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Tuesday, January 06, 2004
 

Tonight I watched Lilo and Stitch with my kids, for about the 50th time.

I love this movie. We have it on DVD, and a while back I loaned it to some friends. One of them summarized it very well: "It's a psychotic little flick, but I really liked it."

It's everything a Disney movie isn't supposed to be. That's what makes it so much fun. Even the trailers are offbeat (they include four of them on the DVD).

Lots of cool little scenes and things to watch for, like the barfing robot in the opening scene, Lilo's rant about Pudge the fish (including a picture of Pudge in the opening credits), and "Does this look infected to you?" Oh, and Ving Rhames does the voice of... well, basically, Ving Rhames. As the coolest, badass ex-CIA social worker you've ever met.

If you haven't seen it, go rent it today. And then go buy the soundtrack on CD -- it's got the Hawaiian children's choir, a bunch of Elvis songs, and (best of all) Wynnona doing a kick-ass cover of "Burning Love."

Irreverence from Disney - done really well.


8:36:46 PM    ; comment []


I finally made my decision last night on which Tablet PC to buy. I'm getting the Toshiba M200, with the option for the 1.7 GHz CPU.

In the end, it came down to the display resolution and the CPU. I'm shelling out a lot of bucks for this, and I want it to age gracefully.

I'll let you know how I like it.


6:08:01 PM    ; comment []


Eric Raymond has some scathing things to say about what he perceives as Barlow's narcissistic victim mentality.

There are very few things I agree with Raymond on, but on this one I think he's right on target. 40% of the population always votes Republican, 40% always votes Democrat, and 20% are the swing voters in the middle. If we want to kick out Bush, we need to reach and appeal to the 20% swing votes, not alienate them.

Now I look out the window and see the snow coming down in Seattle, and I wonder if it's doing that in hell too...


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