Top 10......

Here is my list of favorite dramatic movie quotes. I only used one per movie franchise to help mix it up a little. Each of them has stuck with me after seeing it multiple times, hence they made the list. I'm sure most of them won't be a surprise to anyone as I have used them numerous times in everyday life.

#10

Reverend Sykes: Jean Louise. Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.

#9

Pvt. Trip: We anty up and kick in, sir. But I still don't want to carry your flag

#8

William Wallace: In the Year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland - starving and outnumbered - charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets; they fought like Scotsmen, and won their freedom.

#7

Roger 'Verbal' Kint: The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

#6

Andy Dufresne: Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

#5

John Doe: Because I envy your normal life it seems that envy is my sin

#4

Tom Ripley: No matter what you do, no matter how awful, no-one ever thinks that they're a bad person.

#3

Hannibal Lecter: And you think if you save poor Catherine, you could make them stop, don't you? You think if Catherine lives, you won't wake up in the dark ever again to that awful screaming of the lambs.

#2

Michael Corleone: I know it was you Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!

and the #1 movie quote on my list is..........


Darth Vader: No. I am your father.

Things I Hate #1

This is a new segment to my blog where I'll briefly tell what is bugging me at the moment.



I swear Rex Hudler says the most idiotic things. Today I hear "Last year Weaver had 18 hit by pitches, and that’s a good number, this year he only has 3, he needs to get that up"

Wait, did I just hear Hudler promoting base runners for the opposing team? He then tries to clarify saying, "Hit by pitches can keep a team off-balance"

Yes Rex, that’s what they do, they don't score for the opposing team, nor do they start rallies, or perhaps cost wins.

Wow the Dodgers are actually rolling right now, thats pretty shocking considering we have Just Disabled Drew, Old Man Kent, Gummy Bears Lowe and 8 people on the DL. Nevertheless they are rolling right now and hopefully charging to first place soon. As for the sweep of the Angels I would like to say thank you Jeff Weaver for proving Ned Coletti right, Garrett Anderson for being to hurt to play, and Casey Kotchman for making out with some chick to come down with mono. Anywho I'm still a little hesitant about this season, but who knows what can happen. Until then.....

Look at that mountain
Look at that tree
Look at that bum over there, man
He's down on his knees
Look at these women
There ain't nothin' like 'em nowhere

Century Boulevard (We love it)
Victory Boulevard (We love it)
Santa Monica Boulevard (We love it)
Sixth Street (We love it, we love it)

I love L.A.
I love L.A.
(We love it)

I like Free

Nothing makes me happier than getting things for free. A few weeks ago I was at "Harbucks" with a friend at work. I just wanted a cup of black coffee, but they had just started brewing so they said I'd have to wait, but they would bring it over to me at no charge. I was like sweet! So I went and sat in the corner to talk with my friend, about 10 minutes into our conversation I realized I was still thirsty. I went to the counter to ask about it, and naturally the guy had forgotten and apologized immediately. He gave me a venti size coffee even though I only wanted a tall (that means large instead of small for you non-harbucks fans). He also gave me a free drink coupon. Flash-forward to yesterday. I go in to redeem the coupon and as they enter the coupon, the computer prints out another free coupon for me. That’s right 3 for the price of none! Awesome. I think I’m slowly taking down the entire harbucks corporation with all my free coffee. Yeah I'm fighting the system.

Fire Marshall Brad

Today I had a very unique opportunity to hang out with firefighters from Orange County. This past week has been proclaimed as Emergency Services Week throughout all of California. The Orange County Fire Authority sent out notices that they would be having demonstrations, so being the E.A. in charge of public protection for my boss, I volunteered to go. I wore my usual dress pants, shirt, and shoes. Unfortunately, I found out that I was a little overdressed, as the secretary in our office had signed me up under participant. I put the fire jacket and fire pants over the clothes I was wearing, put on my helmet, goggles, gloves and boots and was taco bell! (That’s Good to Go for those who don't know)



First they all the participants climb the fire ladder into a building. We didn't have the backpacks on, but suits alone were heavy enough, and they don't bend well around the knees so it was a lot tougher than it sounds. After that they took us to the fire room, where they can recreate different types of fires. They showed us a flashpoint or "backdraft" where the whole room becomes engulfed in flames. What were really cool were the department's new infrared cameras. They can see through the thickest smoke to find any thing with heat. It really helps locate people, and fire that is hiding in the walls or ceiling.

The last part of the demonstrations was probably the coolest. We had to take apart cars, as if there were injured people inside. I got to use this thing that you press on any glass to make it shatter. Then they took out the heavy duty weapons, electric metal cutters that use 60,000lbs of pressure, the Jaws of Life, and a rotary saw.



This was really tiring; we cut off the roof of an old Cutlass Supreme. Then we used the Jaws of Life to take off the doors. By this time I was exhausted and sweating through my clothes, yeah I know it’s pretty gross. Overall it was a great day. I never really considered a career in firefighting but I could definitely see why some are appealed to it. Even though I was just doing simulations it was still a pretty cool rush. I did learn that out of 8000 applications, the OCFA only accepts about 60 of them for 2 academy classes, so competition is crazy. After going through all that I had to go back and sit in my office staring at a computer screen.......makes it seem pretty pointless

A new holiday....

Working for the County of Orange I was pretty sure I knew every holiday possible (I'm off Columbus Day for goodness sake). Anyway I came into work today and read the news like I always do only to find that I was at work when I really shouldn't be. The reason you ask?

ITS CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY OF COURSE!!



