I am too lazy to sort
I was confused about what the “multi-tasking” in the iPhone OS was all about. Are these apps terminated? Are they suspended? If they don’t ever terminate, how do you truly quit the app? The hold “home-power” quit?
Here’s a link, via Daring Fireball, that covers some of the basics of this new feature. Now I understand.
It’s 1 AM and here I am writing up my thoughts on Knight and Day. This way, when you read my review/thoughts, it’ll keep you away from a very muddled flick. Unless, of course, you like messes.
The commercials don’t convey how messed up this movie is. It looks like a fun ride with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, except it was a movie saddled with a random script and little chemistry between the two protagonists. I was hoping for a fun ride, but got sick as the movie winded its way to its happy ending.
I thought the film was written and produced by Tom Cruise, because of his prominent mugging in the camera. I wanted to see that though. I wanted the jumping on Oprah’s couch Tom Cruise promised by the trailers. I got it but in too high a volume. But he was certainly the best thing going in the movie. “With me. Without me.” Hee hee.
Cameron Diaz has the Cameron Diaz problem: beautiful in one light, ugly in another. She was ugly for most of the time in this one.
There were some good parts — kicking the waiter, a dangling Tom Cruise, but they were parts of the muddled mess.
I think you may want to watch it, but don’t forget I told you its a head scratcher.
2 of 5 stars.
I got the Nolan Riemold bobble head. I had to get the next one, Adam Jones. I find myself down at Camden Yards trading in an unused season ticket for a $1 seat in upper reserve, section 384. I was hoping for a win.
Kevin Millwood on the mound look lost from the get go. Several straight hits in the first and the Marlins were up 2-0. The second inning was more of the same leaving the Marlins ahead 3-0. I was ragging Millwood as he left the mound at the end of the inning. He looked defeated already, and it was still only the second inning. I thought it was going to be a long night of Marlins hits and runs and Orioles futility.
Then the bottom of the third started off with a Craig Tatum double. Then another hit, and another, and another. Finally, the Orioles were up 5-3 and the night felt better. But these are the Orioles and no lead was safe. Will Millwood cough up the lead in the next inning? He didn’t. He came back and pitched respectable going 5 innings and only allowing 4 runs.
Jason Berken continuing with his great relief pitching pitches a nice couple of innings of shutdown ball. David Hernandez finishes up the eighth. Matt Albers comes on for the junk ninth, gives up a run but closes out the win. Why was Albers even pitching? Or even Hernandez? Silly Orioles wasting their guys.
The offense came alive tonight. Jones had a screaming line drive homer, and Miggy came through to seal it with a 3 run homer. Woot!
As the game started I was stewing in my misery in upper reserve 384, drinking a few drinks. Then these guys showed up. They were hilarious. They started cheering. I started cheering. We got on the jumbotron three times! They should’ve been the Fan of the Game, but they had disappeared before then. Dancing and cheering was their forté, and after every score, high fives all around. We cheered. We cheered! We won!
Baseball is so much more fun when you win.
In a previous post, I espoused my affection for Beck's Deadweight. The nostalgia it filled me with led me to purchase it on iTunes. From the music video, the song is about 4.5 minutes long, but iTunes' only version is 6+ minutes long from extra material in the re-release of Odelay. Oooo, more song for my listening pleasure. Sadly no, the extra minutes is the song trailing off in bloops and bleeps ruining a wonderful experience.I find this aspect of the digital age depressing. When we were analog and copying our music onto cassette tapes, we had control of the process. A song too long can be shortened with the simple press of the button or a fade to silence. Fade ins and cross fades were done easily. The addition of snippets of other audio materials was easy as well. Yet, with digital music all that is gone or at least suppressed in a process that takes some time to set up, understand, and learn. We are stuck with hard boundaries in our music — a track.In other songs I've purchased, there are extraneous bits that I would not like to hear. This is prevalent with rap music and the skits between songs. Somehow the music distributors mash one track with the skits. This sucks as I just want the music, and I am forced to hit next to avoid listening to the crappy skit. I don't need no crappy skits. If I had wanted it, I would've kept the cassette running.Anyone hate this too?
"And Baltimore (13-8) is the worst team in baseball in part because of a deadly combination – the Orioles don't score five runs often enough AND they lose too much when they do."Joe Posnanski, "The Five Run System"http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2010/06/21/the-five-run-system/
A Life Less Ordinary was on FMC last night.
The first few bars of this song instantly transported me to 1998.
Man. I was sad. So long ago and another lifetime. Was that really me? I don’t think I can ever get back there to that person.
Why do I keep labeling these posts with thoughts on the film I watched as reviews? I don’t think I review them well, but I do do some snarky commentary. On occasion, I do write something resembling a review, but it’s few and far between.
That said, then let’s see what I have to say about The A-Team.
I wasn’t a fan of the original show. Never really watched it religiously because I couldn’t get over the fact that they shot at the bad guys, but never killed anyone. So my expectations are low already. I can’t compare it to some beloved show from my youth, because it isn’t beloved.
It was fun, pure summer movie fun. Lot’s of things blowing up. People dying! People shot. Face macking on some girl. Hannibal scheming. Murdoch crazy, actually lunatic insane crazy. BA being a badass. What more do you need from mindless summer entertainment? Popcorn, too. Then there is the Jessica Biel. Hot. Beautiful legs. Except, she wasn’t needed. A little bit of the love-romantic interest? Not needed. All we need is the plan so that it comes together.
Yup. It does.
3 of 5 stars.
This damn thing will cost as much as the original iPhone! Been trying all morning to pre-order it. I was slightly successful the first time around. The time being about 8:00 AM. It was in my shopping cart. I stared at it for a few minutes and decided to change my plan. I clicked edit, and, tada, Apple store down screen shot. Here at work IE7 seems to not like displaying the purchase page correctly. I don't know if that is affecting submission of form.I downloaded the new Apple Store App. Tried to purchase. App crashes out to main screen.Hilarity!I wonder if it is all worth it considering I feel like white this time. When's that white coming out? "End of summer." FRACK!
