The trailer for ‘World Trade Center‘ has been released. Looks damn impressive. Doesn’t look like it will be the conspiracy, anti-US Government, pro-terrorist, anti-victim movie some jackasses claimed it would be(based on nothing, really) before anything was completed.
Watch the trailer and judge for yourself.
The movie is out August 9th.
I recently completed my first sale of an internet domain name.
I was originally contacted about selling in January, but the email was sent to an address I rarely check(I use it just to register new names) so it sat on my email server until a few weeks ago. But by that time the domain brokerage company, Sedo, sent another message informing my the prospective buyer increased their offer by nearly 67%. I accepted. 4 figures for something I paid nine dollars for.
Not too shabby, eh?
But I didn’t do my homework.
After a simple search on the name, I found that there is a good chance that the buyer was a video game start-up company and had a project in the works with the same name as former my domain name. I almost certainly could have held out for more if I had known, but I doubt would. I wasn’t doing anything with the name, and this company at least had a plan. They would do more and I didn’t want to be THAT guy, the one that holds on to a domain name and rides the coat tail of someone else’s success. The offer was more than fair, so I don’t regret not asking for more. Besides, I still have the dot org version too, heh.
But now that I think about it, the buyer could have been one of THOSE guys. Someone who’ll hold out for a lot more. Probably not though… too much to pay when the video game company could go another route.
So if it was the video game company, Freeze Interactive, good luck with your project, I look forward to playing the game when it comes out.
I’m heading up to San Francisco to attend a Giants game with Jeremiah and Mark, courtesy of a vendor (I think).
Will we witness Barry Bonds 714th* career homerun? Will either Mark or myself (A’s fans) care? Tune in to my potentially exciting, but more likely boring Flickr photostream straight from my cell phone.
The past few days I have heard so many unintentionaly funny audio clips that I have to wonder if something is wrong with me. I only remember a select few, but trust me, there were a lot more of these gems.
First one was the most recent, it was a radio spot for Shane Company that I heard last night. Tom Shane’s voice over goes like this;
“Guess who I just got off the phone with.”
a slight hesitation.
“Your mom. That’s right YOUR mom”
Thanks Tom, for reminding me of my junior high school days. For the rest of you, maybe you had to be there.
The next funny thing was some guy reciting his wedding vows at the end of TLC’s “What Not To Wear” makeover show (uuhh… one of my girlfriend’s favorite shows). Trying to express love to your new bride in front of friends and family probably isn’t easy. And it apparently wasn’t easy for this guy. As he chokes up with tears from all the emotions of the day, the groom says the following, I kid you not;
“You’re… the…. the last woman I want to spend the rest of my life with.”
OK, I know this one wasn’t just me, that has to be funny to everyone else. Right? Freud on line two, Frued on line two.
Finally, the best had to occur during this weekend’s NFL draft. Just moments after the San Francisco 49ers made their first round selection by picking Vernon Davis out of Maryland, he began to cry. And cry and cry. Now when this happens during anything sport-related the announcers will always talk about how great the cry baby is, basically making excuses for the guy. This time was no different, as Vernon was crying and walking and crying to the podium, Tom Jackson of ESPN clears everything up with, “Now these are tears of joy.” Right. As opposed to tears of sadness; “NOOOOOO!!!…. I’m going to the 49ers! waaaaaah! A team with 6 wins the last two season, waaaaaah. The whole organization is a mess, waaaaah. Mommy!”
Great Unintentional Comedy or “You had to be there”? I’ll let you decide.