| A Decade of Movie Tickets (the results)! |
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Well, the results are in! I’ve successfully tabulated all of the movie tickets in my collection, the first of which dated all the way back to April 11, 1997. It was long, monotonous, boring work, but damn it, it was something that needed to be done. I’m sure I missed a few tickets here and there throughout the years, but this certainly paints a pretty clear picture of my theater-attending habits. Here are some of the results: Number of Movies Seen: 258 Okay, now let’s break this down. 258 movies means I’ve essentially seen a movie every other week for more than the last decade and during that time I’ve spent nearly 500 hours watching them. Dizamn. That’s nearly 21 straight days spent in a theater seat being bathed and in the majestic glow of a movie screen… which is roughly 2 straight days a year. Mind you, this doesn’t include any time watching previews, though more often than not, that can be offset by the fact that I didn’t sit through the full credits on most of the flicks on the list. Then we have the fact that the $1,600 figure doesn’t include the thousands I’ve spent on concessions while seeing these movies… as any proper film-fanatic would agree, popcorn is absolutely required to properly view a movie in the theater. Here are some more interesting facts I established while making my list:
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RECAP: I’ve been collection all of the movie tickets for every movie I’ve seen in the theater for the last 11 years. A few weeks ago, I decided to take all of the information on these tickets and create a spreadsheet to find out exactly how much money and time I’ve spent on going to the theater. For a full description of what this madness is all about, check out 
I thought this was a pretty cool little device for any string-shredding headbangers out there, so I figured I’d post it up to see what you all think. Belkin has created a nifty add-on for 1/4″ cables that will hopefully make musicians’ lives a little easier and their beloved instruments a little safer… it’s called the Belkin BreakFree Magnetic Connector. This product essentially adds an Apple-inspired magnetic break-away point for your guitar cable. It works on either end of the cable obviously, so you could use it to easily unhook from the amp or the guitar (though I don’t really see the benefit of having this on the end plugged into the amp). Either way, gone are the days of having to turn your amp off while swapping guitars during a gig to avoid abusing the audience with that delightful cringe-inducing popping noise. Hell, best of all is the technology that has saved countless Macbooks keeping your gear from plummeting to the beer-covered floor as inebriated peeps get your cable wrapped around their ankles on the way to the bathroom.
Directed by: Zack Snyder
The Command & Conquer series has long held a warm, fuzzy place in my heart. When I first acquired my own personal computer at 14, Command & Conquer was there to welcome me into the realm of PC gaming. It was the first game to introduce me to the world of Real-time Strategy… until then, I’d been content with jumping on goombas and taking baddies out one at a time in the first-person perspective. Command & Conquer allowed me to build and control an entire army all my own, and I had a blast with it. Over the years as the games advanced and evolved into Red Alert, Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2, Generals and C&C 3, I’ve enjoyed blasting my way through thousands upon thousands of Nod and Soviet scum, and I’ll be damned if I didn’t have a great time doing it. Every addition to the series has seemed to add something new and exciting to the franchise, from unit experience and leveling in Generals to the much-improved live-action cutscenes, graphics, and voiceover work in C&C3.
