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I’ve got some pretty big projects in the hopper right now, and some deadlines. But in the spirit of your dorm room never being cleaner than during finals week, I present the first triple digit movie meme.

(1) Rocky Horror Picture Show – Only on TV, never in person
(2) Grease – First movie I ever remember seeing in a theatre
(3) Pirates of the Caribbean – Great movie
( ) Boondock Saints
(4) The Mexican – Not horrible.
(5) Fight Club – Fantastic movie, not sure I can watch it twice though. Great soundtrack.
(6) Starsky and Hutch – Not campy enough for me.
( ) Neverending Story
(7) Blazing Saddles – Classic
(8) Airplane – Super classic
(9) The Princess Bride – Classic
(10) Young Frankenstein – Need to see this again
(11) AnchorMan: The Legend of Ron Burgundy – Didn’t really get this the first time around, but
(12) Napoleon Dynamite – This is one cultural phenomena I don’t remotely understand.
( ) Saw
( ) White Noise
( ) White Oleander
( ) Anger Management
(13) 50 First Dates – Fantastic movie. If you really hate Adam Sandler you might not like it, but his Adam Sandlerness is mostly under check.
( ) Jason X
(14) Scream – Blech
( ) Scream 2
( ) Scream 3
( ) Scary Movie
( ) Scary Movie 2
( ) Scary Movie 3
(15) American Pie – Good
(16) American Pie 2 – Not as good
( ) American Wedding
(17) Harry Potter & the Philosophers/Sorcerers Stone – Good movies. Still haven’t read the books.
(18) Harry Potter 2
(19) Harry Potter 3
(20) Harry Potter 4
( ) Resident Evil I
( ) Resident Evil 2
(21) The Wedding Singer – Good
(22) Little Black Book – Better than expected
(23) The Village – Hated it
() Donnie Darko
(24) Lilo & Stitch – Pretty good
(25) Finding Nemo – It was good for the first 50 times, but around 60 it got a little stale
(26) Finding Neverland – Very good
( ) 13 Ghosts
(27) Signs – Decent
( ) The Grinch
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) White Chicks
( ) Butterfly Effect
(28) Thirteen Going on 30 – Quality light comedy
(29) I, Robot – Very pleasantly surprised with this one. I’d fairly recently read the novels for the first time and was expecting the work.
(30) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story – Modern american classic.
( ) Universal Soldier
( ) A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(31) Along Came Polly – Not bad.
(32) Deep Impact – I thought this was quite good. This movie shouldn’t be confused with “Sudden Impact”, which is on the movie channels a lot for some reason.
(33) Kingpin – Amusing movie, with a few scenes that still haunt me
(34) Never Been Kissed – Quality romantic comedy
(35) Meet The Parents – Eh.
(36) Meet the Fockers – I don’t remember why I watched this
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
( ) A Cinderella Story
(37) The Terminal – Absolutely love this movie.
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(38) Dumb & Dumber – Thought this was funny at the time. Doubt it holds up under repeat viewings
( ) Dumb & Dumberer
( ) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
(39) Halloween – I think I saw this
( ) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
(40) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle – Haven’t laughed this hard at a movie in a long long time
(41) Practical Magic – Good
(42) Chicago – Fantastic, if you like musicals.
( ) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
( ) Hellboy
( ) Secret Window
(43) I Am Sam – Good
(44) The Whole 9 Yards – Pretty amusing
(45) The Day After Tomorrow – Much better than I expected
( ) Child’s Play
( ) Bride of Chucky
(46) Ten Things I Hate About You – Very good romantic comedy
(47) Just Married – Entirely forgettable
( ) Gothika
( ) Nightmare on Elm Street
(48) Sixteen Candles – Classic
( ) Coach Carter
(49) Bad Boys – boom!
( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
(50) Se7en – Another great movie I’ve ony seen once, on purpose.
(51) Ocean’s Eleven – Love this movie. Smart, simple, straight forward heist movie.
(52) Ocean’s Twelve – Saw this long after it came out and was pleasantly surprised considering how widely it was panned
(53) Bourne Identity – Quality action movie
( ) Lone Star
(54) Bedazzled – Pretty forgettable, but some good hotness
(55) Predator I – Good action movie
(56) Predator II – Completely forgettable. I do remember this was one of my first drive in experiences though, with my buddy Nick in his converted VW bus that would later catch on fire.
(57) Independence Day – I don’t hesitate to flip to this for background noise
(58) Cujo – Barely remember this.
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
( ) Christine
(59) ET – I remember waiting in a line that wrapped around the theatre to see this with my mom and brothers.
(60) Children of the Corn – Watched this mostly against my will with a GF in HS. Hate horror movies in general.
( ) My Boss’ Daughter
( ) Frailty
( ) Best Bet
(61) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days – Good romantic comedy, but nothing remarkable
(62) She’s All That – Decent teen romantic comedy
(63) Calendar Girls – Not the best entry in that style of british pics, but not bad
(64) Sideways – Fantastic
( ) Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
(65) Ever After – Love this movie every time I see it
(66) Forrest Gump – Loved it
( ) Big Trouble in Little China
(67) X-Men – Good
(68) X-2 – Good
( ) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
(69) Catch Me If You Can – Wonderful movie. Great soundtrack.
(79) The Others – Forgettable.
(80) Freaky Friday – Haven’t seen the remake, but the original is a classic
(81) Reign of Fire – Loved the concept, execution was so-so.
(82) Cruel Intentions – Decent
( ) The Hot Chick
( ) Swimfan
(83) Miracle – Love this movie, but feel good sports remakes are my bread and butter.
(84) Old School – Fantastic
(85) The Notebook – Cried like a baby
(86) K-Pax – Absolutely loved it at the time, barely remember it now
(87) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – What more can be said?
(88) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(89) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
( ) A Walk to Remember
( ) Varsity Blues
(90) Hitch – Fat guy gets the hot chick, how can I not like this movie?
(91) The Fifth Element – Can’t get enough of it
(92) Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace – Eh
(93) Star Wars Episode II Attack of The Clones – Eh.
(94) Star Wars Episode III Revenge of The Sith – Bleah
(95) Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope – Awesome
(96) Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back – Tubular
(97) Star Wars Episode VI Return of The Jedi – Good
( ) Troop Beverly Hills
(98) Swimming with Sharks – Excellent
(99) Air Force One – Good
( ) For Richer or Poorer
(100) Trainspotting – Classic
( ) People Under the Stairs
( ) Blue Velvet
(101) Sound of Music – Didn’t see this until I was in my 30′s. Really fantastic movie, but I seldom watch past the intermission.
( ) Parent Trap 1 (old)
( ) Parent Trap 2 (new)
( ) The Burbs
(102) The Terminator – Classic
(103) Empire Records – Quality comedy.
( ) SLC Punk
( ) Meet Joe Black
(104) Nightmare Before Christmas – Lots of people love this but I thought it was pretty boring.
(105) The Silence of the Lambs – Classic
(106) Sleepy Hollow – Pretty good
(107) I Heart Huckabees – Loved it
( ) 24 Hour Party People
( ) Blood In Blood Out
( ) The Virgin Suicides

