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Just got this one from Netflix. Finally.

Just cracked this one open. Here we go.

Been waiting for this movie for a very long time.

Saw this one over the past weekend and it was pretty fun. Not good, mind you, but relatively fun. Pitt and Jolie have real chemistry on-screen and its enjoyable to see them dodge and parry with each other during the more heated moments of the film.

So after Winter Quarter ended at DePaul, pretty much all my focus went into getting in shape for the summer track cycling season. What's track cycling? Bicycle racing around a banked track called a velodrome. Not a popular sport here at all. Only 18 velodromes in the entire U.S. compared to over 70 in Japan. Cycling in America is all road cyclists (thanks, Lance Armstrong) and mountain bikers. With under 1,500 competitive track cyclists in the whole country and just a handful at the Elite level, it's a pretty niche thing. Two of the U.S. velodromes happen to be in the Chicago area though. So here I am.

Ah, Slashdot... Someone posted images from the new Star Wars movie last week. There were about 80 images leaked in total covering every major scene in the movie: The Revenge of the Sith.

Got a strange letter in the mail the other day. Haven't opened it because it wasn't addressed to me. The address is the weird part:

Just signed up for Amazon Prime. $79 for a year of unlimited 2-day shipping. Overnight is only $3.99 extra. Already placed 7 or 8 orders in the few weeks since signing up.

I was listening to the news on the way home last night and heard some guy being interviewed about sick days and whether to take a sick day or not. The guy was some union worker and he said that the first thing he learned when he started working at a union shop was to never, ever take a sick day when actually sick. Always drag your ass in to work no matter how sick you are so that you can use your sick days for something fun, like fishing. Seriously, he said fishing. This whole concept is wrong on so many levels, not the least of which is the fact that when you are sick and at work, you are getting everyone else sick. I have already blogged about this before so no more here. But it just goes to show yet another reason why businesses don't like unions.

The Airbus A380 is the first "superjumbo" jet in the world. It has two full decks and carries 555 passengers in its nominal configuration. Other aircraft have had a second deck but no other airplane in the world has two complete decks. The A380's top deck carries 200 passengers. In an economy-class only seating configuration, the A380 will carry almost 900 passengers. The wingspan of the A380 is almost the length of a football field.