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These vinyl sculpts of dairy products gone bad are awesome. Again, someone get me this. And no littleseedling, some hack photoshop job won’t be enough.
This is supposed to be a Netflix queue DVD review. Then, why’s it got a title referencing the VP’s accidental shooting? Well, the DVD that I saw over the weekend was Insomnia. Not the US remake, but the original Swedish (or Norwegian) film.
If you hadn’t seen it, the flick centers around an accidental shooting and cover up. Just like the VP, but someone dies. In the DVD.
I was roughly confused for the first part. I couldn’t tell Swedish from Norwegian. And that was a key part of the film. Yet, in the end I liked it.
Marked it as 3 of 5 stars. How convenient that the Netflix rating system matches my own.
Here’s another link to some fine art (if you can call it that) that I wish someone to buy it for me. That last sentence is awkward. This next one should be just fine. Check out Chris Bishop and his web comic is not too bad either.
ART SHOW
Bedrock Billards in Washington DC. January 6 – March 3
Milk and Cheese rock. No not the dairy products (although cheese is good), the dairy products that have gone bad. Please someone, buy some of this art for me.
Yay! A wintery storm has finally come. I like it when it snows. Quiet. Peaceful. I guess this is it for winter 2006.
The latest flick from my Netflix queue is The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires. This was a documentary on the rise of the personl computer industry done around 1996, the Jurassic period in computer epochs.
The narrator was Robert X. Cringely who used to write a weekly column about the movers and shakers of Silicon Valley. He writes an online column for PBS.org and has very insightful things to say about the industry. I read his writings every week. This week he explains why Jobs is good for Disney. Read it. Then go buy stock in Apple. Jobs is just that good.
Anyway, back to the DVD. The story ends in 1996. Windows 95 was just released and the internet had yet to become the ubiquitous thing it is today. At the end, Cringely goes over the fortunes of the main players: Gates, Microsoft, Jobs, and Apple.
In 1996, Apple’s fortunes were down and it looked as if the end was near. Steve Jobs was 10 years in exile from Apple after being unceremoniously dumped in 1986. He was just the CEO of a little animation company Pixar. Oh and also of a small startup NeXT computing.
In 1996, Bill Gates was the richest man in America. Microsoft was the dominant computer company. It was good to be a Microserf.
In 1996, Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, preached the joy of the internet and the future of computing as a thin client connected to the Web. The PC was not in the picture.
What happened in the PC industry in those 10 years until now?
Microsoft still got bigger. Is still the 100lb gorilla of the personal computer industry. Apple did not fail. It has become a major player in the new computing world order. Bill Gates is a successful philanthropist and is the richest man in the world. Larry Ellison is a nobody. Steve Jobs is now the head of Disney.
Cringely closes the show with an acknowledgement that the industry will always be changing. He said that it would take 30 years for society to find uses for technology that has been introduced. In 1996, the personal computing industry had been around for about 20 years. He said he would like to revisit the Silicon Valley players in 10 years. It is now 2006. I wonder what he will find?
… for music.
Can you win at the billionth iTunes download? Check out the prizes. $10,000 worth songs. How many albums is that? Or even how many TV shows?
You can buy or use this entry form to enter. No purchase necessary. For those running Tiger, use this dashboard widget to help estimate when to enter.
Good luck. And if you win can I get one of those iPods. Thanks in advance.
I see from APCB that the powers that be are releasing an extended version of Dune. No not the scifi channel’s remake, but the honest god goodness of David Lynch’s masterpiece. This is something to watch out for.
HULK’S DIARY THAT IS ON THE INTERNET
That statement alone does not sum up how funny this thing is.
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Today my car has past the 100K mile mark. It occurred around 8 AM on 695 right under the Stevenson Rd. overpass. You can check the last hundred miles until I reached this mark in my flickr account. Check the set out.
