Worth a box of chocolates

I'm in the middle of banging my head against the brick wall of Palm and Entourage 2008 completely ignoring each other, but my day has been brightened by the arrival of chocolates. I fixed a Parallels issue for a user last week, and since it was a personal machine (we limit ourselves to 15 minutes as a courtesy, if it's broke after that, it goes to the manufacturer) he was extra grateful. So, one box of Boehms (local Swiss-knockoff later) and the jokes begin. Because if you demand chocolate for services, the admin assistants will go down the hall to the vending machines for a candy bar, but the docs, they pony up for the good stuff. We're (IT) still deciding if we want to institute the email-for-chocolate system, or just use ninjas to go after annoying users. There are benefits to both systems, really.

Doomsday

So, Doomsday. Saw it Friday with the usual crowd, and from the poster (not having heard a word about it) I wasn't too sure. But Lori assured me it wasn't horror, and so...

As a post-apocalyptic movie? It sucked balls. Every single logical premise? Wasn't. I mean, seriously, I love the genre. I have all of Robert Adams Horseclans novels, I recently got out SM Stirling's Nantucket series, and his Dies the Fire series is next up on my reading list. This? A faint glimmer of an idea... the sort of idea that generated Water World.

However, as an action movie, it rocked. EXPLOSIONS! Explosions make everything better (well, maybe not everything...) The lead chick was pretty hot, the eye trick was super nifty with a side of keen and the chase and fight scenes were fun. So after I stopped choking on the scenario and turned off my brain, I had fun.

We went to dinner afterwards, and I'm thinking I need to start bringing earplugs to movies. Especially for all the ones coming up. It doesn't always happen to me, but more often than not I come out of movies (particularly ones with explosions) with a headache. Low-grade, as they go, but bad enough. Especially if we're headed to dinner for post-movie dissection.