Another thrill ride that pushes the bar of unrealistic action just a little bit higher. These movies bother me when they use some flimsy excuse to enable their characters to do superhuman things.

I expect that within the next few years we will see that start to end. People will become desensitized to this hyper violence. Forcing directors who want to truly shock the audience with violence, to do so with gruesomely realistic violence... Actually now that I'm thing about that angle, it may be a good thing. We'll see.

But in spite of that increasingly common flaw in action movies, Wanted is one hell of a great flick. It does have a good point to make. It doesn’t take it’s self too seriously. And It's just unpredictable enough, not to be boring. Absolutely worth a look.

A couple of nights ago I had a pretty cool dream. It had Spheres the size of VW Beetles that had canons on them. A floor made of 4 foot squares that were long shafts that went all the way through the earth, moved up to meet my feet and down when not needed, at the behest of my mere wishing it. Me and some chick got in a super gun fight al la Wanted. She lived in the mirror alien ruins on the other side of the earth. She noticed when I discovered this place because the floor pieces stopped obeying her, and listened to my mind instead. Yah the floor tiles move in a hole that goes straight through the earth.

It’s weird that I still remember that kind of detail, a couple of days later.

Moving on… This last week I started doing some web work on spec. A local Photographer, Allison, is working on getting this big web service up and running. I recently signed a NDA so I can’t explain much about the business or technical details. But that won’t stop me from talking about vague experiences.

If it takes off, and were talking Digg kind of big. It will set me up with cash for the rest of my life. As if! The chances of that are 1 in 10,000. Unless… I exert some leverage in the policy and decisions. Then I can probably push that to 1 in 100. But that is still a crazy long shot.

At least I am reasonably confident that I will get paid for the time I put in. So my risk is minimal. We’ll see how it goes.

Also the wedding I was at last Saturday, was very cool. They were a great bunch of people, and I got some great shots, even I’m happy with.

I was in my mother's belly as she sat in the waiting room of the abortionist's office. Dr. Sunshine was his code name. I was fifty feet from the drainpipe, and she saw a painting on the wall that reminded her of her mother, who had recently died. She took that as a sign to have the baby. That's what I call luck.

My mother had great executive-secretarial jobs in the advertising business and raised two boys during the Second World War. She used to say, I make a man's salary. That's heroism.

I'm sure Hitler was great with his family.

I used to collect the most colorful curses I heard and write them down. I actually carried in my wallet things like "kraut cunt" and "burly loudmouth cocksucker" and "longhair fucking music prick," which was a thing Mikey Flynn yelled at a Juilliard student that he was kicking in the head.

I don't like authority and regulation, and I do my best to disrespect it, but I do that for myself. It's self-expression only.

If it's morally wrong to kill anyone, then it's morally wrong to kill anyone. Period.

It's amazing to me that literacy isn't considered a right.

I was arrested for possession and cultivation of marijuana in the early '70s, and it was thrown out. The judge asked me how I felt about it, and I said, "I understand the law, and I want you to know I'll pay the fine, but I cannot guarantee I will not break this law again." He really chewed me out for that.

Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices.

The first thing they teach kids is that there's a God -- an invisible man in the sky who is watching what they do and who is displeased with some of it. There's no mystery why they start that with kids, because if you can get someone to believe that, you can add on anything you want.

I stopped voting when I stopped taking drugs. I believe both of those acts are closely related to delusional behavior.

There's no morality in business. It doesn't have a conscience. It has only the cash register. They'll sell you crappy things that you don't need, that don't work, that they won't stand behind. It's a glorified legal form of criminal behavior.

If everybody knew the truth about everybody else's thoughts, there would be way more murders.

There's nothing wrong with high taxes on high income.

If there's ever a golden age of mankind, it will not include men over two hundred pounds beating children who are less than one hundred pounds, and it will not include the deliberate killing of people in a formal setting.

I did something in a previous life that must have been spectacularly good, because I'm getting paid in this life just magnificently, more than one would dare imagine or hope for.

I know 2 videos in a row, but this was just to good to pass up. This is absolutely awesome. Unless you have never seen Ferris Bueller, then you won't get it.

My mother sent me a video of a politician ranting about forcing everyone to buy CFL instead of incandescent. His arguments primarily revolved around how bad CFLs are. While they do have short comings, the facts that they use one third the power and last at least twice as long, can’t be ignored.

I still have to say that he is right, however… for all the wrong reasons. The outlawing of incandescent lights is disturbing from a legal standpoint. They are not dangerous, harmful, or threatening outside of a societal sense. Their relative energy inefficacy isn’t very good. They are still no where near as dangerous to society as cigarettes and alcohol. So with this law the government would be outlawing something which in and of it’s self is completely benign, and that is clearly un-constitutional. The government could offer CFL subsidies, or something of the like, to promote their adoption. But banning an individually harmless product is well out of their jurisdiction.