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Monday, February 20, 2006 |
I spent the day at home today - sick - and finally enabled this site's rss feed! w00t! You'll see that mammajamma over on the right, under the Good Reads (which could use a new title if you ask me).
Oh, BTW - I added a section called "Good Reads" over on the right. If I find or steal a good link that deserves to be read but can't fit in a post, it'll go over there. Since I'm talking about them, check out the Burger King photos and videos from the links over there. I've been telling people about how weird that shit was for weeks, and Justin found pics to go along with the videos. You have to see it to believe it.
Anyway, the rss feed is good to go. Go get the Wizz extension for Firefox and syndicate away! Or alternatively, you can use your customizable Google homepage (http://www.google.com/ig) and add all the feeds you can think of. Hecker's screencap in the forum clued me in on some obvious feeds that I missed, like local movie times, slickdeals.net, and even Hecker's own blog. Some other good feeds include Ars Technica (the main stories, Journals, and Opposable Thumbs) and tvtorrent.info.
Lastly, it's been awhile since I've posted any movie or TV reviews, so I've got a backlog of stuff to review!
Let's start with some TV shit:
Scale! Fucking Awesome > Worth a look > Meh > Disappointing > Horrible
House: I must have seen one episode of the first season and it didn't grab me. However, I copied season 1 and all current season 2 eps from Gerg - now I'm an addict, much like House himself. Fucking awesome!
Grey's Anatomy: wasn't impressed by the 8 or so eps of season 1. Season 2=cannonball in stomach. Worth a look.
24: Jack hasn't killed nearly enough people yet this year. Exec Producer is David Fury. Best opening 4 hours I can remember. Fucking awesome!
Movies!
Hostel: lots of boobs right away, not nearly enough gore or humor, disappointing Cabin Fever follow up. Meh.
Just Friends: Van Wilder and brother interaction is fucking hilarious, Scary Movie chick still playing her one role. Worth a look.
The Dark Hours: psychological horror from Canadia, good twist, good acting, over too soon. Worth a look.
Jarhead: Donnie Darko's best film yet, great acting all around, boredom in war is fucked up too. Fucking awesome!
Waiting: "You find yourself a little bored, play with your nuts; you know what I'm saying? See what you can come up with." Fucking awesome!
Doom: Better than I expected. Maybe worth a $2 dollar rental (or..well, you know). "Semper Fi motherfucker!" Loses points for no Hell. Worth a look.
There you have it - quality reviews from a quality Jew. Now go play with your nuts, see what you can come up with.
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Friday, February 17, 2006 |
Microsoft is on a roll these past few days. Giant AntiSpyware turned into Microsoft AntiSpyware, and now Microsoft AntiSpyware has turned into Windows Defender. I highly recommend getting this nifty utility and replacing whatever you may currently be running (AdAware, S&D, what-have-you) because it does a few things much better. It runs as a service, it lets you know when critical system components are changing (but without interrupting your shit), it autoupdates much more seamlessly, and it uses a kickass castle wall icon in the Start Menu. I think of nothing but Mario Bros. when I see that icon.
Download Windows Defender Beta 2 here
Another good thing MS has done deals with IE7. Tabs - finally - in IE. And they didn't half-ass it, which is nice. They even include an Expose-style tab-switcher, which adds to the "actually feels like an upgrade" experience. Of course, the best move MS did with IE7 was fully support web standards like CSS and RSS (like Firefox). While that means properly designed websites will now work fine (supposedly) in IE7 and Firefox, websites with IE6 hacks will probably break in IE7 (nothing to do with the RSS side of course). The interweb is in for a shitload of breakage once IE7 officially hits the streets.
Download IE7 beta 2 here
A third good thing from MS is the fact that they are fighting for wider cablecard support in Vista (and computers in general). As you may or may not know, the cable industry is demanding all cablecard PCs be approved by...the cable industry, and the cablecard uhh, host card (made by ATI) won't be available as a separate purchase. What this means is someone like Hecker can't go out and build a Media Center PC - he'd be forced to buy an OEM system. Fairly stupid shit, but it's expected from the cable industry these days. Hopefully Microsoft will be able to sway some powerful people into a more open system for us customizers.
Read a cablecard primer here
To not sound so much like a dirty, dirty Microsoft prostitute, I do wonder why they switched names for the new Office product from Office 12 to Office 2007. Yes, I think about such things. Seriously, who wants to be running Office 2007 once January 1st, 2008 rolls around? That's year old shit right there. But if you're running Office 12 in 2008, you'd feel much better because your software is not inherently dated by the title. That's how I feel anyway. Gotta have the latest and greatest, even if that means formatting twice in one week...fucking beta Hauppauge drivers/3rd party tweaked Catalysts!
