We saw Revenge of the Sith over the weekend. It was definitely the best of the prequels, but it still wasn’t as good as the three original movies.

The dialog was unbelievable – literally. George Lucas, please stop writing scripts. The diction and formality of everything was over the top. Nobody talks like the people in the Star Wars prequels do – not even the people in your original Star Wars movies!

When a wookie flew into the scene on a vine and does a goddamned Tarzan yell, I wanted to stand up and yell “Bullllll SHIT! Who made this movie!?”

There wasn’t a single non-CGI droid in the entire film – excluding C3P0 and R2D2. My favorite part about the old Star Wars movies was seeing all the scary looking droids that made terrifying motorized sounds when they moved and gave you nightmares. Remember all those half-assembled droids on the jawas’ sand crawler? Of course you do – that’s because they were believable and if you’re anything like me they scared the shit out of you. But these stupid CGI ‘battle droids’ and from the prequels? Their movements are unnatural and unimpaired by silly things like ‘gravity’ and ‘wind resistance’, they look like they’re made of plastic, they’re dumb as rocks, and any motors that may be powering their joints are completely silent.

Honestly, if I saw an RA-7 or a Power Droid (from the old movies) coming towards me, I would get the hell out of the way. Battle droids and other CGI creations are not scary in the least.

So yay, at least this is the last Star Wars movie ever. I don’t know how much more scarring my pleasant childhood memories of Star Wars can take at this point.

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Eddie Albert has died.

I started watching Green Acres years ago when they started playing it on Nick at Nite. This is sad news for me.

The guy was 99! I had no idea he was so old. That’s a good long life right there, I tell ya what.

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Let’s say you have a lot of business cards. They might be other peoples’, or they might be your own.

It only takes six to make a business card cube. Six more if you want to make it seamless.

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Sirius updated their channel lineup this week.

New channels include Jimmy Buffett’s Radio Margaritaville on 98 and Martha Stewart Living on 131.

Sirius Vacation has moved from 99 to 97, and while the programming remains the same the channel has been renamed “Sirius” on the program guide, leading me to assume that Vacation is not long for this world. I’d guess that Margaritaville will play everything that Vacation plays now.

The “Our Time” women’s channel has been removed from the lineup. Our Time programming is still played on 125 but is now pre-empted by sporting events.

AirAmerica on 144 is now called Talk and should get some new programming once AirAmerica leaves Sirius for an exclusive deal with XM. (I guess hippies just love working with ClearChannel – go figure!)

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The full trailer for Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is now yours for the taking!

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Scannerbase’s 246T Audio Recorder 1.0 is a simple and effective piece of freeware that’ll work with Uniden’s BC246T and SC230 scanners to automatically record any audio that comes through the scanner.

When pasted into an mp3 player’s playlist these recordings effectively eliminate the silence between tramissions to provide you with a continuous listening experience – very useful if you spend a lot of your time tuned in to stations with very little radio traffic.

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Nutmeg has laminitis. We were at the barn late last night with the vet shooting her up with drugs, an IV – the works. In the next few days we’ll have some x-rays done to see how bad the damage is and then make some more decisions from there.

This came at the worst possible time. Tammy’s going to be in Las Vegas at a tradeshow next week and we’ve spent a frightening amount of money to have workers beautify our house just a few days ago. That won’t even be done for two weeks, so I’m having to walk around air compressors and wood splinters in my living room, making my own home not feel like the most comfortable place to be. So I’m a little tired and frazzled today. I can only imagine how Tammy feels. She’s the strongest person I know and she’s holding up really well.

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You could play 20 Questions with a computer or you could play it with Lord Vader.

Your call.

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Virtual Magic Kingdom is now open in a free beta.

The restrictive word filter they have on there is so asinine that both “restrictive” and “filter” are not allowed.

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Thurl Ravenscroft died over the weekend. If you ever wondered to yourself why Tony the Tiger was narrating your trip on the Disneyland Railroad, it’s because Thurl Ravenscroft was doing the talking.

An accomplished voice-over actor, Thurl provided narration and voices for countless Disneyland attractions, and he can still be heard in many corners of the park even today.

The OC Register has an obit.

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