Windows 7

I'm going to research and write some more about this. My first initial reaction though is that just like with Vista, Microsoft is once again copying Mac OS X.

That judgment is made only on looks and function. I have not sat down with Windows 7 yet to see if it is as user friendly as Mac OS X or to see if it works as seamlessly as Macs.

More to come....

iMac

Yesterday my fiancée and I got our new Apple iMac.

I'm not here to start a PC vs. Mac war, I'm just saying that for me and my fiancée, it's everything we want and need.

I became a Mac user a year ago when I purchased the now discontinued black MacBook. A year later, I am still asking myself why it took me so long to switch over to the Mac computers.

The transferring of my documents and other information from my MacBook to the iMac was painless and very quick using the Migration Assistant. I have never had the kind of performance I have with these Macs from a PC.

Anyways, I'm done for today.

This blog was typed and posted from my MacBook. The fiancée is hogging the iMac!

Farrah Fawcett Dies

Farrah Fawcett Dies

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The 1st death of the day... It's just rough when 2 icons die the same day.

Michael Jackson Dies

Michael Jackson Dies

TMZ posted the news first from what I can tell. The link above will take you to the TMZ site.

Though I am not a fan of Michael Jackson the person, I am a fan of Michael Jackson the musician. Mostly, his contribution to the music world.

New iPhone

No links in this post. Just heard that people were having "delays" in setting up their new iphones. Apple gave $30 iTunes credits to those having problems.

Engagement Video

Here is a video to accompany the photos I posted

Engaged

I am happy to announce that Melissa (Lissa) and I are engaged to be married.  After 4 years of dating, I popped the question on New Years Eve right when the clock rolled over to 2009.

Here are a few pictures from our wonderful moment.

Another viewing of "Get Your Own"

See previous post with this video for more information.  This is their upload from Break.com

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Get Your Own... Fritos

Here is the genius that is my girlfriend's brothers and their friend... College kids with way too much time on their hands over summer break...

Actors:
Javier Avellán
Daniel Bernal

Camera Crew:
Juanpi Avellán

"Poop" and Penny dropper:
Adam Hymel

Editing and Production
BernAvellán Studios

Summer Movie Review 2008

Hey readers!  How's it going.  It's August 1st, 2008 and I think it's time to review the movies I saw this summer.

I by no means consider myself to be a valid movie critic and I do not intend for my reviews to mean much of anything except to show people that I have indeed seen these movies.

Movie #1: IRON MAN

Director: Jon Favreau

Opinion:

Awesome movie!  Iron Man is born of a rich man named Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) who designs and distributes weapons to the US military.  His transformation from civilian to hero is really awesome.

I see the underline message of this movie as this: It's not enough to have a lot of money; You have to have intelligence.  If Tony Stark had simply stopped at being rich and never embraced his academic abilities, his character would have been killed early in the movie.  If this had happened, the movie would've only been about 20 minutes long and boring.

Movie #2: Get Smart

Director: Peter Segal

Opinion:

Two Tumbs Up!  I never watched the 1965 TV show on which this movie is based, but from what I hear from others who have seen it, they place a bunch of classic items and themes into the movie that will keep the old school folk interested.

Steve Carell gives a perfect performance in this film as agent "Maxwell Smart" for a branch of the government that the general public is lead to believe no longer exists.

Again, I don't want to give the story line away. Dwayne Johnson (The Rock), Anne Hathaway, and Dalip Singh also appear in this movie and play fitting characters.

Moral of the story... Sometimes those who are the best at what they do are the ones you need to trust the least.  At least, that sounds like a good moral for this story...  Oh, and bombs can be stored in the most musical of places!  Yay!

Movie #3: The Dark Knight

Director: Christopher Nolan

Opinion:

All I can say about this movie is WOW!  Heath Ledger as The Joker sums up why this movie is so amazing.  It is really a shame that he died so young.  If this performance was a glimps of the kind of actor he was developing into, the world lost a great.

In this 2nd installment of the new Batman series, The Joker takes over as Gotham City's main villain.  This is a take on the Joker nobody has done before.  Jack Nicholson's Joker was still slightly goofy and not really "evil."  Heath Ledger's Joker is a demented, twisted and very dark.  The kind of evil the Joker brings to Gotham is far beyond the normal Mafia criminals Batman helped Gotham deal with before.

If you are a expecting the "na na na na na Batman!" type of Batman, this movie is not for you.  It is definitely a darker take on Batman.

One of my favorite things about these new Batman movies is that Gotham is a more realistic city.  It's not all fantasy-like as it was in the previous Batman movie series.

I saw this movie in IMAX.  Much of the movie was shot using IMAX cameras, thus, much of the movie took up the whole IMAX screen.  If you have not seen this movie yet, go see it in IMAX.  If it is no longer showing in IMAX... well... you missed out...