So the first trailer for this year’s A-Team movie hit the net yesterday, and if you follow me on Twitter you know that the first link to it I posted was taken down ("infringing"). But of course you can just search YouTube and find it again if you want to watch it.

…I’ve watched it a bunch of times now. I can’t help it: it looks friggin’ awesome, and damn if that isn’t a good movie trailer. Now I can’t wait for the movie to come out.

Well, yes, I am that geeky.

Two totally random things today that I found on the internets:

The Oatmeal ASCII art: I have no other commentary other than go to that site and view the HTML source.

Well, I have some commentary. It makes me want to drop ASCII art in the web pages I work on…

Nic Cage as Everyone: Funny and odd. Whomever thought this one up has too much time on their hands… of course. That being said, there are some really good image editing jobs on some of those pictures.

The new year is upon us, and we finished off our old year and started up this new one in San Diego. We left a week ago, on Sunday, two days after Christmas, with a mad plan to get up really early and make the drive in one day.

For background, last June when we left San Diego (yes, you counted correctly, that’s two SoCal trips in the same year), we left about 7:30 in the morning and managed to get home about 10pm that night—roughly 14.5 hours is the number that sticks in our head.

This time, traveling south—we rolled out at 6:10am and arrived right around 11pm—it took roughly 17 hours. Two things worked against us: snowy roads on southern Highway 97 in Oregon and all the holiday traffic returning to Southern California the same day.

It was grueling.

We spent New Year’s Eve at my brother’s house, playing Balderdash and Left 4 Dead 2 and drinking beers and ringing in the New Year. We had tired kids, so we retired to our hotel just after midnight.

So far my 2010 has consisted of seeing Up in the Air (my brother and sister-in-law watched the kids for us), drinking more beer, and driving home. We left San Diego around 9am yesterday and made it to Redding around 8pm last night—we wisely decided to split the drive home into two days.

The 11-hour drive to Redding isn’t nearly as bad as it sounds; we made really good time most of the way—through Los Angeles especially!—and we stopped for maybe an hour at the Olive Pit in Corning for dinner and, well, to shop for olives.

We made it the rest of the way home by mid-afternoon today, and I’m pleased to report none of the snow and ice we encountered a week ago is there. The roads were perfectly clear and except for some weird inversion-layer fog we hit just out of Weed—and up through Klamath Falls—driving conditions were great.

So, in a nutshell, that’s how my 2010 is going so far. How’s yours?