Thanks for the heads up on Another Earth, Brian. I'm a sucker for anything sci-fi but it can be tough to get a good one.

Showed the kids their first full length movie tonight--Toy Story.

Very, very unfortunately, our disc was damaged and we had to dig up the last 5 minutes on YouTube, quickly. Yeesh.

So how long until E1 is blowing up toys in the back yard?

Minutes.

8:42am EST: "boom"

Staying home with a sick kid watching Pickers on History channel.

Don't know about E1, but D3 might.

Cool story, Ken.

Over the weekend, showed my 6 year old his first Star Trek movie. Went with IV, figuring it'd not be too violent/scary - KHAAAN! will have to come later. Also, I didn't want to subject him to the boredom of, say, I or V. I also hoped he'd find the whales interesting.

Fail. Overall, he found it boring - he's too used to the faster pacing of the PIXAR and Dreamworks animated films. Also, I remembered that the movie had a few "colorful metaphors", but I didn't remember how many.

He did laugh when the harpoon hit the Klingon ship. And, he's curious to see a Next Generation movie, since he has a Geordi La Forge action figure. Hmm.

Hmm indeed. First Contact is definitely too violent/scary, but I don't think Generations is tooooo bad.


Still, better to warm him up on the series first.

Yeah, I can get out my old VHS tapes from when I taped it off TV back when it ran. Should be a hoot to see the old car commercials.