Last night, we headed off to the theater to see Narc starring Jason Patric and Ray Liotta. The flick was written and directed by Joe Carnahan who also directed what I thought was the best BMW short film from The Hire series of 2002, Ticker (also with Ray Liotta in it). The setup: Detective Tellis (Patric), who had been discharged because of an incident in the past that is questionable in the department’s eyes, is reinstated and partnered with detective Oak (Liotta) in trying to solve the case of Oak’s partner’s death. Tellis soon finds out he is also investigating Oak on this case.

I think they tried to shoot it in a way that would be unique, but I don’t think there wasn’t enough effort put in to make it stand out that much from movies of this type. The plot also plays out in a very predictable fashion, but even though I knew how it was going to end, my jaw still dropped in the final scene. The stand-out point in Narc was by far the acting. Patric couldn’t have played the role any better and Liotta was down right scary at times. The flick came out in time for the Oscar running and I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see either one of them in the running. In fact, my vote would completely go to them considering everything else I saw last year.

If you miss out on this film, you’re really missing out on something special. Top notch acting is what made this flick for me and ultimately comes out as one of the most enjoyable films I’ve seen in a while. Make the time and go see this movie. Good luck to us all…

So schedules are finalized. I’ll be working from midnight to noon for 4 straight days starting tomorrow (Friday) night. Why? We’re restoring data back to our SAN. My coworker and myself are playing the role of “dumb tape-loader robot”, rotating every 12 hours. The whole process should take a little more than 100 total hours if run smoothly, so I estimate 120 hours. What does this mean? Well, I’ll be online on AIM all night so please feel free to IM me and make sure I’m not falling asleep. The following is my AIM screen name:

roguexnine

I’ll probably also log a lot of entries here as the night goes on. Wont you please stay up with me?

I don’t do these often, but I had a little bit of time and figured, “What the hell.”

What OS are you?

Strong Bad: “The internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens. You need to take advantage of that.”

And I am.

We’re having major problems with our SAN at work right now. We’re in a situation where we might have to restore from a backup made over a month ago and it got me thinking about my personal backup at home today. Well, I’ve been thinking about it for a while now, but I really thought about it today. It’s time to invest in a DVD-RW system this weekend.

Anyway, I was going through all of my storage and found some things I haven’t seen in years. They were mostly images from the high school days that were either scanned in or taken with my QuickTake 100, but I also found some real early personal website I had totally forgotten about. I’ll probably post everything up here as is in the future, but until then I figure I’d share a little. Try not to laugh too hard. That first one is about 5 years old taken at USC. The second is me much younger. Check out what I’m holding in my hand. Even at that age I knew what computer was best.

I’ve been spending a lot of time on this site lately. From what I gather (and I’m always good at missing the boat completely), the author‘s intent is to present concepts on distributing information/ideas across the internet and how to go about applying those concepts. It just so happens he uses Google for a lot of his examples. Check it out.

I want to see Keyshawn get knocked the hell out and Sapp cry like a little baby in the end. Go Oakland!

I will successfully predict the outcome of the Super Bowl. My tools: a TV, a PS2 video game system, and Sega’s NFL 2K3. All computer controlled. Best out of 3 games. And the winner is…