Quote of the Day [11.08.10]
"Gotta nuke something."Nelson Muntz, "The Simpsons" ep 4F01 "Lisa's Date with Density"
Upgrade?
My mom's main computer is a G3 iBook circa 2005/2006 (Not truly sure), and she's looking for a new computing experience. What should she get? An iPad? A new Apple laptop? An iPhone? Switch to the cheaper Wintel 7 platform? I have no idea and this post is trying to solicit responses and advice from my blog friends, all two of them!Anyway, my brother has been suggesting an iPhone. He thinks she's ready for the touch interface. I think she is too, but her computing hardware is sorely lacking. You need a MacIntel machine to actually run the latest iTunes to manage the iPhone. On top of buying a new iPhone, she'll still have to upgrade her laptop. Is that the best solution?I suggested and iPad. I thought it wouldn't need iTunes to manage it, but the more I think about the problem, the more it resembles the iPhone issue. She will still need an laptop to manage content on the iPad directly. Is this necessary and can she get away with using the iPad as a main computer?I was wanting to get her an upgrade to a new MacBook. I don't want her to as having the computing power is negated by what she uses the computer for: web-surfing and email. It would be a complete waste unless she begins to migrate to the computing age.What say you? What's the best upgrade path for her?
Anime or Animation
Ponyo or The Princess and the Frog? Faced with this choice, my niece went with the safe comforts of the Disney production instead of the Studio Ghibli film. Who can blame her as The Princess and the Frog had a princess, and Ponyo, well, it had a creepy human faced fish. So what sets an animated movie from Japan from those produced in the United States?
Character matter? Probably not. Ponyo is derived from The Little Mermaid. There is a princess except she’s not pretty. She’s a fish with a face. She’s not an ugly duckling but a true ugly duck. You can’t make her beautiful just by removing her glasses and putting down her hair.
I just wondering if there was a difference…
Acoustic Tak!
Every other day, my favorite Ho-kago Tea Time song changes. One day it’s “Fude Pen,” and another day I slip back to loving “Fuwa Fuwa Time.” Then I chase them down on YouTube to see how other folks interpret the songs.
Love this acoustic version of “No, Thank You!” that maybe, currently, at this moment, it’s my favorite. Oops! Just heard the piano arrangement of “Fuwa Fuwa Time.” Here we go again.
Link of the Day [11.02.10]
While Filipinos don't celebrate the Day of the Dead like they do in Mexico, we still commemorate our dearly departed on the 2nd of November. We stop by the cemetery and remember our departed loved ones.I completely forgot. Here's to hoping one of us made it to the cemetery to put a remembrance on our departed loved ones' graves.http://diadelosmuertos.us/
Vote Early and Often
From Preston Sturges’ great political satire, The Great McGinty.
Hoot for Girls’ Generation
Who doesn’t like cute girls running around your computer screen in the morning? Is this better than coffee?
I had always thought that those asian girl groups where too big. I still do. You can barely tell the girls’ voices apart in this song. It’s tough to put faces to verses. They’re all starting to look the same: cute!
Korean always sounded harsh on my ears. Looking at these girls while they sing, now it doesn’t.
Recorder my torrents
The second OP from K-ON!! I find this pretty hilarious and awesome at the same time. That bass recorder!
Hereafter
Before the spooks come out, let’s put down my thoughts about Clint Eastwood’s latest cinema effort, Hereafter. Appropriately released close to Halloween, it is a movie about living with the dead that is how we, the living, approach death, dying, and the dead, and how we think about the afterlife. If we think about it at all.
I’m amazed that Eastwood played it straight. He cast no judgement against any of our beliefs be it for an afterlife or not. Even he didn’t make judgement on those who believed or didn’t believe in communicating with the dead. Straight, right? The movie states that there is something after death.
And you can talk to them. Can we? Eastwood plays it straight and let’s Damon actually communicate with the dead. Then throws us a curve and in a crucial moment, makes it seem like he didn’t. Did he? Hmm.
It was an alright movie. Not creepy. But nice to know. It’s a pragmatic film about what could happen after death.
3 of 5 stars.
YuiAzu in full effect
Aaargh! Kawaii overload! During episode 10 of K-ON!!, YuiAzu wasn’t able to finish their duet. Now, we find it out on YouTube. And Azusa is singing. We never heard her sing any song. Gah! So Kawaii.
Let me look for this CD or torrent.
UPDATE: Replaced video because YouTube removed it.