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Robot mower

3pm Friday 17 August 2001

Rob:http://www.toro.com/home/mowers/imow/index.html
Jason: Thats some cool shit
Rob: true
Rob: when you get your mansion, you should get one of those.
Jason: yeah, or five maybe, so the one doesn't get lonely.
Rob: HAHAHAHAA!!!!
Rob: Of course!!

planet of the apes

10:46pm Friday 17 August 2001

Planet of the Apes sucked.

Dude and I just saw it, and throughout the entire movie, I was anti-impressed with everything.

I mean, okay, the shit cost a lot of money to make and the cinemetography was good, but the story was crap. crap crap crap.

Okay, so he goes through a time warp. I'll give them that plausability because I gave it to Back to the Future, which, by the way, I really enjoyed.

BUT (!!!!!!), clocks don't know when they go through timewarps!. (Dude says, "that's the epitomizes the illogical nature of the whole movie.")

Certainly when a clock goes through a timewarp, and we bring it back to the starting point in space, it will indicate a time different than a stationary clock.

But when we travel with a clock through a timewarp, the clock doesn't suddenly seem to speed up. The guy was going through the same timewarp. His reality would go the same speed as the clock.

I did think of a possible explanation for this
phenomenon:  The atomic clock signal from the US Naval
Office was still being broadcast for the 500 years
that he was thrown into the future.  The "clock" on
his spaceship was simply listening to that signal and
adjusting itself accordingly.

So he lands on a planet and it's ultimately determined that the humans and apes on the planet are all decendants of the spaceship that crashed while looking for him.

So he uses the long life energy cells to blast the apes and then is saved by Pericles who was 3 days later coming through the 500 year timewarp. Fine; I have no problem with that.

So then he's all, "I gotta go back." He's got a cute girl ape who likes him, and a cute girl human who likes him, and he's just saved the planet. But he wants to try his luck with the timewarp again. Fine.

He goes back through time into the past and lands presumably on earth, but... it's infested with super apes, whose past included Thade!

Thade was from 2500, not pre 2000. Totally unexplainable how that could be. But Dude came up with a solution:

Dude's explanation of the otherwise dumb ending of Planet of the apes:

When Mark Walberg's character landed on the planet in 2500, Thade's guards showed the crash site to Thade. He killed them, and then got into the ship (he told some other apes to dredge the lake, whatever) and flew back through the time warp to earth.

Thade saw all the apes and monkeys in captivity, released them, taught them how to fight and rule humans.

Then he flew forward in time again to his own time and ditched the ship back in the water.

Then Mark Walberg went backwards in time to a few years after Thade had arrived, and bing earth is infested with apes.

Thank you, Dude, for explaining an otherwise ridiculous ending.

usual supects

2:30am Saturday 18 August 2001

After watching the monkey movie, Dude and I watched The Usual Suspects on DVD at his house. This was a *much* better film than the other; the plot was meaningful and made sense, the story lined up properly in the end.

When Veronica arrived home, we summarized the Monkey plot. She was glad to have not seen it with us.

Oh, speaking of people not having seen the monkey movie, when Dude and I left the theater, Kristen and Catherine (sp) were out in the lobby!! Catherine agreed that it was a terrible movie; Kristen still wanted to see it. If she did, I hope she enjoyed it.