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Jane’s first loose tooth has been loose for a few weeks now. Apparently the principal at her school, who is a super nice lady, is an expert tooth puller. I’m not sure what finally motivated her today, but after school she and Cassandra went to the principal’s office and came out a gap toothed 6 year old. Her first tooth! Yay!

Before bedtime she made a card for the tooth fairy. But she’s a pretty sensitive little girl. When we traded our car in, without her, we had to drive back to the dealership so she could hug it goodbye. So as the kids were drifting off to sleep I heard her crying. I scurried in to see what was going on, and she didn’t want to give  up her tooth. “I’m going to save them all and give them to her at once”, she intially decided.  “Okay sweetie, we can put it in your chest and she won’t be able to find it.” As I left the room she had switched to giving them two at a time.

 I installed the Firefox 2 release client. It’s okay, nothing too earth shattering. It does have spell checking on every input fields, which is nifty. I’m curious where they got their dictionary though.

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We went to lunch at a bar & grill with a TV that you can’t hear. TV is on CNN. I glance over and see the headline “NORAD scrambles fighters over several US cities”. I had to read the stupid scrolling bottom for a few minutes before finding out it had to do with the airline crash in NYC, not something truly horrible related to the recent nuclear tests.

I haven’t combed my hair in 4 or 5 months

I haven’t combed my hair in 4 or 5 months

If we had evolved with 4 fingers, would we all be using <a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octal”>base 8</a> now?

Conversation with Jane:
    Her: “Daddy, I had chopped robin for lunch today! And it was gooood.”
    Me: “Chopped robin?”
    Her: “Yep, chopped robin.”
    Me: “Uhm, what is chopped robin?”
    Her: “It’s kind of like soup, but it has a lot of noodles in it.”

    I got a big smile on my face and decided not to correct her, it was too damn cute.

Conversation with Isaac, after an incident with a mosquito buzzing around his face while he was trying to sleep:
    Me: “Why are you out of bed?”
    Him: “I’m scared of the muskeetos.”
    Me: “Okay honey, you can go sleep in my bed and I’ll move you back to your room later on.”
    Him: “But the skeetos will still get me then!”
    Me: “All the mosquitos leave your room at midnight.”
    Him: “They all go to sleep at midnight?”
    Me: “Yes son”.

I haven’t read The Onion regularly for quite a while. While it’s usually funny, it mostly boils down to the same group of jokes adapted to various situations. I do listen to the Onion podcast, though, since their humor is just about perfect for a 1 minute chuckle.

A friend forwarded me <a href=”http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39024″>this one</a> though. For most people it’s probably mildly amusing at best, but it totally had me in stiches.

So iTunes 7 comes out today, and one of the newly touted features is this:

With Cover Flow, you can flip through your digital music and video collection just as you would CDs.

“Wow, that’s pretty impressive”, I thought. So I quickly downloaded and installed it and plugged in my microphone.

After I fired up iTunes I shouted into it, “Honey, where did you put Look what the cat dragged in?!” But iTunes did nothing. Flip through my collection like I do, indeed!