I saw Shrek 2 this past weekend. The first one was pretty awesome and this one is pretty good, too. Alot of critic reviews are hyping it up quite alot which I wish they would stop. Hasn't anyone figured out by now that hype kills a movie (Matrix 2 and 3 being the best example)? Anyways, the hype is saying it's better than the first one. Without saying that, I will say that Shrek 2 definitely stands alone as a movie. The jokes are new with the same characters which is rare for sequels. Usually it's the same characters saying the same jokes with a spin on it. Without all the hype, I'll just say that the movie is fun and I laughed out loud. It's pretty smart and it's just as good for adults. In fact, I'm not sure that kids would even get some of the jokes.

Anyways, here's something that is just burning inside me that I just have to let out. What is the deal with cell phone voice mail messages??? What I mean is, you call and you get that lady that says, "Your call is being answered by an automated voice message system." You think that "leave a message at the beep" has been soaked into our culture by now, but she continues on "So and so is not here. At the tone, please leave your voice message." Ok, surely by now, anyone should know what to do, but no, she keeps talking! "When you're finished recording, hang up, or to hear more options, press the pound key." What am I an idiot? What other options could there be? Marking a voice mail as urgent is completely useless cuz I don't know it's urgent until I listen to my voicemail anyway. Am I not smart enough to decide if the content of the message is urgent regardless if the sender thought so? And that's just the minimum. Some automated voicemail messages are so verbose that I can't even leave a message until I've sat there listening to the obvious for 30 seconds. Anyways, I think I know why they do this. I have never successfully left a message in under a minute. I'm always 2 or 3 seconds over. So instead of costing me one minute, it costs two minutes. The phone company has to know this, so if they are gleaning off an extra minute from every caller, they are probably making alot of bank off of it. So how do you beat them? Leave a personal message on your cell phone instead of opting for the default automated message, and then you stick it to the man! Message...beep...talk...done, you just saved a minute, moo ha ha!