Movie Review: Religulous

Went to ye olde movie haus this weekend for the first time in a long time.  Jesi and I decided to see Religulous, the new Bill Maher commentary on religion.

Let me start off by saying this, If you are a devout follower of any of the big 3-4 major religious doctrines on our planet, you will probably not like this movie.  In fact, it might make you violently ill.  However, barring that, let’s say you are one of the 16% of Americans that hold no religious beliefs, or maybe you only go to church/temple/mosque out of habit and so as not to upset your sainted mother.  This movie is for you. I haven’t laughed out loud in a movie theatre that much in a VERY long time.  It’s funny just as Borat was funny, pointing out ridiculousness in the common man, only with less naked man-wrestling.  This is unsurprising as apparently it is brought to us by the same director as Borat.

The movie is an A+, but the last few minutes do get a little preachy, which is extremely ironic considering the subject matter.  Bill Maher has this grand Call to Action for Agnostics, Atheists, and Nihilists everywhere.  “Rise up against your oppressors!”  But, as we all know, Nihilists are cowards, Donny.

Let’s get caught up, shall we?

Forgive me father for I have sinned.  It has been over 2 months since my last blogpost.

But really, that’s water under the bridge at this point.  Let’s get everyone up to speed with what’s happened in the last couple months:

• Still working at Citigroup.  I am now a full functioning member of the team.  I have a security badge, login, and now VPN access which means I work from home Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.  W00t.
• I’m really going to try and get my SharePoint blog up and running.  I’ve had a few false starts on it, but I have recently felt this new feeling in my gut.  I think it’s called ‘motivation’.  We’ll see if it’s a chronic condition or a 24 hour bug.
• Had a great trip to NY to visit the crew.  Kimi blogged about it here, although she wants everyone to know she has a new blog called “Love Is All You Knit“.  LOL.  My pics can be found here and it’s a good thing I took pics, because I probably wouldn’t remember most of my time there.  Unfortunately, I do remember puking on the floor of the East River Bar. . . twice.  C’est la vie.
• Britton has moved back to Dallas and conveniently rented out my extra room in my house.  He has recently found gainful employment and is experiencing the joys of steady work.

I think that’s about it.  Hopefully everyone out there in cyberspace is doing well.  I will now bid you adieu with a photo of some moose at the Museum of Natural History:

I mean really, what are the odds?

In my infinite wisdom, I have chosen September 11, 2008 as my date of arrival in New York City to visit the McClellans and Eric. Some may question my logic for trying to fly on a day where mandatory anal exams will probably be administered at every security checkpoint. I say, if we avoid travelling on 9/11, then the terrorists have already won.

First post using new iPhone app

This new wordpress app is pretty nifty.

I can even attach cool photos from my iPhone like this one of a sweet van mural:

New Cube Runner High Score

Cube Runner High Score

Originally uploaded by Tales_of_Interest

The score to end all scores. 743 on Easy. Booyeah.

I am weak

I gave up.  I quit.

I had a place in line at the Southlake AT&T store and had been there since 7:00am that morning.  At 8:50, I finally gave it up and went in to work.  I figure it’s still the first month at Citigroup, I probably shouldn’t show up late too much. 

Oh well.  Maybe I’ll wait for the 32GB model.

PS in case you live in an FLDS compound, I’m talking about the new iPhone 3G that came out today.

What is Grimmace anyway?

“Today, the right-wing American Family Association (AFA) announced a boycott of McDonald’s. According to AFA, Ronald McDonald and his gang are part of giant gay agenda”

Here’s the Article.

Quick update

I have been employed at Citigroup for 14 days now. I still do not have a network login, nor an access badge.

School update

Guess I should’ve posted this sooner.

My much-ballyhooed return to college has been cancelled for the time being.  I gave it a try, for about 2 weeks.  Unfortunately, I didn’t realize that University of Phoenix is the online equivalent of a community college in rural Alabama.  This really wouldn’t be a problem if I wasn’t saddled with the additional burden of working in a “Learning Team”.  “Learning Team” is a nice way of saying “Josh, you do all the work if you want this to be any good.”

I think to really finish my degree, I’ll either need to take classes in-person (to avoid the majority of “Learning Teams”) or find an online university with a higher quality of students.  I’ve been looking into DePaul’s program and it seems pretty nice, which is funny because I wanted to go to DePaul when I was in High School. 

Honestly though, I think right now I may concentrate on finishing up my MCSE certification and getting the SharePoint specialization tests under my belt as well.  This would have a more direct impact on my career than any college degree ever would.

Sign of the times