Although its currently only being celebrated in South Carolina I think that I gotta push Orange County to start recognizing it as well. I mean, I'm sure Germany celebrates Kaiser Wilhelm's and Adolf Hitler’s great wars right? And doesn't Japan throw big parties to commemorate their participation in World War II? Oh wait they don't cause they lost!!! Please don't give me the "ooh its our heritage" cause its bullcrap. You lost get over it. If you have the right to fly your confederate flag I should be given the right to fly my flag that says South Carolina got its ass handed to them by New England. I mean that’s my heritage right?

Why was May 10th chosen you may ask? This day marks the death of Confederate commander Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

The part that baffles me the most is that this "official holiday" in South Carolina was implemented in 2000 as part of a compromise that also made Martin Luther King Day a permanent holiday. I swear every time I hear South Carolina I think of what my American Politics teacher told me: "South Carolina is too small to be considered a country, and to big to be considered an insane asylum."

Anyway I'm getting angry writing this so I’ll end it here with one more picture:



These are the actual chairs that General Grant and General Lee used when Lee surrendered. So just in case anyone from the South forgot.....umm you still lost!

The Office

One of my favorite shows to watch from the past year is the office. Naturally NBC decided that Thursday night was the best night to air it, but for me that means bowling night and alas I miss it. Lucky for me there are some cool people out there who have decided to put episodes on limewire. So I have spent the past 3 days trying to dl all of season 2 and I think I have almost all of them.

Today I watched the episode "Conflict Resolution." In the episode Dwight goes to the Human Resources guy every time Jim pulls a new prank on him. Jim is quite creative:

- Move Dwight's desk 2 inches closer to the copy machine every time he gets up.
- Replace all of Dwight's pens and pencils with crayons
- Create a macro program so every time Dwight types his name it is replaced with diapers
- Put a grip of nickels in the receiver of the phone so it feels heavier, then take them out once Dwight was adjusted to the additional weight. Watch Dwight bang his head.

Anyway that got me thinking to good office pranks. Back in my housing authority days me and my friend were always trying to top one another. She got me really good by having the IT people disconnect my internet. Then my boss came and scheduled a meeting with me for later that afternoon. I go in there nervous as hell. He sits me down, and starts going over excessive internet access from my computer, including fantasy sports sites, espn.com, and web radio. Then he pulls out this file, makes me sign an affidavit saying i won't do it anymore. Then he goes over the county's policy on web use. After I acknowledge I learned my lesson, he hands me another paper that says, that the joke was on me and none of it was real. I turn around to see my friend and all the other people in her department laughing at me. It was sooo not cool! Anyway I admitted she won that round, but the war is not over. Being that I don't work there anymore its harder to come up with things, but alas I shall have my revenge.............

Whats an eltdown?

Being a political science major, I always get somewhat interested come election time. As the primary election is about a month away I have been looking at the two democratic candidates for governor, Steve Westly and Phil Angelides. The republicans have decided to back Arnold for another term for some strange reason so there really isn't much to decide in that regard. Being open minded I decided to check out both their websites to see what their issues are.

Both of them seem relatively nice, open to change and have their own agenda for where they want to take the state and such, all of which is fine and dandy. Then i decided to check out their photo galleries and such, and thats where I found something very disturbing on Westly's website. Here it is:



Yeah that's right you saw it here first. That is a picture of him and his wife. And we all know what I say when I see something like this. So if you are voting Democratic, you gotta vote Angelides!

MI:3?

Is anyone out there really dying to see this movie? really? why? There are a few reasons why this movie doesn't really appeal to me. First of all it looks like its going to be pretty much the same thing as MI:1 and MI:2. Secondly, it’s Tom Cruise who has gone from likeable American boy next door to alien controlled crazy guy (allegedly). My perspective of Tom had always been, okay he seems nice and he is part of that crazy group but whatever. Now with him shoving it down our throats how he has done the research on everything, everything but vitamins and exercise are bad, and how great scientology is, I have to say that I'm no longer impressed with anything he does. Perhaps it’s because he has finally reached OT VII.

This post should have probably been first.

Okay this is my second post although it probably should have been my first. I had been wanting to have my own blog for a while now, but I was always fearful that I wouldn't be able to make it an accurate reflection of myself, nevertheless I will try.

The origin of the site's name is shockingly not related to the Dodgers or the Broncos, but instead to tv. It's at the begining of an episode of Futurama. Rather than butcher the story line, i'll just post the video itself, don't worry you only need to watch less than 2 minutes of it, unless you wish to watch it all:



Yeah, yeah I know its not that funny, but I always get a kick out of it so deal!

There really isn't a much of a purpose to this blog, if something bothers me, an issue comes up that I want to voice my concern for to the masses (and by masses I mean the 10 people that may actually read this), or I just want to bitch and complain about something going on I'll have an outlet to do so. My only concern is that I'll be able to keep it fresh and entertaining enough so that you will all want to come back.

Go Dodgers?

I think I can pitch for the Dodgers this year, I mean lets look at my stat line for the one game I pitched in little league:

0 IP 2 hits 5 walks 2 HBP 5 ER (Loss)

Yeah I know the loss is a shocker to us all. Now lets look at a couple of relief pitchers for the Dodgers:

Franquelis Osoria from 5-3-06

0 IP 5 hits 0 walks 5 ER 2 HR (Loss)

Lance Carter from 4-30-06

0 IP 1 hit 1 walk 3 ER

these are just two of the many examples from this season, and I'm sure there will be more to come! Is it football season yet?