The atheist recently made a post about podcasts (Atheist Heaven), and I have to comment him on his choices. Diggnation, in particular, is a kickass podcast. Of course, since he's an atheist, he forgot one of the best podcasts out there - the BSG podcast. It's pretty much a must for any fan of the best show on television, and for those who care about HOW a production comes together, the insights on script writing, set direction, and acting are priceless. True that.
Now that I've blown my textual load all over the interweb, it's time to finish catching up on the House series. That show is most excellent.
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Written by Hair
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Thursday, February 09, 2006 |
Last night, I was watching Johnny Knoxville's latest masterpiece, The Ringer, and I was amazed at how gifted some of the mentally challenged folks were when it comes to acting skills. Seriously, those guys had some of the best lines of the movie. But not all the tards were actually tards. Some of the roles were taken by non-mentally challenged people, like the weird alien-dude from Galaxy Quest and the "Snozzberries" kid from Super Troopers. Actually, although the real mentally challenged guys had some of the best lines, Snozzberry had the funniest line in the whole movie. When the dick boyfriend tries to lie to his hot girlfriend by telling her he took the kids to get ice cream, Snozzberry, as a mentally challenged kid, yells, "When the fuck did we get ice cream?" I nearly splattered my monitor with Cheez-Its!
What does that have to do with the title? I think I'm becoming retarded. Or maybe too dependent on the computer. I've been noticing this every so often, but today it really struck me how often I have to look up the spelling to all sorts of words. Let me tell you, I've never been a slouch when it comes to spelling and grammar. All throughout my schooling I was a kid who only needed to be taught once the rules of grammar. When I would read other classmates' papers, required reading, printouts, and other what-have-yous, I usually paid more attention to mistakes in the writing than in the story details, and I would always spot a misspelled word before anyone else would be done with the first paragraph. Horn toot bitch!
Anyway, I think all those smarts have gone straight out the proverbial window because I pretty much depend on dict.org these days. Seriously, if dict.org suddenly when down, or if I was typing something up and lost my interwebs connection, I'd probably have a heart attack. I had to check on so many words today alone; mostly to verify if a word needed one "l" or two, one "f" or two. It's irritating. Pretty soon I'll have to double-check my spelling of "been".
The more I think about it though, the more I realize I DO know how to spell these words. For some strange reason though, doubt creeps in more and more, causing me to check with an outside source every time. Ever have that happen to you? Have you ever used a word, like "comfortable", and then doubted your pronunciation or spelling because it just seemed like a weird word? That shit happens to me twenty times a day. Yet, after typing all that up in a few minutes, spellcheck.net tells me I have no real spelling errors outside of the words it doesn't recognize. Odd.
To bring it all to a close, The Ringer is decent. I didn't laugh my ass off the whole time, but I didn't hate the movie. It's definitely an underrated film. There we go again, one "r" or two in "underrated"?
I know the answer, but I look it up anyway.
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Written by Hair
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006 |
No, I didn't hate today that much. My title is referring to Valentine's Day. Seems like there's a lot of hate towards the day around the interwebs' various blogs and spaces and what-have-yous. Me? I don't really understand all the hate. I mean, sure, there might be a valid reason or two in individual's rants, but overall, I don't really care about the day one way or another at this point, and that's what this post is all about.
Let's talk about what Valentine's Day is: it's a day for a couple to get together, perhaps exchange some kind of gift, perhaps go out to dinner, perhaps come home and bang bang bang. While it's true that a healthy relationship shouldn't have to rely on a single day to express feelings among the members of said relationship, it doesn't mean doing something on that particular day is a stupid idea. Perhaps some couples like the fact that a particular day exists to celebrate their relationship. Plus it seems chicks really dig Valentine's Day, so any dude is going to go out of his way to make his special fucking lady feel extra fucking special on that day, even though he may do the same on any other random day. Really, the day is about the special fucking lady and making her happy. It's just like Easter and Christmas and doing whatever it is one is supposed to do on those made up holidays.
I realize this post is kind of lame and I also realize I might not have made any really good points yet supporting Valentine's Day. My point is that not every unattached person gets bent out of shape when Valentine's Day comes around. Would I prefer to have a special fucking lady to wine and dine on Valentine's Day? Sure. Am I going to get drunk, handimate furiously, and drunk-walk into the river because I'm single on Valentine's Day? Nope. Unless it's on a Saturday, then there would be some drinking! Go-go-gadget-White-Russians!
In summary, why Valentine's Day doesn't bother me:
-Many chicks dig it
-It's for celebrating a relationship
-Gifts always kick ass
-Many couples like it
-It's not that big of a deal if you're single
-May lead to extra athletic sex
-May lead to wine-related silliness
-Color red is also the color of blood
-Hot ass vampire chicks like Kate Beckinsale drink blood
-I like Kate Beckinsale
So there you have it. A blog about Valentine's Day that might be the opposite of many other V-Day posts on the interwebs. Run and tell your friends.
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