Would ya look at this? I'm actually posting Snippet Wednesday on *gulp* a Wednesday!!!

AHHHHH!!! The dead rise from the grave! Seas boil! Dogs and cats... living together!! MASS HYSTERIA!!

That's enough of this silliness!

Dupes
For those of you running multiple iOS devices or any sort of combination of smart phone and tablet, do you duplicate apps across both of them? Katie and I were having this discussion last night and I mentioned that I do have some things on both devices, like Echofon (Twitter), Facebook, and a couple others. She says she has her iPhone for some things and her iPad for others. For the most part she doesn't duplicate efforts. Not to say that one way is right or wrong, but which way do you all lean? Color me curious.

Tails
This past weekend, Katie and I saw the new movie Red Tails about the Tuskegee Airmen project in WWII. I walked out of the film kinda torn. The dogfight sequences were pretty spectacular in terms of how they looked. I was readily impressed, but you would expect nothing less coming from Lucasfilm. And that's where my internal conflict arises... it's Lucasfilm. While not directed by George Lucas, he did produce it and his mark is all over the film in terms of rushed stories, overloaded plot, bad dialogue, etc. It really felt like either The Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones, but set in 1944 and with far fewer aliens.

I was really looking forward to seeing this movie because I'm a junkie for movies and books about WWII, but I left empty. I hate when that happens. I really wanted to like this film.

Steel
On the topic of movies, have any of you watched Real Steel about Hugh Jackman building and training a boxing robot with his son? This is a movie I'm very curious about as well, but was far more tentative about paying to see in the theater. So I never did. But it came out yesterday on DVD and part of me still wants to see it, but another part of me thinks robots... boxing... and then I turn tail and run. So, worth it? Not?

Linkin
I was having a really bad day at work on Monday. Just all kinds of stuff going on and it was difficult to keep up so I was getting frustrated. As I'm wont to do when this happens, on the way home, I bluetoothed my iPhone to my car stereo and picked out Linkin Park's "Feint," "Breaking the Habit," and "Bleed It Out." My favorite thing to do is to rap the parts and, in my own head at least, I'm pretty good at it. And it always makes me feel better. The stress just drains out of me. Do any of you have a ritual you do to get through stressful times? I'd be curious to hear about it.

Next
Insofar as my New Year's Resolution to read 20 books goes, I'm on my third and anticipate having it done by this weekend. I've got a few others I'm contemplating right now, but I cannot decide which to read. Maybe you can help me. The choices are Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Max Brooks' World War Z, Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, or Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards!. What say you all? Help!

Well, I'm outta here. Enjoy your day!

Hey all, sorry about missing out on a Snippet Wednesday yesterday, but support in the fight against SOPA and PIPA reigned supreme across the web. Not sure how it will all play out, but we can hope, right?

Films
As you know, Katie and I love movies. Right now, one of the big ones we want to see is the re-release of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Katie loves this film. I've only ever seen it once, and not in theaters. I'm more than willing to see it with her. Of course, there's actually another re-release in the coming months that I want to see. And for this, I'm sure I'm going to have to hand in my mancard. It's the 3D version of Titanic. I really don't care about the lovey-dovey stuff, but I think that the sinking would look really damn cool in 3D. C'mon. Somebody out there has gotta agree with me.

Brickworld
Brickworld is coming back to Chicago! And I'll be damned if I'm going to msis it like I did last year. It's on June 16 and 17 in Wheeling. Anyone going to be in town and want to go with me?

Bam
Listen carefully to this trailer for the upcoming movie Big Miracle. In it, they say that the names of the three trapped whales are Fred, Wilma, and... Bam-Bam. Wait a second here. If they're trying to say that the whales are all family, or part of the same pod, or whatever, shouldn't they have named that third whale Pebbles? After all, Pebbles was the daughter of Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Bam-Bam was Barney and Betty Rubble's son, wasn't he? Am I mentally mixing up my Hanna-Barbera cartoons?

Digital
The other night, I was shopping for a DVD copy of The Help. Aside from the fact that they're completely overpriced ($19.99 on sale with no bonuses), there were three different versions available. One was the DVD only copy, then the Blu-ray and DVD combo, then the Blu-ray and DVD and Digital Copy version. Number three was actually $8 more than number two. They were charging eight extra dollars for a digital file!! I always thought digital copies were a freebie bonus or, at the most, a couple extra dollars. But $8??

Masons
I saw a license plate frame earlier today that read "To be one, ask one" and, at the bottom, it mentioned master and apprentice Masons. I wondered what other professions could benefit from such a license plate frame. Furries? BDSM practitioners? Prostitutes? The possibilities are limitless.

Park
Lithium, the 90s grunge station on Sirius/XM threw me for a loop tonight by playing a song called "Down in the Park" by the Foo Fighters. Down in the whaa??? I've never heard of this song before. Shazam identified it as a bonus track but without specifying which album. I just now found it on Amazon and it says it's part of a special edition of The Colour and the Shape. A 19-track special edition. How did this one escape me? I only have MP3s from the standard edition CD. AHHHH!! I hate when they do this crap.