I don’t laugh easy. Ask Izza who still owes me a drink for betting against this. But Jeff Dunham’s Achmed the Dead Terrorist act sure got me laughing. I even could have laughed out loud. Jeff Dunham is the man!
This morning Jem sent me this joke:
Famous Half Pinoys:
Jaime Ayala – half pinoy, half Spanish
Henry Sy – half pinoy, half Chinese
Lito Atienza – half pinoy, half Hawaiian shirt
John Osmena – half pinoy, half pinay
Prospero Pichay – half pinoy, half gulay
Mike Arroyo – half pinoy, half baboy
GMA – half only
I was already planning to watch Beowulf but on regular cinema when Val clued me in to the fact that it will be available in full-length 3D on IMAX. Who would pass up seeing Angelina Jolie in 3Delectable goodieness, right? So tonight, I watched it at SM Mall of Asia’s IMAX Cinema.
Beowulf, as you all probably know, is an old English poem. And I do mean old. Unless you’ve been living under a rock… for centuries… then you probably would have heard of it. If you haven’t, suffice to say it is all those stories that you love to hear before bedtime rolled into one: kings, queens, warriors, monsters, and treasures.
But what can I say about the movie? “AWESOME!” would be a good start. Beowulf is already a great tale in itself. But the retelling by Neil Gaiman, Angelina Jolie, the great acting as usual by Anthony Hopkins and John Malkovich, seeing it on the BIG screen, on IMAX, in 3D, and did I say Angelina Jolie? All these makes it even bigger and better.
Shell out those hard-earned bucks and watch it on IMAX. It’s worth it.
Rating: 6/5 (extra point for the extra dimension)
The LinkSys WRT54G is a ubiquitous router. In fact, I have one at home and two at the office. The one at home works fine but the same can’t be said for the two at the office. Every once in a while, you can’t connect to the WiFi network and you have to reboot. And often, you can’t access the web based administration console at all. Normally, the solution would be to upgrade the firmware. But if you have a WRT54G version 7, which is the case, you’re out of luck: LinkSys also does not provide firmware updates for this version. Or so I thought. So it was pretty hopeless for a while. But this morning, I learned that apparently LinkSys provides firmware upgrades for Europe. You can get it here. We’ve upgraded the routers at the office and everything is going smoothly so far.
UPDATE: It didn’t change anything. Darn!
I just arrived home last night when I learned from Izza about a blast at the House of Representatives. I immediately checked The Inquirer and realized something is really up because but it was not responding, probably overloaded with requests. Fortunately, ABS-CBN was and I was able to confirm that there was indeed a blast. The report said that the vehicle of Wahab Akbar, a representative, was on fire and that he was among the injured and later died. Although some grandstanding politican (coughdeveneciacough) immediately claimed it was a terrorist attack, I wouldn’t be surprised if Akbar was the specific target. He has too way many enemies from political rivals to the Abu Sayyaf who has been using bombs more and more. Supposedly he used to be a member of the Abu Sayaff but later left and turned on them. Heck, even the Philippine Marines could be counted among those. There was this rumor before that his men were involved in an ambush a few months back where 14 marines were killed, some of whom were mutilated, and beheaded. Knowing the loyalty of the marines to their comrades, this possibility wouldn’t be far off.