The Next Big Thing

Brandon | Stupid Stuff,Suggestions | Monday, October 31st, 2005

Does anyone have any bright ideas? I’m looking for any new ideas on the next big thing. I want to start something no one has thought of yet. If you have an idea, but don’t have the time or energy to get started, let me know about it, and I’ll kick a percentage of the earnings back to you on a regular basis.

I’m primarily looking for get rich quick schemes, but any ideas will do. Thanks for your input.

My Flickr Photos

Brandon | About the Family,Tech Stuff | Saturday, October 29th, 2005

I have spent hours of the past few days uploading all of my pictures to my account on Flickr. A friend from work gave me a pro account on Flickr. When Yahoo bought Flickr, the people who had pro accounts on Flickr were given 2 free pro accounts to give away to friends. I uploaded a little over a gig of pictures to my account, which put my archive up to 1948 photos.

My photos can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/brandonkunefke.

My photos are private, except for a select few that do not include people I know, so if you’d like to see them, you’ll need to be added to my friends or family list.

The whole Flickr site has gotten me more interested in photography.

Smallville – 505 – Thirst

Brandon | Entertainment | Friday, October 28th, 2005

The whold vampire thing was kinda stupid. I guess the writing was ok for a halloween special, but I guess it just surprised me to see Clark and Lex kinda get a little closer toward the end. The way the episode was written with the whole thing from Chloe’s perspective was pretty good, though.

I don’t care what kinda superhero you are, I don’t see how anyone could walk anywhere near someone who just yesterday tried to bite a hunk of flesh from my neck, much less keep dating them. At least Chloe showed a little apprehension in the episode where Lana almost split her head with an axe.

I’m not sure where the idea for the show came from, but I guess it’s the best you could do with a halloween based episode.

Good job, Astros

Brandon | Entertainment | Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

The Astros have never been to the World Series, until now. They finally made it, despite overwhelming odds. Such as when the Houston Chronicle printed their tombstone, or when Jeff Bagwell couldn’t stand the pain any longer, and had to undergo surgery early in the season.

We came very close to winning every single game of the Series. The deck seemed stacked against them in every game. That was magnified when Bud opened the roof of The Juice Box and left Houston out of the decision. “What’s best for baseball,” my rear. I really don’t think limiting the World Series to 4 games is really all that good for Baseball. I believe that we could have won at least one game in Houston if the roof would’ve been closed, and it would have generated more revenue for Houston, St. Louis, and Baseball. Stupid people make me mad.

We’re all proud of the Astros for making it farther than ever before, and as my dad said, “The sun will come up tomorrow, just like it did today.”

Chicago 2, Houston 0

Brandon | Entertainment | Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

Well, Houston’s coming home 2 behind in the World Series. We’ve got 3 games in a row starting Tuesday night. I hope that the noise of the fans will keep the White Sox players out of the game.

I hope that Brad Lidge can get over losing 2 games in a row to home-runs. I know it is just a coincidence, and I hope he knows it, as well.

Smallville – 504 – Aqua

Brandon | Entertainment | Friday, October 21st, 2005

This was an episode that focused primarily on the future Aqua-Man.

It was relatively good, in the fact that the graphics in the water of them swimming very fast were pretty good.

You might say that it didn’t have anything to do with Clark Kent’s history, but IMO, Aqua-Man helped Clark see what Lex was doing to the sea-life, and it convinced him that Lex was not the person he thought he was. Although, if you really think about it, Lex might not have turned out so bad, if Clark wasn’t around to make Lex get so interested in the Supernatural.

Oh well, it was a pretty good episode, in that it further split Clark and Lex’s friendship.

Astros make it to the World Series!

Brandon | Entertainment | Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

It’s actually happened! The Astros are going to the World Series for the first time ever. This should be a fun week!

Smallville – 503 – Hidden

Brandon | Entertainment | Friday, October 14th, 2005

The intro was kinda stressful, and again, I loved watching the new credits. We then get to see Clark waking up next to Lana. This, I’m sure, was put into the beginning to stress the fact that Clark and Lana “got together”.

Chloe made the entire stressful scene with Clark’s parents a little more bearable and ultimately led to getting Clark out of the house. The only thing that was not really believable was the way people seemed to get around town so quickly.

Watching Clark get shot was weird. Tom Welling did a good job of pulling it off. His ability to act, IMHO, isn’t mentioned often enough.

We see Clark flat-line, pronounced dead, and disappear from the hospital in nothing but boxers.

The fact that Lionel has been inhabited by Jorel was kinda cool as well. Clark woke up in the Fortress of Solitude in his clothes? I don’t understand why he would be clothed? That didn’t make a whole lot of sense.

When Clark jumped onto the missile, it was really cool. The fact that he knew that he couldn’t be harmed by falling back to earth didn’t even seem to cross his mind. What if he would have fallen next to a meteor rock?

The way it didn’t show him trying to explain his sudden recovery to Lana was almost as if they couldn’t really figure out a way to do it. Then, I noticed that earlier, Lana got mad when Lex went into her apartment uninvited, but then just barged into Lex’s. Kinda a double-standard, huh?

A few holes in the story, but overall it was a great episode.

Smallville – 502 – Mortal

Brandon | Entertainment | Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

This episode of Smallville was great. It was well thought out and made sense.

Seeing Clark overcome the obstacle without his Kryptonian abilities was very exciting. It gave him an opportunity to be the hero without having to hide his heroics.

Lex seemingly letting those freaks get loose to test Clark was kinda unexpected. Seeing Clark figure out that Lex was responsible, and then take the action to confront him about it was really awesome.

Then we get to see Clark and Lana get a little closer in the end sequence. This is interesting because it is something we’ve been longing for for quite some time.

Astros go to NLCS!

Brandon | Entertainment | Sunday, October 9th, 2005

For the second year in a row, the Astros are going to play the Cardinals to go to the World Series. After the best game in recent baseball history, maybe even all of baseball history, they win their series with the Braves in only 4 games.

I’ve got to admit, I gave up on the Astros at the middle of the 8th, when the Astros were losing 6 to 1, and turned on a movie. About 40 minutes later, my wife called me, I paused the movie, and checked to see the final score… 6 to 6 in the 11th. I watched every minute from then until about 2 hours after the game was over. If you didn’t get to see it, make sure you get a copy of the game to watch. I’m sure you can purchase a digital copy of it on MLB.tv for a pretty low price. —–UPDATE—– $3.95 to download the entire game. You can burn it to CD or do whatever you wish with your copy.

Let’s hope they can break the next cycle of losing to the Cardinals when it counts…

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