Summer Films

There are a few movies I'm looking forward to this summer.

X-Men 3
Superman Returns
Spider-Man 3
Miami Vice

The one movie I'm anticipating the most is the Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder rotoscoped Richard Linklater interpretaion of Philip K. Dick's "A Scanner Darkly" Click that link to watch the trailer.

I read the book a few years ago. A great, original, engaging story that pulls you into it's schizophrenic vision.

One thing that concerns me is the last Richard Linklater rotoscoped film I saw was "Waking Life" That was a steaming pile of regret.

Still, even if the film sucks, I feel confident it can't be as bad as Garfield 2. Garfield 2? Really?

Survivor Rant

Survivor is the only TV show I make time to watch. It's o.k. if I miss other shows (Simpsons, CSI) because they'll be on in reruns and unending syndication.

I've watched every episode of Survivor. I could be described as a fan.

There are two things that annoy me about the Survivor contestants.

The first thing that annoys me is when the tribes vote off members for the wrong reason. In the first half of the contest, tribes should be voting off the physically weakest members of the tribe so that they merge in a position of strength. Then, after the merge, you vote off players with strength. At this point, physical and mental strength should be voted off. It's harder to vote off mental strength because the smart ones are in alliances that protect them. Everyone makes mistakes. Too many tribes get the order of voting backwards. The best example was Survivor: Palau when the tribe voted their best players off first and then were left decimated by the merge where only Stephanie survived to the merge. Someday, I hope, some Survivor contestant will read this and take my advice. Keep your physically strongest players until the merge. Your strong players win rewards for the whole tribe. Your weak players lose immunity challenges for you.

The second thing that annoys me about Survivor is when they vote the hottest women off the island too soon.

Tonight, they voted off Misty. A crying shame. She was great to watch, a real beauty, and damn smart too. There should be a rule to keep the good looking contestants around longer. Why, why, why would you vote off the former beauty pageant contestant? Don't like having pretty smart people around? The neck massages were bad? The flirty smile was driving them mad? I think people go crazy on that island.

Of course, it's entirely possible my motives are slightly different from their motives.

We're moving to Blog.McCaesar.com

I've created a new domain for some PHP and MySQL testing I want to do. My other domains couldn't handle databases and scripting.

So, I'm moving this "Blog" over to Blog.McCaesar.com. Once this is posted, the version of the blog hosted at Blogspot will no longer be updated.

If you link to me, kindly update your sites when you get a chance.

See you on the other side.

Magical Elves

magic elves
Originally uploaded by McCaesar.

This distorted and nearly destroyed candy wrapper is what remains of the most amazing advancement in the candy and chocolate sciences in recent history.

The wrapper is from Cadbury's "Magical Elves". A candy whose description made me all giddy with delight: "Cadbury's chocolate and popping candy."

Chocolate and Popping Candy!

Crikey, the geniuses at Cadbury Labs in Cadburyland have hit upon the most amazing idea for a candy/chocolate combo I've eaten since I was a young fella.

Imagine this. Pop the chocolate bar in your mouth. Chew, or let it melt. It's your choice. I won't impose my chocolate eating bias on you. Once the chocolate is gone, the "magical" part begins. The magical popping part.

God Bless 'em. That's good candy eatin'. Must find more...