crazy/Beautiful was a pretty good film. And his Blue Crush is on my “Mookie’s Classics” list. Last night, I watched Into the Blue with my wife. It was so bad that it was somewhat entertaining. [...]

JR pointed me to this article which gives a clue to a lame idea Google has for their “personalized homepage” (ahem, boys and girls, that is called a PORTAL). A Google spokesperson says, “banners on the Google home page (as presented to users not signed in) were out of the question.” That’s great [...]

My cousin Jess broke her notebook (an old Compaq Presario 1215US/AMD Mobile Athlon 4 1GHz/128MB RAM/20GB HDD), so her dad dropped it off at my place yesterday. He figured I could probably repurpose the thing (thanks Uncle Nelson!). When I turned the thing on yesterday, I was greeted with constant clicking noise coming [...]

Ok, so I did not join the military. My sister and her husband got me SOCOM Fireteam Bravo for me for Christmas. This is the first SOCOM game for the PSP and it is pretty damned entertaining. I was worried about the control scheme for the game — since the PSP is [...]

Check out highlight pictures from the Christmas Eve party at my parent’s house.