Movie Quiz

Guess the movie based on a single frame.

http://funwithmovies.com/part2/

I scored a 20 out of a possible 30. I didn't get number 6, 8, 14, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27, or 30.

Number 8 and 24 I knew what they were but I couldn't immediately think of the titles. I've seen 15 of these movies and I own 7 of them on DVD so that helped. The answers to this quiz are here.

I went back and took the first version of the test but didn't score as well. I got 13/30. I count number 28 in my score even though I used IMDB . I knew the movie by the US title and the answer is its' UK title. I saw it on the big screen under the US title when I was in college so I didn't know what other name it could have until I looked it up.

Answers to quiz #1 are here. It turns out I've seen 18 of the 30 and I own 11 of them on DVD including number 2 which I didn't get when I took the quiz.

Socks from the Archives

I took this series of photos a while back. This is Becky's cat Socks. I think he was visiting my house while she was on a trip somewhere.

And now that I'm at it how 'bout a few more from a time he visited me when I was still living in my apartment.

Face

I decided recently that I don't express my creativity enough and that maybe I should use my blog for that purpose if I ever felt inspired. I haven't had an art class since I was in 6th grade. Is that obvious? I just created this on my computer in about 5 minutes. We didn't have computers when I was in 6th grade but now that we do have computers and I'm all grown up I thought I'd see what I could come up with. I started out working a completely different idea. I was going to add an element to that idea but needed a image to use as on object. I'm not very particular about creating every element from scratch on my own so I was searching through some images on the internet when I came across the image of a woman's face that I used for this. I scrapped my first idea and developed this one instead.

Today's Picture from the Archives

Today's picture from my archives is a bird picture. I was able to get real close because as you can see this bird is dead. I found it on the drive that goes around to the back of the building where I work. I wonder if it died and then got ran over or if it died because it was ran over.

Star Trac use Temporarily Suspended

I haven't been to the gym since the 9th of February but it's not because I'm lazy. I'm haven't been sitting at my desk all day like I normally do. Instead I've been working in the warehouse assembling orders and heaving boxes around all day. I don't usually go to the gym when I know I'm going to be on my feet all day. When I go to the gym to workout I usually go all out. I don't leave enough left in the tank for a full day on my feet. So for the time being my weight training and Star Trac CrossTrainer use is temporarily suspended. I started my job working in the shipping department and without that experience I wouldn't be the salesperson I am today. I occasionally spend a week or a few days out in shipping if someone is sick or on vacation. It keeps my hands in multiple departments and gives me a perspective that no one else has. I'll be out there until next week sometime so unless I go to the gym Saturday morning I won't be going back until next week. I miss that Star Trac machine.

Jim's Electric......Blanket

I woke up this morning to discover only half of my electric blanket was warm. I'm not sure yet if I'm going to replace it. I keep my thermostat at 65 degrees at night and for most of this winter I've been burying myself under multiple blankets to keep warm. Maybe 2 or 3 weeks ago I decided to pull my old electric blanket out of the closet. I had to wash it first before I could use it again because it didn't smell very fresh. It smelled a lot better after and it's been working perfectly up until now. I've wished I'd been using it all along. The last winter I used it was 1998/99. I only remember that because of certain associations between the blanket I slept under and where I lived and the things that went on during that year in my life. Anyway this morning I was still plenty warm with only one half working. I sleep pretty much in the middle of my bed so theoretically half of me should fall under the warm side of the blanket at all times. I figure as long as my blood continues to circulate I should stay warm. Although I might have to turn the warm side higher for that to work exactly right.

Steady Diet of Pizza

I think I've eaten more pizza this week than I have in the previous 3 months combined. On my way home from work Monday I was picking up some orange juice at the store and I decided to buy a couple brands of frozen pizza that I hadn't ever had before. I got a Palermo's Deluxe thin crust and a Tony's Supreme, also with a thin crust. I'm usually a Tombstone, cheese and sausage kind of guy unless I'm buying the more expensive brands like DiGiorno or Freschetta but I thought I'd try out some of the other cheap brands. I eat half at a time and I ate the first part of the Palermo's that night, then the second half right away on Tuesday night. It was good because it was pizza but as pizza goes it was pretty disappointing. I think the problem was it didn't have enough cheese. For some reason the second half I ate Tuesday night was better. I think maybe the cheese wasn't distributed evenly on the pizza. Then I had pizza for lunch on Thursday. Every year the overall winner of our weekly football pool buys pizza lunch for the office. It was Pizza Hut pizza which is good I guess. I like it better than some of the other places around here. I thought that was all the pizza I was going to have for while but then last night (Friday) my neighbor bought me a small pizza because of a favor I did for her. I wasn't expecting anything in return of course but maybe a half an hour after I got home from doing this favor my doorbell rang. It was her son Devon and he handed me a hot pizza. I was pretty blown away. I told him to thank her for me but I was pretty surprised by the whole thing so I jumbled my words a bit. Anyway I was starving because it was around 9:00 and I hadn't eaten dinner yet. I already had a grilled cheese sandwich going and can of Tomato soup on the stove so I just ate 2 pieces of the pizza and had my grilled cheese and soup with it. I ate the rest of that pizza today. I'm not sure where it was from but it was real real good. There was an image on the box of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It only said "Pizza" and "Thank you for your business" and a few other non-specific things that didn't identify where it came from. I'd like to find that out. I like pizza a lot and if it were a healthier thing to eat I'd probably eat it everyday....but since it isn't I probably should cut back again for a while.