Sell Your Life, Right Now!

So did anyone else hear about this? http://www.alife4sale.com/

This guy in Australia named Ian Usher, after ending a five year marriage, decided he was going to sell his life. So Mr. Usher put his life on auction on ebay. And when I say life, I mean everything. He put the whole package down. His house, his car, his motorcycle, all his personal belongings (with the exception of the clothes on his back and his wallet) and even his job and his friends!

So the bids got as high as $2.2 million dollars, only to find out that there was a hack on the ebay server and people were making bogus bids. So although Mr. Usher had his hopes and heart set on that $2.2 million dollar mark, his life actually sold for a mere $380,286.00.

Now, that is still a large amount of money in a lump sum. But if you really think about it; surely with a home, car, personal belongings, etc, it's gotta be close to the same. I mean the lump sum coming at you like that has to feel good, but what do you do from here?

I do admire his bravado and his balls for taking this plunge. I don't know if I could ever do it. I would like to think that I would. The idea of being so free is so intriguing. I wish that I could do what he did, but I just don't know.

I think this is a pretty amazing story. I thought other people might like to hear about it, if you haven't already. I don't know what awaits you Ian Usher, but I wish you well. May your $380K and carefree attitude lead to your hopes and dreams. Good luck sir.

Now I am a Villain! Muah-haha. Bow to my awesome power and vanity underlings!

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Blessed with smarts and power but burdened by vanity.

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TOAST TO THE NEWLYWEDS

As many of you know and many of you don't, my brother got married this past Sunday the 22nd. The chapel was beautiful, the bride was beautiful, the groom was mighty handsome and everyone was in elated spirits. Unfortunately things didn't go exactly as planned. Doo-doo happens as I like to say.

So, I never had an opportunity to give my toast at the wedding. So I decided to give it here, what the hell.

To Shane and Lauren:

I look at you two, looking at each other and I know that you two will have that look always. You have that look of foreverness. I am so happy for you both and I am so happy that I could be a part of this.

Lauren: We may have not always seen eye to eye. Maybe it's because I am taller than you. :o) But I do know that in the last couple of years you have become such an important person in my life. You went from "that's the girl my brother is dating" to "that's Lauren, she's one of my best friends and I love her." I am so glad that you are a part of my family. ( I know that thought is scary; deep concentrated breaths make the fear go away.)

Shane: What can I say? You are my brother, my everlasting bane and my best friend. I remember tying you up as a little kid. We could use 100 ropes and you would always get out somehow. (This may be too R-rated for this blog. Trust me folks, he always wanted to be tied up. That's a topic that I we leave off the table.) Well needless to say, you have broken through the ropes of childhood and stepped into the realm of manhood. I am so proud of you and I will always be here for you, because... "It's guy love, guy love, it's love between two guys". Sorry broke out into a little song and dance. Anyway, you're my brother and you will always be more important to me than you can ever know. I love you; I am so happy for you.

You guys are great. I'm blown away with joy for you two. I can't wait to take our first totally extravagant, completely too intense couples anniversary sabbatical.


Congratulations guys. I love you both so much

Random Thought

So I received one of those random emails at work that wants you to put in your age and it calculates how many breaths you've taken, how many days you have lived, etc.

It was pretty cool. It even allowed you to click a button repeatedly and it would keep track of your current heartbeat and things like that.

Although I enjoyed it, it got me thinking. There should be a formula that can calculate how many minutes we each spend on the internet. This may be an extremely horrid idea, but I would really like to know. It seems that the internet has become a steadfast in all of our lives. It is kind of sad if you think about it. Most of the children in this country will read blogs, articles and stories online daily; but they will be lucky to read 3 or 4 books a year for pleasure.

And hey don't get me wrong, I love the internet too. Obviously. But I do enjoy the reading too. Take book, insert into face and you make a happy Shaun.

Anyway, just curious as to what other people think about this. Feel free to let me know. If you want to check it out let me know. It is in excel format so I need to email it to you.

I am Super Hero WOO-HOO!

Found this on a fellow bloggers site.

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You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

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The Happening?

This post is a bit over due, but as the saying goes, better late than never:

So, I went to see The Happening with wife and my brother. I was very eager to see this movie. I had been bombarded with flashes of violent deaths, supernatural events and the ever present R rating. At this point, I am not sure if that R stands for the rating or if it stands for REALLY?!?!

This movie was far and beyond everything I expected. Keep in mind my expectations were; I would see a good movie, I would enjoy it and I would come out talking about how wonderful it was. Instead I was left wondering why? Why? Why would anyone put that Thing ( I don't like referring to it as a movie) on the big screen.

