Done with school

As of last week I've officially turned in my Thesis and finished my Masters degree. Now I have about two months off and then I start working full time. So far during my break I've been working on turning my Masters Thesis into a paper to be submitted to a conference, and relaxing a bit back at home.

Of the two the relaxing is the harder task as some members of my family think one shouldn't have freetime. As this is my last break before I start work full time I don't really want to do anything but sit around, read, play video games, watch movies, golf, and do whatever outside.

Disney, why do you hate consumers?

So I bought the new Pirates of the Carribean: The curse of the Black Pearl Blu-ray this last week. I just popped it in to watch it only to find out Disney has decided this new hi-def format needs to work just like their childrens DVD's. So what's this mean for the consumer. Previews, lots of previews before the movie. Did I mention that you cannot use the menu, or pop-up menu features to skip them?

At least Disney still let me use next chapter, so after pressing R1 about 20 times I finally got to the movie's top menu. Does anyone know why Disney makes their movies do this to you? Just about every other Blu-ray I've played so far drops you right to a menu after a very short Blu-ray trailer. The only other movie I saw with any more extensive previews let you hit menu to skip them at least.

All Disney's managed to accomplish is to ensure that I don't bother buying another movie from them again. I'm so much better off just finding whatever I want from them and downloading it. At least this way I don't have to deal with all their stupid previews.