Slumdog Millionaire – Wow

Posted on February 26, 2009

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Even with moderate expectations I was really blown away by this movie. It was so good it’s hard to even put into words and yes, that’s rare. I had an opportunity to go and see this last night and when left the theater I was in a sate of awe.

The story takes you along the journey of two brothers who’s mother was killed while they were very young. They’re joined by a little girl named Latika who’s also in the same predicament. Living in dumps and in slums on trash and handouts it’s really amazing how they survived. Each had a different path and overall it’s much more than a love story, much more.

The children in the movie are actually from the slums of India and your heart just melts watching these little kids. It’s funny, energetic, dramatic suspenseful and the method that the story is told is sheer genius.

THIS, is a must see movie. Slumdog Millionaire

Buckles

Posted on February 24, 2009

Saturday night my Mom’s dog, Buckles, was hit on the road right across from the her house in Lynchburg, Ohio. Unfortunately Buckles must have been chasing something across the road and was hit by a car. She didn’t make it. I’m sorry Mom, wish I could be there to make it all better.

Mom still has her dog Dyna but this is the third in as many years she’s lost it seems. Buckles was a Rottweiler just like all of her other dogs, big, loveable and protective.

I think it’s going to be awhile before my Mom gets another one. Love you and miss you Mom – just thinking about you.

Semi-stressful Weekend

Posted on February 23, 2009

I’m sure all the stress is in my head and I did my best to relax over the weekend. Right now I’ve got a ton of stuff running through my head and none of it is doing me any good. Between my boss asking us to cut our hours, the failing economy, my dwindling savings account and loads of other stuff…it all concerns me. That and a few other things, I’ll keep that stuff to myself though.

So I only went out one night this weekend, and after my day in the office on Friday of course it was Friday night. I hung out with Zak/Amanda and crew down at Kona for a quick dinner where the service was super slow. Then we just headed down to Oshea’s for a few car-bombs and a stumble home. It was good to be in Oshea’s once again especially with good people.

Saturday and Sunday were fairly relaxing, spending time both days by the pool working on my tan trying not to think about “things” too much.

Hey, we’re all stressed, we’re all under the gun and I’m not sure how much better it’s going to get. Things aren’t looking good but I’m trying to stay optimistic. Thanks to Phil for cheering me up and keeping me focused (or at the very least trying).

The Logos of My Life

Posted on February 20, 2009

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I had weird thought lately, over the last 10 or so years I’ve come to depend on certain brands over any others. Brands that form and shape who I am and ultimately define me as a person. Well, define me to people who don’t know me at least and I’m just as guilty as you are. Most of this realization came from recommendations from friends like, “what kind of camera should I get?” or “can you fix my computer/recommend a new one?”, etc. I always answer with the same answer, “I use this and I probably wouldn’t buy any other brand”.

I’ve always had Canon cameras and even though Nikon makes a good one I’ll never buy anything else. I had a bad experience with their main rivals Nikon back in 2001 with the Nikon CoolPix while working at Lange Wheeler Design Group and that was a piece of crap camera. I’ve never had an issue with a Canon.

I’ve always had an Apple Computer and I’ll never, NEVER buy a PC. Every time I’m asked to fix someone’s computer it’s always a damn PC loaded with crap. I rarely fix Macs and there’s a good reason for it. They don’t have as many problems (and there aren’t as many out there).

Gym attire’s always been Adidas, thick watches always Vestal, my favorite dress shoes gotta be Steve Maddens, every dress shirt I have is Banana Republic and there’s no better sound than Bose (office headphones).

So think about it – what brands define you? Everybody has them.

iFitness iPhone App Review

Posted on February 19, 2009

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After using Health Cubby for a while on my iPhone it left me a bit unimpressed. You really couldn’t track your workout very well and to honest, I’m not looking to decrease my waist size dramatically or lose weight. I really want to get a better tone and maybe get a bit bigger so the weight thing doesn’t really make sense.

So I found iFitness which allows you to track all of your workout. Everything, and I mean everything.

First you set up your individual workout (at least that’s how I did it) by adding pre-entered exercises to each workout (ie. Chest = cable flys, dumbell bench, etc).

Then as you workout you just enter your weights, reps and record. It tracks all of your progress over a timeline as well. You can look up what you did on your last workout, yesterday, last week, last month and adjust your workout accordingly. Hell it’ll even email you a complete CSV of all of your past workouts if you want to track it via Excel or some other program.

Overall it’s pretty complete. There are few missing exercises but it allows you to add them in manually. I’ve only begun using it and just like every iPhone app, it doesn’t work if you don’t use it.

Above image link takes you to the iTunes Store location for iFitness

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