*** 1/2 / **** Dir: Tim Burton 2005 Color English 115 Min Rated PG for quirky situations, action and mild language. (and probably that scene with the marionnettes) There are two things that occurred to me while I was watching this movie. First, why is this movie being made, and second, boy does Johnny Depp look like Michael Jackson. I am glad to say that…
July 23, 2005*** 1/2 / **** Dir: Steven Spielberg 2005 Color English 116 Min Rated PG-13 for frightening sequences of sci-fi violence and disturbing images. Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is a bad dad. He neglects his children and is more interested in his car than his son Robbie(Justin Chatwin). The kids are in town this weekend and Ray is mad that Robbie has taken off in his…
July 21, 2005James Doohan died today. He is the second of the original Star Trek actors to pass away, following DeForest Kelley, who died in 1999. I remember when I was younger and in more of a Trek haze than I am nowadays, I could never imagine what would happen once my heroes started to pass on. To me, it was like a relative that you see…
July 20, 2005Well I survived the big anniversary. Today was the 50th Anniversary of one of my favorite places on earth – work! It was awesome being in the park today and seeing a sea of people wearing the golden Mickey ears that were handed out at the main entrance. Us cast members received a bag of goodies including a souvenir map, collectable pin, a book from…
July 17, 2005July 13th was a benchmark day for me in two ways. First off, some background. It is summer season at the park now and for the most part I am working at night (although recently I have started opening on the weekends). Being a creature of bad habits, since I’ve started working 4-ish to 1am-ish, my schedule has been wake up at noon, go to…
July 14, 2005I somehow managed to survive the Fourth of July at the park. The last few years, it hasn’t really been an issue with me. People always say that the Fourth is one of the busiest days at the park. Also, people were telling me due to the three day weekend, the Third would actually be the busiest day. Man were they wrong. It certainly was…
July 7, 2005Ten years ago today, one of my co-workers at UC Davis let me put a single web page up on one of our servers. It wasn’t much, just a photo of me, some text about myself, and some links to some web sites that I really liked. One of the first things I added to the site was photos of the Gorn traveling the world.…
June 28, 2005Since it is already Tuesday in Hong Kong, I have uploaded the first two pages of the redesign. The Home Page and the Club House page have been freshened up with a nice clean look. Both are very similar in style because essentially, the Club House is my idea of the home page part 2. I think the new style is cleaner – especially compared…
June 27, 2005One of the things that I wanted to do before the launch of the redesign was to backup the existing site. After many days, I finally was able to get all 450+MB of the site backed up locally. Now I can go through and clean house. I have two envelope backs full of notes on what to do and how to re-organize everything, but I…
June 24, 2005California has had 4 moderate to large earthquakes in the last five days, and I have felt a grad total of zero. I feel so left out! Two of which I can understand – Tuesday’s 7.0 and Today’s 6.4 quakes off of Eureka coastline were a bit out of the “Did you feel it?” range for So Cal. However Sunday’s 5.2 and today’s 4.9 centered…
June 16, 2005