No Childhood Memory Is Safe

Some of you might know that Transformers the live-action movie is due out next summer. I loved the animated movie that came out years ago. Optimus dies, hell, half the autobots and decepticons died. That movie had soooo much coolness. Cartoon characters actually died. This was a new concept to us as kids (older kids, albeit). It had rock-n-roll (You got the touch!), Weird Al (Dare to be stupid!), cartoons dying, gigantic robots, Soundwave and his tapes, and of course, Unicron!

The other day, I tripped over this little nugget:

The Power of the Dark Crystal

I just have one simple request...

Please, please, please don't screw this up.

The info I've read about it sounds good, but I just don't know. The Dark Crystal was so imaginitive when I was a kid. It was like peeking into the imagination of a child, only slightly darker.

Anyway, it truly seems like Hollywood has run out of ideas. They're going to drudge up every last cool show we had as children and turn it into a multimillion dollar entertainment shitball ala Star Wars.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, you might hear a scream from Hollywood:

"...And I'll form the head!"

Golf Scorekeeper v1.0 Excel

I've created my own little golf scorekeeper in Excel. I've used it on a Dell Axim Pocket PC and it works really well!

Just like on a normal scorecard, you just put in the names of the players along with their initials on the back 9. Then, as you complete holes, you just plug in the scores as you go. The scorekeeper automatically totals your front 9, back 9, and the total score for each player. I made the golf scorekeeper to accomodate 50 players just in case someone wanted to use it as a golf aid in a tournament.

Click HERE to download.

Feel free to comment or provide suggestions!

Kathy Bates Has Met Her Match

"A nurse returning from work discovered an intruder armed with a hammer in her home and strangled him with her bare hands, police said."

This is not a nurse you want to meet in a dark alley. No, sir.

According to the news, Edward Haffey never knew he was about to take his last breaths of air when he entered this house with the intent to burglarize it. What he ran into was 51 year old Susan Kuhnhausen, a nurse of, shall we say, STOUT proportions. She was returning from work when she ran across this burglar and proceeded to choke the life out of him. That'll teach him!

According to the report, this nurse cannot be rattled. She knows how to deal with extreme situations due to her occupation. On top of that, apparently this intruder was a hardened criminal.

RIP Steve Irwin

If the reports are true about the circumstances of his death, I completely envy Steve Irwin. Some people live their lives in complete fear of what might happen, never do anything risky, on the edge, or adrenaline inducing, then go get killed in a car accident or doing something innocuous. Steve went out the right way. He lived his life doing things most people only dream of (or in complete fear of) and then still died doing something innocuous, a one-in-a-million chance. We could only be so lucky.

This is coming from someone that never really liked Steve Irwin, as all his shows seemed more about him and his adventures than about the animals. I was wrong about his passions and his priorities.

Rest In Peace Steve Irwin.