The Incredibles, Speakers and Back to Work

The Incredibles is very entertaining and comes with a great message. If you have a talent, why hide it? Use it for good and people will love you for it.

As an adult with a full time job and family ties I can really relate to that. I’m not saying I’m an actor all the time I just realize that I sometimes adapt very extremely in certain situations and I am not comfortable with the part I play. As I get older, my feelings of myself get stronger and I no longer wish to play any little games of socializing. I am who I am and you are welcome to hang around that. I will not be (as John Stewart put it) your monkey.

Ops, I think I went off on a tangent there. Hehe.

The Incredibles movie is really good and I highly suggest it. Great animation, story (I almost cried at one point) and pacing. In fact, its soo good that our lazy american audience actually clapped at the end of the film.

In other unrelated geek news I’ve heard a lot of good things about the new Logitech Z-5500 speakers. These are the next revision of the speaker series I truly hate, the Z-680.

The Z-680s had some very serious problems including a constant hiss due to an improperly shielded control pod, crude volume controls and a digital display that could only be read within certain small cones of vision. Bleah!

The Z-5500s I listened to in the store exhibited some white noise (nothing too serious) but I couldn’t tell if this was due to the nasty audio sharing setup or something inherent to the speakers. More inexcusably though was the fact that volume control is still set too crudely using large increments.

I don’t know about you but when music, games or a movie is too soft or too loud it pisses the hell out of me. Not being able to adequately control the volume through their (albeit nice looking) digital control pod is inexcusable. Sorry Logitech, maybe next time.

They did fix the cone of vision for their display but I’ll keep holding out for a better speaker setup. My current system isn’t quite stellar but it’s pretty good.

I should probably just spend $150 and get a pair of really comfy circumaural headphones that sound like a $1500 speaker system anyway.

Ah well, the weekend is winding down, World of Warcraft isn’t “doing it” for me and I’ve got to behave at work all next week cause the big wigs are visiting. Bleah!

Ah, with any luck I’ll get Half-Life 2 this week.