8. December, 2003 - Weekend Wrap-up
- Well, here’s the wrap-up of the weekend. Saturday, I attempted to go to the gun show in Apache Plaza with a friend. We got there, wandered around, quizzed a security guard, and finally (after driving around to the right door) found out that it had been moved to Stillwater, so we had a little journey. Both of us saw a few things that would have been cool had they not been way overpriced, but we ended up spending less than $20 between us (including the gas to get there), so we didn’t do much to stimulate the economy. Oh, and the reason it wasn’t at Apache Plaza is that they're going to be tearing the building down at the end of the year and building a new shopping center there.
- Saturday night saw a few of us gathering for Bubba Ho-Tep. It’s an okay movie. Not great. Hell, not even as good as Army of Darkness probably, but I still had fun. I’ll probably end up owning it on DVD eventually, and expect to watch it with beers more than once. By the end of the movie, I was actually buying Bruce Campbell as Elvis and Ossie Davis as JFK, which may say more for the power of my suspension of disbelief than it does of the movie, but BC did a pretty darned good old fat Elvis. But the audience in the theater was laughing out loud more than once, and the faces emerging after the movie was done were happy ones. If you go into it expecting a pretty darned fun B-movie, you probably won’t be disappointed.
- Taco Bell Net has everything you want to know (and probably more) about the fast food chain that gives you the runs for the border. [fark!]
- What is clean water worth? Well, a proposal headed for the legislature, $3 per home with city sewer, $36 per home with septic tank, and $150 per business. They had me until that last bit, but since I run a business, I don’t think the $150 for every business, regardless of size, is very fair. [press-patch]
- Looks like it’s not just paranoids talking about the fun new game of RFID tag anymore.
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Mon, 08 Dec 2003 07:35:41.
