A philosophical ? for you. If humanity becomes extinct, do you think another species would evolve in our place? What lessons would the learn from us?

Personally I doubt they'd learn much from us. It would take several million years for them to evolve and I doubt there would be much left of us by then. Maybe some cave painting in the more stable geological areas as they seemed to have survived just as long as it is. And a fall-out bunker stashed in a Mt. somewhere. Some of those storage facilities located in old coal mines (like in PA). Anything under sand in the desert and perhaps at the bottom of the sea or in an ice flow. But I truly don't believe there will be much let of us for them to draw any kind of conclusion about us. We’d be to them what the dinosaurs are to us.

For those of you interested the Discovery Channel did a mini-series about this a few years ago. I showed what may happen if humanity no longer inhabited Earth (the premise was that all humanity had left Earth and sent back satellites to monitor how it changer). It showed how different spices may evolve over time through all sorts of claimed changes (ice ages and such). It was really cool; sadly I forget the name of it. Spoilers: Cockroaches still going strong and the octopus inherits the Earth.

iPod took a step backwards in design and now I can’t listen to audiobooks

I got my first iPod shortly after they first hit the market it was a 1st Generation 20GB. That worked great for what it was. A t first I used it just for music. When I started college and then latter started working I used it for audiobooks. I like reading but I don’t have time to read an actual book so I listen to them on my iPod in the car on the way to and from work of while I work around the house. On my old iPod (that finally died a few days ago) if I wanted to find an audiobook I could go to Album on the Music menu and find it by title. I could go to artist and find it by author, or I could go genres and look under sci-fi, or mystery, or romance and find it. I could even find it under audiobooks. And it was always sorted by titles I clicked on the title and I’d get the tracks for that book and only that book.

Now on the new 120GB iPod Classic any audiobooks you put on your iPod will not show up under album, artist, or genres. The only places you can find an audiobook on the new iPods is to go to the Audiobook section under Music. But it only works if you only have one audiobook on the iPod. And then only if the tracks are titled alphabetically from start to finish. If one of the tracks is titled prologue expect to hear it right after the epilogue. Oh, and it has to have only 9 chapters. If it has more than that expect to hear chapter 10 right after chapter 1. And if you have move then one audiobook expect them to be mixed together. The new iPod takes all the audiobook and just dumps them in one big playlist ordered alphabetically by track title. Though it is nice enough to separate the chapters by book. So you get chapter 1 of one book then chapter 1 of another book and so on. The only way you’re going to get just one book in the right order (by track and disk number) is to go to search and type in either the title of the book or the author. I was told you could make playlists for each book to make it easier to find and listen to just one book and one book. I have 127 playlists just for any of my music in my iTunes library and a total of 915 audiobooks (some with as few as 1 2 hour long track or as many as 2000 tracks each about 30 seconds long) that would mean I’d have to search through 1042 playlists just too find one book that many only be one 2 hour track long. Yeah, that makes it so much easier. I got the iPod specifically to listen to audiobook, and it doesn’t work. It’s basically a $250 piece of crap.

And what really ticks me off is that iTunes has the nice section where you can keep any audiobook you have separate from your music albums. It made them a hell of a lot easier to find and it let me go into the music section, hit play and just let iTunes run through my music library without any problem, and only hear music. Now I have to into get info on all of my audiobooks. Go to Media Kind. And the change it from audiobook to music. And then I’ll my “new” iPod will actually acknowledge that they do in fact exist. So much for having an organized iTunes Library. Thanks ever so much. News flash Apple if you upgrade the hardware, don’t downgrade the software.

Rush Hour 3

If you’ve seen the first two then there’s not much to say really. This latest installment of the Rush Hour series if just a funny and Kong Fu actiony as its predaceous. You’ll spend most of the film laughing. If you like the first two, you’ll love this one.

