Showing posts with label Tom Cruise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tom Cruise. Show all posts

7/28/2013

Movies and music!

Here's another famous mustache.  This song always makes me think of Coke Zero commercials that came on before movies about ten years ago.  Said that drinking a soda with aspartame and acesulfame potassium can make fake people in commercials so happy.

I've finally watched the TEDx video by Dr. Terry Wahls and how she transformed herself from unable to walk to riding horses.  She didn't make the change with drugs.

One more TED talk.  It's only 9 minutes; he stutters but has a very interesting message.

Not Paleo at all - took a Power Run energy tab tonight, mostly to appease my coworker who is still coping with switching shift times.  He was not interested in taking one, thinking the 5 hours would keep him up too late.  My reservation revolved around the sugar and corn syrup, but seeing as it only contained 2g of sugar in the bitter tasting tablet I consented. 

Hypothesis = Tom Cruise movies entail Tom Cruise playing himself (arrogrant, cocky athletic man in charge).
  • 1996 Mission Impossible - Ethan Hunt ; twist = his boss is a bad guy
  • 2000 Mission Impossible II - Ethan Hunt again
  • 2001 Vanilla Sky - David Aames (billionaire, arrogant playboy); twist = he's dreaming
  • 2002 Minority Report - John Anderton (lead cop); twist = his boss is a bad guy and rigged the system
  • 2003 The Last Samurai - Nathan Algren (depressed former Army Capt); twist = former boss is a bad guy; swords are cool
  • 2004 Collateral - never saw it, but he's an old looking hitman
  • 2005 War of the Worlds - Ray Ferrier (alpha male troop leader)
  • 2006 MI:3 - no explanation needed
  • 2007 Lions for Lambs - Sen Jasper Irving
  • 2008 Tropic Thunder - Les Grossman (alpha record producer)
  • 2008 Valkyrie - Col Claus von stauffenberg (kills Nazis)
  • 2010 Knight and Day - Roy Miller (basically a happier Ethan Hunt)
  • 2011 MI Ghost Protocol - yeah, they keep making these movies
  • 2012 Jack Reacher - Jack Reacher (spy badass)
  • 2013 Oblivion - Jack Harper (not sure why they didn't change first names from last year, astronaut/point man with a gun); twist = aliens
...so maybe "Oblivion" isn't that bad when compared to previous chapters of Tom Cruise's life.

The generous, smiling foreigners (I guess I am a foreigner now...) ground my beans again; two pounds this time.  Thanks go out to the Rogers Family for their coffee donations (got 8 more pounds from them today).

Warmup: 6 chinups with a 22lb dumbbell between my feet
Workout: Bench press: 5-195, 5-205, 5-215, 5-225, 2-230 (got 5 with help)
Cooldown: Bench press 5-185, 5 dips w/ 27.5lb dumbbell and 3 chinups with same dumbbell

Fast breakfast dinner

4 eggs over medium, chicken and beef sausage

This must be a burial mound for a baby Jedi.
I need a new Tom Tom.  Round abound.



7/27/2013

This one goes to 11

Saw "Oblivion" tonight and am feeling confused and underwhelmed.  Definitely had elements of "Tron: Legacy", "Solaris" and "2001: A Space Odyssey."   All the time during the movie I kept thinking "Ok, there is something more, something I'm not getting, soon we'll be getting to the BIG reveal..." but it never really happened.  It was obvious from early on (yes, I read one or two reviews of the movie) that the premise of Tom Cruise's character's mission was false, but the extent to which it is false is underwhelming.  It just felt like it had so much potential and it kinda fell flat.  I think I'll watch some "Family Guy" or the original Solaris to defrag my systems.

Been slowly getting back into Gary Taubes' Good Calories; Bad Calories.  It's only 400ish pages of text (plus 200 some pages of references, notes and and index) but it is a dense 400ish pages.

I'm still plugging away at PSU's free Mapping course...played with ESRI's ArcGIS map tool last night and will do some more tomorrow.  There is still the potential for me to start the GEOINT certificate program; just need to find out what kind of tuition assistance PSU offers.

No work out tonight...after the movie, my coworkers who I convinced to see the movie with me didn't want to go so I succumbed (succame?) to peer pressure and called tonight a "rest day."  Basically made a chef salad for dinner...then went back and made a sandwich of lettuce, turkey slices, roast beef slices, onions and mustard.  Dessert was a Gala apple.  My body is going to be shocked when I get home and reintroduce hard cider and mead.

Hard boiled eggs try to hide beneath turkey bacon, but they can't hide forever.
If I had a guitar amplifier, it'd be this one.