Worst. Movie. Ever.

Okay, maybe it's not the worst movie ever, but it's certainly one of the worst I've ever sat down and started to watch expecting it to be acceptable. I'm talking about Wrong Turn, which is a horror movie that will have you howling at the dialogue. This is a modern day version of one of those movies that are usually only seen on episodes of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Yes, it's that bad. I'm going to give away the plot right now and say that it's about a group of Young People who find themselves stranded in the backwoods of West Virginia where they're hunted down by Disfigured Superhuman Inbred Redneck Cannibals. That's it, the entire plot, I shit you not. Unless you're looking for a movie that you can mock with your friends, stay away from this one, I don't care how much you like Eliza Dushku or Jeremy Sisto. Oh, and HBO said that the movie would have nudity, but alas, I couldn't find any, though I did watch it at fast forward speed after the first 20 minutes, on the off chance that I'd get to see some of Eliza's goodies or that something resembling a plot might develop. Roger Ebert didn't lower himself to reviewing this movie, but here's a longer review. I too enjoyed the meaningless irony-free dialogue where we learn our protagonist became an expert in identifying roadkill by attending medical school...

Import

It's going to be one of those Mondays. I was lucky enough to need to perform a restore from a tape set that literally expired while I was at the bank getting the tapes from the vault, so now I get to import all 7 of those LTO2 tapes back in to my backup system before I can retrieve the data on them. I've never done this before, and have no idea how long it will take, but since the first tape has been running for over an hour now, I'm guessing it will be a while. At least I can run three at once...

Update: Four hours later, 2 of the 7 tapes are done. It's going to be a long day...

Bad Air

Oooh, now I have a new excuse for not going to church. Maybe they should switch to soy candles?

The air you breathe inside a church could be doing you more harm than the air beside a major congested road, say researchers. Church air seems to have alarming levels of polycyclic hydrocarbons, these are carcinogenic. In fact levels of polycyclic hydrocarbons in churches were found to be higher than busy roads (roads with more than 45,000 cars going through per day).