Independence Day (the movie, which we watched the day after)

I spent another wonderful weekend in Williamsburg. Kelsey and I went to the farmer's market where we bought goat cheese and tomatoes, went to the frozen yogurt place where we got frozen yogurt, went to Trader Joe's where we got lots MORE food.... I'm starting to sense a trend.

We also watched Independence Day, which continues to be the best Fourth of July holiday movie ever made. I learned that they are doing an Independence Day 2 as well as a 3-D re-release of the original next year. I will be there for that.

Saturday night we got a redbox movie. I saw one that had Jason Segal and one of the guys from The Office in it and figured it would be a pretty funny one. Kels looked at me and said "I don't think that movie is what you think it is. Do you want to get another one just in case?" Predictably, this only fortified my resolve that I could indeed judge a movie by its cover and was, in fact, the best movie-I've-never-heard-of analyzer on the face of the earth. "I am certain that this is a hilarious movie. How could it not be?" I said.

Three seconds into the movie, as the bubbly bells-and-synthesizer that is now mandatory in all deep and reflective artsy films revved up, I realized just how wrong I was. To her credit, Kelsey never said the words "I told you so." She did, however, say something along the lines of "do you want to go get a second movie now?" I did not.

So far this week at work has been pretty quiet. I got to start reviewing materials for the a certain  book project that we are working on and in doing so developed a personal vendetta against the book's "electronic support materials." It wasn't off to a good start when I saw that the support materials were spread out over three "CD-roms" (their words, not mine) that were compatible with both Windows and "Macintosh" (again, their words). I am sure that I startled the entire office when I started loudly laughing after I inserted the first of these "CD-roms" into my macbook and was told, apologetically, that the CDs only functioned on "Power PC systems." Power PCs were discontinued in 2006. Also, across the three "CD-roms" I saw that they had something less than 100 megabytes of information. Any CD fits 600 megabytes at least, so I was confused.

When I finally got the program to load on the office computer, I was greeted by some state of the art circa 1999 graphics and the ability to click slowly loading links whose only function was to launch large PDF files and go to a certain page in the file. That was the resource package. The "electronic support materials." In my evaluation of the materials I wrote my supervisor a wildly inappropriate-for-actual-business e-mail that ended with the phrase "destroy these CDs with extreme prejudice." Luckily, I have excellent co-workers who like me when I am being a techno-elitist. We had a conference call today and one of the first things that we were told on the call was that they were replacing the CDs with online resources done by a completely different vendor, so I'm going to take that as their having anticipated my complaint.

Last night I got some good tex-mex with Davia, Josh, and Sara. Then we went to Goo's to watch The Tudors. It was a magical experience as always; there are no bad evenings with that group of people.