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Alright, I’ll admit: I’ve been on the movie kick lately. Actually, The Wife’s been on a movie kick lately, and of course, I’m forced to watch. Because that’s what husbands do, they do date-like stuff with their wives. (No, singles, dating does NOT end when you tie the knot. In fact, it’s just the beginning.)

As the title says, I just finished watching Happy Feet, a movie which some believe to be part of the whole global warming propaganda machine. While I didn’t exactly see where any of that really came to play in the movie, watching the film made me feel all warm and fuzzy about using Linux. Of course, the point of this review isn’t to tell you how much I love penguins or penguin-related software. The point is to tell you whether this movie gave me (and I can only presume, will give you) happy feet.

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Another day, another movie. The Wife decided last night to go out and rent Babel, which both she and I had been wanting to watch ever since it was in theaters. (I’ll use the fashionable “we didn’t have time” as my excuse for not having seen it then. Actually, it was because this hermit-apparent hadn’t even heard of it until it came out on video.) The film is just over two hours long, so as you can guess, it took up a large part of our evening, one where I had expected to clean my car and spend some time at a not-so-local bookstore. Was it worth it?

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Alright, so The Wife and I finally got around to see 300 last night. I think I can summarize the move in three words:

• Eww!
• Cool!
• Fap fap fap!

Seriously, this is it. Want more? Here’s the rundown:

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If your life had a soundtrack, what would the theme song be, and what songs would be included?

Recently someone asked that very question in the 9Rules Notes section (Your Life’s Theme Song) and I thought that to be one I would ask you. To be fair, here’s my response:

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The Wife and I broke down and finally bought seasons 2.5 and part of season 3 of Battlestar Galactica from the iTunes store this past week. This morning we were watching the first episode of season 3, “Occupation/Precipice” (they’re sold as one episode) when a few things said caught my ear.

I’m in the process now of evaluating a number of things about my life. If, in fact, Socrates was right when he stated that “a life left unexamined is a life not worth living,” then I suppose now is one of those times I’m making sure this life has been as continues to be worth living. The following BSG scene hit on a few important points for me:

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