Sunday, March 6, 2011

Historical Adventure Movies

The adventures of Indiana Jones is the best movie series ever created in my personal taste (besides The Pirates of the Caribbean) They had a special where they played all the movies one after another. I was so pumped for it I set an alarm 2 days prior on my DVR so I wouldn't miss a second of epic adventures. The reason I think these movies have done so well over the years is there story line. The story lines are based on myths that exist in our world today and use real historical references (much like the National Treasure movies with Nicholas Cage dealing with the free masion's and actually in the second movie they are trying to find the same treasure "El Dorado" the legendary city of gold) like looking for the holy grail and the lost ark. Whats so intriguing is that its the myth exists in history and it gives you a reason to believen in the unknown and undiscovered.
The Pirate of the Caribbean movie series is the same type of trilogy is made in the same fashion i believe. The movies encompass legends from pirates back in the day, The Flying Dutchman (who controls who is banashed to Davy Jones Locker), Treasures stolen from Aztec Indians by Cortez himself that are cursed by the Gods, and in the new movie coming out soon which is the adventure to find the notorious "Fountain of Youth."
Though Indiana Jones has more concrete historical references I enjoy both movies one just as much as the other.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Winter Clean Up (hopefully there just not going to clean up the snow)

As I was reading my winter chaos post I failed to even show what a wonderful job NYC sanitation department did in the snow clean up this winter. I know I don't live in NYC but my family dose and these videos show how over compensated union workers are for the work they don't do.


And this is my favorite video this just shows how stupid this sanitation worker is
I am just happy that people are taking advantage of social media to get video footage out there of events like this that would otherwise never be shown on TV news Stations that have government payed off tv executives.
This is a comment by rockalittle00
-Former city worker here. The OP got it right. Any city dwellers know this. I have no personal gripe but caught is caught. They aren't worried because as civil servants they are protected. They very likely received OT pay for doing absolutely nothing. And I promise you they are laughing about it

This dosen't just go for the sanitation department, there are plenty other unions getting away with to much of the tax payers money by doing nothing.