Friday, August 26, 2005
Swimming with the Fishes
& Feeding the Fishes
Went down to San Carlos with the El Mar bus trip last weekend to see about getting my Advanced Diver certification. The weather was beautiful Sunday morning; we went out to "the island" to get barked at by the sea lions. I got my Boat and Navigation dives in, and took some pictures of all the angel fish that I'll post if they turn out. We also did a Night dive; no lobsters this time, but lots of hermit crabs and my first experience with bioluminescence. When you're out on the water with no lights around but the boat the stars are pretty amazing.
Monday morning it got really choppy at the anchorage for the first dive, and I got too sick to go under. (I'd cut my Patch in half to reduce the nasty side effects, and apparently the lower dose wasn't enough for the chop.) So I'm back to Lake Pleasant this coming weekend to get my Deep and Peak Performance dives in for my certification. Oh well. I enjoyed getting away for a few days. We went to an amazing seafood restaurant in Guaymas the last night - I think it was called Los Arbolitas. Yummy garlic shrimp.
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It's an eight-hour bus drive between Phoenix and San Carlos, and the in-flight entertainment consists of whatever DVDs people bring along, so here are my reviews of movies that I didn't pay to see in the theater:
Hitch
Will Smith is so good in this movie. It's a rare bird, an intelligent and genuinely funny rom-com that they guys on the bus liked as much as the gals. I wouldn't put it in the same class as The Philadelphia Story, but the two couples have real chemistry and it's entertaining. I would actually have paid to see this movie.
National Treasure
Once this movie sets up its silly premise, it stays consistent to its own internal logic.
Swordfish
...is, if not the stupidest movie ever made, the stupidest one I've ever seen. Realize that the body of work I have for comparison includes a 90-second film from 1925, Gus Visser and His Singing Duck. Apart from plot and characterization, what makes Gus Visser and His Singing Duck superior to Swordfish? Well, the director doesn't have Gus Visser announce to the audience at the beginning of the film his vision to make a modern, "more realistic" version of a classic singing duck movie. And the duck has a more comprehensive grasp of computers and cryptography.
Along Came Polly
& There's Something About Mary
Three days later, I can't keep these two straight in my head. The characters and situations are pretty much interchangeable. One of them has a funny bit about a scuba instructor.
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& Feeding the Fishes
Went down to San Carlos with the El Mar bus trip last weekend to see about getting my Advanced Diver certification. The weather was beautiful Sunday morning; we went out to "the island" to get barked at by the sea lions. I got my Boat and Navigation dives in, and took some pictures of all the angel fish that I'll post if they turn out. We also did a Night dive; no lobsters this time, but lots of hermit crabs and my first experience with bioluminescence. When you're out on the water with no lights around but the boat the stars are pretty amazing.
Monday morning it got really choppy at the anchorage for the first dive, and I got too sick to go under. (I'd cut my Patch in half to reduce the nasty side effects, and apparently the lower dose wasn't enough for the chop.) So I'm back to Lake Pleasant this coming weekend to get my Deep and Peak Performance dives in for my certification. Oh well. I enjoyed getting away for a few days. We went to an amazing seafood restaurant in Guaymas the last night - I think it was called Los Arbolitas. Yummy garlic shrimp.
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It's an eight-hour bus drive between Phoenix and San Carlos, and the in-flight entertainment consists of whatever DVDs people bring along, so here are my reviews of movies that I didn't pay to see in the theater:
Hitch
Will Smith is so good in this movie. It's a rare bird, an intelligent and genuinely funny rom-com that they guys on the bus liked as much as the gals. I wouldn't put it in the same class as The Philadelphia Story, but the two couples have real chemistry and it's entertaining. I would actually have paid to see this movie.
National Treasure
Once this movie sets up its silly premise, it stays consistent to its own internal logic.
Swordfish
...is, if not the stupidest movie ever made, the stupidest one I've ever seen. Realize that the body of work I have for comparison includes a 90-second film from 1925, Gus Visser and His Singing Duck. Apart from plot and characterization, what makes Gus Visser and His Singing Duck superior to Swordfish? Well, the director doesn't have Gus Visser announce to the audience at the beginning of the film his vision to make a modern, "more realistic" version of a classic singing duck movie. And the duck has a more comprehensive grasp of computers and cryptography.
Along Came Polly
& There's Something About Mary
Three days later, I can't keep these two straight in my head. The characters and situations are pretty much interchangeable. One of them has a funny bit about a scuba instructor.
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