A couple weeks ago my wife and I decided to go see the new political/war drama “Lions for Lambs”. I was a little leery at first because of how most movies seem to have an agenda. I thought that this movie would be all about how bad the war is and how we should be getting our troops out. Most of these ideas came from the fact that the movie stars both Tom Cruise and Robert Redford.

I don’t have a problem with people expressing their opinions but right now we don’t have a shortage of hollywood types sharing their so called expert opinions. To my surprise this movie was very unbiassed. Most if not all the sides of the issue are represented and are given the same weight in the story. No one opinion seems to be overtly pushy.

I think all adults should see this movie, it is very helpful in seeing other points of view on this issue. In the United States we are not very good listeners. People seem to have their opinions and don’t care about how anyone else see’s the world. That behavior hurts us internally as a country and on the world stage. Other country’s see us as a snotty teen ager that thinks they know all there is to know.

Learn to listen to each other. Learn to respect each other. You don’t know everything and you never will. If nothing else sit in a theatre and watch this movie and have them show you all the differing points of view. Having an open mind isn’t going to hurt you.

I am very blessed and have nothing to complain about but I like to anyway. I pre-ordered an ipod touch and am so excited about finally being able to take my music, videos, pictures and the web with me in my pocket. It seems too good to be true. It’s just like the iPhone only without the 2 year contract and having to deal with at&t.

Then I realize that the mail application from the iphone is not included on the ipod touch. That just sucks. I’m sure apple just doesn’t want this product cannibalizing sales from the iPhone but come on I use mail more than any other application on my mac.

The perfect device would be an open iphone that didn’t require being stuck to a service provider. If you only wanted to use the wifi then that’s ok. Then you would have a phone, camera, email, great web browser, music, photos, videos, youtube. But we don’t have that so we either deal with at&t or…

We get the new ipod touch and live with the limitations of not being able to take pictures or send email. I’ve read that the ipod touch has the same hardware and operating system of the iphone so hypothetically you could take applications from the iphone and install them on the ipod touch (not that I am knowledgeable to do that). I’m sure people are working on that as we speak and as soon as the ipod touch starts showing up in peoples hands (sept 28) we will see it happen.

There may be relief in site for the mail less ipod touch but you still can’t take pictures and email them to a friend. Oh well…. I doubt I’d use that as much as it seems but it would be cool for mobloging.

All that said, I’m so very excited for my ipod touch it is the best ipod ever and capable of doing so many things very well. I am lucky just to have one pre-ordered, but not as lucky as I will be when I have it in my hot little hand.

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Last tuesday night I went to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with my wife and cousin. I was a little leery going in because I was such a huge fan of this book, and because this book was the biggest so far. So I was also filled with anticipation to see how well they put all the information in the book into a 2 1/2 hour movie.As expected it was not as good as the book but none of the movies have been. It was beautiful and fun but went by way too fast. Because of the huge size of the book the movie jumped from one big event to the next. The movie covered all the important points but was seriously lacking compared to the book. It moved so fast that the movie could have been a little longer to incorporate some of the finer details that made the book so good.

The bottom line is that the movie is worth seeing, whether you have read the book or not. If you haven’t read the book then you won’t know what’s missing and if you have read the book it will inspire you to read it again to remember all those details.

ENJOY.