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Crank – The Movie

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As I mentioned in an earlier post I haven’t been feeling very well over the last week, and especially through the weekend.

So what have I been doing? Well .. I have been working a very little bit behind the scenes on our sites, but mostly I was lying on the couch trying to feel better.

Since there isn’t much on TV now that most of the shows have had their season finale I’ve been paying more attention to what’s on the movie network. We’ve been paying extra to have the movie networks as part of our cable package for years, but I must admit we really can’t justify the expense as we don’t tend to watch movies very often.

200px-crank_final.jpg That’s about to change.

On Saturday we ended up watching a movie that I think I taped Friday evening on the DVR.

The movie was Crank, a 2006 action/thriller film, written and directed by both Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. The Lions Gate Films-produced film stars Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Efren Ramirez, and Dwight Yoakam.

Chris and I both loved this film.

This action filled movie got my adrenaline pumping:

Summary from Wikepedia

After Chev Chelios, a hit man, completed a job, he wakes up hallucinating, finding himself extremely uncomfortable. He plays a DVD message from a rival hit man who reveals that Chev has been injected with a mysterious poison known as the “Beijing Cocktail” and he has only an hour to live. Chev soon realizes that the poison can only be slowed by his own adrenaline. With what little time Chev has left alive, he plans to get his revenge on the people who injected him with the poison. He must fight and race all throughout Los Angeles to say goodbye to his girlfriend, Eve, while keeping his adrenaline pumping. He will face-off against his employers at every turn as he searches for an antidote to save his life.

I really wasn’t all that sure in the beginning if I’d like it or not. The hallucinating, out of it scenes in the beginning made me feel that I wouldn’t enjoy this movie but I was totally wrong. I loved it. As you watch the movie you just get hooked, and by the end you almost don’t want it to end.

I rarely say this, but I could have watched this movie again right after the first viewing ended.

I don’t know if this film is still showing on the movie channels this month, but I do believe that it’s out on DVD, so if you’re looking for a good movie to watch look for Crank.





The Winnie The Pooh Store – a collectors dream

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Almost every child receives a teddy bear as a gift when they are a baby, and some children end up with collections of teddy bears and soft toys that they continue to build upon well into adulthood.

One of our close friends is a teddy bear collector. She’s actually devoted two whole rooms of her large house to her collection as it’s just that huge. She must have more than 1000 bears of all sizes!

If you are a collector of Teddy Bear and or Winnie The Pooh related products, or perhaps would like to purchase a Winnie the Pooh bear gift for a small child and encourage a child’s love of all things teddy bear, you might be interested in visiting Beartoday.com.

Bear Today specializes in traditional teddy bears by Steiff and Gund and carries the whole Winnie The Pooh collection of Teddy Bears, soft toys and games. Bear Today has offices in both the USA and the UK.

I’ve been a Winnie the Pooh fan since childhood, but surprisingly I don’t believe that I ever had a Winnie The Pooh teddy bear. Perhaps it’s time I got one? I’m sure kids today love Winnie The Pooh teddy bears and his companions Pigglet, Tigger, Eeyore and other characters that are scattered throughout the classic animated shows and books as much as I did when I was young and in fact, if I must confess, still do today.

If you visit beartoday.com you’ll find that you can purchase the whole line of licensed Winnie The Pooh products. You can find classic and vintage Winnie The Pooh items on the site. I’ve found the prices range to be quite reasonable, and the products are all high end and of the highest quality made by respectable and well known “teddy bear” manufactures such as Gund.

You’ll also find that Bear Today carries other classic teddy bear collectibles such as Paddington bears, as well as giftware, stationary, greeting cards, birthday cards, posters, books and other items.

I’m actually quite amazed at the expanse of their collection. Not only can you find quality Winnie The Pooh products, but you can also find items from Humphreys Corner, Max and Ruby, Dora the Explorer, Sesame Street, Beatrix Potter, Disney and many others.

Just browsing through the collection brought back great childhood memories of all the things I used to love when I was young.

Visit the store if you need gift ideas for a baby, child or a bear collector.

Alanis Morissette sings National anthems before Hockey Game

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Did you see the beginning of the hockey game? (yes Ottawa lost). Alanis Morissette sang the national US and Canadian anthems before the start of game 4.

I thought it was pretty good. She has such a unique voice I was afraid she might get carried away but I liked her versions of both anthems. I think she let a little more of her personal style into the Canadian anthem, but she’s a Canadian from Ottawa so that’s allowed.

Did anyone else catch her performance?

Get the Atomic Alarm Clock for your computer

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If you want to get more organized, or if you are the type of person why likes to keep track of things such as appointments, birthdays and other events you might be interested in visiting the Atomic Alarm Clock – home page. The atomic Alarm Clock was created to be an advanced replacement for the Windows tray clock.

You can install a copy of the Atomic Alarm clock and use on your desktop as an actual alarm clock, or even as an event reminder. The Atomic Alarm clock is fully customizable. You can set it up to remind you of multiple events, perhaps with a pop up window or by playing a sound or an MP3 file.

Actually it seems that a number of people are using the Atomic Alarm clock as a real alarm clock. Why? Well, I think they are doing so because it’s so easy to customize. You can set it up to play an MP3 at a certain time each morning to wake you up, or it can play any sound that you like. You can also set the clock so that the alarm only works from Monday to Friday and doesn’t wake you up on Saturdays and Sundays when you want to sleep in.

It’s quite a versatile program.

One thing that I like about the Atomic Alarm clock is that you can download over 100 different skins in order to customize the look and feel of the Atomic Alarm Clock.

Here’s some of the skins that you can download:

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If you’d like to try the Atomic Alarm clock you can download clock right here.

The Atomic Alarm Clock comes with multilingual interface support, and you can display the ti for any time zone. Check it out.

Putting Chris to bed

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I just had to coax Chris to go to bed. All week he’s working the early shift so he’s got to get up at 5 a.m.. Yikes! Of course, Ottawa and Anaheim are playing the fourth? Stanley Cup finals game tonight.

He would have stayed up to watch the whole game if he could have, and when Anaheim took the lead in the 2nd period he wanted to. I was keeping my fingers crossed that Ottawa would tie up the game because I knew I’d be able to coax him to get to bed if the game was at least tied.

Ottawa did tie it up so he’s in bed now. That’s a good thing too ’cause Anaheim just took the lead again!

Yes you read that right. I actually left the hockey game on even though Chris has gone to bed. I don’t know why … well other than the fact that I hope Ottawa wins this game too! Hey, it’s my home town, I gotta hope the Sens win!

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