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Die Hard

May 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Watching Die Hard for the first time in a long time. Amazing how a 20 year old movie can hold up. Also watched the latest Indiana Jones. Nice to see Harrison Ford again. Big CGI effects that somehow looked phony no matter what. The older movies like True Lies and Die Hard had to [...]

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Stryker Mobile Gun System

May 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek, Photography

Watched a Future Weapons with the kids and some great footage on the new Stryker. There are lots of variants and M1128 Styker Mobile Gun System This is one big gun on one small platform.

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The Forbidden Kingdom (aka the Monkey King retold)

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek, Wordpress

_Sorry for the strange post yesterday, WordPress configuration error in wp_config.php_
The Forbidden Kingdom (功夫之王 gong1 fu1 zhi1 wang2 or Kung Fu’s King) is now showing. Its a rip off of the Monkey King (孙悟空 sun2 wu3 kong4) from Journey to the West (西游记 xi1 you2 ji4，lit. western travel story). Made me really nostalgic for China. [...]

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