This week Regis Jack talks about stealing passwords (bad), a man who is suing Facebook for 84% ownership (still bad), naked people (good) and other stuff (some bad, some good).

I reminisced about the Rubiks cube and get off on a rant because of security risk I saw at a local restaurant.  After that, it just went down hill.  Let’s see, some guy is suing Facebook for ownership, what to do when your parents join Facebook, how a woman went one year without sex (her choice) and wrote a book about it, why NEVER to talk to the cops or you get tasered, sending racy texts, how Obama compares to Hitler (FYI, they don’t), a short bit on European nudes and I end on a high note – passports going to sex offenders.

As for the picture this week… I don’t get it either.

This is episode #098 for Monday, July 26 and clocked in at 28 minutes, 42 seconds.

This week Regis Jack talks about Despicable Me (in 2D), Shutter Island (on BD), Let The Right One In (Netflix streaming) and some crap about Apple.

So I saw 3 movies this week, the first season of Better Off Ted (on Netflix Streaming), and I watched parts of some movies, but stopped when they sucked really bad (like Paranormal Entity – a rip off movie if there ever was one).  I’ve seen all of Better Off Ted before, but it was great to see them again.

Despicable Me in non-eye popping 2d, was pretty good.  It had a cute story, but the funnies parts were shown in the preview – which bothers me.  They need to show scenes in trailers but NOT the best moments.  It’s good for kids and adults.  Nuff said here.

Shutter Island was, well, not bad.  It had some cool scenes, but tried to be suspenseful, but wasn’t.  It also had inconsistencies within scenes, many mistakes and a story that wasn’t really had to see coming – from the first scene.  Still, it’s worth watching – it’s not bad.

Now the movie Let The Right One In was very cool.  It’s a vampire movie – sort of.  I felt it was actually a child relationship movie about two 12 year old kids, one of which is a vampire.  This movie has high ratings on Netflix, which surprises me.  This movie is more drama than horror and has very quiet moments – not a typical popular movie.  The most important part is to see this film in the original Swedish with  subtitles – DO NOT WATCH THE DUBBED VERSION.  Every bad review I read seems to be from people who watched dubbed versions.

The rest of the cast is littered with Apple Antenna issues, the press release and an antitrust lawsuit against them and AT&T.  But my favorite part is the iPhone song I link to below.  It’s awesome.  Sing if you know the words, “If you don’t want an iPhone 4 – don’t but it.  If you bought one and you don’t like it – bring it back”

YouTube – Song A Day #561: The iPhone Antenna Song

Oh Yeah, the picture this week is of Claudius – he landed on my car.  Cool isn’t he?

This is episode #097 for Monday, July 19 and clocked in at 26 minutes, 08 seconds.

This week Regis Jack talks about some guy named Lebron James, the question, “You Want Fries with That?”, dead flies for dinner, a fireworks traffic jam, “The Last Answer” by Isaac Asimov and some other stuff.

This week is a bit shorter because I spent much of the week with software issues and lost focus on the podcast/blog.  But I do find out who Lebron James is, I go off on a rant about someone disrespecting working in fast food and I talk about how there were dead flies at my table at Chilies.

After seeing a great fireworks show at Carowinds (the home of the Intimidator ) I felt as if the zombie apocalypse had started but it turned out I was just stuck in deadlock traffic trying to get out of the parking lot.  George Lucas is suing a laser company because they have a “laser” that resembles the hilt of a light saber – and I have to say – it DOES!  And is so freaking cool I may actually buy one of these.

I’m sure I talked about some other crap too, but I did read a short piece by Isaac Asimov which is absolutely awesome and I have included the link so you can read it too.

Read “The Last Answer” by Isaac Asimov

This is episode #096 for Monday, July 12, 2010 and clocked in at 23 minutes, 04 seconds.

This week Regis Jack talks about The Last Airbender (sucked), the newest Harry Potter trailer (cool), some unusual British and non-British TV shows, the Paranormal 2 trailer, How the iPhone 4 was built by God and some other stuff.

It’s been a lazy weekend and I’ve spent much of the time watching movies and TV, including The IT Crowd, Middleman, Being Human (season 2), The Guild and others.  All I have to do now is sit naked in a bean bag eating pizza at the same time and I’ll be up to 400lbs in no time at all!  I blogged earlier in the week about the new Harry Potter trailer and how much The Last Airbender sucked.  If you’re too lazy to read (or can’t read) I recap in the podcast.  Of course if you couldn’t read then you wouldn’t have been looking for the blogs or known to read this to know to listen to the … never mind.

Anyway, turns out technology always slows us down at first, until we get used to it. Don’t believe me, check out this video of early tech support when transitioning from the scroll to the book.  Some researchers were shocked to find this out recently concerning books and the iPad/Kindle – guess they’ll never learn.

A must read is the letter from the CEO of Woot to his employees about being purchased by Amazon – it’s a hoot!

This is episode #099 for Monday, July 5, 2010 and clocked in at 31 minutes, 31 seconds.

So, I went to see Avatar…. I mean… The Last Airbender last night.  I was looking forward to this movie, which is never a good idea.  My partner is a huge fan of the series and I thought the concept was cool.  But when we say that M. Night Shyamalangadingdong was going to write it and direct it – we threw up.  I’m not saying M. Night Shyamapoopoopeedo’s movies are terrible, I’ve liked a few – but those types of movies don’t tell the kind of epic story that Avatar needs.

The writing was aaaaaaaa-hhhhhhhhhhhh!  It was wooden dialog, even worse then George Lucas (all hail George!), and they kept repeating themselves as if they were trying to constantly tell us what was happening.  Some of the actors are very good – I actually like Aang – but others were Twilight level actors.  Little emotion, little skill.  Oh I wait for the day when a movie will SHOW us the story instead of TELL us.

And what was with Aasif?  I couldn’t take it.  It wasn’t that he was bad, he did the best he could with poor writing.  But I’ve only ever seen him on Jon Stewart’s show and I was waiting for the punch line everytime he talked.  That’s the stigma you get when you’re really good at comedy and try to get serious.

Anyway, I enjoyed the final confrontation, thought there were several insights into how good the movie could have been, and have wanted to shoot myself for the writing.

The worse part of all of this is that I’m looking forward to the new Tron movie.  Please don’t suck.

That’s the way I see it; sorry you had to read it.