Our President (sigh) or the guy who is occupying the white house

broderic on August 25, 2004

Here are two links which sum up my opinion of the president perfectly. Josh Marshall and Matthew Yglesias take down the silly man in the white house better than I could ever have done. Marshall portrays the president as a man of low moral courage. He lets others do the dirty work for him. I agree. It fits the man who has hardly earned things on his own. Yglesias portrays the president as a man of low intelligence. He is not actively engaging his intellect when trying to define his policies. Marshall’s portrait of the president is a direct consequence of the lack of brains that the president has exhibited.

I am done my political rant for the week.

Toogle

broderic on August 20, 2004

Toogle a cool use of Google photos. Conducts a search for an image, and then uses the search term to create an ASCII version of the search result.

Site search

broderic on August 20, 2004

Blogger just added a neat-o tool bar up top. It has a site search. That’s good, so I just commented out the Google search in the sidebar. Use it to search my site for some more of my posts.

More movies

broderic on August 17, 2004

Two movies from this past weekend…

First up, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. Brought to us by those guys who made Dude, Where’s My Car? It’s not as funny, but is more overtly pro-pot. In fact, there was more pot being smoked in this than the latter, which was infamous for being a pothead flick without anyone smoking pot except the dog. If I had been high, when I saw this I would not have laughed too much.

2 of 5 stars.

Next, Alien v. Predator. Not too much of the battle taken place between them both. Really short film. The plot sucked. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. It would also seem that the predators suck as much as humans in fighting the aliens. Not as bad ass as I had thought.

3 of 5 stars.

Dairy products gone bad.

broderic on August 15, 2004

Evan Dorkin’s blog. If you don’t know, he was the creator of Milk and Cheese, dairy products gone bad. Kept me happy in the middle of the last decade. He also writes for the CartoonNetwork’s Adult Swim cartoons.

I am dangerous.

broderic on August 14, 2004

Tom Cruise in Collateral is a dangerous man. I forget to realize how good an actor he is because I can’t get past the pretty boy image he seems to embody. Any way, I caught this film last weekend at a mid-day matinee. It was slightly packed. This is another film that should’ve been released in the fall rather than the summer. It was another thriller. But in the end it turned into another chase ’em up flick jus to satisfy the suits as a summer blockbuster. Micheal Mann also seemed to revisit the character archetypes he had created in Heat. Good guy/bad guy dichotomy. Even the ending was just like Heat.

Did you get that memo?

broderic on August 14, 2004

After reading this, I had to watch it all over again. Found me the memo(pdf). Made sure I had put coversheets (pdf) on my TPS reports. Laughed. And don’t forget the flair. Office Space is a great movie about work. The essence of the software drudgery. Also, the mind-numbing dumbness of Chotchkes and being a server. I have done both.