I give Rush Hour 3 four out of five dragons

Stardust

I want to read the book now. In fact I went out a bought it right after the I saw the film. A great fantasy romance that was masterfully done. It was funny, and actiony, and just plane good. Maybe a bit to romantic in the sense that the prince rescues the girl and saves the kingdom from the backstabbing upstarts that were trying to take the thrown, but that’s what made it good and all. Finding your true love right in front of you where you never thought to look. It’s a great film and I strongly recommend it to any and all individuals.

I give Stardust five out of five dragons.

I Know Who Killed Me

Great movie. One of the better horror movies to come out this year that wasn’t centered on dismemberment and touchier. Granted there’s plenty of that in the film, but it’s more of a suspense/drama. However I wouldn’t recommend it if you have a weak stomach when it comes to those things. They do show the touchier. And there’s a surprise twist at the very end that you don’t really see coming until you actually get there.

I give I Know Who Killed Me four out of five dragons.

Bratz

OMG! Ok I know that the Bratz are this generations Barbie and Jem combined, but come on people. Jem was never the sappy and Barbie was never that perky. Can your say airheads. This movies only saving grace was the music, thou the Brattitude song was a pit much and rather pointless.

And on a side note. Any idiot can see that that girl wasn’t doing those Cheerleading move. What, did the have a blind guy pick her stunt double? Those skin tones were so far off it’s not even funny.

Again I’m being generous, for the music and the music alone, and am giving Bratz three out of five dragons.

Underdog

Ok, not a bad movie, but not all that great a movie either. Let’s face facts here; you’re turning an 60’s cartoon into a live action movie. Not going to work. Ok so Transforms made it work. But hello, giant robots that blow stuff up, and they’re actually from the 80’s. This is Underdog; a beagle that fly’s around in baggy cloths and only talks in rime. A great movie for what it was (at best a corny kids show that seemed to belong in the 80’s at the latest). It was funny and if you grew up with underdog or are 10 and under you’ll love it. If you’re in your teens you’ll find it funny and rather corny.

I give Underdog four out of five dragons.

The Bourn Ultimatum

Despite the massive change from the original storyline, the movie was great. Bourn is still kicking ass and taking names. It was just as good as the last two films and like the others left thins open for yet another piece of the puzzle the is Jason Bourn. Though truth be told I think he could have kicked a lot more ass the he did in this film.

I give The Bourn Ultimatum four out of five dragons.

No Reservations

Not a bad movie. The plots a bit over done though. Will to do relative takes in relatives kids after and tragic accident and the parents sudden death, and has there whole life turned upside down. Ad then falls for the guy who takes their place at work. Thou the version put a bit of a spin on that last little bit. Kind of a "go single mom" deal were she ends up not being replaced at work. But in the end original job became irrelevant so the film kept the tradition of the plot. But it’s a nice relaxing romance, with just a dash of comedy thrown it.

I give No Reservations three out of five dragons.

Who’s Your Caddy?

Ok, first off this really isn’t my kind of movie so I’m going to be a little hard on it. It’s funny. Hell it’s utterly hilarious and all. But it’s a stupid funny on the same level as Dodge Ball and Epic Movie. I like funny movies but come on already. That kind of funny just gets plane stupid way before the movie’s over.

I give Who’s Your Caddy? two out of five dragons.

The Simpsons Movie

If you like the Simpsons TV show then you’ll love the movie. It has everything you’d come to expect from the Simpsons over the years. Pulse a few surprises. And don’t leave before the crest end, or you’ll miss out of the best surprises of all. Maggie’s first (actually second) word.

I give The Simpsons Movie four out of five dragons.

Hairspray

No offence to Broadway but this movie killed. And I don’t mean that in a good way. This summer’s release of Hairspray just proved that the days of a theatrical musical are over and done with, outside Disney’s next animated feature. Not don’t get me wrong and all, the movie was funny and all and I’m sure the original was better. People should really stop trying to remake the same film every twenty years. You either get it right the first time or it’ll such forever (unless it’s Dracula, lets face it the guy never dies so he has to be remade). Remaking just sends the film on a never ending downward spiral. And while Rent may have gotten away with stepping off Broadway and onto the big screen, Hairspray should have stayed on Broadway.

