cuil (its pronounced cool)

well, one of googles own has gone and created her own google competitor.







presenting I like the different format instead of the list google uses. But Google has a monoply on search engines so just like Ask this will probably go by the wayside.

Leavenworth

Well I went on a family vacation to Leavenworth. Aunts & Uncles+Grandma+my immediate family were all there. We stayed at this nice house on the Wenatchee river. I actually had a great time.

I didn't get around to taking pictures until almost the last day but my uncle got ahold of my camera and took these pictures of squirrels.

We went whitewater rafting. Actually my father and I went kayaking. Kayaking is WAY better than rafting. The closer you are to the water the better. Of course it is much more difficult to stay afloat. So we swam threw the last rapids. That was exciting.

I finally got around to taking pictures and practicing my photography skillz on a hike to Twin Lakes.

I also managed to go fly fishing with my uncle. I only caught three fish but I had a ton of bites (bites don't count I know). I was doing catch and release but while in the proccess of releasing one fish it managed to escape my grasp and effectively killed itself. It fell into crack in a rock. And I couldn't reach it. So after much struggling my uncle came over and grabbed the fish and tonight I am planning on eating it.

One of the things I remember most from a previous trip to leavenworth was all the nice cars. This time I wasn't seeing any and then BAM! on the last day I found one.

For those who don't know it's an Aston Martin. The base price is somewhere around 200,000 big ones. and its the latest James Bond car.

Thats all folks.

Games

I pretty much sold all my PS2 games for $20.84 today. It's part of my cleaning/packing up for college.

The Dark Knight: A brief review

This movie was quite a bit darker than the first. And it has much stronger violence. But that's all ok. And unfortunately the movie theater was just about sold out so I pretty much had the worst seat, so I can't really write about graphics and cinematography.

Batman Begins sold me because the action and violence seemed to play a secondary role (or revolved around) to the philosophical arguments, morals, and character development. This movie had some of the same. It seemed to me that the directors/writers tried to recreate the feeling from Apocalypse Now, the feeling one might get from witnessing a murder or the feeling of being simply and utterly shocked by a large amount of violence. Unfortunately Apocalypse Now didn't quite do it for me so I struggled a little to stay connected to the movie. Actually The Dark Knight did a better job of creating this emotion by funneling it into the character "The Joker."

What I really didn't like about this movie was that it felt like it would never end. It's possible that I felt this way because it was around 0'dark thirty at night when I watched. But it seemed like every time the movie felt like it was going to end it didn't. The movie had a few to many climaxes.

The movie kinda left with a deconstructionist take on the situation. But to please the crowd the threw in a narrative at the end. The two rarely work out together. Yet this movie seemed to accomplish putting the two together because while narrative was going on the film showed a very nice montage of Batman running from the cops.

Anyway I liked the movie and got to see my Uncles Godkid act (he played the cops son)

I love camping

Steaks... Are a necessity. Seriously, How can one go that long without meat?

speed cameras tisk tisk

Point Defiance

Yesterday we (my family) went to the Point Defiance Zoo with our family friends, from the big AZ, the Oviedo's.

here are some pictures.

R U for Cereal?!

I think that they're serious. See TIME pictures of the week