Calling All Geeks!

I’ve been seeing a lot of the Doomsday ad on TV lately and I just can’t hold back any more.

Hey, people who made Doomsday: 1999 called and they want their “shocking” back.

Seriously, is anyone still freaked out by Marylin Manson black leather and make up look anymore. Hell, I don’t even know why people reacted to Manson as much as they did, considering the fact that the look was old even by his time. But here we are, 2008, and they’re dragging out the same old tattoos and fetish gear we saw ten years ago and calling it edgy.

Even aside from their sorry attempt at ‘freaking out the squares’, the movie just looks terrible. The whole ‘virus wipes out humanity’ story has been told so many times by now that the genera itself has become like a virus, spreading from one horror movie to another. Please, movie makers, find the cure soon. Also, don’t get me wrong, I loved Escape from New York and it’s remake/sequel Escape from LA, but those movies were cool because they were tongue in cheek satire. Doomsday is taking itself way too seriously for it to archive the same level of coolness as them. And if the acting of the main female lead (What? Was Milla Jovovich busy that weekend?) is as wooden in the entire movie as it is in the trailer, then I spy a potential love connection between her and Hayden Christensen. Seriously, she’s very hot and I especially appreciate the long, gratuitous butt shot that they work into every trailer, but looks aren’t enough to keep me interested throughout an entire movie.

So, when it comes to Doomsday, unless Superman is fighting it, I just don’t care…

I had a crazy dream last night, but, in hindsight, it was actually kind of cool.

Okay, I was living in this post-Apocalyptic world where there are barely any humans left. Seems the devil had risen up with an army of ghost and wiped out most of the population. I was one of the survivors. And here’s where it gets interesting… I was a Ghostbuster. Specifically, I was the newest recruit in a team of Ghostbusters (But not the ones from the movies, oddly enough.) who’s job it was to track down and … bust, I guess, the devil! The only problem is that I was a bit of a screw up and I kept messing up all the missions. It was mostly due to me trying to ‘do the right thing’, which didn’t always work out. Like, the one specific “scene” I remember of me messing up is when I had an opportunity to capture this big ghost, but there was a child in danger nearby. Instead of finishing my mission, I saved the child, but in doing so, I was teleported miles away, leaving my team shorthanded.  After that, our leader fired me just as they were going on their last mission to face off against the devil. However, I followed them anyway, planning on redeeming myself.

And that’s where my alarm woke me. I was honestly a little disappointed to not see the ending. Judging by how ‘cinematic’ the dream was, and just from gut feeling, I think I would have saved the day at the end. But, man, it was a fun dream. Like my own little fan film playing in my head. I was even kind of cool in my dream. (Hard to describe the scene where I saved the kid, but it was awesome.)

I was like a junkie without his fix today. This morning, when I first got up, I went to check on something I was downloading over night only to find that I wasn’t connected to the Internets. I check my network antenna and see that it’s in order. (Five bars even. I’m still impressed by the strength of my signal.) So, rolling my eyes, I set out to the office to once again get it running in there. And, sure enough, the modem is acting all screwy. I’m grumbling about Jared knocking it over again as I unplug the modem, wait a little bit, and plug it back in again. This usually works. Today, however, it did not.

To make a long story short, I had a very spotty connection today. I’d unplug and replug the modem a dozen times to no avail. Then, suddenly, it would work. At that point, I’d head back to my computer. Then, between five and twenty minutes later, the internet would die on me and the whole entire process would repeat itself. All day it was back and forth, pugging and unplugging the damn thing again and again until it finally stuck only to have it die again on me shortly thereafter.

I figured Insight must have been working on their servers or something. The point wasn’t lost on me that this particular problem was happening while most people are at work. If I was going to do something that interrupted service, that’s when I’d do it.  And, obviously, when I came home from work this evening, everything was back to normal. My only real problem is how out of the blue this was. There was no warning or anything. I was honestly panicking for a little bit, wondering if our modem was dead or something like that.

Oh, well. In the end, I’m just glad everything is working again and hope we don’t have a repeat of this issue again tomorrow.