This is a good movie.  Peter Jackson directs (lotr) and does a great job.  The story is as you would expect except with more fun goodies in the form of cgi monsters and mayhem galore.  The trip to the island where they capture Kong is rife with additional creatures - bugs, dinosaurs, bats, etc.

If you have the inclination, you can contemplate the issues of wanting what you can’t have and being where you don’t belong and whether platonic love between monkey and woman can be true.

The whole goal of the movie is to make you bond with the giant ape and then to feel bad when it croaks.  As long as you are OK with that, its a marvelously well crafted story whose ending you already know.

Definetly worth watching. I think this movie is better than the recent tripe from wobbly Pierce Brosnan and Timothy Dalton(Tho i do think that Brosnan was quite a bit better than Dalton).

Daniel Craig does a great job despite his blue collar looks and who cares (more…)

Computers are an amazing thing. The pentagon paid millions just 20 years ago for what you can now buy for 300$. But they are sooo limiting! You have to lug around either a heavy laptop that has the keys glued to the screen or you get tied to a desktop.

This is what we have now but just think about it. 98% of the time, (more…)

Ok, first the good stuff. This movie is a riveting snapshot of something that can and probably does happen in many small towns. The charachters are enourmously compelling to watch. You sit and absorb the movies events in semi horrified (more…)

Alpha XP is’nt quite as useful as launchy but is indeed high on the eye candy totem pole. Remember that first time you saw a program actually use transparency so that you could see what was under? I do. I think it was some text editor and I thought it was well, cool. I do think it is a bit distracting but none the less cool(Did I mention cool?). Well, the peeps at zeroherosoftware.com created Alpha XP which allows you to preset how dim you wish your task bar to be and allows you to setup some key combinations to make a window transparent.

A mac version at http://www.nullriver.com/index/products.

Like I said, not so much useful but definetly cool and never mind that this is theanticool.com. Not really sure what that means. . .

I’m deeply saddened by the defeat of referendum I which attempted to give some basic legal rights to gay people. The stories of long time couples having to carry legal documentation around in case one member has a life threatening emergency are heart breaking and there is plenty more to the referendum. Even the Colorado Council of Churches (the largest christian coalition in the state) backed referendum I! (more…)

This election is critical to our country’s tarnished reputation.  People throughout the world are watching. They watched as we gave Bush 4 more years in disbelief 2 years ago.  Now they watch as we judge the politicians who made the Bush agenda possible.