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I’m appalled at the lead story on CNN.com tonight (“What will you tell kids about Britney’s sister?“). I’m especially appalled that the world thinks that American parents are freaking out all across the nation about Jamie Lynn Spears being pregnant.

So… what will you tell your kids about it?

How about… the truth? Why is it so hard to talk about sex with your kids? It’s natural, they will do it one day. You did it – that’s why you have kids, remember? What’s the deal?

I’ve had to update Windows Genuine “Advantage” on two different Windows machines three times over the past several days. What gives?

What an ADVANTAGE.

For those of you who don’t know this already – someone out there has taken oodles of time and $7,000 to build a near-life-size model of an X-wing fighter, complete with class-M rocket engines.

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/15-12/st_xwing

Video of the flight is here:

…now for those conspiracy theorists out there, here’s the REAL reason the X-wing crashed:

So, Cloverfield really is the name. I just can’t wait for Cloverfield. JJ is the new Spielberg. Already, the film thrillseekers in my family are making plans to descend upon our new theatre (Monaco Pictures) and soak up Cloverfield on January 18th. I will be there, even if I have to take time off from work.

I cannot fathom waiting a day longer, yet I must.

I meant to blog about this last night. Alas, I suppose I was so happy that I neglected to do so.

I ate fish.

For the first time in 20 years, I put fish in my mouth, chewed and swallowed it. I didn’t even try it all that slowly.

Some of you might call me irresponsible for going on a business trip and deciding at the last minute to see if I’m still allergic to fish or not. Others of you may not know this story and its momentous development. Therefore, I’ll rehash it here.

Here’s a memo to Microsoft: you can take the idea of a dynamic website a little too far.

Case in point: I was commenting on Herman’s blog. After signing in, Microsoft kindly filled in my details, including the blog link that I apparently inherited when signing up for Spaces. (I assure you, that was an accident).

Anyway, I don’t think I’ll be putting this web link on a business card anytime soon:

Recreated historic photos with senior citizen models – Boing BoingI am disturbed by this.  Very.  

MacDailyNews – Beleaguered Napster in search of new business model as subscriptions dwindleThere’s a really good chance that other companies are watching Napster on the subscription deathbed.  As Napster’s muscles twitch, consider whether or not iTunes should adopt this model.  Now go analyze, come back with your answers.  

Upgraded to Leopard on the work laptop yesterday… yes, I said upgrade. It brought some kernel panics with it in relation to Time Machine and Parallels. I’ll write more about that later.

But initially, what do I think?

I keep clicking on shit just because it looks coooool. God does it ever. Amazing.

Because 01/18/08 can’t come soon enough…Tonight’s bachelor movie was straight out of Korea. It’s a mutant monster movie by the name of _The Host._It started off promising – with a really fun attack scene on the banks of the Han River in Seoul. Plenty of mayhem and crowd panic scenes. Obviously most of the budget was spent on that sequence because the remaining 1 hour and 40 minutes of the film didn’t do much for me. It tries to be a drama/horror/comedy but ends up failing almost all of those. Instead, it runs around with no set goal, except maybe to paint the U.S. as a bioterrorist. I can hardly wait for the U.S. remake. Thank goodness that’s not what J.J. Abrams is cooking up… I’m very much looking forward to that one.