The Thing starts off with a beautiful day in Central Park. On a bench we find two young women reading and having pleasant conversation as the park-strollers pass by. Then the world seems to freeze. A scream is heard, everyone seems to stop dead in their tracks. Everyone except for one of our lovely ladies reading a book seems to lose all awareness and motor skills. (Why did it effect everyone but her? Who knows!) The other bench reader decides this would be a good time to remove a pin from her hair and thrust it into her neck. (Something I contemplated myself, within a mere hour).

We then move to a scene in which construction workers are lunging themselves off of buildings. While watching this, one gets the sense that this is foreshadowing for how violent and frightening this movie is going to be. After sitting through the entire thing, you realize it was only a premonition of things to come inside the theater; as movie goers began throwing themselves from the balcony to escape this horrendous flick. If I had not such a frugal nature, I myself may have joined the pack rushing towards the doors. However, I paid my $7.00 and by God I was going to sit there and watch ever minute of the Thing. I am surprised that I survived to make this post.

Mark Wahlberg plays Elliot, a high school science teacher, who through the course of this film discovers the cause for the mass suicide. By mere "coincidence", Elliot stumbles upon a greenhouse owner who explains to him that plants can emit a neurotoxin whenever they feel threatened and that they react to human stimulus. To make a long story short: the plants got tired of us wrecking the world and decided to take vengeance.

Mark Wahlberg delivers ( in my personal opinion) the worst performs since he, walked with a limp, talked like he was from the hood and dropped his drawers on stage as one of the members of the prestigious Funky Bunch. I have to say that I was completely distraught after watching his performance. I am huge fan of Marky Mark, oh excuse me, Mark Wahlberg. I think he is an excellent actor, but his performance in this flat out stunk. It's as if M. Night Shyamalan said, "Okay, you have a condition that causes you to speak with multiple, interrupted pauses and the pitch of your voice never coincides with what is happening around you, GO!"

But I do not want to completely trash Mr. Wahlberg. I can understand that it must be difficult to function properly when you have to work day-in and day-out with Zobot Deschanel 1.0 (Zooey Deschanel to the uninformed). Deschanel, from the tribe of "Deer Lost In Headlights" (see pic below) steals the show for bad acting in this film. She was not the only reason this film sucked, but she did help facilitate it into sucky-land. Proving again that she can destroy any good idea that she becomes associated with. (See Tin Man)

Once again I must ask the question; how does this robot ^ keep getting work?!?!

All-in-all, this movie was really bad. There was a scene where the characters ran away from the wind... and actually beat it! Obviously no one on the production crew has ever been to the Midwest, because you cannot run from wind. It doesn't chase after you like a freakin' animal. It hits you before you know its even windy.

I will admit that I like the idea. Mother Nature getting pissed off at us and taking out her wrath is a scary thought. I think it could make a good movie, but only if a restraining order is placed against everyone that was involved in this movie.

The best part of the whole movie, (with exception of when I could finally leave) was when Mark Wahlberg is in an abandoned home and finds himself face-to-face with a Ficus. He talks to the tree, tries to soothe it; hoping that the tree will not release the toxin that can kill him. Only to realize the tree is plastic. This got a few chuckles from the disgruntled audience.

The worst part of the movie, was every part that did not include Mark Wahlberg talking to a fake ficus. The movie needs to be renamed from M. Night Shyamalan's "The Happening" to M. Night Shyamalan "What's Happening". As in what is happening to your career? Don't drop the rated R bomb on us and then deliver something that isn't even worth the 99 cent bag of peanuts I sneaked into the theater.

In the end I did leave with one happy notion. I now know, that if ever the mood strikes me, I can take a bucket of wet dog crap, film it for 90 minutes, slap a title on it and call it a movie. Maybe I will call it "The Crappening".

You always remember your first.

So here it is; the very first of what I hope to be a long line of blogs. I feel a bit apprehensive and excited about doing this. I have been told countless times to join the blogging world and I have shied away from it until now. I'd like to say something along the lines of "watch out blogging world, here I come", but I think it is actually me that is not entirely prepared for what is to come.

I hope to use this blog as an outlet for several different things.

First off I want to use this to review everything I get my hands on; books, movies, games, music, everyday life, you name it.

I would also like to use this as a source to get my creative juices flowing. My creativity has been on the mend ever since I finished school and now I need to kick it in the butt and get it back into gear. I hope that through this blog and attending graduate school that I can do this.

Well thanks for looking. I hope that you will continue to be involved in my blog, look for more soon, possibly tonight.

Thanks!

Shaun