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Came across an article on TechRepublic listing some “geek” moving coming out this year. I think I want to see these in theaters (going from top-to-bottom as listed in the article):

1. Coraline (Already saw it, it was good! In 3D even)
2. Fanboys (Maybe rent it instead)
3. Franklyn
4. Watchmen
5. Knowing (Maybe not in theaters, though)
6. Monsters vs Aliens (Again, maybe not in theaters)
7. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
8. Star Trek
9. Angels & Demons
10. Terminator: Salvation
11. Up
12. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
13. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
14. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
15. Pandorum (Maybe rent)
16. 9
17. The Box (Always thought that concept was… interesting… maybe rent instead)
18. Sherlock Holmes
19. Avatar
20. Nottingham
21. The Road (Looks like it might be like Children of Men, and that was a good flick)

Mmm… Some hopefully good action flicks this year.

Sorry I haven’t written in awhile. My Mom was in town for a little over a week and my Linux computer’s been disabled, so I’ve been busy. But here I am!

So in reference to my Mom being in town, it was awesome. I haven’t gotten to see her as much as I’d have liked, so it was really nice to spend some time with her. Thanks to her, chaos did erupt in our household. She suggested for us to get a new water softener the weekend she was here, and we also got a new addition to our family: our new black fluffy cat Samantha. I’ll get to her in a later post.

We ate out, we hung out and watched movies, it was really great. It sucked having to take her to the airport on Wednesday morning, where her flight left at 6am no less. I slept in my car at my work’s parking lot from 4:30-6:45 because it wasn’t viable to go home. 1/2 hour each way whereas work is about 5-10 minutes from the airport. You do the math: more sleep.

I promise I’ll get to the Halloween pics sometime soon, really.

Oh, a couple more things. I’m finally on Twitter, but I have my account configured to only alloy people I know to follow my updates. Hop on there and look for me! That, and I heard Wal-Mart is having some huge, absolutely huge Black Friday deals. Two of them that I’d love to do: a 50″ Samsung plasma HDTV for under $800 and a Magnavox Blu-Ray player for under $130. Crazy! An HD setup for less than $1,000? The only thing missing from that combination, really, is an audio receiver that can handle HD signals. Oy! I want $1K now.

I’m going to see if I can integrate a Twitter updater here into WP…

And I want to post about Obama soon…

And my Linux computer woes… Man… I’ve got a lot to talk about soon.

[Update]

Scratch that, my Twitter is publicly viewable instead… And you’ll see my tweets on the side of my blog now.

Last night, Laura and I were just kinda hanging out and checking stuff online. My neighbor, David, came by and asked if we wanted to see Zack and Miri Make a Porno. I asked Laura and yeah, she was fine with it. So we went.

Turns out, practically our entire cul-de-sac went. Both of our next door neighbors went, as well as Kristen from across the street and one of her next-door neighbors. The only one left out was John, and he’s barely ever home.

Joe and David had been drinking a bit during the day at David’s place while watching football, so they were a little sloshed for the trip. Kristen had to go without her boyfriend because he was out at a house they’ve got up for rent, trying to meet up with a potential tenant (who never showed up, the jerk). Joe was hilarious before the movie, I thought.

It was interesting to have pretty much our entire neighborhood out there, and it was cool. After the movie they all headed out to The Yardhouse, which is a good beer & food place right by the theater. I’ve been sick for almost a week and Laura’s just gotten it, so we didn’t go, but it was neat that the neighborhood started hanging out.

Hell, they even hung out outside a bit on Halloween. We would have if we hadn’t started watching Hulk for something to do when the kiddies weren’t coming by for candy.

In any case, Zack & Miri was pretty funny. Plenty of gross-out humor as you might expect, and there was a good romantic comedy buried in there. Good stuff. Laura didn’t enjoy it as much as me, but I’m a guy. Gross-out humor almost always works with me, haha.

Oh, I hope to post Halloween pictures of us soon, but we didn’t take any ourselves so I’ve got to scour our friends for some.