Tag: spy

A Week of Tweets on 2011-03-06

Stuff on the Net
  • 5 years enganged, 5 years married. #fivebyfive #
  • I've now dumped Aero completely and gone to a desktop look circa 2000 because it is ten times faster. #thankswin7yourock #
  • I makes me both happy and sad when people I spy on finally wise up and make their Facebook private. #
  • I'm so happy to hear people are having fun with Rift. Perhaps I'll play about 10 days after launch when the queues settle down. #
  • I just wrote my first bit of AJAX. I feel like a real web developer. #
  • @Krystalle @rootwyrm Adding that to my arsenal. The Internet is made of cats, indeed. in reply to Krystalle #
  • The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu turned out to be better than I expected. Reviewed for @Shakefire http://bit.ly/eh5E6F #
  • Need a super simple way for random customers to be able to share their desktop with me for support. Suggestions? #
  • The biggest hit to journalism as it moves from newspapers to internet is the loss of copy editors. The spelling and grammar make me cry. #
  • I too am an F-18. #imwithcharlie #
  • Anyone been to http://atlantafair.com before? Is it worth going to? #
  • Less than a month to @scriptfrenzy, anyone else planning to play along? 100 pages in 30 days, had lots of fun last year. #
  • Take Me Home Tonight opens tomorrow, but you can read my review on @Shakefire today. http://bit.ly/g6YZSp #
  • I laughed. http://goodnightdune.com/ #
  • .ti ekam uoy tahw si efiL #

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Get Smart

Reviews

12 out of 13 nots
for missing it… by that much.

I don’t want to mislead you with that little snippet above. This movie didn’t really miss it. It nailed it, but it just wasn’t perfect… and that’s okay.

If you never saw the old TV show, you should. Get Smart was always great, in the same way that Police Squad was great (Police Squad being the TV show that came before the Naked Gun movies). In a world jam packed with awful genre parodies, like the “[blank] Movie” franchise (Scary, Epic, Date… and Meet the Spartans, because really, even though they changed the name format, its the same thing), its nice to see a movie that is genuinely funny and doesn’t rely on jokes that won’t make sense to anyone in five years… okay, I’m being generous… three years.

Get Smart is a funny spy movie, as opposed to being a funny movie about spy movies. Maxwell Smart is the best analyst at Control. So good that even when he passes his field agent exam he isn’t going to be assigned into the field because they can’t afford to lose him. That is, until Control is compromised and covers are blown, and the only way to track down the forces of Kaos is to use an agent no one knows… Maxwell Smart. Accompanied by Agent 99 (who for reasons I won’t spoil is also able to work in the field), they try to learn Kaos’ plans and save the world.

Steve Carell plays the part of Maxwell Smart to perfection. Don Adams would be proud, I think. The rest of the cast is also fantastic, Anne Hathaway, Alan Arkin, Dwayne Johnson, Terence Stamp… just great.

In the end, this is a great comedic film about spies. In my opinion, well worth your movie going dollar.

Alias

Reviews

12 out of 13 nots
for awesome spy stuff, characters I cared about, and actually having an ending

So, I managed to make my way through all five seasons of the TV show Alias.  Damn, that was some good television. Read more

Cars and Idiots

Random Thoughts

I hope I never get into a horrible car wreck in Atlanta on the highway.

Now, while I hope that I never get into a horrible car wreck at all, I feel that if it must happen, I just hope it happens somewhere else. This morning I saw a wreck. Traffic was backed up for a couple miles. Then I spy an ambulance coming up the lane to my left. So I slow up and allow a couple of people from that lane to get in front of me in order to allow the ambulance to pass.

Lo and behold, schmucks from my lane, seeing the lane to their left opening up, dart left to fill the void from all the vacating cars. Slowing down the ambulance as they block the lane and then have to make their way back into their old place. One car even cut off the ambulance, causing them to skid to a halt to avoid a wreck themselves.

Are people really this oblivious? It really makes me was to start taking public transportation despite the fact that it costs more than driving (hideously designed system transfers mean I wind up paying twice for a single ride to work).

I just hope the ambulance arrived to its destination in time, and that the people in the other wreck are okay.