Link of the Day [5.01.14]

broderic on May 1, 2014

Tomorrow, The Amazing Spiderman 2 opens in theaters. Well, you can catch a late Thursday night showing, if you’re up for it. Anyway, with the first big block buster coming in May, the Summer Movie Season is starting. Yet, you don’t know what to watch. Hang around BrowserMetrics for another ten years and you’ll know that BrowserMetrics does movies, and summer is move time. To help you decide, here’s the first installment of a summer movie preview from the A.V. Club. It’s funny, because it talks about Leprechaun, the horror franchise. It’s funny because Leprechaun is a funny movie franchise. It’s a leprechaun! And leprechauns are summer!

http://www.avclub.com/r/203867tsd

Link of the Day [4.30.14]

broderic on April 30, 2014

I'm a Cyclops fan myself, and reading this piece in Grantland expands on why he's the quintessential x-man. Plus it's a funny read if you know his history. I especially like the author's take on the Jean Grey/Madelyne Pryor/Emma Frost thing. I, for one, think that the Cyclops wedding arc and the Inferno arc are some of the best issues of Uncanny X-Men. And don't forget about Joss Whedon's take on Cyclops in Astonishing X-Men, which made him almost likeable. Perhaps in another "Link of the Day," I'll link the author's choice of the wors x-man ever. He hit it right on the nose with that as well, mon Cherie.

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/difficult-x-men-a-defense-of-cyclops/

Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodby

broderic on April 30, 2014

Rock and roll needs to bring back the horn section. And not just for ska. Let’s bring back the saxophone and have one of those awesome sax solos. It’s saxaphonic!

Dance Hall Daze

broderic on April 28, 2014

This past weekend YouTube has been flakey for me. Not sure if it’s my slow DSL service or if the new MBP downloading updates in the background. It’s really glitchy, y’all. Thankfully, we’re coming close to the end of April and the end of the weekday musical coffee breaks. We’ve just got a couple more, but stick around — BrowserMetrics is rolling into its tenth year!

Head Held Up High

broderic on April 25, 2014

We like to play the guitar even though we suck at it. Not like this guy. He’s having fun. We have fun, too. Play a guitar. Play an instrument. Play for fun.

Lebanese Blonde

broderic on April 24, 2014

You wouldn’t think I would let a month of music breaks go by without a song from my favorite band, Thievery Corporation? Of course not! Here’s their most famous tune found on the soundtrack to that Zach Braff film, Garden State. I nodded my head when this came on and was joyous just to hear them. Of course, I didn’t have the album (The Mirror Conspiracy) at the time. I’ve since rectified that. I’m still trying to get their latest. It’s not in any stores I have been to and probably has to be ordered through Amazon. This is a reminder to do just that.

Upgraded

broderic on April 24, 2014

Last week, Santa came. He brought me a new 15″ MacBook Pro with Retina Display. And because thanks to IniTech, I got a nice little discount so I upgraded the processor for as much as the base version would’ve cost. Unfortunately, taxes and shipping brought the total to $2800. Santa, why must you make me pay for the pleasure.

I only just set it up last Friday, two days since I received it. I wanted to move my accounts and files from the old laptop to the new one. It was an adventure. First, I don’t have a plain USB cable. I have plenty of USB cables, but they end in either an iPhone plug or a USB mini plug. I also have plenty FireWire cables, but Apple’s dropped it in favor of Lightning and USB 3. So, I went to by a USB cable.

Once connected, I couldn’t run Migration Assistant correctly. The old laptop needed a newer version in order for the new one to see it. The new one saw the old laptop, but the old one never saw the new one. Migration Assistant just keep searching, searching, and searching. So I tried another tactic: google!

One way to migrate from an older version of OS X to Mavericks was to use a TimeMachine backup. So I plugged in the portable disk and started a TimeMachine backup for the first time. It’s not like I never backed up the disk. I did it once, but with SuperDuper!

Finally, I plugged the portable disk to the new laptop, ran Migration Assistant, and voilà, I’ve got all my stuff on the new laptop. Now it’s time for cleaning. Do I need any of these files? And does any of these apps run on Mavericks. What’s good is that Migration Assistant didn’t copy over the newer applications when moving files over. I’m going have to see if any of them work. And replace them with a better version.

So far, I’ve got it set up to my liking. I really am digging the SSD drive and the 10 second boot time. Why did they make a MacBook Air? This laptop is going to be fun.