I’m going to be a bit generous with this film. It wasn’t a bad film; it was funny and entreating at points. It just would have been better as a play rather then a movie. So I’m giving Hairspray three out of five dragons. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t good either.



And to all those idiots who walked saying it was too gay. It’s a Fucking musical. What do you expect? Topless women and Tommy-guns? Of course there’s going to be little more then singing and dance numbers.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Ok, to start off so nobody thinks I’m being dully unfair here. I have read all of the first five Harry Potter books and most of the sixth (it’s thick and very daunting, give me a brake). So I know what has been left out or altered in the movies. I also happen to be one of those people who bitch about those same alterations and exceptions. So the first part of this review will be about the movie itself while the second part will be about what was changed and left out. But I’m going to keep it short so as not to ruin the movie for any one. If I really get going I’ll end up giving a whole synopsis of the film.

In a nutshell the movie was just as good as the other four the effect continued to be up the par and there was plenty of action to keep you on the edge of your seats. If you liked the first four movies you’ll love this latest addition to the series.

SPOILER ALERT

For starters they only showed Harry getting one letter from the Ministry after the Dementor incident, not the four he actually got. They braze over the Order members, didn’t even really introduce them. Neville’s parents barely got a mention. They whipped through Umbrage’s actions at Hogwarts. Gave no explanation of the inquisitorial squad, didn’t even mention that Ron and Hermonie were Prefects. Hagred wasn’t chased off by a squad of wizards he just left. They don’t show any of the O.W.L.s or the career interview. You never see all of the prophecy and Dumbledore doesn’t explain everything, only about half of it. They leave out the bit wtin the Quibbler but seeing as how they left out the Retia Skeeter in the last movie that's understandable. The Cho and Harry relationship isleft to only one kiss and then it goes nowhere. Ok so in the book they broke up before the school year ended, but still as far as the movie goes there might as well have not been a relationship. The whole Quiddige matter is left out. They don’t show Umbrage to be half the bitch she really is and that’s what really pisses me off. She made the fifth year Hell and they don’t show it. they just meagerly emply it.

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However overall it was a fantastic film and I give it three out of five dragons (Remember I’ve read the books).

Two Very Cool Dragon Pic i found on Deviantart

Transformers

OMG!!!!!!! I’ve been waiting to see this move for over a year, and man was it worth the wait. I mean I don’t know where to start. They start off with stealing a page for Superman and having Optimus Prime narrate a bit but your expecting it, or at lest you are if you know anything about Transformers. And he only talks for a little more then a minute. Then after a brief build up they go strait into the giant robot action. The action scenes are mind blowing and the CGI is to utterly die for, please kill me not I so loved it.

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The continuity on the interrogation scene could have been better, the donuts of the plate kept going from whole, to gone, to half eaten, to whole, then to gone again. And makeup/costuming should have done better work on the dog’s cast. For one the cast didn’t even look real. Let me rephrase that. It could have looked real. All it really was, was white paper tapped in the shape of a boot slipped over the dog’s leg (at lest that’s what it looked like). You can even see that it’s slipping off the dog’s leg when the Sector 7 guys come to pick up Sam. Now I know not many people know what a dog cast look like, especially on a Chihuahua (I do because my neighbors have one that’s broken it’s like before), but that is really no excuse for the lousy job they did on it.

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But over all the movie was great. The whole culture shock byplay between the Autobots and the humans is priceless. !!!!!!SPOILER ALETR!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Bumblebee’s stunt with the Sector 7 Guys was to die for! !!!!!!SPOILER ALETR!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s a great movie for those who grew up watching the original Transformers on TV and Fans just discovering the genra alike.

I give this film Five out of five dragons and five Autobots.