The McIntyre Family

A geek, his family, and some other stuff…

Neo’s Passport in the Matrix Expired on 9/11/2001

Filed under: Cool, Movies — davem at 7:35 pm on Saturday, August 16, 2008
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This is interesting and just plain creepy. The Matrix was released in 1999 and in one scene when Agent Smith is questioning Neo you can see his passport. If you look closely you can see a bunch of information (birthday, address, etc.) but what is of interest is that the passport expires on 9/11/2001. I know it is coincidental, but still looking at it today… Wow!

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Got A New Toy

Filed under: Cool, Dave — davem at 9:41 pm on Friday, August 15, 2008
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Picked up my new laptop today!  Sweet!  Writing this very post from it now.  Its a pretty nice Toshiba Satellite laptop.  Not too shabby.  My only beef so far is that it came with Vista Home Premium.  Not a huge fan of Vista but I’ll try it out for a bit and see how it goes.  The really neat thing is that though the laptop is Vista it seems that the default install was Vista 64bit!  All you non-geeks can ignore that last part.  Anyway, love the new laptop and worse case with Vista is I blow it away and install Linux.

My PlayStation Network Account

Filed under: Dave, Games — davem at 6:02 pm on Sunday, August 10, 2008
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For anyone who has a PS3 and wants to add me as a friend…

Stop Reading This and Go See The Dark Knight

Filed under: Movies — davem at 7:42 pm on Wednesday, July 30, 2008
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Nice to see you ignored the title of my post…  Anyway, forget everything you’ve read about Heath Ledger as the Joker. Until you actually see his performance you can’t adequately comprehend how incredible it is. I was convinced that he was a psychopath after about two minutes. Bale, Eckhart, Caine, Oldman, and Freeman were all great, but Heath Ledger stole this movie. It is chilling to watch and I highly recommend everyone go and see this movie at least once. I saw it in IMAX and it was that much better ;-)

Its sad that we can never see the Joker portrayed like this again.

Eric’s Bloody Nose

Filed under: Eric — davem at 1:42 pm on Saturday, July 26, 2008
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Last night Eric had a horrible bloody nose.  To top it all of he rubbed blood all over his face.  I have included some pics of Eric from the war torn battlefield (i.e. Eric vs his nose) and a video with him in the bath explaining what happened.  You can’t make this stuff up!

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

Filed under: Humor, TV — davem at 10:50 pm on Friday, July 25, 2008
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I’m a fan of Joss Whedon (Buff, Angel, Firefly, etc.) so when I found his latest project I had to check it out.  It was completely funded out of pocket by Whedon which makes it all the more impressive.  It’s called Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and it is a three part web epic starring Nathan Fillion (Firefly) as the arrogant superhero Captain Hammer and Neil Patrick Harris as the misunderstood villain Dr. Horrible.  It’s damn funny and I highly recommend everyone check it out.  It was free to watch until a couple of days ago and now can be purchased through iTunes.  There also is plans for a DVD in the works.

[Watch: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]

Finally a Site for the Lonely Undead Guy

Filed under: Humor — davem at 10:41 pm on Friday, July 25, 2008
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Here’s a link to a pretty humourous spoof of relationship sites like eHarmony.  It’s called ZombieHarmony and its pretty funny.  Click the link below to check the site out.

ZombieHarmony
Created by Mingle2.com (Dating for non-zombies)

Zero Punctuation - Alone In The Dark

Filed under: Games, Humor — davem at 7:37 pm on Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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If you play video games you need to check this out.  Zero Punctuation is The Escapist’s video review series starring Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw (a British-born, Australian-based writer and gamer which I think explains the type of humor you are in for). Every Wednesday Zero Punctuation rips apart games in a humorous style with zero punctuation (thus the title).

This week Yahtzee reviews Alone In The Dark which you can watch from the link below…

[Watch: Zero Punctuation - Alone In The Dark]

Check My Status On Twitter

Filed under: Dave, Misc — davem at 7:05 pm on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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Hey!  I just joined Twitter.  You can check my status out here –> https://twitter.com/david_mc.  For those not in the know Twitter is a micro-blogging site that allows you to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to the question of What are you doing?

Canadians Game in the Nude

Filed under: Games — davem at 5:42 pm on Thursday, July 10, 2008
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Canadian FlagWtf!?!?  Microsoft recently commissioned a survey that asked several questions about gaming habits.  Turns out almost 1 in 4 Canadians (23%) enjoy gaming in the nude.  Yep naked gaming is all the rage.  I have two comments on this.  The first is why would a survey even ask such a question and the second is that I can assure you I am wearing pants. :-)

The article linked below has some other interesting Canadian gaming facts from the survey. Check it out!

[Read: Digital Home Canada]

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