Yes, I work in Silicon Valley for a high-tech defense communications firm but that doesn't mean management caught up with that trend. They are decidedly old-school. Case in point: my boss doesn't use a computer. Everything's printed for him by his secretary including all the reports and emails sent to him. He's in Hawaii this week for the 20-year bash. (Cool perk: those who have been with the company for 20 years get an all-expenses paid trip to Hawaii. 15 gets you to Vegas.) The big monthly division meeting is also this week so we all assumed he would skip that along with a few other top managers. Imagine my surprise when my immediate boss requested that I get my reports done a few hours earlier today. Why? I need to FedEx overnight my reports to Hawaii so that he could have them before the meeting. It's only 8 reports totaling 150 pages, but still. It's also just my luck that I jammed all 3 copiers in the high-speed copy center. So much for technology.

Catching up with the movies I've seen since the last time I talked about this: 300 is a pretty good war movie but with some pretty big flaws. Moving the story between the battlefield and Sparta was a good idea but the story at home paled in comparison to the glory being won by the Spartan men. Did everything need to be in slow motion? Good thing they didn't have the actors speak in slow-motion. Can you really kill that many people with no armor, barely any injury to themselves, and no blood splattered from their victims? If you're gonna focus on the number 300, maybe they should've had a counter in the corner of the screen to keep track of the number of soldiers left. I could go on and on, but if you take it for what it is, it's darn entertaining.

On the DVD front, Running with Scissors was booorrring. Trust the Man was just boring. The Prestige was good but not as good as The Illusionist which was excellent. Edward Norton will always elevate a film. Ok, maybe not Death to Smoochy. This Film is Not Yet Rated is an eye-opening film about how the MPAA works in rating films. Definitely an educational experience.

Finally, Zach Galifianakis' new DVD is out, so check it out.

This is an oldie, but a goodie. Man, look at this horse...oh wait, I'm being told this is a butterfly.

Just wanted to remind everybody that the Mega Millions jackpot is up to $370 million. Interesting fact though on today's Mercury News. The odds of winning Mega Millions is about 175,000,000 to 1. The odds of becoming a billionaire is 7.5 million to 1.

Who woulda thought that?