People Like Us

Heart-warming, lots of fun moments, some suspenseful ones, good acting, especially the female lead, yet also mostly predictable. If you want a feel-good flick, go. 6/10.

Dan

Seeking Friend For The End Of The World

Steve Carell did a phenomenal job here, and Keira was in one of her better roles and actually lived up to it. They actually have a really nice simmering chemistry. There is an intense angst throughout, and the humor is used lightly enough not to render this idiotic. A love story, with a bittersweet edge, poignant, with some interesting and surprising twists. Definitely worth the time if you have a romantic heart. 8/10 in the genre.

Dan

New Game For Light Exercise: Bucket-Disk...

One Bucket-Disk (invented by Yours Truly) set: (4) aluminum tent stakes @ $0.79 each, (2) Home Depot bucets @ $3.00 each, one Disk Golf fairway driver @ $10-21.00 depending on brand & style.

Set up buckets with openings facing each other 25 feet apart. Stake bucket handles so goals don't move.

Stand behind your bucket and toss at the other bucket. Teams take turns, 1 throw each. First 20 duckets wins. Disk must be more than halfway in the bucket to count a ducket.

Teams toss at one bucket to see who goes first. Closest to bicket OR most duckets goes first.

Lose two duckets for your team if you hit another player, or physically get in front of your bucket while the other team is throwing. (Off-sides rule; throwing team must declare a throw starting and do a 5-count to let other players clear the target bucket.)

Advanced rules: Get a 2nd disk. The off-turn team may attempt to throw a block at the throwing team's disk AFTER it has left the thrower's hand. Next person up on the off-turn team is also the blocking disk thrower. Lose a ducket for your team if you throw your block before the disk leaves the thrower's hand.

Let fly!

Dan

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter...

Cool. Very ugly, nasty vamps. Awesome Axe-Kwon-Do. Great camera work on the "vintage look". Best served with popcorn and true blood as close to midnight as possible. Lots of action, but a cool plot in a lot of ways as well. A bit "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon meets The Matrix meets Underworld meets National Treasure meets Wild, Wild West meets history buff nerdvana." 7/10.

Dan

HTC Amaze 4G Charger Voltage & Amperage Specifications

After an HOUR of trying to find the charging voltage specs for my HTC Amaze on Google under numerous search terms, (WTF??!) Ifound that they were printed right on the back of the factory AC charger that came with my phone.

Set your solar phone charger to 5 VDC, and let there be light.

Now, I feel stupid for not lookingvthere first, but HTC and solar charger manufacturers should feel downright idioric for not having a universal list of phone charging power specs easily-found on internet search in this age of green power users on bicycles.

I love my Amaze, but it's a lot like a jet fighter: fast, agile, and capable, but really sucks the go-go juice. Now I can go all light-bright on it.

Dan

Hysteria - With Maggie Gyllenhaal

*Must See Flick* Things take some extremely interesting twisted turns in early-1800's medicine and psychiatry, with wonderfully-warm and glass-shattering results. This is one you don't want to miss, oh my!

Dan

Promethius

AWESOME! This is definitely in my "top sc-fi so far this year" bin. Definitely go. 9/10

Snow White and the Huntsman

Fun. Kinda Goth. She's still Bella-ish. Damn good cinematography & CGI. Great Celtic legend, interesting spin on the story. Go.

6.5/10.

Dan