This entry is part 3 of 17 in the series DVD Library
There are no words that can describe how happy I am about Viva Video bringing in Marvel Entertainment‘s straight-to-DVD animated features like Ultimate Avengers, Ultimate Avengers 2, and this movie here featuring Ol’ Shellhead: The Invincible Iron Man.
The Story: This got some comic book traditionalists up in arms with their panties in a bunch. Uptight pricks. I, on the other hand, don’t mind the film creators doing some modifications and upgrades on the mythos because first, I wasn’t an Iron Man fan until Civil War came along, so I really don’t give a crap about Iron Man continuity. Second, why would you want an animated feature to be 100% faithful to the medium it’s based on? Stories and characters in comics, no matter how iconic, don’t always equal great entertainment when ported brick-by-brick to another medium. And third, the story of ancient magics meeting bleeding edge technologies, with a dash of daddy issues, works for me. The Ultimate Avengers movies gave me a bigger geekgasm, but this one gave me a more satisfying story.
I’ve just been invited to join Facebook by an online friend. Bored like hell, I decided to bite and I registered. Plus, I also decided to update all my social networking accounts. And I just realized there’s a lot.
How many social networking sites do we really need? Or want, for that matter. I’m thinking sure, you get to stay updated with the lives of your real life and online friends, classmates, co-workers, and old flames. But you also encounter spammers, stalkers, posers, losers, and other types of freaks.
No, I don’t want to “add you as a friend”. And I don’t want to visit you at your other network. Unless by “sexygirlscutepets” you mean “sexy girls as cute pets”. Freak.
Earlier today, Euri forwarded a link to me on YM. It’s a link to a video (embedded on this chick’s Multiply site) featuring two house lizards and the tragic end of their romance.
The video is a Shera flexy board ceiling panel commercial from Thailand. The ad is a lot of things. It’s whimsical (come on, two lizards sharing a passionate hug?). It turns into a suspenseful adventure thriller as one of the lizards tries to save its lover from falling into a sinister chess board after the ceiling panel they’re on starts to crack and rip apart. And it finally turns into an awkward mix of hilarity and tragedy. It’s a beauty.
This entry is part 12 of 12 in the series Weekly Haul
12 is a good solid number, isn’t it? 12 months. 12 apostles. 12 monkeys. It even has a nickname: Dozen. So with this good solid number, I’m ending this whole Weekly Haul series. Don’t rejoice just yet. This doesn’t mean that I’ll stop talking about comics. I’ll just stop enumerating and reviewing my weekly comic book purchases. I don’t know. It just became too much work, I guess. Especially when I’m starting to miss my self-imposed weekly deadlines. No point in doing a series of weekly posts and calling it “Weekly Haul” if it’s not weekly, right? Besides, I need to dedicate some more blogging time to other stuff like entertainment and technology news, videos of hot emo chicks kissing each other, and retard porn.
So yeah, this is the last post of my Weekly Haul series. Let’s get it over with, shall we? SPOILERS ahoy!
Friday morning while at work, I started preparing my new account at Page.ph for the eventual yupielbi.com migration. Since the connection at the office was like a snail on downers, backing up all yupielbi.com files was a whole day affair. Backing up the database was also a pain. But I managed to finish everything before the end of the workday. Yay!
At home, I did another backup of the files and the database. I’m OC like that. Thankfully, the connection was pretty okay so I got the chance to dick around the web a lot while doing the backups. Around midnight, I started the whole migration thing. It took me almost 10 hours to set up yupielbi.com, now yupielbi.org, at the new host. Complete with updating all relevant links on several sites and services, including Friendster, Feedburner, Google Analytics, Technorati, etc. It was all worth it. I needed to get away from Philhosting.net as soon as possible. The frequent downtimes were simply unacceptable.
