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Halo 3 trailer

Bungie.net : Games : Halo 3

Oh, man. Go check out the trailer. Seriously.

I want to play this thing, and I haven’t even played Halo 2 yet. It makes me think the movie might actually be good. That’s assuming it ever comes out. There’ve been a few delays. Latest release date is 2008.

Man steals gas; Man shoots cars tires

2theadvocate.com | Suburban | Deputies: Owner shot out man’s tires when he couldn’t pay for gas

People are so screwed up. Take a second and write down the guy’s license plate and driver’s license. Pulling a gun seems a bit over the top.

LIVINGSTON — Deputies arrested a store owner accused of shooting out two tires on a customer’s vehicle after the customer said he had no money to pay for the gasoline he had . . . → Read More: Man steals gas; Man shoots cars tires

Review: Justice League

(Originally posted Jul 31, 2005 on my older blog)

I’ve been watching Justice League and Justice League Unlimited lately. This is good stuff.

Mike got me hooked. I’d caught it while flipping channels from time to time, but never really followed it well, and certainly never knew the episode order. Now I’ve seen all four seasons in order and … wow.

This Justice League is way beyond any previous incarnation. (Actually I suppose I . . . → Read More: Review: Justice League

Review: Firefly

(Originally posted Aug 06, 2005 on my older blog)

Sci-fi western with an attitude, and a healthy dose of mystery and character building.

I am catching Firefly on DVD. I didn’t watch more than a few minutes of it when it aired a couple years ago. It didn’t grab me then, but I really didn’t give it a chance. Now that I’m paying attention… this show is pretty impressive.

At first the mixture of “wild . . . → Read More: Review: Firefly

Review: Ray (another perspective)

My wife’s opinion differed a bit from mine (as usual… ). Like me, she wanted to know more about what he was like after beating the addiction. The text said he never used heroin again, but did he substitute another drug? How did his behavior change otherwise?

The lack of answers for those and similar questions, while disappointments for me, ruined the movie for her.

She also wanted to hear a song or two in . . . → Read More: Review: Ray (another perspective)

Review: Ray

The movie lived up to the hype. And that’s saying quite a bit.

Jamie Foxx did an unbelievably good Ray Charles. By the end there were literally a couple of scenes where I questioned whether it was Foxx or Charles himself on screen. Amazing work.

The music was, of course, excellent.

There were only two disappointments:

The movie only covered up to the 70′s. It quickly glossed over the remainder of his career (and life) . . . → Read More: Review: Ray

Review: X-Men 3: The Last Stand

Hmm…. how do I do this without giving away spoilers?

This was simultaneously the coolest and weakest of the three X-men movies. It earns coolest because it had some excellent battle scenes, and took more chances, story-wise, than the other two movies. It earns weakest because I was never as engaged with this movie as the others. It never seemed to flow quite right. Even the music seemed off to me.

I really like that . . . → Read More: Review: X-Men 3: The Last Stand

Crusade: What would have happened

I just watched Disc Three of the Crusade series, written by J. Michael Straczynski (JMS). Luckily, I was apparently watching one of the early discs produced since it had his commentary on the episode Racing the Night. (All of his commentaries were removed from later discs at his request since Warner Bros. broke their contract with him by not including his full commentary, including criticisms of TNT.)

I just listened to the commentary and wanted . . . → Read More: Crusade: What would have happened

Interviewing mistakes

CLO: Survey: One-Third of Candidates Commit a Top Interview Don’t

This article is aimed at executive search interviews, but most of it really applies to any interview. Make sure you don’t make these mistakes:

Talking too much and listening too little. “Provide concise and specific answers to the [interviewer's] questions. If you go off on a five minute tangent, the [interviewer] may better remember how long you talked, and not what you said,” said Salveson. . . . → Read More: Interviewing mistakes

Hydrogen Technology – New unlimited energy source?

Hydrogen Technology Applications

Whoa. You’d think if this was really viable they’d be talking about it all over the news. Well, I’m going in with skepticism, but holy cow, it sure sounds cool.

(Interesting site design, too.)