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Peter and Wendy returned from their week's holiday yesterday. Before returning home the four of us went with Harmen to see
Wall-E. I'd been wanting to see the movie for a while now, 'cause I found the main character to be uber-endearing. Luckily I wasn't disappointed :)
The movie is definitely of the Disney feel-good variety, with lots of great jokes thrown in for the grownups. Unfortunately the fact that this is a movie from the Disney stable means that a romantic OHNOZ! moment was required right before the end of the movie. That ending was the only thing about the movie that bothered me a bit. The rest was just great ^_^
I <3 Wall-E
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BTW, I'm convinced that the guys at Pixar are big fans of the Valve game
Portal. This shines through in the evil auto-pilot which reminds me of GEDOS and in the short clip that precedes the movie. This short clip focuses on a magician, his rabbit and their two hats that function exactly like the portal guns from
Portal.
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The coffee machine is broke at work again. This sucks, since I have a 8-day sinus headache, I only slept 4 hours last night, and coffee is what keeps me going. I finally broke down and got a cup of coffee at the Korean deli downstairs, which was just awful. Weak, bitter, and it just hurts my stomach. There are two Starbucks close to here, and a Caribou Coffee, but I don't want to have to walk 2 blocks in the morning to walk back to work with coffee that is no longer hot. I may need to get one of those bullet-shaped hyper-Thermoses and make coffee at home if this keeps up.
Man, never used to drink coffee. What happened? Damn you, Sweden!!
In other news, apart from failing to get an iPhone (I think I'll wait until next week until the lines get shorter), I did some more yard work this weekend. After I had cleaned up a lot of the tree waste those cutters left behind, I decided to keep up with the pruning and cleanup. It was hot. I hate working in hot, sweaty, weather because I always gain weight for some reason. I think it's all the water I drink. But anyway, I pruned the hell out of the front yard near my door and one of the rec room windows. It's funny, when you cut down what looks like half an acre of brush, if you make you cuttings short (only a foot or less), you don't generate a whole of of trash bags like you do with, say, leaf litter. When I was done with all the tree debris and the cuttings of various dead branches, and a dozen bushes, I only filled four 45 gallon trash bags. I could have packed them in tighter, but I found out the "heavy duty yard waste" bags I got at Home Depot were weak and easily punctured. I also cleaned up a lot of assorted debris around my house, including some roof repair trash that the original workers left behind.
Then I went and saw WALL-E, which was as good as everyone had led me to believe. Man, I shed a few tears during some scenes. Very well done. A masterpiece. The short in the beginning with the magician's rabbit was also very good, and I think was almost an homage to Chuck Jones.
CR becomes a legal adult in less than a week. Isn't that something?
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