New Look For The New Year

Olivia Wilde

Considering how it is now 2011 and also taking into consideration how I've pretty much kept the same look around here for so long, I thought a change was a good idea right about now. I am liking the changes, but I am also disappointed that I lack the ability to have a decent header title picture.

Oh well, can't win 'em all I suppose.

Pictured in the background is Olivia Wilde, who stars in the movie Tron: Legacy. I've been wanting to see that movie, particularly in 3-D, but the reviews haven't been all that great and I just haven't really heard anything good about this. Don't get me wrong, I am still thinking this has to at least -look- good in 3-D, but I suppose just seeing a good looking movie isn't a good way to spend the money to see a movie in 3-D.

I've actually never even seen any movie in 3-D, so I am curious to know and see if it is worth all of this crazy hype it's gotten thus far. It seems like most of the big movie releases are being shot in 3-D nowadays, which I guess makes sense considering Avatar made 700 billion dollars (I don't know the actual figure on that, just seemed to me like they made as much).

I did get to watch a 3-D TV demo (complete with the weird glasses) and I can't say it was all that impressive to me. As a matter of fact, watching the demo for a couple of minutes earned me a nice little headache for my troubles. I was disappointed mostly because it looked like those pictures in those toy picture slide show things I used to play with as a kid. Personally, I think I am liking the high def picture from Blu-Ray movies more then anything.

But this 3-D madness is still relatively new, so updates and improvements to the existing technology is inevitable. I really do wonder though, if this stuff pans out does that mean that video games will also follow suit? I can't imagine playing a Final Fantasy or Halo in such a way. But I suppose that will eventually be the way of the future won't it?

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

So 2010 has now officially come and gone and 2011 has arrived and taken it's place. But as the midnight hour passes, I am a bit curious as to what this new year has in store. Will it be business as usual, meaning more of the same? Or if there will be a change in fortunes?

Hopefully we won't be starting off this new year the way we started 2010 and another hope is that we've learned enough from our mistakes from this past year to make better choices now. As long as that changes, I think I could be truly happy in 2011. Of course I wouldn't mind a change in fortune, meaning things panning out better for us financially that is.

But always on the bright side, at least we've got our health and we've got jobs and a roof over our heads. That is more then what so many people in this world have. It is often times easy to forget that we are and should be grateful for the things we have and shouldn't focus on what we don't.

Anyway, that all sounded nice and boring yes? I hope the ushering in of 2011 means safe times, fun, but safe and that the new year is the continuation or even a start to a time of better luck, fortune and all of that good stuff. Man, even that came out sounding boring...

To put this simply then,

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

And So We Begin Again...

I was going to write a much bigger entry for this new year, but I'd be damned that Blogger didn't even auto-save after I wrote the first sentence. So after I was forced to close it, I returned in hopes that I'll at least have the post.

And I don't. Such a good that feature, you just can't imagine what good it does...

I also had this long, drawn out thing about video games in the coming year. Actually, I only mentioned the possibility of getting a PS3 for the sole purpose of playing just one game. Final Fantasy XIII.

Crazy, I am not and I have done something to this degree in the past. I traded in every single SNES, Sega Genesis and PS1 game (and system) I had to buy a PS2. I swore I would be done with games after PS1's days ended, but man did a game catch my eye.

That was Final Fantasy X.

So you see, I've done a banged up job of quitting games in general. Just don't ever expect to see me at a gamers addict meetings. Hell, in comparison to how some people game, I'd look like I don't even play anything at all.

That makes it all better now.

So anyway, Happy New Year to all, hope everyone has fun and stays safe! And here's hoping all the good that came during 2007 carries on into the new year. Peace!

...oh shit! The new Resident Evil movie is released today! (I'm a little addicted to buying DVDs...)

New Year's Eve

It is New Year's Eve and here I sit at home.

Alone.

Great combination? Absolutely not.

But such is the way things are in life, some days are better then others and all anyone can do is face it and deal with it as it comes. I can only hope that tomorrow and 2007 will mean bigger and better things to come in life.

Anyway, that is that and now onto what I came here to do. And no, that wasn't to bitch about a laundry list of things that I can easily rant on about. No, that would be far too easy and a tiny bit tasteless on my part. So with that being said, we shall proceed.

One thing I am hoping for is that this entry will not end up as a giant mass of text as did my previous post. While it is true that it is still readable, but as a wall of text? No thanks.

So at long last I was able to see the ending of Samurai 7 and needless to say, I was a little surprised and sad at the same time as well. A part of me wanted the series to continue, as the way I felt as I watched the ending to Samurai Champloo, and see what becomes of the characters.

But such is not the case and so I bid adeiu to yet another series and in it's place, I welcome Burst Angel. Obviously (at least to me), this one is a far cry from the last two series I had watched (and just mentioned). Still, it is a interesting series and I can only hope that this one will have a slightly more diffenitive end.

Miami Vice was a much better movie that even I expected, though my only real complaint about is the fact that the story itself seem to jump around just a tad bit too much. Or at least more then I tend to care for. Still, I liked it and I thought it was a heck of a job done by both Collin Farrel and Jamie Foxx.

Now I have been thinking and I remembered that I had mentioned that I would be posting basically everyday at least in the month of January. Will that even be possible for me? Well, I think the short answer would be yes. Yes it would be easy for me to post every single day, but would it all be worth reading? Likely not.

Still, it is a challenge I have wanted to give a shot at and I am definately going to be throwing a lot of brain cells and thoughts and such at this particular task.

Another hope I have is work and how I hope that things will finally lighten up a bit around there. I know for a fact that I am not the absolute hardest worker there, but I have been pushing myself like crazy this past week and today (which, by the way, is normally my LAZY day) it felt pretty much like it had caught up to me.

But by no means am I bitching, I mean it pays fairly well (by that I mean it pays a lot better then my previous job to which I will write nothing of because even after a year, I have nothing nice to really say).

All in all, my one truth of a resolution for 2007 is to strive, every day and as best as I can, to become a better worker and a better person overall. By this time next year, I would like to be able to say that I have truly improved myself as a person or else 2007, to me, will be a year of failure. And after spending much of '06 as a failure, I surely do not want to walk down that path again.

So with that said, I shall return to post again when the clock strikes midnight and 2006 fades away and in comes the year 2007.