Archive for December, 2006

The Good Shepard

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

Overall good movie. It’s a bit dry, but it never really drags, so I didn’t realize it was nearly 3 hours long. Acting is strong on all fronts and it’s very cleanly shot. The story feels like a bit of a history book snapshot, in that you know that there’s definitely stuff going on before […]

Lie of the Day #54

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

According to VanStanzberg’s New Anatomy, the pelvis is actually arranged improperly in most skeletons (both inanimate models and the one under your skin). It’s actually supposed to be upside down from it’s current configuration.

Lie of the Day #53

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

Pigeons, the roaming pirana of the sky, attack their unaware victims without warning, lifting them into the sky and picking their bones clean before they reach a 50-foot altitude. In large cities, pigeon swarms can get as large as 1000 individual birds and can average 15-30 abductions a day.

Lie of the Day #52

Friday, December 29th, 2006

45% of the time, when someone wishes upon a star, they’re actually wishing upon a planet.

Lie of the Day #51

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

Cardiac arrest is kind of like house arrest, except it involves playing poker with water buffalo without cheating.
Oh… and your face explodes, too.

Rocky Balboa

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

Surprisingly not horrible. Don’t go to it expecting anything like the later Rocky movies. This one was more drama than fighting. The acting was passable in most parts and even good in others. Of course, there were some writing issues (some reasons/motivations for character behavior, a couple inconsistencies, etc.) but overall it was actually pretty […]

Lie of the Day #50

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

The tune to the now infamous “Hamster Dance” was previously used by the National Elevator Test Bureau to determine how quickly annoying sound in a confined space would cause a person to self-destructively snap. The average time was 12 minutes.

Lie of the Day #49

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

In literature, the term “heroine” refers to a strong, heroic female lead character. This is derived from the superhuman strength that medieval women used to get from their opium-laced make-up.

Lie of the Day #48

Monday, December 25th, 2006

The “dunce cap” originally had a practical purpose outside of simply drawing attention to the person designated as the dunce. Dunce-like behavior was believed to have been caused by an overheated mind. The initial solution to this was to stick an ice cream cone (with ice cream) upside down upon the overly warm surface.

Lie of the Day #47

Sunday, December 24th, 2006

Being late for anything more than two times in a row causes a temporal shift in the space-time continuum that results in the abrupt death of some child’s pet gerbil.