Thor

broderic on May 7, 2011

Caught the noon showing of Thor in a relatively packed house. It is rare to misjudge people’s enthusiasm for a movie. I thought no one was going to watch so I went a couple of minutes before the start. I rolled into the parking lot and found a lot of cars; these must be for the earlier show. They were also for my own show. I had to sit up front.

This is the best Natalie Portman movie so far this year. The god of thunder became the god of love under her gaze.

The story is about redemption and humility. In order to gain the throne, Thor must show that he is deserving. He may rule at war, but is he wise in the ways of ruling? Is he deserving of the throne? Only if he’s cast out of Asgard into the mortal world of Midgard can he find his way back.

I sort of dug this version of Thor. It is filled with really good actors for an comic book movie. Stellan Skarsgard, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Renee Russo, and Natalie Portman all bring a weight to this movie that revolves around kingly dealings. A lot better cast that can handle the comic-ness of this all.

3 of 5 stars.

Link of the Day [5.06.11]

broderic on May 6, 2011

Loved reading today’s link about issues with text editors for OS X.

I did recently take a look at TextMate and found it striking that it was released some time ago. I am surprised to see that it hasn’t been updated for a while.

As a software engineer, I live by the text editor. I did like BBEdit, but I can’t stand the small font it uses. I am an emacs kind of guy (the ctrl-k, ctrl-v comes from there! Try it in OS X as an alternative to open-apple-X, open-apple-C) so I am looking for something along the same lines. But no vi. No to vi.

It turns out I really like TextPad on Windows. Like it better than any text editor I’ve used. It’s because I know how to use it. Wish I can find one for OS X. I think I’ve done this post before.

http://chipotle.tumblr.com/post/5207966724/text-editor-intervention

Left Behind

broderic on May 5, 2011

As I tweeted this afternoon, the good news is I still have a job, and the bad news is I still have a job. At IniTech.

Good or bad I’m still there. Gallows humor the last few days referenced the Rapture, which is where I get the title of my post. Those lucky few who got the notice are going to be in a better place. Us left behind will be ruled by the devil — our damn terrible job.

My contribution went the way of the grand old English nursery rhyme, “Here comes a candle to light you to bed; here comes the chopper to chop off your head.” Dreadful morning. Dreadful mourning. Walking in I was already greeted by those whispers of those who’ve gone away. And then it also came in drips and drops over IM rather than the phone, the dreaded phone. Everyone all hopped up. Got no work done.

Let’s hope this is once. I don’t know if I truly hope it is.

Ritsu!

broderic on May 5, 2011

Drummer Ritsu

Bought the first season first disc DVD of K-ON! Was also looking for the Blu-Ray. The dub is driving me crazy because the girls of Sakuragaoka High School are all sounding the same. I think the voice actress for Yui isn’t working, but the one that doesn’t work is Ritsu. Her voice actress isn’t lively enough. Can they get better? Maybe, but there ain’t nothing like the original Japanese voice actresses. Now, I am dreading Azusa’s English voice actress.

Meanwhile, this is a good chance to post another picture of my K-ON! nendoroid petites. Here’s an interesting shot. Perhaps I can do these professionally.

Me vs IMdB 2011

broderic on April 30, 2011

Tried this one back in 2008. Glad to see I’ve moved up a notch. Slowly but surely I am going to clear out the whole list. Starting up the Netflix download… NOW!! You too can join in here.