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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A beautiful story that was somehow ruined by Tim Burton. The movie was dark and not as colorful as it should have been. There should have been more exploration in the factory. Too much time wasted on getting to know Charlies family. Even more time was wasted on Wonka’s flashbacks to his past and him making good with his father. Movie ruined even more with the Tim Burton signature direction.

Wedding Crashers
Funniest movie since Old School. Vince Vaughn is fucking hilarious and I think he is a better match with Jennifer Aniston then Brad Pitt was. Owen Wilson, Christopher Walken and Will Ferell also were great. The story was original and it was really fun to watch. The coolest thing is the movie is 2 hours long!

Me and You and Everyone We Know
Really good movie. All the characters were really interesting. Most memorable quote.. “You poop into my butt hole and I poop into your butt hole… back and forth… forever.” Nat didn’t like the movie, said it was pointless, she didn’t like The Station Agent either though.. ))<>((

First interesting trivia:
Francis Ford Coppola made a commercial for Suntory whiskey with legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa in the 1970s. This event later influenced a salient plot point in his daughter Sofia’s movie, Lost in Translation.

Second interesting trivia:
In the movie Lost in Translation while shooting the whiskey ad in the movie, the director kept telling Bill Murray to make expressions more like Sean Connery. Turns out Sean Connery actually did do whiskey commercials and you can watch them by clicking here.

My friend told me about this place in Kuwait that can pimp out your car by making your doors open vertically instead of horizontally.. like Lamborgini’s. I think he said it costs KD1000 per door or something. So today on my way back home from work I saw this pimped out envoy with the doors open and I took a quick picture.

Oh and earlier tonight I was crossing the traffic light (walking) behind this old Ford Bronco when I saw a sticker on his rear window that said “Don’t Look Inside”, so I looked inside and wow, the guy had the whole interior of the car laid out with speakers on the bottom and the amps all around the inside windows. There were atleast 12 subs and an equal amount of amps all laid out. Really cool shit.

The 10.4.3 Update delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for Mac OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users.

It includes fixes for:

– AFP, SMB/CIFS, NFS and FTP network file services
– AirPort and Bluetooth wireless access
– Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, and RAW camera support
– disc recording when creating and burning media
– .Mac sync services
– Spotlight indexing and searching
– Dashboard widgets: Dictionary, Flight Tracker, Stickies, and Unit Converter
– Address Book, AppleScript, Automator, Dictionary, Font Book, iCal, iSync, Mail, and Safari applications
– Disk Utility, Keychain Access, Migration Assistant, and Software Update
– compatibility with third party applications and devices
– previous standalone security updates

For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: https://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n301984

For detailed information on Security Updates, please visit this website: https://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61798

The coolest update has to be Disk Utility: With Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later, Disk Utility can verify your computer’s startup disk (volume) without requiring you to start up from another volume. This feature is called “Live Verification.” If Disk Utility discovers any issues that require a repair, you will need to start up from your Mac OS X Tiger DVD or CD and use Disk Utility on that disc to make repairs. (You can’t repair your startup volume while your computer is started up from it.)

I watched a movie yesterday called Simple Lies. From the minute it started I hated the movie. The first scene involved 2 guys and a girl near a cliff during sunset dancing as if they were listening to rave. For me thats trying too hard to be cool. The whole movie was like that, trying too hard to be cool or trying too hard to be weird or even trying too hard to be cult. The acting was bad, the lines were terrible, the story uninteresting and the ending was stupid. I do not recommend this movie. Simple Lies is Simply Crap.

The Princess of Brunei just contacted me asking me for help. She basically has money stashed in various parts of the world and needs my help in retrieving them. In return I will get rewarded financially. I love these spam mails. Click on more to read her email.

Someone from Aramex left the following comment in one of my posts:

Dear valued customers, we thank you for your valued feedback and comments on our very special and unique ShopN’Ship service. Rest assured that all your comments and complaints are being taken into considerations; We are taking things up to top management to plan for necessary corrective and preventive actions to make sure all these problems would never recur again and our customers are happy at the end and satisfied. We are taking some newly measures and changes which we are sure it will improve our service level drastically and provide you with utmost satisfaction. All your comments and feedback are highly appreciated and welcome to our mail address [email protected] where they will all be recorded and logged into our system for review and investigation. Always at your service. Rabih Jabboury.

Hopefully what he said is true and things are going to get better. What new service I would like to see is maybe a mail back to sender option where we could ship products back to the States incase of damages or returns.

Update: Turns out the service IS available!

1. Sony PSP
2. Apple iPod (60GB, video, black)
3. Sling Media Slingbox
4. Sony Ericsson W800i
5. Toshiba Qosmio G25-AV513
6. Archos Gmini 402 (20GB)
7. Nokia N90
8. PalmOne Treo 650
9. Motorola Razr V3
10. Logitech Harmony 880

This top 10 list is crap and was taken from Cnet. I don’t understand them, the Top 10 list includes four phones! Who must have all these 4 phones?? They should decide on 1 phone and have that on the must-have list. Anyway, here is my Top 10 must-have list:

1- Tivo (Philips Series 1)
2- Sony PSP
3- Apple iPod (60GB, video, black)
4- Sony Ericsson K750i
5- Nikon D2x
6- Apple PowerMac Quad 2.5GHZ G5
7- Audemars Piguet Juan Pablo Montoya Chronograph
8- Lamborghini Murcielago
9- Barco Computer Display
10- Shure E4 Earphones

