A Guest Blog Post: Liberty Hardy is a part-time book slinger and writer living with her evil, evil cat in lovely Portsmouth, N.H. She's going for her "Amazing Screw-On Head" tattoo next week.

The past couple years, I have been seeking to improve my geek rating. I don't just want to be a geek, I want to be a well-educated geek. I want to be able to appoint myself a science fiction vixen.

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I got a note from someone related to the Wife Swap show.  They are looking for a family where the parents play World of Warcraft or other online RPG type games.  My wife and I dont' qualify as we have no children.

If you are interested, are married and have at least one kid 7 or older living at home you could be on the show.  Details below. OH, if you submit, let em know I sent you as I could get a referral fee.

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Short Review:

It isn't worth your time.  Don't go.

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I don't watch football.  I am not really a big fan, though I do enjoy having friends over for the Superbowl.  Its a good excuse to get together, talk about the commercials and such.  Since I live in New Hampshire, I pretty much need to support the local team.  It would have been great to have them finish the year undefeated.  So I was of course disappointed in the game last night.  I have to say though, that the Giants deserved their win.  The Pats just couldn't protect Brady.  Defense couldn't sack Manning.

What I am REALLY disappointed in though, is the crappy round of commercials.  My friends and I rated each commercial with a 1-5 rating.  Hoping in the end to report on the best commercials and worst.  However there were soooo many commercials and they were really sub par. 

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Spoiler Alert:

I just want to say, I was skeptical of this season based on the first 5 episodes.  They voted off people they shouldn't in my opinion.  However, the final winner was the person I loved from the start.  Sabra deserves it no doubt and I am quite pleased she won. 

Just got done watching Reno 911 the movie.

If you haven't seen the TV show it may not make much sense. If you have seen the TV show then you already understand that they are stupid people and shouldn't carry a gun. It is their personalities and how they interact that makes it funny. Nothing is realistic and that is more than ok because it is a spoof of the Cops TV show. The writing can be very funny at times but it isn't consistent.

There are a lot of guest appearances. You will see people from 40 Year Old Virgin and Anchor Man. The Rock. Pee Wee Hermen (I think). Etc.

The story is a bit better / more interesting than I expected (as a whole idea). The execution is about what I expected. That is to say it is a TV episode but longer, in Miami and not bleeped/blurred.

The ending should have been erased. I think they put it in for filler because it would be too short otherwise. Seriously it dropped from a 5.5 out of 10 to a 4 out of 10 because of the crap ending.

Bottom line: If the movie is shown on Comedy Central and you like the TV show then watch it. Don't watch it in the theater. Probably shouldn't rent it unless you have nothing better available.

High notes include:

Boobs Whale parts Simultaneous Masturbation scene The Scarface character

Low points include:

Ending Intro Entire lines from the tv show in the movie ('moving like a cheetah') Stealing exploding whale real life event

Update: Just got it! So to read that review click this link Read my review.

Jen and I are looking to get a notebook computer. We really enjoy our media center desktops and want to be able use the notebook for tv, movies, games and work. We don't travel a lot, so bigger is ok with us. We just want the flexibility of a notebook.

Right now I am seriously looking at the HP Pavilion dv9000t. They have models at bestbuy and circuit city to check out. They are beautiful. The specs are also pretty snappy. They kick my desktop's butt, and I am really happy with the desktop.

You can pick one up with a nice config of options for about $1500 (after rebate). Note that you need to get the TV tuner as an ad-on. It isn't standard, though HDMI out is (which you can make into DVI out). It can play movies/audio without booting to windows which is also handy.

There are two screen types to choose from really: 1680x1050 resolution BrightView Widscreen vs 1440x900 Ultra BrightView Widescreen.

From what I have read the ultra brightview is significantly more dramatic and impressive. Aparently a second lamp helps with brightness and to combat ambient light. It makes the screen colors improved to a point where people say it is worth the $75.

There is also the new Dell 20" monster of a notebook. It comes in at 18 lbs! Though it really looks sweet I can't see paying about twice as much for the larger screen.

So, if anyone has feedback on the HP please send it my way. I may try to drag jen to Circuit City or Best Buy so she can see it first hand.

This just makes me happy.  Its the Mahna mahna video/song.

As some will remember, I have an ongoing goal to get to the bottom of Renee Zellweger's small role in the movie My Boyfriends Back.  She is credited for having a cameo, but nobody can figure out where in the movie.

Just an update that as of today at 1:15pm she has still not contacted me, nor has her publicist or manager.  Surely someone will read my blog who knows her, and I beseech you to then have her do the right thing and put this issue to bed.