Wow, I didn’t watch the entire award show, but Anil Kapoor, Shah Rukh Khan, A.R. Rahman, the cast of Slumdog Millionaire were at the ceremony. Slumdog Millionaire was a big winner at the show, by winning all four of the awards it was nominated for: Best Screen Play (Simon Beufoy), Best Original Score (A.R. Rahman), Best Director (Danny Boyle) and Best Motion Picture Drama. Yea us!
Dev Patel & Frieda Pinto @ the 66th Annual Golden Globes Ceremony
For the life of me, I don’t know why I haven’t seen Donnie Brasco in the last 11 years. This was a good movie. This is a movie, based on the real life true story of the Joe Pistone, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who worked undercover to infiltrate the NY Bonanno family back in the late 70’s. Johnny Depp’s character is trying to stay in character as he infiltrates the mob (and not be discovered), yet stay the same family person and keep his family together. Even they were hardened criminals, you liked the characters in a way, such as Al Pacino’s character Benjamin “Lefty Guns” Ruggiero.
Good story, good acting, interesting characters. Johnny Depp and Al Pacino were great.
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Friday was movie night here with the Ipes. We rented Ghost Town, a 2008 movie starring Ricky Gervais and Tea Leoni. My friend Doug, who used to work in tv media advertising, told me once that it is called a “high concept” movie. Have you seen the trailer? It’s basically the entire movie. which has become a cliche, if you ask me. Self-centered fellow goes through traumatic event, can now talk to ghosts, and becomes a better person. Cook it up, put it in the fridge, warm it up and serve again next year.
Ricky Gervais is a good actor, but the overall story hit the usual bases, didn’t hit home at all, and was entirely predictable. Well, except for the buses. 🙂 If you want to watch it, catch it on cable tv.
Ghost Town (2008)
With a little help from my friends, I’ve added new photos to the galleries, and uploaded photos from November through yesterday’s trip to the Liberty Science Center:
Enjoy!
I forgot to mention it last week, but congratulations to our friends Sunil and Ligy on the birth of their first kid, Nicholas. Everyone is doing well. Welcome to the we-used-to-be-so-young-why-am-I-so-tired club. Seriously, kids are great. Even more seriously, why won’t these kids sleep?
 Baby Nicholas |
 Hey, it's a family |
Samsung and Coca-Cola collaborate on an interactive, touch-screen Coke machine. It was on display this year at CES in Las Vegas.That’s really cool.
One question — is that guy behind Brian Tong just waiting around for the segment to finish so he can get his soda?
I think it’s a good lookin’ smartphone.
Today, Josh and I made a father-son trip to the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, NJ. This was our first trip to Liberty Science Center, but I’m a big fan of science museums for kids. I once went to the Franklin Institute Science Museum on a field trip back in 5th grade (I think), which was such a great trip for me. In June 2007, we took Josh to the Garden State Discovery Museum, and he liked it a lot. Kids love all those hands-on exhibits, as they get to learn as they play.
Hoberman Sphere in the LSC Atrium
We picked up bagels-as-breakfast-to-go, and ate all the way up the NJ Turnpike. We arrived on a quiet day at the museum, just 8 busloads of school kids arrived a second ahead of us. Grr, as we waited in line to get in. Eventually, we purchased entrance tickets, and strolled in. We couldn’t hit everything, and it would be a detriment to exhaust him, as he wouldn’t enjoy it anymore. Remember, I’m trying to grow me a scientist. What we saw:
It was a great day to hang out. Josh’s favorite area was certainly the I Explore area, where he could run around, play, measure rice, and use these large machines that moved colored balls up through the machinery, down spirals, moving levers, etc. See the January photos for all the carnage.
It’s been missing for almost an entire month, but we have found it. I found our beloved Canon digital camera. I found it under the couch cushions, deep in the corner. It must have fallen, and many butts have come and gone, pushing it further and further into the couch.
Canon Powershot S80
I am relieved and overjoyed. For the past two events, I have used a Kodak disposable camera to take pictures at events. I got the pictures developed, and they are so grainy and poor quality. I never missed my digital camera so badly until I looked at what I got out of a disposable camera.
Anybody watching this show Ghost Hunters on Sci-Fi channel? Is it for real? How much is real, and how much could be exaggerated? I’m watching Ghost Hunters International at the moment.
Real or fake, you couldn’t pay me to visit an allegedly haunted location to investigate. I am not walking around in the dark with a flashlight looking for anything supernatural. No thank you. The second I thought I saw something, you would see a cartoon-type puff of smoke, and a hole in the wall with my size/shape, a la Daffy Duck.