Fuck my luck, I have been waiting all day for a decent shot of something and finally when it happens turns out my camera was set on manual focus! Me and Nat where standing at the traffic light which had 3 lanes. We were parked the third row middle. Suddenly a car pulls up beside us with two people in it. The passenger wearing local clothing gets out and goes to the car infront of him and starts punching the passenger there. The driver then follows him and starts kicking in the side windows of the car infront of him and smashing them. By then I had my camera out (it was on my side since I was shooting earlier) and I started taking pictures. Then I realized my camera was out of focus and wasnt focusing because it was set on manual. Suddenly the car that was getting attacked climbs the sidewalk, nearly runs over the guy in local clothing who was trying to hang on to the car, and then crosses the red light nearly hitting an oncoming car. The two attackers get back into their car and rush off in a high speed chase through traffic. Our light turned green so I tried to follow them but it was impossible since they were weaving in through heavy traffic dangerously and then they ran another red light. It was such a rush watching all this happen and it all happened so fast. Damn my luck for having my camera in manual focus. I am sure they would have been interesting pictures. The picture above was the only picture I was able to take after quickly putting my camera on autofocus again. You can see the local guy on the floor and the car jumping off the curb through traffic. You can also see where that car was parked.

I watched a few movies this weekend, this is what I thought of them:

Constantine
Production quality was amazing. Story was boring. I still prefer The Prophecy over it.

Elf
Will Ferrel is very funny but I should have watched this during Christmas. The movie was cute, Nataly didn’t like it, thought it was to kiddish.

Creep
This movie started off great, really freaky and scary. Then 30 minutes before the end it turns into a crappy B movie. I don’t know how they managed to fuck up the movie like that, its very sad. The story took a weird turn and became very stupid.. really pissed me off.

Heights
A very nice movie, no action, no comedy, just a straight forward drama based in New York. The movie ended nicely also.

Kill Bill 2
After watching Kill Bill 2 I don’t understand why they divided the movie into two parts. Part two was pretty uneventful and I am sure they could have easily merged the two movies without losing any key parts. In any case, part 2 was boring, 2 fight scenes against 2 people with maybe 1 liter of blood and thats all.

Mysterious Skin
For some reason I thought this movie was going to be about aliens. It did start off like that but then somehow it turned into a very gay movie. By that I mean it literarily, the movie contained a lot of homosexuality and by the end of the movie you realize you just watched a lot of guy on guy blow jobs. The movie was good though, just be prepared for the gay stuff.

Hot Shots
I remember this movie being really funny when I first watched it in the early 90’s. Its either not as funny now or maybe I lost my sense of humor.

GTA on the PSP is out but sadly its 1.16GB uncompressed. I need to wait until a ripped version comes out so I can copy it onto my 1GB memory stick. [Link]

zMacShop finally got their batch of iPod Nanos. They are selling them for only KD88 with a free sleeve. Thats over KD40 cheaper then the other Mac stores in Kuwait. So if you are interested here is their contact info.

zMacShop
116 Walla’a Complex – Basement
Hawalli, Ibn Khaldun Street
Kuwait City – Kuwait
Tel: +965-261-7575
Email: [email protected]

Update: I received a phone call earlier tonight from zMacShop telling me about the following offer. For the first 6 people who buy an iPod Nano and mention my site (2:48AM) they will get a FREE rubber unpowered boom box for the iPod in addition to the free sleeve. Everyone else will get a free pair of Apple Logo stickers in addition to the sleeves. So if you want an iPod Nano hurry up to get the extra gift, they only have 6 to give away.

This is pretty interesting, you shop for items by color not products. So for example you choose a shade of blue, it will display you products that have that color. [Link]

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Apple turns 30 on April 1st. When Apple turned 20 they released the Twentieth Anniversary Mac. It cost $10,000 and was delivered to your home in a limo. The system looked like nothing else at that time. It had a very small foot print kinda like the current iMacs and the sound system was designed by Bose. The Mac came with a remote control so you could turn it on and off plus control the volume. You could even watch TV on the Mac and change channels using the remote. Due to the price though they only sold 12,000 world wide. I was able to purchase a brand new TAM three years ago from a local dealer for KD150. I gave it as a gift to my parents who proudly display it and use it today. Even though the TAM was released in 1997, it still grabs the attention and curiosity of visiting guests.

If Apple would release a Thirtieth Anniversary Macintosh this time around, it has to follow the footsteps of the previous one. It has to look like nothing else available which shouldn’t be too hard for Apple to accomplish. It should cost $10,000 and this time they probably would team up with Bang & Olufsen. Finally every hardcore Mac user would want one but none of us would be able to afford it. [Link]

1- walk really fast when you are going anywhere as to appear something important is going to happen

2- carry a notebook with you at all times. seems like you are suppose to be somewhere taking notes. if at your desk keep it open with a pen on it

3- keep your headset on if you are in your cubicle

4- actually do work but that defeats the purpose. okay more later. any suggestions?

5- shuffle papers

6- look pissed off

7- put up a do not disturb sign when you are browsing the web

8- continually click on a pen

9- walk around with your laptop open, side note: take your laptop home and say you are WFH (working from home)

10- open up Microsoft Word and write blog entries to post later

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