Tuesday, November 30, 2004

I Was A Star Wars Virgin!

I have now watched the first two Star Wars movies (Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back) which are now called the fourth and fifth Star Movies.

I remember "Star Wars" was released shortly after I moved to NYC in 1977. It is now called Episode 4: A New Hope (hmmm?). I remember seeing it in theatres; I just never got around to watching it. Many people where I work consider me a retrograde freak who has missed one of the peak highs of our lifetime.

I'll write a virgin's review after I view third, no--I mean the sixth movie.

/jack
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I was just riding around in my red-hot minivan with my trophy children, and my music delivery device randomly started playing a very sludgy version of Neil Young's "Hey, hey, my, my" ... my three year old asked, "who is singing this?" I said, "Neil Young." He said, casually, "he's in Star Wars." Understanding the cryptic connection, I corrected him, "Neil Young has some Star Wars characters in his concert movie (Rust Never Sleeps), but he's not in the Star Wars movie itself." So he says: "his hair looks like Skywalker's."

And yeah, I guess that it does.

Stephen Clarke-Willson, Ph.D. said...

Surely this event signals the beginning of the Apocalypse?

Anonymous said...

Jack Brummet,

I saw your post
regarding web hosting review .

I have about 7 VPS servers most with different companies.
I had one with Rackforce.com that was working pretty well.
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I looked at the ticket and they closed the account because of one
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No warning, I had never had one complaint about any of
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They did not even let me suspend
the customer's account or deal with the problem. Just nuclear option.
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Lucky I had been pretty good about backups on my end.
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