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We were just informed one hour ago from our building management that an emergency maintenance window is scheduled for this Saturday morning, February 24th, at 1AM PST. UPDATE! The building has just changed the window to be 23 hours later.. it is now scheduled for Sunday morning, February 25th, at 12:01AM PST. This maintenance window involves taking our entire building’s power off line for approximately 3 hours.

I'm pretty darn amazed at the crazy comments by some customers on this page. Yeah, Dreamhost has had some issues in the recent past, but this is totally out of their control. Also, it's three hours in the middle of the freaking night. Come on, people. I'm not losing any sleep over the fact that brendoman.com and all related sites will be down for thee hours on Sunday morning. Go to sleep or something. I know it will be hard for everyone, but I think we can work through this.

Hewitt is a pretty darn awesome point and click adventure. Reminds me of the old LucasArts games such as Day of the Tentacle or Monkey Island, but with an even geekier twist. Very nice.

via Download Squad

Roses – Outkast
Fragrance of Pink – Sarah Masen
The Sky Is Crying - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
What Sarah Said – Death Cab For Cutie
The Wanderer – U2 & Johnny Cash
Tracy Jacks – Blur
Rose of My Heart – Johnny Cash
Miracle on 42nd St. – The Flaming Lips
Vigilante Man – Woody Guthrie
Stick Around – Steve Burns

I finally had a chance to catch this one at the dollar theatre a couple of weeks ago. I'm glad I did. It was nice to see Robert De Niro's eye for directing, since I've only ever seen what he can do as an actor. Actually, he is both director and supporting character in this movie, and I loved both.

The casting of the Good Shepherd, which chronicles one man's experience as an early CIA agent, is one of my favorite aspects of the movie. The way each actor is used in the film, and given just the right particular look, adds so much to its overall success. De Niro, Damon, Joe Pesci, and Alec Baldwin all look slightly different than we have ever seen any of them, which is hard to do. In a way, I guess I'm also praising the makeup artists, but I wouldn't go too far in that praise, because, try as they might, the makeup artists weren't able to convey the aging process very well on Damon and Angelina Jolie. They both look about 5 years older at the end of their story than when they began, and the first time their son called Jolie "mother" my theatre audience was surprised.

Besides this little flaw and a couple of small script choices, I really liked this one. It's slightly predictable in form, but tells a new story, and the calmly told story of Edward Wilson appreciable both for its meticulous style and interesting subject matter. Where the film does fall into predictible situations, the details of the story, acting, and stylish way in which it's presented make up for it.

I would go into more detail, but work's busy these days, so let's just say I liked it quite a bit, and especially appreciated how the old ladies who sat in front of us let us know what was going on about 1 minute after everyone else had figured it out. :)