So, let it be known that Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs is far more entertaining than Up.

Up jumps the shark a few hundred too many times. Ok, so an old man flies his house to South America with thousands of balloons? That's fine...it is an animated movie and all. But then he inadvertently takes a very annoying little boy with him? Well, it's a good thing that boy has family issues or else someone might actually notice he's gone. Ok, so there's this crazy bird in the jungle? Good thing there's a crazy old man chasing the bird or else it might have been completely pointless. Then, of course, there are the dogs that have GPS collars that verbalize the dogs' thoughts. Good thing the old man and annoying kid befriend one of the dogs that is apparently too nice and dog-like to be a part of the pack. The zeppelin blimp hasn't even been discussed yet, but this is obviously to bring the whole Nazi element into the picture. Yes, Nazis are still bad, even in 21st century animated movies about flying houses.

As for Meatballs, its just about weather that comes in the form of food. Pure genius. There's even the heartwarming story of a charismatic inventor and his dad, the bait shop-owning widower. Does anything else really need to be said?

Humility is, well, humbling. Everyone has such a high self-opinion and that's generally ok. There's nothing wrong with having a high self-opinion if you're honest with it. If you actually hold yourself to a standard, then living up to that standard could be considered a good thing.

So, this week's life lesson...

Early morning, just beginning the commute. Stopped at a red light, which promptly changes. Traffic starts to move, except the next car up. They sit. They sit more, but with a slight idling roll-back. The only reasonable thing to do is move to the next lane and zip by the sitting car, all the while giving them a shrug of the shoulders and the look that clearly says, "Ugh". It was all going according to plan until the police lights in the intersection became visible. Oh yeah, then the paramedic screaming through the intersection. Brakes were applied immediately, just in time to be next to the object of scorn just a few seconds earlier. Once the paramedic had passed, the driver of the other car gave that exact same "Ugh" look, but instead of the confused shrug of disbelief, they give a highly mocking hand clap with nothing but smugness written all over it.

And it was totally deserved. The rest of the drive to work was a little different than usual. People were allowed to pass. Speed was not the primary concern. Teeth were not gnashed. But for that day at least, a lesson was learned.

Being wrong is such a pain.

The internet has already brought us such great things as Failblog and FML, but it never stops innovating.

Now there's this gem: Oddly Specific

Twelve pages in and its still quite entertaining. Yes, some are clearly fake or at least staged, but that's ok.