Should I? Nah....

Should I see Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers? Finally decided against it. Having not read any of the books (just never found them compelling enough to want to wade through), I was looking forward to the first film. And then I saw it. Almost 3 hours of my life irretrievably wasted. Everyone who read LotR told me it was exciting and engulfing and grand fantasy. Instead I endured 3 hours of vague to intense boredom and pretty poor CGI effects. How could the producers and directors take something supposedly that good and reduce it to tedious dreck? At least Liv Tyler was pleasant to look at.
I'll not make the same mistake again.

Weak on the Concept

I received a spam email today. It came from Computerworld. Specifically, from a third party using CW's subscriber list, as was stated at the start of the message:

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Idiot ass-clowns. I wonder if my last manager at UDV is working for Clearswift.