Brushing up on my Espanol

Lately I’ve been looking for time effective ways to improve my Spanish and I’ve found a few different interesting products and services that fit my needs. One of those is LiveMocha, a social network centered on language learning and immersion. Signing up is free and once you’re in they give you an abundance of tools to learn a new language with. They offer self-directed courses you can take, live chat with other members who speak the language you’re learning (I’ll touch more on that in a future post, I found a really cool app), a practice section where other members edit or review your written submissions and a community driven tutoring section.

They’ve also got all the other features you’d expect to find in a social network such as messaging and friends lists. Overall I think they’ve got the right mix of user to user interaction and self directed activities and I plan to continue being a part of their community. You can check them out at www.livemocha.com.

Indiana Jones - Where are you?

So I went out to the Block in Orange County this weekend and had dinner with my wife and a friend at Koji's Shabu Shabu. I won't bother you with details but it was pretty good. After dinner someone (I'm not saying who) thought it would be a good idea to watch the latest Indiana Jones movie,"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull".

About 20 minutes later after watching Indy survive a nuclear blast by locking himself into a fridge, I began to think that maybe this wasn't such a great idea after all and that I'd probably have a better time if I stuck sharp objects under my fingernails......

Yeah I know, when you're at the movies your supposed to suspend disbelief. I just think that it's a little too much to ask me to believe that someone can survive a nuclear explosion by jumping into a fridge ( yeah I KNOW it was lined with lead). Did I mention he was also hurled through the air at thousands of miles per hour? Anyways, it wouldn't have surprised me to watch Harrison Ford rip off his shirt, put on a costume and cape and fly away after the bad guys.

After seeing what Indy had in store for me I thought, "Wow if the movie is already this bad what's gonna happen when they introduce Shia Lebeouf?" I'm no fan of Mr. Labeouf, I think he overacts, has terrible delivery and fails to look genuine everytime he's expressing anything other than "OH MY GOD THIS IS AWESOME DUDE". I won't spoil the rest of the movie for those of you who haven't seen it but by the end I actually began to enjoy watching Shia and Harrison Ford interact with each other. I think they worked well together and wouldn't mind watching the movie a second time when it's available on DVD or Blueray.

I'm still no Shia Lebeouf fan but I thought what he brought to the table worked in this instance. I still think somewhere along way, at some stage in its production, the movie lost it's soul or sold-out. Hopefully they won't try to make another and just let Indy ride off into the sunset like they were supposed to in the Last Crusade.

Welcome to my WORLD

public static void main(String args[])

System.out.println("Hello World!")

Ok, so I'm not a programmer, my sister's kid wrote that for me :P.
Point being is, Hello! Like it says in my description I love Tech.
It fascinates me how you can grow an idea into something tangible that you
can hold in your hand and use, watch, listen to, or work with on that glowing
and humming box you like to call a computer. I've always wondered what the
technology of "tomorrow" has in store for me, maybe If I live long enough
I'll find out what it's like to have my brain transplanted into a
robot body.....wait wasn't that made into a movie back in the 90's?