One of my favorite Bruce Lee quotes:
If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.
And now for something really cool:
It’s been four years since we moved into our new home, and I finally decided that it was time to get a new drivers license with my current address. To say that this was a low priority on my list would be a bit of an understatement. I mean, I have more important things to do. Critical things. Things that matter. Things like re-arranging my blu-ray movies into order by last name of the ‘key grip’, playing through Oblivion for the third time, wondering if Kafka was depressing at parties, and planting the seeds of my own self-destruction.
But I finally decided that it had been long enough. Recently certain scenarios had been running though my head; what if we had an earthquake or a fire (or any other unexpected disaster) and the only way home was through police checkpoints which required a valid ID? This was one duck that I wanted to get in a row (can you have a row consisting of only one duck?) just for preparedness sake.
And so I made an appointment for the DMV. Seven days later I showed up at my appointed time and was seen within ten minutes. The person behind the desk was helpful, kind and efficient. All paperwork was completed in just a few minutes, and eight days later I received my new license in the mail.
Yep, you read that right. I actually had a quick and expedient DMV experience. I mean, for a blogger this simply will not do. I need something to complain about, and the DMV seems like the perfect target to rage on, but I’ll be damned if it wasn’t actually a painless process.
What is this world coming to?
Since these cute guys have been known to use tools to hunt down and kill their enemies, lets see what happens when we give ‘em automatic weapons:
This appears to be a viral video for the upcoming Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes flick. Unfortunately this movie doesn’t feature Corneilus, Dr. Zira, Lucius, or even Helena Bonham Carter in an ape suit, so count me out. I’ll most likely wait until it shows up on blu-ray before watching.
Which is a shame really, because monkeys wielding guns is one of my greatest fears, ranking right up there with drowning, brussels sprouts and the comedy stylings of Sinbad.
I’m not sure how this news managed to get by me without attracting my attention, but a few sneak peek photos of the upcoming The Hobbit films have been leaked out. I find myself glad that Guillermo del Toro eventually abandoned his directorial post, freeing the reins for Peter Jackson to do what he does best. Although I’m a big fan of del Toro, Peter Jackson simply owns Middle Earth, and having anyone else other than him direct these films would be a crime.
Feel free to head on over to Digital Trends to catch up on what’s going on with The Hobbit.
Karin and I took Tyler to the San Diego Zoo to oggle the alligators, assay the elephants, and ponder the pandas yesterday afternoon. Tyler has a certain fascination with animals, and this was more than evident at the zoo where he was blowing kisses to every animal he saw. But of course he also blows kisses to cars and to the food in the baby aisle of the grocery store, so he pretty much makes it known what he likes.
We also took time this weekend to make a patriotic pilgrimage to a military surplus store to pick up a few emergency and camping supplies. Man, I love these stores. They all have that musty smell of long-term storage and quiet desperation that I somehow find comforting. Watching the clientele slowly pick their way through clothing and weaponry, weighing the pros and cons of MREs vs. dehydrated food and whether or not they should buy a back-up whetstone should their primary one go AWOL, I came to the conclusion that it’s nice to know that there are others out there who are more paranoid about the future than I am.
