The day after Christmas is supposed to be a nice day also, and it is. It is very cold, and there are some rain showers in some areas of Orange County.

The streets are wet with the rain from last night, and the air is filled with a small mist, your fog, which makes 3 PM look like 6 PM.

The History web site has been going smooth with no problems so far. The real test will come when the students start using it daily in less than 3 weeks.

I saw Paycheck. If you can avoid it, you should. Go watch Lord of the Rings again, or Big Fish. I have not seen Big Fish, however, people seem pleased with it.

As I mentioned before, Paycheck was expected to be a good movie, with John Woo probably curbing out any bad acting. However, it seems that some of the flaws in the movie script itself resulted in lots of bad acting, and thus we are left with a movie that is on the borderline of being either good and bad.

Paycheck has so many flaws, it would make you angry in the middle of the movie since you could have done something better than go and watch the movie in this holiday season; restaurants were raving. The FBI seems to smoke in their own building, and then get surprised to see a smoke detector in the interrogation. Ben Affleck needs to get out of only one locked door on a high rise FBI tower to get to the bottom floor. No other security measures stop him from getting out of the building.

The time lens is supposed to see through the boundaries of the Universe. However, it is inside a small closed bunker and the only thing it can see is the palm of your hands.

Newton never talked about time travel in negative terms. He only said “You need infinite amount of energy to travel faster than the speed of light.” John Woo, please focus on the success of Face Off to come up with something good, not to mimic the explosions.

Uma Thurman keeps the movie going at scenes where you might doze off to sleep.