Spider in the street

Deb, Zack, and I were headed away from my parent's house on Sunday when we saw this guy walking down the street. There is a teacher at Zack's school who has a few tarantulas so we decided to catch this one to add to that collection. The only thing I can add in defense of my less-than-manly behavior during the process of capturing the spider is that while you probably can't see it during the video, the spider is pretty aggressive and at one point jumps at my hand (but is stopped by the plastic container).
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Igor

Em, Deb, Zack and I caught this one Saturday afternoon. It was alright. Not great, but certainly not a waste of time/money. The kids really enjoyed it, and it had a few moments that genuinely made me laugh. The one thing that I really got a kick out of was the character "Scamper". He's one of Igor's first experiments, and is basically a talking rabbit who is immortal. Unfortunately Scamper isn't too thrilled about the idea of living forever. While it's a little dark for a kids movie, I can find the funny in a rabbit repeatedly trying to kill himself. Imagine if Wile E. Coyote had turned all of his roadrunner destruction devices on himself.

3 out of 5 trailers for movies that looked LESS entertaining than this one.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Despite some initial difficulties Emmalee, Deb, Zack and I made it out to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull this weekend. I don't want to say too much so I'll stick to this:
-3 out of five potentially awesome crystal skulls
-It's a great, fun summer movie that any fan of the originals should see.
-It's no Iron Man
-The biggest thing (good or bad) about this movie (for me), was that it made me REALLY wish that there had been many, many more Indy movies. Seeing "OLD" Indy made me realize that there really can't be too many more movies with Harrison Ford as the swashbuckling, action hero that I remember from the originals. Indiana Jones should have been the American equivalent to James Bond. There are 22 James Bond movies with 6 different actors playing the worlds most famous undercover agent. 22! Imagine a world with even half that many Indiana Jones movies. That is the world where I want to live!

Rough Science

Zack and I have been watching Rough Science: Gold Rush/Space Race together. It's right up his alley and I'm certainly enjoying it as well. In addition to the very impressive scientific feats this group is able to execute every few days, we get to laugh about some of the peculiarities of the British accents (our favorite so far is the pronunciation of glacier as glASSier... if you can't laugh about that then you have a problem)