Just a quick note to my family and friends all over the world: Merry Christmas!

I wish I could be visiting you all at the same time but  I can't split into parts like Voltron or some kind of weird zombie unfortunately.

So have a great Christmas, all of you and give each other a hug for me!

I had the need for a gift that was made in Utah this holiday season. I participate in an online Secret Santa gift exchange each year for fun and the request from my recipient this year was to get something from the home state of the giver. So I gathered together a few things from around Utah. One of the more interesting finds was Amano Chocolate which is apparently one of the better chocolate makers in the world.

They have a large variety of single provenance chocolates that have very interesting and complex flavors but don't have any additives or 'stuff' in them that you usually find in chocolate (raisins, chunks of nuts etc.) so they are just the most straight forward chocolate flavor experience I have ever had really. Super yummy.

They make the chocolate right near my office in Orem and you can buy it from their little office there or at the BYU Bookstore, or some place at Sundance or on their website. It is expensive compared to your average Hershey bar (ewww.) but since it is so flavorful and great you just don't need to eat more than a square or two at a time so it lasts a while.

Don't worry, it's a movie trailer.

2006 Black List (the industry's self chosen list of best unproduced screenplays) screenplay finally gets made into a movie and it looks pretty good. I would be hard pressed to pick a better cast.

Have a look, it feels like it combines a bit of Burn After Reading, Long Way Round and a couple other fun flicks. Putting Jeff Bridges in there with long hair as the apparent slacker military man who runs the group of weirdo-commandos is almost too perfect and could smack of Hollywood-navel-gazing but, come on. It's Jeff Bridges!

Oh, and before the Quicktime complaints roll in, for heaven's sake, install QTLite/QuicktimeAlternative and be done with it. Lets you download the movie, then play it in Media Player Classic with proper hardware acceleration.