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Harry Potter and the Chocolate Factory Extravaganza

Or was it the Charlie and the Half-Blood Prince Extravaganza? The world may never know.


In either case, the night before we left for Bahamas, we hit the opening night of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which was amazing, and stood in line with a few folks to pick up our copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a moderate departure from Willy Wonka, made in the 70s. Johnny Depp was delightfully quirky and cool as he showed the well-cast youngsters around his factory. Whatever bonehead drew a comparison between him and Jacko should have his head examined. WW doesn't even like the kids.

The visuals for this were amazing as well. It is a shade darker than the previous adaptation which makes for more rich and interesting colors. One place I think it's got it made all over the old veresion is the lack of stupid songs. There's no “Cheer up Charlie” and generally there's a lot less moaning period. They get right to the story and don't add all that junk. And did I mention Johnny Depp?? Very enjoyable.

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Atlantis Resort, Bahamas


As I mentioned before, we stayed at the Atlantis Resort in Bahamas. It's located on Paradise Island, just off New Providence (where Nassau is). The setting is beautiful. White sand, gorgeous water, warm weather, warm water, Lovely. Atlantis, however, doesn't measure up to nature.

It's not cheap to begin with. You pay quite a lot for rooms and for your meal plan (which you basically have to get, because it covers most of the resort restaurants and it's hard to get away from the resort – more on that later – and without it, food would be too expensive to consider eating) but it doesn't stop there. Every second you're there, practically, you're handing over the dough by fistfuls. Everything on-site is ridiculously expensive, so that when you get back to the airport, things seem reasonable by comparison. Some if it, I'm sure is import cost, but far more is resort mark-up. And they've got a very captive audience because it's very hard to get away from the resort. It's pretty inconvenient and as usual expensive.

Not being able to get away from the resort is a pain for a few reasons. First, there's zip for shopping. I don't want to spend my whole vacation shopping, but I do love to find some interesting local jewelry or something to take home. There's not much of that. Gucci and Versace abound though. Continue reading “Atlantis Resort, Bahamas”

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That Makes Sense!

When Helen Adler accidently took the wrong pills, her life was in danger. Her granddaughter Deborah Adler was inspired. She came up with the new Clear Rx packaging being used by Target Pharmacies nation wide. It features a label that doesn't wrap around a curved surface, large easy-to-read writing of the prescriptions name, a handy info card stored on the bottle and a colored ring that you can coordinate to a member of the family or a specific medicine or type of medicine.

I'm lucky enough to only take Zyrtec, but I know this will be of much benefit to others who take a myriad of meds.

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Star Trek vs Star Wars

In case you hadn't noticed, we here at Jesser.org dig sci-fi. So naturally, when I came “The Top 25 Differences Between Starwars and Star Trek” at TopFive I had to share.

25. Star Trek: cardboard sets.
Star Wars: cardboard actors.

24. Star Trek fans sit in front of televisions watching reruns.
Star Wars fans sit in front of theaters that won't even be showing the film.

23. Darth Vader needs the Force to make people gag.
William Shatner merely acts.

22. Some Trekkies are now old enough to have moved from their parents' basement to the retirement home basement. Continue reading “Star Trek vs Star Wars”

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Haha. Funny Trick

I'm sure we've all felt the pointlessness of signing credit card recipts. I have “see ID” on my cards, and still, practically no-one asks to see ID, indicating that they haven't even looked at the signature panel. And if you've gotten fast food lately or maybe even groceries at the U-scans and definitely gas and paid with plastic, you probably haven't been required to sign.

Well someone decided to test the whole thing out and see just what the heck he could get away with. Here's his story.

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Harry Potter and the … Doh!

Amazon and Walmart both mistakenly issued emails to their pre-order customers telling them that they wouldn't be getting their books until 20 July (instead of 16 July as promised). They were, of course, inundated with phone calls and emails asking, “What gives?!”

An outrage fan had this to say on the Mugglenet boards: “I got one of those e-mails. I'm getting a second copy at midnight just in case, because if it doesn't arrive I'm canceling my transaction. I'm still furious.”

Well. Don't you know? Harry Potter is serious business.

Happy Almost Harry Potter Day!