Not so electric Elektra

Elektra was a letdown.

First, we have Jen Garner, who although really hot, totally did not get a chance to show off her sai skills. Then we have Will Yun Lee who's a 4th or 5th dan in tae kwondo, and all the chance he gets to show off his skills is... zilch. He had a 5 second showcase window in James Bond:Die Another Day, but here in Elektra, he doesn't get a single chance to showcase his beautiful kicks, and he's stuck behind flashy special effects and camera tricks. Big big pity!

The view from 50 feet

... is excellent. Well, it's not all great since I'm only in a rock climbing gym, but everyone down below looks like ants. Tomorrow, my arms are going to be sore, but for now, I love the aching feeling of a good workout.

Oh yeah, contrary to what you may think, it's not so bad climbing in an indoor gym in the winter. It's cold at first, but once you're moving and climbing and reaching and stretching, you feel fine. Until you stop to rest...

Stupid PC

Oh, and did I mention that my PC decided to die on me at the most wonderful time?

I get home around 6, login to work and start running a script to process some stuff. Right after the script starts running, my home PC just DIES on me. Great. Now I have to go to work to make sure that the script completes properly. But I have a dinner appointment at 7.

No problem. I'll head to work after dinner. At 10pm, I complete my 25 miles drive to work, park the car in the parking lot in front of the office, and then I realize that I forgot to bring my badge. How the hell am I going to get in without a damn badge? Answer: I can't. So I drive 25 miles back home to get my badge, drive 25 miles back to work (again), and when I login to my computer, I find out that the stupid damned script worked perfectly and in fact completed its tasks successfully at 6.20pm. ARGH!!

But you know what? If I didn't come to work, knowing my luck, the script would have bombed out and I'd have gotten my butt deep fried the next day at work.

More more more!

Ouch... Just got the official contract from the lawyer. The estimate is $3500 - $4500 to take my case, with a minimum payment of $3500. Bah, it's only money. Yeah. Right.

A game gone wrong

You know those games where someone asks you, if your mother and girlfriend were drowning, who would you save? Well, sometimes the game goes really wrong...

This was reported by USA Today:

Mahado Mohamed Musa was in her concrete-block home with her two children when she saw the wall of water hurtling out of the Indian Ocean toward the fishing town of Hafun.

She had a split second to make a decision she says she will regret for the rest of her life: Should she carry her son or her daughter to safety?

Musa tells her story quietly and with little emotion as she squats in the shade of her makeshift plywood shelter. Khadra, her 2-year-old daughter, clings to her side. "When I saw the water, I took this one," she says, looking at Khadra, "and left the other." Her son, Mohamud, was bigger and had hurt his foot. "He was limping. So it was easier to carry her. I just couldn't carry both."

With Khadra tucked under her arm, Musa, 20, raced to higher ground. She sent her brother-in-law back for her son. He found Mohamud, 6, floating in the water, barely alive. He died that evening.

"I regret that decision," Musa says simply.