Many news outlets are reporting today that the American Red Cross Disaster Relief fund is out of money, and that they’re in particular need because of flooding in the mid-west.
The good news is, you can donate right here- plus, many employers will match gifts made to non profits (West does this, contact me or check out thePoint if you want to know how).
I usually don’t post about politics, but everyone should really watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
I get criticized a lot for my taste in movies; one of my favorite movies is Hackers; I’ve seen it dozens of times and I’m still not sick of it. I readily admit that it not a good movie by most (any?) standards, and it is very inaccurate as far as computing goes (Either use actual computing terms relevantly or don’t bother at all, okay?). But I love it all the same. One quality it has that is often overlooked is the way they portray navigating a file structure; it’s very difficult to make something so dull interesting, and flying through a digital cityscape was a decent way of handling that.
To me, there’s a two dimensional scale on which movies fall with quality on one axis and entertainment on the other. I’ve seen a lot of high quality movies that are extremely boring, and a lot of low quality movies that are extremely entertaining. The trick is getting one that scores well on both axes. I guess those on the low quality end of things are like little guilty pleasures; anyone want to confess to any bad movies that they love (I happen to know that a certain reader entered the Computer Science field because of The Net 
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How did we win the Cold War if the Russians had BEARS THAT CAN PLAY HOCKEY?! Youtube video attached; thanks Ryan! (This might be Ukrainian or some other country that uses a Cyrillic character set; but I’ll continue to be an ignorant American and just say it’s Russian- I can do that because we won the Cold War 
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One of my all time favorite movies is Vertigo starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak. It was an Alfred Hitchcock film from 1958; I won’t go into the plot because it’s difficult to explain without giving it away. But the film was very interesting, and had a great visual feel and score.
Anyway, one of my college roommates introduced me to the song Carlotta Valdez by Harvey Danger which is about the film; I’ve been looking for it a while and saw it pop up on imeem.com today; so listen to it- and if you don’t get it, then watch the film and listen again
Ok, so I cheated a little bit Calin let me open the wii and hook it up early, but I’m not going to play until April 1st, so it’s just a few hours away! We’ll see if I stay up that late.
Hopefully we won’t be disappointed- all of the suspense has both of us pretty excited about playing, so I hope the novelty doesn’t wear off quickly.