Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow followup

Just a quick followup here - saw Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow over the weekend and enjoyed the heck out of it.

For someone (like, say, me) who grew up reading Doc Savage and other 30s based pulp adventures, it was a special treat. Definately the most pure fun I've had at a movie in a long time.

And as far as the heavy CGI stuff, quite frankly it meshed more smoothly with the live action than most of the stuff in the Star Wars prequels.

Definately a thumbs up kinda thing. Go see it.

Photoshop contests

I like the Photoshop contests on Drew Curtis' FARK.com. I've even tried my hand at 2 or 3 so far, even tho I'm definately a newbie to the fancier side of Photoshop. Recently I bit off much more than I could chew and took this image:



and did this to it:



Too big a project for a first attempt at a 'blank' but I'd only had a few hours sleep so I knew no fear.

Last I checked it was in something like 17th place.

And I look at it and still get tempted to go back and fix it up some more.

Guess a link to the actual contest would be nice, eh?
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1113351&mode=voteresults

Shaun of the Dead

This is a great movie. Go see it.
Shaun of the Dead

Rock You Like A Hurricane

Okay, we shouldn't be hit too hard by the hurricane. Probably not much more than a lot of rain, which we can get without some big swirly storm coming in from the ocean.

Just in time for the county fair, tho, which makes sense. Legend has it the fair was cursed by gypsies sometime back so every year it rains during the thing. Don't be messin' with the gypsies.

Meanwhile we once again got screwed out of a holiday weekend at work. Second shift always gets the shaft by the idiots in charge. First shift got the three days off for the July 4th weekend and we were told we'd get the Labor Day weekend. Luckily, no one was dumb enough to really believe them. Still stinks. They're just jealous because we get so much more done than they do. A quick look at some raw numbers shows that second shift averages about 85% of the work in about half the man-hours with a third the people. Probably because first shift spends so much time whining about piddly little things we're supposed to have done whereas we just come in, clean up the crap they leave and then get to work.

Do I sound bitter?