short fat guy online

I missed seeing the new announcement by mere seconds.  I was just at the official site, but it was seconds later at TORN that I saw word the new ROTK trailer had been released, right around 3:30 PM (EDT).

Actually it’s a still from “Night on Bald Mountain”

I can’t see it at the Apple site, since I’m behind a corporate firewall right now, and I can’t get the official site‘s Large version downloaded (since WinZip keeps telling me it’s not a valid archive).  I was able to at least get the Medium version, as shown above.  I just have to wait till tonight when I can go home and download things properly.

While waiting for a hopefully better version to show up at the official site, I’m spending my time watching AOL’s Return of the King trailer offering.

A Nazgul on approach to Minas Tirith Metropolitan Airport

Shelob.  Ick.  I’m already feeling itchy.

At last this image of Arwen, first seen way back in the original online teaser trailer, might finally appear in a movie

It looks like Minas Morgul might be exploding

A Nazgul in the sun?  Or maybe a Luck Dragon who’s lost his way?

    By the way, shortly after accumulating the above screen grabs, I found that TORN has a QuickTime version of the AOL version of the trailer.  Of course the official version, coming out later today, will supersede this, but if you want you can download it here.

Found out from eBay this afternoon that I’m the victim of credit card fraud!  Some jagoff was using my credit card to start an eBay account, make a thirty dollar BidPay payment, and some fifty dollar RegSoft purchase.  Of course I and my credit card company put a stop to that, but it hurts that the Internet I thought was my friend has turned against me.
    No more blog entries till you all shape up.

The One Ring.net has a snippet of The Return of the King trailer, released today.  Their download page is understandably getting hammered, so I figured I’d mirror the QuickTime file here, on my site.  The file was recorded off E! and the brief glimpse is mainly dialogue scenes.
    Apparently, the trailer will debut online on AOL over the weekend.  I’ll see if I can share that too, although it will be readily available at the official site on Monday.  (I guess my laziness pays off, since, after seeing version 9, I’ve been intending to drop AOL for a while.)   [11:24 AM]
    Update: TheOneRing.net has a complete copy of the trailer available for download, from some overseas video source.  I’m downloading my copy as I type.  However, I’m at work, and my fear is the link will be shut down before I can get home and download the file there!  (And it’s too big to simply e-mail.)   [3:59 PM]
    Update update:  Just looked at it.  It appears to be only 2/5s of it.  I’ve tried downloading it again, but it appears 10 MBs is all I can get.  Still, what I’ve seen looks pretty cool.

The much anticipated activation of the Do Not Call list, slated to take effect October 1, had been put on hold, as usual, by some spoilsport judge.  A US District Judge in Oklahoma says the FTC does not have the authority to block telemarketer calls in that fashion, even though 50 million households are all for it.
    The judge says he will not allow the matter to proceed until he hears back about a new aluminum siding deal and that trip to Ft Lauderdale, Orlando, or Miami.  Congress is poised to overrule the judge’s findings, but either way the telemarketers can kiss my ass because my Caller ID makes a fine little “Do Not Answer” list of its own.