Monday, February 25, 2008

"They Be Goin' Hard in the Boat."

So I was going to post about how my coworkers are following me into the blogosphere, but decided that I needed to be in a different mood to post on that particular topic. I ran through a project today that I was not looking forward to and thought it turned out fairly well. I ended up spending the vast majority of my day on it which I didn't want to, but it turned out alright. Jesus, my blog is starting to sound like Sara's. OK, no more about work.
Things are going fairly well in the bay area. The weekend was fairly rainy but I was kind of ready for a weekend of hibernation so that worked out pretty well. The wifey and I watched The Queen and The Host, both were kind of so-so in my opinion. The Queen was kind of pumped up in my mind based on the comments I have heard from basically everyone. I thought the queen character was pretty awesome but didn't understand why no one liked her - just kidding. The Host was cool, kind of, it was kind of just ridiculous. For a Korean monster movie it was surprisingly mainstream. The hero's dyed blond hair and sagging sweatpants were pretty rad though. I went through my music collection and consolidated my external hard drives this weekend which was a big step. I need to swing by the music store and pick up the new (new being relative as I have been in China) SAS album. Speaking of the Strong Arm boys check out this youtube video of them talking with Talib Kweli about their favorite tv shows. Basically, its awesome and shows me that even rappers are watching Discovery channel. No dad, not Myth Busters....

4 comments:

robert said...

The conventional wisdom is that CSI, in all its incarnations, is the most popular television program on the face of the planet. This is interesting, since the show is apparently about nose-to-the-grindstone grunts who, at least occasionally, live an exotic crime-fighting lifestyle. And of course it at least addresses some of the issues of proof in criminal cases. Which could be an easy way to approach those questions with prospective jurors. However, in the last several years of selecting jurors I have asked about CSI, and not one person has watched it. Or admits to watching it. To me this means that every single person who has ever participated in a jury selection process within the last few years is willing to lie to me. Why, I don't know. I watch the damn shows. They are ridiculous and stupid, but they are a way to pass the time. It's TEEVEE. I suppose people are embarrassed to admit that they watch stupid TEEVEE, but why lie about it? Not a single prospective juror in the last few years admits to watching CSI. Is that such a bad thing to watch? Or is it a bad thing for me to focus on? Is it appropriate to bother people about their TEEVEE habits? Maybe hip-hop stars are the only ones with the time or inclination to watch TEEVEE any more.

Jacky said...

Tho I do not know what you are talking about, but whatever, I love you~

Matthew Lewis said...

Thanks Yiteng. I saw you made a starring appearance on Albert's new blog. Although, I do not quite know what you were going for with the fingernails....
http://shalbert.blogspot.com

robert said...

To follow up on the love that is passed around on this blog, let me just say that making the intellectual connections between CSI, hip-hop participants and jury selection ought to be a snap for the electronic generation. When you Google these phrases, you get some seriously arcane blog spots, which, if they can't help Matthew in his next "pimp my ride" moment, can at least explain why Grissom and Sara are subject to the vicissitudes of voir dire and sampling at the same time. There are websites dedicated to this kind of thing. Who knew?