Swollen Pickles

Time flies when you are doing stuff. It's hard to believe that it is Easter already. Seems like only yesterday that I was stuffing my face at Christmas. Now I'm stuffing my face with hot cross buns.

Which brings me to the Easter Bunny. WTF? A rabbit, laying eggs, made of chocolate. Is it the same rabbit each year or a different one? How does he get from house to house so quickly? Still, not as creepy as the idea of an old bearded man sneaking into my house at night leaving me 'gifts'.

March flew by quicker than Superman during sexy time. This months goal update is fairly brief seeing as though I struggled to get it done on schedule, so here t'is.

Goal Number One: Develop Swollen Pickles into a website that can generate $350US per month.

Slight improvement here in relation to the past couple of months. The site brought in $164.20US in March, up from $138.24 in February and $112.77 in January.

Goal Number Two: Develop Swollen Pickles into a website that receives 35,000 unique visits per month.

March was a good month traffic wise with Swollen Pickles nudging past the target mark. There were 36,657 unique visitors in March, up from 32,627 in February.

Goal Number Three: Exercise a minimum of three times per week (30 plus minutes per session).

I missed one session in March due to an unforeseen commitment I unwittingly became committed to.

Goal Number Four: Achieve a Body Mass Index (BMI) within the "Normal" range (from 18.5 to 25).

I'm slowly getting closer to my goal. In February I was 28.6, at the end of March I was 28.5. I started the year at 29.

Goal Number Five: Reduce my waist measurement to below 94cm.

I've still too lazy to source a large enough tape measure. My bad.

As a bloke, you may occasionally find it difficult to understand what the woman in your life is thinking. You may find it difficult to pick up on some of the subtle signs and signals she's putting out there. Sometimes it's hard to know when she's really pissed off at you.

If you need some help figuring out if the woman in your life is angry with you then here are a few things to look for that might help you figure things out.

Chances are, if any of the following happen to you, then she's not all that happy with you. An angry woman can exhibit behavior that falls under three main categories... Read the rest of this entry »

Duplicity: deceitfulness in speech or conduct; speaking or acting in two different ways concerning the same matter with intent to deceive; double-dealing. Duplicity is also a film that follows the escapades of two corporate spies, Clive Owen and Julia Roberts. Both characters are former secret service agents from their respective countries (CIA and MI-6) who retire from their state funded duties to move into the private sector. They share a romantic history, which leads them to hatch a plot to manipulate two corporate giants in order to obtain profit themselves and fund their own lavish lifestyle.

I can't say much more without giving the film away, but I will say that there are that many twists and turns going on here that at times it was hard to keep up.

I've seen Duplicity described as a romantic comedy thriller. It's definitely got a lot of the spy/thriller thing happening, and some romance, but I wouldn't describe it as being a comedy. It's basically a laugh free film, so if you're expecting a standard Julia Roberts rom-com then you'll be in for disappointment. You could describe Duplicity as a film about corporate espionage, or alternatively a love story focusing on the relationship between a couple that lie for a living.

My major complaint with Duplicity is that it run about 25-30mins too long, wearing out its welcome, and features one too many twists. I kept waiting for the bit shocking twist at the finale, but by the time it came around, I was over all the twisting, and the conclusion left me a little underwhelmed.

Overall, Duplicity is a decent film that loses its way. I'd give it 2 out of 5.

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I may have discovered the ultimate movie. The Machine Girl is a 2008 Japanese action/horror/comedy about a young Japanese schoolgirl, whose life is turned upside down when her brother is killed by a the son of a high ranking Ninja/Yakuza.

Apparently, she gets her hand cut off. Obviously she is now able to channel the spirit of Ash from the Evil Dead movies as she goes on to replace her hand with a massive gun, along with an assortment of other instruments of death, and goes on a bloody revenge style rampage.

I really want to see this one, so I'm going to try and track it down this weekend. Until then, I'll just have to make do with one of the most awesome trailers I've seen in recent memory. It's got a little bit of everything, including ninjas.

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Here are some pretty cool, for sci-fi geeks anyway, print ads produced by New Zealand advertising agency DDB New Zealand, to promote the screening of Aliens vs. Predator when it was on SKY TV. As a massive Predator, and Alien, fan boy, I love this stuff. My personal favorite is Alien vs. Predator totem tennis. I've always thought that totem tennis is a brutal sport, and this just goes to prove it.

Source: DDB New Zealand

Go check out my Alien vs. Predator: Requiem review.

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If you had to describe the TV show Flight of the Conchords in one word, what would it be? I'm going to have to go with "quirky". Even though I hate that word, it's the first one that pops into my tiny under developed brain.

If you've never heard of the show before, allow wikipedia to provide you with a nice little synopsis.

Flight of the Conchords is an Emmy Award-nominated television comedy series that follows the adventures of the Flight of the Conchords, a folk duo from New Zealand, as its members seek fame and success in New York City. The show portrays a fictionalized version of the real-life duo, Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, who play themselves.

Anyway, it just so happens that I also have a David Bowie fascination. So what happens when Flight of the Conchords have inter-relations with David Bowie? This...

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