We watched House of Flying Daggers a couple days ago at a friends house. I enjoyed it, but what made it really interesting was that we watched the dubbed version, with subtitles on as well, and the dubs and subs were really different. And then I was talking a friend about The Jerk, and how they changed some of the words to make it acceptable for TV.  Anyways, that got me thinking of a couple other nice big-screen to television translations.

Shithead -> Stupid : Steve Martin’s character’s dog’s name
Fuuuuuck youuuu! -> Forgeeeeet Youuuu! : Kevin Bacon’s character in Tremors
... I guess you’re up shit creek -> ... I guess your up THE creek : Jake in The Blues Brothers

And then the dude in Johnny Dangerously used to disguise the dirty words: Fargin Icehole, Corksucker

Tomorrow is the day that Animal Crossing for the Nintendo DS is released. That means that it will probably be in the stores on Tuesday. I really want to get this game, as Animal Crossing on the Gamecube was so much fun. I think the DS will be the perfect system for this game, and I can’t wait to try out the NintendoWiFi service. The only lame thing is that my router (which is an awesome Belkin 802.11 g with print-server) is incompatible with the DS and its wifi system. I will need to buy a little wifi USB adapter that hooks into the USB port on one of my networked computers. I ran the little wifi tester on the Nintendo site, and it said that my computer configuration would work.

Update! I got an email from Gmail Support. They have reset the account, with my name and secondary email address that they had on file. Woohoo! The only problem is that the verification email will go the secondary email address which is my old work address. I need to contact the Network Admin at my old workplace and ask them to reactivate my old email so that I may get my new (temporary) gmail password. It looks like my last (nasty) message to Gmail Support was read and responded to. Still… no word on how my account was compromised. Oh well, we will see how it goes.

So, this past weekend someone hijacked my gmail account, and I have sent Google support screenshots and pleas for help to get back my email account, which I have had since June of last year. Here is the latest I got from Google:

Hello,

We have investigated this issue, but because the results were inconclusive, we’re not able to provide further assistance.

Gmail takes the privacy and security of our users very seriously. For this reason, we can’t reveal any further information about this account.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused, and thank you for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

The Gmail Team

Looks like I am S.O.L. Goodbye to all my saved mail from this account. Just imagine if all of a sudden, without warning, your email account just vanished. And your email company said, “sorry, that’s the breaks”. That’s pretty much what Google did to me. Isn’t it ironic that Google says that they take the privacy and security of their users very seriously, and that is the reason they cannot help me? Go figure…

I guess I shouldn’t be too upset. It was a free service, after all. But I won’t be using it any longer. It really has made me sour about Google. The search engine is great, GoogleEarth and GoogleMaps are nice, but their Gmail client is crap.

The Dodgers suck. Last year was their second worse since coming to Los Angeles, and what is crazy is that they had just won the NL West the previous year. It’s amazing to think that the McCourts were handed a team that was a contender, and have totally destroyed it. Not only the team, but the organization. There is an interesting article in the L.A. Times today in which Tommy Hawkins, a longtime Dodger VP, rips the Dodgers organization. (you might need to register with latimes.com to view the article, but it’s free!) I love the Dodgers, but man, to they suck. The McCourts are awful, and have no concern about any kind of Dodger tradition. It’s all about money. They spend $20million to rip out the seats that they just put in, so that they can charge more. They promise a big team payroll, but don’t spend the money. They don’t keep Ross Porter. They fire the manager, then fire the GM, and hire an SF Giant. And they claim to be “L.A. Baseball”. It’s ridiculous. The McCourts have destroyed the Dodgers. Here’s some choice lines from dodgerblues.com:

Unless a guy grew up in Echo Park and fantasizes over playing within walking distance from grandma’s house, why would anyone choose to play for the Dodgers (assuming, even, that the Dodgers are willing to spend big money, which they aren’t)? The team is a wreck, the owner is dumb and pompous, and Jeff Kent is surly. Choosing to play for the Dodgers (with what’s been going on lately) would be like walking into a Carrows Restaurant for dinner after seeing people walking out with puke running down their faces.