Quote of the Week – #48
“Death solves all problems – no man, no problem.” – Joseph Stalin
Quote of the Week – #47
“The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” – Joseph Stalin
Iron Man 2
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228705/
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siQgD9qOhRs
Plot:
Billionaire Tony Stark must contend with deadly issues involving the government, his own friends, as well as new enemies due to his superhero alter ego Iron Man.
Review:
After hearing that a sequel was being made for Iron Man 2 I was looking forward to it. While I missed most of the initial showings of Iron Man 2, I finally made my way to see it. Getting to see it in a cinema with all of 6 people, including Alli and myself made it just a little better.
When it came to the film I was a bit let down however, Mickey Rourke plays Ivan Vanko. The son of a Russian Scientist who was involved with Tony Starks (Robert Downey Jnr) father. It touched on the subject briefly in the movie but I don’t think it went far enough, and needed some more darkness to it. Mainly to balance out with all the gadgets and “clean’ looking machines they had through the movie. While awesome machines are good in these movies, it seemed that the movie was focused on the gadgets and less on the plot. Which seemed fairly lacking.
I still enjoyed the movie as anyone would with all the special effects.
Rating:
3.5/5
Quote of the Week – #46
“Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.” – Walt Whitman
Quote of the Week – #45
“So long as there are men there will be wars.” – Albert Einstein
Quote of the Week – #44
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.”
– General Douglas MacArthur
Mid Year of 2010
We’ve hit the middle of the year in 2010, tax time begins. Once again, I’ll see mine paying off my debts. But maybe it will be a good thing this year, and I can cross that Commonwealth credit card off shortly after. A lotto win would be nice to clear my debts and buy some things.
I’m a bit stuck at work lately, I find it rather boring. It’s almost like a production line with the same thing every day and nothing stimulating, and I can’t see much in career progression other than getting more certification. But I find that hard when I don’t have the time to do it.
I’m trying to give Tumblr a bash, I’m not sure why. It seems like a good blogging platform, but knowing me. I can never find a theme or platform that I like. WordPress has been close, the only reason I really use it is to continue using it and see if it gets somewhere to be used more like a portal for a site rather than a blogging platform, and it’s damn well close to that now. It would just be nice if some of the plugins you got were basic out of the box features, or at least able to be enabled in the dashboard. Tumblr seems a little easier, or integrated into the various social platforms as well. Like posting pictures, or video or other stuff.
Apple iOS4 came out… that’s about all I’ve got to say on that. That and the iPad is a fucking waste of time and money in my opinion. Oversized iPod touch really.
Some interesting games are coming out, I’ve been playing Crysis but it looks like hammered shit on my desktop. It’s just not up to scratch of playing good games. I did see there is a Vietnam expansion pack for Battlefield Bad Company 2, which is a wet dream. I loved playing BF:V, it’s possibly the last game I enjoyed playing. Everyone wants realism in their games, even to the extent where some first person shooters are looking more like a simulator these days. Only need a case and power supply and I’ll be up and running, the smaller bits I can get later on as I need them, like extra hard drives. I’m interested in tinkering with some hardware for performance reasons, RAID and overclocking. The C2D E6850 is known for being good for overclocking, some reports have been for the PC to go at 4.0ghz passively. So that could be interesting, or I could blow the whole thing up!
I had my endoscopy a few weeks ago, hiatus hernia! No coffee or spicy food. Still can have beer though but probably not recommended! At least I know whats going on and can stop it, back to the medication soon but I think I need something stronger.
Sick of the house we live in, I’d like something smaller to live in. Mainly because the lawns and gardens are too much work, I’m not lazy. It just means having to find time to do it and I just can’t. It seems the only time I ever get for that is when I’ve booked time off at work; and that isn’t much of a holiday.
Oh well, here’s to 2 days off next week and back to work for me.
Quote of the Week – #43
“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.”
– General Omar Bradley
