Vactaion time!!

I got some time off next week. Part of me wants to go out and do stuff, the other part just wants to stay home and hibernate. Since I don't have a computer at home, I will be completely Internet free. So I don't have to read email that has nothing to do with me. I honestly don't care if I just spend the week vegetating and doing nothing. I have been tired for some reason alot lately. Not just physical, but mental. I tell you those of you out there who have short memories are blessed. Anywho,(love that word) it will be nice to be away from EVERYTHING for awhile.

One person is going to get this....

Sir...Sir...Sir,Sir,Sir...Sir,Sir,Sir...Sir...Sir...Sir,Sir,Sir. Well, if you let me explain...Sir,Sir,Sir,Sir...Sir. Well, now Sir,Sir,Sir...Sir. Oh, man that was an instant classic. Sir...

For some reason...

I watched alot of golf yesterday. Now mind you I don NOT like watching golf at all. But since it was the Masters, I wanted to see what the Augusta National golf course looked like. The scenary was pretty amazing. I like nature, so seeing alot of green, trees and water is always cool to me. Don't get me wrong I still really don't get the basic elements of gold, but it was enjoyable to watch the scenary

And the Oscar goes to...

First the Oscar pool, now March Madness? Well, congratulations young blood. Once again you surprise me. I don't know how you did it, but you did. You are probably reading this and saying "March madness? What's that? Is that when all the leprechauns go crazy?" Anyway it was fun, it went right down to the wire. Congrats, and as they say there is always next year. "Child support?!" What I got to give child support for?!(haven't had a inside joke for awhile)

Books to Movies

I am always interested in how books are turned into movies. Books like Appaloosa to me translated fairly well to the screen. American Psycho was also good on film. Of course there were alot more descriptive and hideous scenes in the book, but that is to be expected. Also the ending was different from the film. So it can make things confusing. I recently read the Watchmen, and though it was pretty good. Now someone recently told me that the ending is completely different from the book. I guess I can understand how filmmakers want to be original with their screenplay and not rely too much on the book. I think the trend these days is that if a book is really popular then it has to be mad into a film. I don't know. i always like it when you use your imagination to picture what a scene is like from a book. Sometimes when you look at film that comes from a book "You just go..Oh so thats how this setting or charcter look like? It can be disappointing.

Twitter

I have no idea if and how often I am going to use this, but I created a Twitter account for myself. It seemed pretty easy to set up. I'm following a show called PTI on it, and also following the New York Giants. Apparently alot of NBA players are using twitter to update everyone minute by minute about their lives. I still don't know what to think of it.


https://twitter.com/lukewarmsoda

Random reading

I am currently reading Freakonomics(Thanks for the suggestion D) I liked the common sense approach that the authors bring to the book. It was always a book that I wanted to read. It reminds me of the books that Malcolm Gladwell writes where he talks about how certain trends in culture originate from a simple beginning. The authors of freakonomics even have a blog: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/ It is definitely worth checking out. Hopefully the post about the rejected chocolate sin tax in Scotland NEVER gets proposed here. Apparently there will be a sequel to this book, should be interesting. I have also read a recent book called Moriarty. It is a fiction book about Sherlock Holmes arch-nemesis Professor James Moriarty. It was a fun read. In one of Sir Conan Doyle's books, Moriarty and Holmes fight on top of a waterfall where presumably they both fall and perish. In Doyle's later work Holmes is said to survive the fall, but not Moriarty. But in books by other authors Moriarty is said to also have survived the fall. The book I read tells of how Moriarty survived the fall and is trying to keep his criminal empire from falling into other hands. I like how modern day authors try to retell older stories from the past. Sometimes it works, other times not so much.