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New Adventure

I posted here a while ago about a competition that the peeps over at OurChurch.com were holding. Well I was one of the winners. Right now I am setting up the new flavour of JustPlainRon for your consuming pleasure.

I wanted to make a shout-out to all of those who helped me win cause it was your comments that won me the prize. So watch this space and I will let you know when the new space is up and running.

I will make sure that all of you who subscribe will continue to get the goodness delivered into your mailbox/feedreader so don’t stress about that.

Like I mentioned here, I I’ll be using Human3rror’s awesome simpl3 wordpress theme, Marla is going to be working on some images so that I can correctly broadcast what I am about.

Hope to see you over at http://justplainron.com in record time.

Caption Please

I just got this in an email from my wife so I  have no idea who to credit for the photo. But…

Caption Please

Film Review – Brothers

Marla and I see a good number of movies. Not as many as during our pre-kid days, but it is still ‘our thing’. I thought that every now and then I would review a film we see. Not because I am a film critic or anything, but just because I enjoy watching the things and like to put my opinion across

Last night we saw “Brothers” with Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire directed by Jim Sheridan (IMDB). If you are planning on seeing the film then probably don’t read further.

Liar Liar

This morning I looked like a liar. Not intentionally and I was not really lying, it just looked like I was. I got asked to do something that I did not think I could do, I said I could not do it, and then ended up doing it. See what I mean?

The Incredible Machine

Do you remember “The Incredible Machine”, or TIM for short? This morning a colleague reminded me of the hours I used to spend creating the perfect machine.

AARRRRGGGGG

I like cats. We have 2. One is an attention seeking pest and the other is a grumpy old fart. But I like them none the less.

Busted? Maybe not!

As I mentioned over here. Marla and I are considering moving out of our house. This means one of two things, either we rent our little place out or we sell it.

In both these cases you can do it the private way or you can employ the services of a professional to do it for you. What with all the other stresses this project is sure to bring, we decided to involve an estate agent.

Some things are free, but for others you have to write a blog post

A good friend of mine who blogs here and here sent me a link to a blog post at ourchurch.com offering to give me free hosting for my blog. Well it’s more like a competition where you can win free hosting.

So I thought I would give it a bash.
What I had to do was post a comment on the original post stating my goals for blogging in 2010. Then you, my loyal readers (ha ha) have to post a reply to my comment. the person with the most replies, wins free hosting. To make things fair the competition holders are going to pick one other entrant at random. So far I am the only person to enter so I guess I can win twice

Here is a copy of my entry, go here and leave a reply.

Well here goes! First a disclaimer. I am a Christian and I blog, having said that I am not sure that qualifies me as a ‘Christian Blogger’. While I do blog every now and then about things directly relating to Christianity, it is not the theme for my blog.
About goals for my blog (and I am sure this is going to disqualify me)…
I am not sure how easy it is to set goals for a blog. I can’t make people read or comment on my material. I am not sure I even blog for other people, it is more for myself. But, since I started blogging in January of last year, I went through a few months of blogging once a day (sometimes more), and then my second child was born, since then my activity has been sporadic and infrequent.
So I think the big goal for me this year is to regularly post 3 posts a week (I know nothing like setting the bar high (lol).
So go check it out http://justplainron.wordpress.com and if you want to hear more from me, leave a reply (here or there), cause if I win free hosting I will have to post more often (even if it just to assuage some guilt).

So go there now

Hollywood can only make so many movies

Have you ever noticed that movies can seem a bit predictable? I’m not complaining, it must be near impossible to come up with a storyline that no-one has thought of before. And if you do, chances are that people won’t like it. The fact of the matter is that Hollywood knows what sells and they keep selling it. And knowing this we continue to buy it and then complain that it was unoriginal. Funny.

A friend at work just sent me this.

SPOILER AHEAD

Thanks Matt Bateman (I don’t know who you are, but your name is on the image so I assume you were the author of this piece of work.

personally I thought Avatar was a remake of countless high school romantic comedies. You know the one where:

• The Popular Girl breaks up with her Popular Boy
• PB wants to get back at PG and make her jealous.
• PB’s friends dare him to date Unpopular (and usually unattractive) Girl.
• PB accepts dare, but as he gets to know UG he falls for her.
• On the eve of prom UG finds out about the dare and tearfully breaks it off with PB
• PB is devastated.
• PB does something heroic to win UG’s affections (back) (usually this has something to do with dissing PG).
• PB and UG (who turns out to be devastatingly beautiful in a prom dress) get back together again (for real this time).

Having said all that I loved Avatar. Especially the funky ponytail filamenty things.

Seen Avatar? Your thoughts?
What do you think of originality vs sell-ability?