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I’m really not good at fathers day gifts for some reason. I actually suck at getting my dad gifts in general. Funnily enough, pops’ birthday is on June 26th which means that I usually buy him two crap presents within a couple of weeks of each other. The last decent present that I got him was a television. It’s probably the only gift out of all of the ones that I’ve gotten for him that he actually uses.

The problem is that he’s a pretty simple guy who doesn’t really like things. But this year I got the perfect gift for him (at least for fathers day. I know he’s a pretty big fan of Blockbuster. There’s one right in his town and every time I stop by his place I see their DVDs laying around somewhere.

I guess the big B has been seeing the success of over the recent years and decided to get their behinds into the game. Everyone that I know and I have Netflix and are pretty happy with their service. I figured though, that since pops rents from Blockbuster already and is a few steps more technically savvy than my mother (for the online portion of the process), signing him up for Total Access was kind of elementary. Also, since they’ve been pimping it pretty hard, they have a $9.99 for the first month deal which allows you to have 3 DVDs at the same time.

It took literally 17.9 seconds to sign him up:

I entered my own email address, password, and security answer: 6.2 seconds

Then entered his name and address for shipping as well as my billing info: 9.2 seconds.

That’s it. Now all I need to do is get him a fathers day card (which I will undoubtedly get for him 3 seconds before I see him on fathers day). I’ll put the Total Access details within the card and we’ll be good to go.

One last thing. I usually spend about a hundo (that’s $100…) on fathers day so this Total Access gift I got him will be for 6 months. After the 6 months passes I’ll give pops a shout to get his credit card info and change the billing information on the account. He’ll most likely want to lower the number of DVDs that he receives at that point anyway. I need to do the same thing right now, now that I think about it.

So the last part of this post is the reminder email. I needed something to let me know to change the billing on his service in december. That’s where Future Me comes in handy. Future Me allows you to send an email message to yourself sometime in the future. I went there and sent myself 2 messages, 1 to my work email, and one message to my cellphone. Now, unless future me goes out of business, I’ll get that sweet email in a few months.

Now fathers day is done and I have another week before I have to figure out something for his birthday. Maybe I’ll get him a tie.

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The two things that initially drew me to the movie, Freedom Writers, was that it is based on a true story and writing was part of that story. It turned out to be an inspiring story that I really enjoyed watching. It had a positive ending mixed in with the harshness of reality for these inner city kids. Freedom Writers has a common storyline of the underdog prevailing. It stands out among others movies of its type, not only because it is based on a true story, but also because it didn’t candy coat the reality.
Staring in the movie are:

* Hillary Swank
* Patrick Dempsey
* Scott Glenn
* Imelda Staunton

The movie directors:

* Danny DeVito
* Michael Shamberg
* Stacey Sher

Hilary Swank stars as the teacher, Erin Gruwell. She is fresh out of college and naively full of ideas of what she could accomplish. She was raised by a father who had progressive values earlier in his life. He matured and his values changed. He just wants a successful job for his daughter that makes the most of her talents. She is idealistic and seeks job satisfaction. The character, Erin Gruwell, has an intense drive to make a difference. She wants to do good by her students so bad, that she involves her father and neglects her husband.
My favorite scene is when she involves all the students from the different gangs and groups in a game. The game shows them what they have in common. It demonstrated that the pain they share is the same. She built on that common ground. She then opened new worlds to t