I’ll be honest, I wanted to see this movie because Heath Ledger died in the middle of making it.  I wanted to see how they pulled off finishing it, and to the writers credit, they did a good job.  I can’t really explain the movie.  I walked out feeling the same way.  It was weird, very colorful, and kind of hard to follow.  I entertained by it, but I don’t think I would watch it again. I know this review isn’t much help.  If you like Johnny Depp, Heath Ledger, Jude Law, Jude Law then see the film.  They all play the same person very well.

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This was movie two of the new years movie night.  I thought it was a great movie.  It was action packed enough for me, as well as clever.  Sherlocks Holmes was a smart ass, and I loved it.  I also really liked how “magic” was explained.  I’m guessing most people didn’t notice this.  I did and it’s what made me love the movie.

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In 2005 when I fist got an iPod it was a 20gb 4th gen.  Which was right before the color iPod came out, and a few years before the iPod Video came out.  This meant that the screen consisted of black text on a white background.  This also meant all my music didn’t have Album Art.  See I had to rip all the CD’s I purchased, but what was I suppose to do with album artwork.  So for the past 5 years, I haven’t cared at all what the Album Artwork was.  Sure I have noticed high profile album’s artwork, but nothing about it much mattered to me.  I didn’t see it everyday.

Cut to 5 years later, and I have an Android device which I use as my phone and iPod.   I listen to podcasts and stream music from Pandora or Slacker Radio.   I also have a windshield mount for it.  This all means that when listening to audio while driving, I can see album artwork.  Its a little thing, but after 5 years its nice to see the work artists put into their album covers.

The web is all a twitter about a tablet they think Apple is going to announce this month.  They have also been saying a tablets been coming for years.  This is the same thing that happen with the iPhone, the difference here, is Apple has nothing to revolutionize by making a tablet.  Look at the iPod.  Companies were making mp3 players, but Apple came in and did it better.  Same thing with the cell phones.  They revolutionized both industries.  How will this work with the tablet?  Are they going to revolutionize the Kindle market, or the Windows tablet market?  Either one you choose, they have already done it with the iPhone.  The iPhone is a tablet, its just small.  So maybe as @FrankSnyder pointed out its going to be a dock for the iPhone.  This is all great and wonderful, but the iPhone doesn’t multi-task.  Why do you need a 10inch single processing low power machine.?

Nothing about this whole tablet thing makes sense.  Apple doesn’t officially have any events coming up.  Everything online right now about the tablet is speculation.  I say its not going to happen.  I don’t see a market to for Apple to revolutionize.

Update:  Looks like there is going to be an Apple Event on Jan. 27th.  I’m still saying the tablet isn’t coming.

For Christmas Tandy got me a new wallet.  Inside that wallet was a gift card to the Monaco theater.  The other night we went to see two movies, this being the first one.

Its a movie about a guy who travels a lot and doesn’t seem to ever want to settle down with a family.  Of course, he meets a girl and finds out some things about himself.  All while trying to save his job from bring taken over by technology.

I thought the movie was good.  Had some funny moments, and some serious ones.

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