This is a quick blurb about Disney’s Enchanted and my present-moment feelings on fairy tale endings in general.

I saw the movie Enchanted tonight. Going in I didn’t know what to expect: a childish film? A silly movie? I said that I thought it would be cheesy and I was going to see it to have Disney prove me wrong. That wish was granted: they did. It is a wonderful little film. The first half of the first act runs a bit long and the last half of the third act goes by a little too fast, but overall it was a lot of fun. I particularly liked Disney’s use of classic hand-drawn animation instead of the 3D stuff that Pixar popularized. I love Pixar’s stuff but their style wouldn’t have been right for this film.

I was able to log in to Gmail the following morning as if nothing had happened. Go figure.

I still don’t trust them and I will be using my own server for my anonymous emailing needs from now on, thank you very much.

Another reason why I really love running my own email server. Today I tried to log in to my anonymous Gmail account that I created for various identity-protection reasons and i was told that my account was disabled. Disabled. Instantly and without warning. Google sucks and if they ever want to get off my sh*t list they’d better do things right. I have a feeling my account was deleted because of some kind of automated message scanning thing they have going on and not a real live person ever looked at my account activity. That is absolutely the WORST way to run an email service. EVER. I’m a postmaster and proud of it and I would NEVER EVER do things the way Gmail does. But hey, it’s their free service and you play by their rules.

I got a spam with this in the subject line: Record Bathtub Earth Alphabet Foot Woman. I just thought it was funny.

If enough spammers send enough spam with enough ramdomly-generated subject lines, isn’t it only a matter of time until they come up with something funny, clever, or profound?

Organized religions and gangs: are the two that different? At their core how are religion and gangs similar and how do they differ? I would propose that the two are more alike than not.

The other day when I saw the headline “Students counseled after death” on the Denver Post website, I thought of Jay’s headlines and a lost list I last saw in an email a while ago. I don’t know if these links contain all of them, but they sure are funny.

http://skank.tanglebones.com/2005/05/23/best-newspaper-headlines-ever/
http://funnies.paco.to/Headlines.html (dead link, removed)

What would the English language be without homonyms or heteronyms? A lot simpler, that’s for sure. English is a difficult language to master. I’ve been speaking it for 27 years now and I still don’t have it down perfectly. Fortunately there are many people who speak my language who insist on changing it, or at the very least, abusing it out of shape.

Let me demonstrate with an improper sentence of homonyms: words that have the same pronunciation but different meanings and spellings.

Eye road two the store awn my hoarse and bought sum food, witch aye eight later that knight.