“Dave, if medicine tasted good, I’d be pouring cough syrup in my pancakes.”
Steve Jobs, that magnificent bastard, has started giving us early iPhone adopters $100 back.
Woot!
"Voluptuous?" "Pretty and fat."
Ghost Blinds
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.
IPhone distorts some of the pictures it takes. I don’t know technically how it happens. It seems that most of the image processing is done via software, and it is slow in reacting to the moving image. So when iPhone writes to its flash storage, it captures the movement as well.
I also got one of those defective cameras which distort the image color. Most of my photos come out with a greenish tinge. While I would love to take it back for replacement, I like how it makes the image a tad more interesting.
The deficiencies makes for some interesting photos.
“It’s not just about the allmighty dollar. It’s also about the plucky little dime, the omnipresent nickel, and the ferocious quarter.”
MRrrrreorrrng-mrrrowrrr.
[i am iron man]
da. da. da da-DAA.
Seriously though, this looks awesome.
Hopefully, Favreau picks up the pace and makes it a tight movie. I know next to nothing about Iron Man. So I don’t know how neat this is going to be. Perhaps that’ll make it less sucky-disappointing when I do watch it.
“What if you’re managing something and you’re standing right next to a stupid guy.”
I’m saddened by this six year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Have we learned anything from them?
I have a feeling that we decided, in anger, to do something. Anything. And it was being led by president fucktard that we haven’t gotten anything done.
Bin laden is still out there. He’s taunted us again and again.
But all our government can do is say, “Dick Cavett!”
Can’t we do anything right?
“Come on, people! In the right hands, knife targeting is safer than driving.”
School has started. Taking two classes. It’s going to be an interesting year.
Both are reading and discussing classes. The first one is a business school class, ethics and social responsibility. I’m glad to know that they like to teach it to the MBA majors, but the corporation is an entirely different beast. The second is software engineering maintenance and software evolution. Sounds boring, but that is also my job. It’s boring, too.
Meh. I’m not complaining. Yet.
"Dave, you never want cunning plans or crazy capers."
Goya
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.
Goya’s Ghost.
It’s another one of those movies that received sucky rotten tomato ratings, but is actually not bad. I was expecting something less, but got a bit more. The movie deals with the Inquisition, French Revolution, Napolean and those dark days of Spain. Francisco Goya was swept up in history.
Natalie Portman plays a senorita and a Goya model caught in the inquisition for a silly trumped up charge. Tortured to confessing she spends her life in jail. Goya as the court painter is brought in to help get her releas by her father. He’s painitng a priest’s portrait (Javier Bardem) so he has connections with the church. Bardem falls for her, but can not get her release. He ends up fathering her child, and gets in trouble with the church. You see he was also tortured to confess that he’s a monkey by the father. He becomes a fugitive and flees to France. Fifteen years later he’s back with Napolean at the fall of the Spanish King. Placed in charge of Spain he is now a secular person, but when the British come back to displace Napolean’s puppet regime he gets his comeuppance at the hands of the church.
There was a lot of brutalitiy in this film. The church was brutal. Royalty was brutal. Spain is brutal. Amazing since it isn’t so nowadays.
It was somewhat depressing, but it reminded me of seeing his paintings at the Prado especially his black period. They were a series of dark, dreadful paintings called hisBlack Paintings. Witches and devils in dark shades peered from the dark canvas. I liked them when I saw them.
3 of 5 stars.
“It’s not supposed to break. My talent is hitting things real hard and not hurt my hand.”
My license is expiring and I have to get it renewed. I’m just wondering if I should keep the mustache?
While I may shave it off, I have yet to tire of it to do so.
It will be another 5 years before I get a new one. What will having a mustache do when someone looks at it years from now?
“No, I think in Matthew’s world candy elves are a common occurrence.”
Steve Jobs, that magnificent bastard, gives us iPhone owners $100 in Apple store credit. I'm planning on getting a 4 GB iPhone! Woot!!
Now where did I put that receipt?
BTW, his letter reads more like Fake Steve than the real deal.