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He did not say anything about no pranks after the wedding.

Best Man Modifies Couple's Bed to Tweet When They Do the Deed
What newlyweds do in the bedroom is typically private and for good reason, too. But thanks to a friend, one couple's proclivity for sex is being broadcast via Twitter. According to Tech Crunch, an anonymous UK man says, as a prank, he rigged the bed of two recently married friends to tweet each time they do the deed. To do this, he hid a pressure-sensitive pad underneath the mattress that registers each time movement begins and ends. This device sends the data to this anonymous Twitter account, which lets followers know when the couple is "on the job" and how much of a "frenzy" they worked up.

If this story is true, then it's one of the funnier wedding pranks we've heard about. But with both the prankster and newlyweds remaining unnamed, we're not sure we buy it. It doesn't look like we'll find out who's behind this anytime soon.

Source: Switched.com

It is currently 4:30 A.M. and I just thought I would say right now that Transformers ROTF was something I enjoyed quite a bit. While there are the flaws with story and such, it is a great movie just to sit back and enjoy all the explosions combined with complex CGI. ILM really pulled it off with the visual effects and I know that Bay was still approving shots the day of the first premier. The amount of data for the first one was about 20 TB, this one weighs in at 145 TB as the total number of transformers was bumped up from 17 to 46.

I personally found a number of things amusing though out the movie and one scene had me laughing the hardest I have in a really long time.

The AMC I went to started the day with 6 regular showings and 1 IMAX showing which was sold out sometime over the weekend. At noon 2 showings were sold out and when I got my tickets at 12:30, a showing sold out right when I was at the machine. By 4 they had bumped it up to 9 screens while 4 were sold out. 6:30 revealed that there were 3 out of 11 were still open but that was gone by 8:30. The worst part was leaving with everyone else as the 12 screens all got out at once. There was even going to be a 3:30 A.M. showing or two so the lobby was still packed while the top floor of the parking structure was stopped completely for more than 10 minutes.(see pictures)

So I just got an email from Epiphone that mentioned that they are starting a special run of guitars. The only bass is a special version of the Thunderbird that some of you chrome lovers may like. I am liking the silverburst finish that they gave it too. If I still played bass regularly I would consider getting one.

Doing a search, this sounds similar to the silverburst Epi that was mentioned a year ago.

I guess I did because I went to the midnight showing last night and felt that I should see if anyone else has seen it or is planning to. Below are my thoughts on it for those that might want to read them.

Zack Snyder, the director behind 300, has once again taken a favorite in the comic book world and put it onto film with Watchmen. The film takes place in an alternative 1985 in which Nixon is still president and there is a large amount of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union placing the doomsday clock at 5 minutes to midnight from fear of a nuclear war. After being outlawed in 1977, a few superheroes remain active whether they are working for the government or outside the law itself. After discovering that one of this former colleagues has been murdered, former superhero turned vigilante Rorschach(Jackie Earle Haley) starts investigating the reason behind it. As he investigates the murder he uncovers a plot that is intent on killing and discrediting all past and present vigilantes. As he reconnects with members of his former crime-fighting legion, including Nite Owl II, Silk Spectre II and Dr. Manhattan, they uncover a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy that not only links to their shared past but has catastrophic consequences for the future.

I thought the movie was actually pretty good though it is obviously a love it or hate it movie. Those that I was with liked it but I have one friend who says it is the worst movie ever, worse than Plan 9 from Outer Space. With that being said, Watchmen looks like it jumped right out of the graphic novel at times with stunning visual effects. There were a few things that got changed in the process but the feel remained the same. Snyder has brought brought back the slow down and speed up style during fights that many loved about 300. The film also had a considerable amount of blood and gore that includes someone getting their knee bent the complete wrong way.

I have seen a number of people stating that the rating is off for the film. The reason behind that is because one of the characters, Dr. Manhattan(Billy Crudup), provides full frontal male nudity on many occasions along with the sex scene in the middle of the movie between Nite Owl II(Patrick Wilson) and Silk Spectre II(Malin Akerman).

When it comes down to it, I recommend it to anyone that wants to see a good action movie whether or not one has read the graphic novel. My only regret came with the fact that I was exahusted going into the movie which meant I was trying to stay awake during the first half. After finally losing the battle and missing no more than 10 minutes,  one of my friends nudged me and I was completely awake the rest of the movie.

Skynet has launched.

If any of you want to see Metallica playing right now, they can be seen on Kroq's webcast of their annual Weenie Roast show here in Southern California. Should have put this up earlier but there is still about a hour left of their performance which ends at 10:50 pacific.

Kroq.com

http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/27/study-finds-teens-dont-really-care-about-their-hearing/

Those darn kids -- they just don't listen! And soon, according to a report, they won't physically be able to listen. It seems that modern teens, with their cloaking jackets, space telephones, and telepathic headsets fail to obey the simplest tenet of leisure-time music enjoyment: keeping their iPod and Zune volumes at a semi-natural level. In focus-group discussions, researchers found that high school students in the Netherlands were aware of the potential hearing loss which can be caused by high volume listening, yet had no immediate plans to crank their jams at anything but 11. Typical of our misguided youth, the teens feel that they have a "low personal vulnerability" to hearing loss -- researchers also noted that they believed they were bulletproof, could fly, and would never, ever lose touch with people who signed their yearbook. The study's findings suggest that the answer to this problem may lie with manufacturers of hardware and solutions like volume caps or warning lights, rather than with the self-control of the end user.

I guess the hearing aid companies will love us one day.

I personally respect my hearing and can't stand music when it is that loud.