Beyond all expectations.

It's a McG movie, so there's the lowered expectations and all. But how bad can a Terminator movie be, especially with Christian Bale as John Connor? I'll have to say, this wasn't the movie I thought from the trailer. It didn't for a moment, feel dark or gritty. This is the cheeziest, most cliched, feel-good Terminator yet. So, the answer is: about as bad as you can imagine, and maybe a little bit more. Thanks McG, you've exceeded my expectations again!

Whatever happened to winter?

I like looking forward to that last snowboarding trip of the year, the one where you end the season with a bang and wave goodbye to the snow capped peaks for another seven or eight months. Some years don't quite work that way though, a few busy weekends here, bad weather there, and before you know it, it's 35C out and the grass on the east bay hills is golden again.

I had an idea to blog about music, but the days flowed into weeks and months, and I've forgotten most of it. I have noticed that imeem's somewhat become my new radio (Pandora seems down a lot, and YouTube audio quality just isn't that great).

Not that any of these are new, but just an assortment from the past couple of months:

Your Hand In Mine - Explosions In The Sky

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im good im gone - lykke li

Hope For The Hopeless - A Fine Frenzy

L.E.S. Artistes (Single) - Santigold

1901 - Phoenix

Bach: Partita No. 2 in D Minor - J. S. Bach

Quixotic.

I just got $300 in Amazon gift certificates. At first I thought it was spam, but then I found the certificate codes work. I think someone out there can't type their own email address.