Ripoffs and Guard Dogs

Wednesday was a heck of a day.

Good thing: Work pays for all of us to ge see movies every now and again. Usually about once a month and usually for a pretty geeky movie that somehow applies to work . . . in some way. Anyway, we saw Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. A lot of its trappings are very similar to Crimson Skies, but the end result was very different. The movie itself was good enough, but it really bothered me that there was nothing original in the movie. Everything was either an "homage" to the old serials or was ripped off completely from non-serial sources and presented as original. That annoyed me. It's not a movie I'll buy.

Bad thing: Since my boss is gone -- and this happens every time he's gone -- people feel like they can get me to do things or make decisions in his absence that I have no business making. He's the Vice President, not me. If something requires his sign-off, then get it from him, not me. It's much more in-depth than that, but I don't want to go into specifics other than to say it annoyed me and stressed me out. Of course at the same time, I have absolutely telling people no, especially when they should know better.

Chris Farley isn't funny. Never was. (Sorry, an ad just came on with his new DVD being advertised and I had to mention that.) I just don't think he's funny.