Michael Bay has posted the ShoWest sizzler real for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen online. Check out the action compilation at the end.
Whoa. I just caught a glimpse of the real Devastator.
*Exclusive* Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Footage from Bay Films/Michael Bay Dot Com on Vimeo.
UPDATED: Looks like Vimeo page is no longer available. Unless things change, you can also see the video here, which has been posted on YouTube (but I don’t have the YouTube-specific URL.)
This is an interesting week, and a complete reversal of sorts.
Next week, I’m on the road, as I have been in the past during my career, and she’s managed on her own to take care of the home, then one kid, then two kids, and working, etc. Before I head to the airport, I generally verify that the house isn’t on fire, kiss the family goodbye and good luck, and see you in a couple of days. God bless my wife, because she’s always survived somehow. I remember one time I was heading out to Montreal in 2005, and we had just moved into our house a few days earlier. She calls me while I’m waiting at the Newark airport gate, and tells me all the power is out in the house. It’s been hours, Josh’s infant formula would be going bad, etc. What could I do at that point for her? I mean it, my wife has done her bit for king and country on her own while I’ve been working.
Now for the reversal: My wife is off on a business trip (her first ever) this week, and I am the one home with the kids! It was a last-second change in plans, and my wife was off to bring home the bacon. I’m surviving so far, and it hasn’t been that bad. Of course, my wife did more than verify the house wasn’t on fire before she left. She made the baby food (and labelled and told me the schedule), she filed our 2008 federal & state taxes, did the kids’ laundry, and a slew of things to make my life easier while she was gone.
You know what this means? Before I head out next Sunday, I gotta….. geez, how do I even get to her level? I’ve already gotten a new appreciation for my wife. I don’t even know how to show it to her. This is gonna be a thinker.
Killzone 2
My other redeemed-rewards-points PS3 game arrived today: Killzone 2. I installed it this evening, but I haven’t had an opportunity to play it yet. Too many other things to do around here than to play videogames. I have played the downloadable demo, and the game is pretty neat. Good graphics, good feel to it. I’m not ready to play it yet, as I have to finish Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune first.
The premise of the game (turns out to be the 3rd in the series) is you take your battle against the alien invaders to their home planet. Expecting a quick win, it turns into a slugfest. Not much of a story, I gather, but it’s an opportunity to do cool stuff in a combat zone with your squad. I’ll play it in a couple of weeks, no rush.
I’m not sure why I find Indian cookies amusing, but I do. Let’s be accurate. It’s not the actual cookies — they’re delicious. I find the packaging and marketing of them amusing.
Indian cookies
Dang, tell me this doesn’t sound familiar? Yahoo Japan and a Japanese billboard manufacturer are collaborating on electronic signage that photographs the faces of a passersby, analyses it using NEC’s facial analysis technology, and estimates his or her age. Once the demo is confirmed, the device spits out appropriate advertising content.”
Whoa. It’s just like Minority Report. I’m telling you. People mock sci-fi, but imagination is an amazing ability. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Isn’t someone working on the same hands-in-the-air interface? And you know they’ve been working on flying cars for a while.
Identity theft scares the bejeezus out of me. I’ve been reading a lot about card skimmers being snuck onto ATM card slots. Freaky. Gizmodo has an article about one found at a Chase ATM in NYC.
Gizmodo – Attack of the Card Skimmers: It’s Happening Right Here, Right Now
I went to see Fast & Furious with my friend Doug who came over to visit me today. He wanted to see a movie, and this one ran a little over 1.5 hours, which fit the window of free I had. Granted, I’ve never seen any of the Fast and the Furious movies, including the original 2001 film. Still, Doug wanted to see something, and this was the only film we could agree on.
Usually, I only commit to watching a movie if I know enough about the movie to expect to like it. Here, I didn’t even know the plot. Luckily, the plot wasn’t the most complex. I actually felt some brain cells die during this movie. How have they made four movies in this franchise? We only had a few folks in the theater this afternoon, but they brought their young kids. Having seen all the girl-on-girl action, the close-ups of women’s posteriors in super-tight dresses in the movie, I don’t think it was particularly appropriate for young children.
Let’s be reasonable here. It’s not supposed to be a though-provoking drama, or a movie about cyborg flesh-eating zombies from the Elizabethan period. It’s a movie about fast cars, smokin-hot women, and escapism. I suppose if you grade it against that, then it was a good movie.
Fast & Furious (2009)
Major announcement. With a little help from my sister, and some time set aside for catching up, I have quintupled the number of photos online. What does that mean?
BOOM! More January photos!
BOOM! More March photos here! And here! And here!
BOOM! New April photos!
Buy now! We’re practically giving them away! Operators are standing by. What are you waiting for? Act now!!!
Wasn’t I just writing about Hulu a few days ago? I haven’t been to the actual URL recently, but it turns out they’ve been redesigning it with additional features, according to PC Magazine.
PC Magazine listed their top 10 geeky/nerdy t-shirt online stores. I’ve always wanted a funny t-shirt from stores like BustedTees. One day, my friends. One day.
