I'm pretty sure I set some sort of world record today for suffering through the most mediocre filmmaking in a 12 hour period. Beginning at around three and ending at about half past midnight, I watched Transformers, Robocop 2, and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem.

Transformers was fun but too long.

Robocop 2 was insufferable.

AVPR was a pleasant surprise. My suggestion for the next film in the Aliens vs. Predator series: Aliens vs. Predator vs. X-Files.

Even if I have nice things to say about all three of them, they're all pretty crappy and that record is mine. In the past month I've also watched classics such as Robot Jox and Ghost Rider. I think with today, I've gotten this need for mindless movies out of my system and can finally get around to watching some of the more pretentious fare that I've been holding onto via Netflix.

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(This is being posted here just in case it isn't accepted at Overheard In New York)

Angry Black Traveler on his phone: Do you realize how long it takes me to get to JFK from my place!? I'm surrounded by crackers! I. DO. NOT. WANT. TO. BE. HERE. Crackers all starin' at me, I dunno what they're looking at... I'm calm!

Overheard by: Not a cracker but staring anyway

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This past week or so has been pretty eventful. I'll just list the things that have happened:

- Lee got into Harvard Law School. She's still waiting to hear back from Yale but her attending HLS is looking pretty likely even if she does get accepted to Yale. She's also been accepted to the law schools at Duke, NYU, Berkeley, Georgetown and I'm sure many more in the near future. Slowly but surely, she's starting to intimidate me...

- I won the "AXPi Innovation Challenge" at work. Here's a portion of the e-mail that was sent out:

For the past few months American Express Interactive (AXPi) has invited American Express employees to participate in the AXPi Innovation Challenge,a monthly contest designed to generate transformational ideas for the interactive channel. Each month, we issued a new challenge topic and distributed a prize to the person who submitted the winning idea. Since the AXPi Innovation Challenge relaunched in September, we've received over 1000 ideas, are immediately considering piloting two ideas as Amex Labs pilot projects, and are attempting to patent one idea with the United States patent office. Thank you for your continued support. Please look for the next AXPi Innovation Challenge Announcement in 2008.

Results from Last Month's Challenge - Based on the judging criteria, a panel of AXPi employee judges selected Benjamin Lim, Web Developer, American Express Publishing, New York, NY, United States as the winner for last month's challenge on "How can American Express use interactive TV?"

The rest of the e-mail contains information that might be confidential and for business use only so, in the interest of keeping my job, I think I'm going to refrain from pasting it.

The prize for the contest is a Macbook which is pretty sweet. However, I don't really need a third computer so depending on what model I get, I might just sell it and get an N810 or pay off some credit card bills.

- Schmap has e-mailed me and requested the use of one of my photos. It's the photo I've pasted above and they want to use it for their Austin guide. I guess the photo is okay, but I didn't think it's very remarkable.

- I am now the proud owner of this book.

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Wow wow wow. Besides Sting, the Ultimate Warrior was my favorite wrestler growing up but I don't remember any of this stuff.

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