“Bill, we are not in New York.” “We’re not? Gee, and here I am mistaking the Museum of Yarn for the Guggenheim.”

broderic on September 13, 2024

Link of the Day [9.13.24]

I go to the bookstore almost every weekend. The same one I’ve been telling you about for the past 20 years. So I’ve accumulated a lot of books, and, confession time, I have maybe only read a tenth of what I’ve bought.

Sad. I know. It’s a sickness, but I can’t be helped. There’s a lot of things that look interesting to read, but not interesting enough to be read.

But that’s just not my problem only. Lots of people do the same. Ain’t that the joke — having books you haven’t read? Yup. So, there’s even a word for it in Japanese… let’s all learn it today!

https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/tsundoku/

“That I haven’t written a word. That my life couldn’t fill a haiku, let alone a whole book.”

broderic on September 13, 2024

Why did they ever make a sequel to Beetlejuice? Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was a mess. It had five or more plot lines. If one or two were focused on, then it would’ve made a better movie. There was the mother-daughter reconciliation plot, the daughter evil boyfriend plot, the father funeral plot, the “Ghost House” plot, the wedding plot, the other wedding plot, and then we get to Beetlejuice. So many things going on. They all made no sense mashed into one film.

I guess nostalgia has kicked in for me is why I watched the movie. It wasn’t good. It was disappointing. Never trust nostalgia.

2 of 5 stars.

Link of the Day [7.26.24]

broderic on July 26, 2024

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

This is what the Republicans plan on doing to the greatest country on Earth.

They are not conservatives. They are radicals. They are also a minority. No one but the oligarchs like what this is all about.

Vote them out. Not just vote, but vote against them.

Or we are doomed.

https://www.project2025.org

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

broderic on April 11, 2024

I watched Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire so long ago. This post is supposed to be a review or my thoughts on that film. I can’t. I forgot anything about the movie.

Wait. I vaguely remember something about freezing to death. Or was it being scared to death? Yeah something about that.

It turns out that even though I don’t remember anything. I’ll still give it a mediocre score.

3 of 5 stars.

Link of the Day [2.29.24]

broderic on February 29, 2024

Not really having something today, I guess. I just want to post something for leap day. I also want to post something so that February 2024 has more than one post.

I just did a quick check of my favorite sites for this link and this one about Pluto’s orbit seems appropriate for the day. Does Pluto have a Leap Year?

https://www.vox.com/2015/3/3/8140839/pluto-orbit

Quote of the Day [5.20.23]

broderic on May 20, 2023

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

Frank Whilhot

Link of the Day [5.07.23]

broderic on May 7, 2023

Even Mac gurus have this problem.

I had signed up for an iTunes music account a long time ago maybe perhaps even when it was announced. Then I signed up for a Mobile Me account before it became iCloud. Then I most likely have a Japanese iTunes account. And I think I have a work one, too. I just have too many Apple ID accounts.

And there is no way to resolve them being one. No way.

Today’s link finds Daring Fireball himself stuck trying to navigate the multiple Apple ID accounts. He’s getting ads for services he’s already bought and it’s because of the multiple IDs that has confused him.

I, too, am confused by it all.

https://daringfireball.net/2023/05/followup_on_apple_services_ad

Link of the Day [12.03.22]

broderic on December 3, 2022

One of my favorite programming things is regular expressions. What are regular expressions? Well, they’re patterns mainly used to search text files particular words. It’s a code for how to find a needle in the haystack. My favorite is Perl regular expressions. I like programming in Perl because I like using it for searching for text in a file and processing that text into what I need to do. I hate when your search feature doesn’t use Perl regular expressions. (I am looking at you sed.)

Today’s link is to help you to use regular expressions. I think I have to read this, too.

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlre