"Happy Birthday, Zachary! How does it feel to be eight ?"
"It feels great! I love being eight, and it means I'm one year closer to being seventeen so I can play Halo!"
Update: see all the photos here
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Voyages Deli and Coffee Shop
Yesterday afternoon I headed over to Voyages Deli and Coffee Shop in Lowell to grab lunch and get some light work done. I had Z and E with me and they kept themselves entertained with the Nintendo DS and some books.
I've only come here to work a couple of times, but it's moving up on my list of afternoon work destinations because of their delicious sandwiches and espresso. The chocolate cream cheese muffins are pretty good, too! It's a decent place to work during the day.. not too busy and the music isn't too loud. They have wireless internet, but that's actually a bit of a pain because it's not "open". You have to ask for a username and password to login, and then it expires after an hour or two, so then you have to ask for a new login. It's a pain to have to ask the first time and a double pain to ask again. They should just make it open.. I can't imagine they have that many people expecting to come in there and just use the wireless without at least buying a coffee.
Movie Review: Little Miss Sunshine
If you had asked me for an opinion of Little Miss Sunshine halfway through the movie, I would have told you it is interesting and humorous, but nothing to jump up and down about. Towards the end of the movie Olive (the little girl, played by Abigail Breslin) finally makes it to the Little Miss Sunshine competition (reaffirming my opinion that I never want my girls involved in one of those) and gets on stage to do her dance routine.. to the music of SuperFreak by Rick James. Oh. My. That was SOOOOO funny. Seriously. My ribs ached I laughed so hard.
Thinking back about the movie, it seems much funnier now taken as a whole. I think it must have taken me a while to loosen up because I had not gone to the theater to see a comedy.. the plan was to see The Descent, which definitely does not look to be a comedy. Recommended.
Movie Review: You, Me and Dupree
Owen Wilson is a hoot, and it doesn't hurt that he has the funniest looking nose in Hollywood, too. I can't look at Matt Dillon without picturing him with those capped teeth in There's Something About Mary (hilarious).
You, Me and Dupree is a comedy about this guy who is down on his luck and moves in with his newlywed best friend. They didn't show all the laughs in the previews, but you saw most of them. It really was pretty funny, but the movie seemed to have two plots going. The first half of the movie is about all the reasons you wouldn't want Owen Wilson moving into your house, the second half is about the new improved Owen Wilson being not so bad after all and helping his newlywed landlords repair their marriage. The first half is funny, the second half is a little weak. The movie felt like it was about 30 minutes too long, and it was only 108 minutes.
So there you go. It was a funny movie and worth seeing if you just really like Owen Wilson, Matt Dillon, or Kate Hudson.
Segway Centaur
Check out this YouTube video showing a guy riding the Segway Centaur, a four-wheeled ATV type contraption that uses the same technology as the Segway you've probably heard about already. Although the Segway wasn't a big hit due to city governments being afraid of seeing them on sidewalks and the high cost of the units, the Centaur looks super-cool and I would actually consider buying one of these. See the video on the next page..
[via Gizmodo]
