If this holds up, I’m gonna be owed bank.

A Chinese woman is suing a cinema and a film’s distributors for wasting her time by showing 20 minutes of adverts before it started, according to state media.

Chen Xiaomei claims the Polybona International Cinema in the northern city of Xian and film distributors Huayi Brothers Media Corporation should have told her how long the advertisements for the film Aftershock lasted, Xinhua news agency said.

Ms Chen, who is a lawyer, has accused Polybona and Huayi Brothers of wasting her time and violating her freedom of choice.

For some reason I feel especially young this year…

Spotted in Glen Park right outside my window… can anyone ID what kind of bird this is? A hawk of some kind from the looks of it.

Thought I’d spend a few minutes adding a plug-in to Drinkhacker.

2 1/2 hours later, it’s added… and the whole site is redesigned. Jesus!

Did you know?*

> Wolverine died.

> Cars are faster than bikes.

> If a car hit us: No car.

> I can do a handstand on a chair.

> Justin Bieber is a teenager.

*Facts courtesy of my four-year-old son as related during a single 15-minute car ride.

Never before has one man (me) said so little about so much.

On Garner Road interview

Is here.

http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/christophernull

My first post at Yahoo! News is now up for your reading pleasure:

Google shuts off service in China: What does it mean for us?

Find my daily musings in the blogroll here (still filed under “The Working Guy“).

Want to make a hit movie? Here’s what your main character ought to do for a living… at least per 2010′s 10 Best Picture Oscar nominees*.

* Presumes The Blind Side is actually about Michael Oher and not Leigh Anne Tuohy. If you disagree, adjust chart accordingly.

For kicks, adding in the occupation of the 20 Best Actor/Actress and Supporting Actor/Actress nominees (includes some movies more than once).

I wonder if the critic got any of the $400,000? That’s like $1000 a word… nice!

Last month, Variety panned a thriller called Iron Cross. But the review has been disappeared from Variety‘s web site, which probably has something to do with the $400,000 Iron Cross‘ producers paid to Variety for an awards campaign.

Scene: Kids watching TV in the morning via Tivo. Commercial comes on.

Me: “Fast-forward it.”

Child: “I wanna see this!”

Me: “It’s a commercial!”

Child: “But it’s cereal!”

Exeunt.

This is my 10th (I think) year participating in the Tiger Direct Charity PC Race, which begins at 7pm on Thursday, January 7th while I’m at CES. You can watch it live right here:

Daily Virgo Horoscope – 24th December, 2009

T’was the night before Christmas and all through the land, there were Virgos who were realizing that they had two basic choices: they could continue to act like the weight of the world was on their shoulders or they could get with the new program and start to embrace the fact that the worst of the tough times are over. Virgo, you are actually in line for some happy times, intense maybe, but potentially very happy and also fun. Life is what we make of it – you don’t need to be a New Age hippy to get that.