Ok, so it’s been a bit too long between posts, sorry about that, I’ve been crazy busy lately
Went up to Pennsylvania for the Fourth of July weekend for lots of family visiting 
(both sides actually, which is a rarity). Went to a family picnic with my dad’s side of the family on the 4th then saw my mom’s side of the family at my cousin’s high school graduation party. In between the various family gatherings there was a visit and tour of the Lackawanna Coal Mine, which was actually really cool. Hard to believe people made (and still make) their living doing such dangerous work underground. There was a lot of old coal mining equipment around outside the mine at the visitors center so I got a lot of cool machinery shots while we were there too, all the pics from the weekend are up on Flickr.
I’ve also gone to see quite a few movies in the past few weeks, Hellboy 2, Incredible Hulk, WALL-E, and on Thursday a group of us went down to Hampton to the midnight showing (dumb New Town theatre wasn’t doing a showing) of The Dark Knight. Wow is that movie amazing. Very epic in it’s scope and pretty intense in a lot of parts. Another thing I really enjoyed about it was they managed to mix in quite a bit of humor, yes the Joker (played masterfully by Heath Ledger) had a lot of good one liners but other characters had some good quips too. They also integrated the CG stuff into the movie very well, it was hard to tell where they used CG stuff rather than live action, which is something I think quite a few movies have lost the past few years, the technology is definitely getting better every year, but knowing when and where and how much to use it is by far a better effect.
Another thing I encountered this week is the web series Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog.
It’s created by Joss Whedon who did Buffy, Angel and Firefly and it’s fantastic, he describes it as a “supervillain musical” (think his musical episode of Buffy). It stars Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible and Nathan Fillion (the lead from Firefly) as his archnemesis Captain Hammer with Felicia Day as the love interest Penny (she also stars in the web series The Guild, which I went off a tangent on and watched all 10 episodes of, also very good. If you’re fan of WoW or know someone who is, you should definitely check it out). The three part series is free until Sunday and then it will be only available on iTunes, there are some fantastic one-liners in it and is very entertaining.
Ok, time for me to clean house, one of my friends from college is coming to visit this week and I need to get the cat hair tumbleweeds that manage to appear less than a day after vacuuming corraled up.
