Quote of the Day [12.16.22]

broderic on December 16, 2022

“I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus. Christmas is coming, but I’m not happy. I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to feel. I just don’t understand Christmas, I guess. And I’m getting presents, and sending Christmas cards, and decorating the trees and all that, but I’m still not happy. I always end up feeling depressed.”

Charlie Brown, “A Charlie Brown Christmas”

アトノマツリ

broderic on December 13, 2022

From their 31st single, a unit song with the rappers, Kitagawa and Hayashi. The arrangement to this song is unlike any other in Nogizaka’s catalog. Normally, it’s a through line from member to member.

This one’s set up like a classic R&B, hip-hop song from the 90s. Plus also has a bit of lofi sound to it.

I didn’t think it was written by their old AF producer, but I guess it was. I thought the rapper pair wrote it out and the lyrics to to chorus was added in. I wonder if that’s how this happened?

Anyhow, I think it’s my favorite this year…

Just An End Check In

broderic on December 6, 2022

Yo. I’m still alive here. Maybe writing a few things but this blog is still going. Strong? Not so. Weak? Yeah maybe. Most likely. Well even this post is weak sauce and just words on the blog.

So I am just telling you. I am a bit sad about not writing. Maybe sometime I’ll do something good.

Please, stick around.

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

Ticket to Paradise

broderic on November 27, 2022

There was a moment during the romantic comedy (?), Ticket to Paradise, where I wondered where have I seen this Julia Roberts, George Clooney pairing before? It hits me that they were the central couple in Ocean’s Eleven. That classic heist flick upon which Clooney was trying to win back his ex-wife Roberts. So they’re the same in this movie except Clooney doesn’t want to reunite with his wife. If anything, he wants never to see her again. Yet, their daughter is getting married to a Tahitian seaweed farmer after a real quick romance.

Clooney and Roberts are there to stop this marriage. In paradise. So they have to get a ticket there. To stop it. But doesn’t the beauty of the place make them decide to get back together? Yup. Or maybe because it was an ambiguous ending? I don’t think I liked the ending.

Anyhow, it’s another movie seen in theaters. Maybe I am getting back to watching films? Maybe not. It’s an ambiguous ending.

2 of 5 stars.

Black Adam

broderic on November 5, 2022

Sometimes you just want to watch a movie. That’s how it came to be that I ended up watching Black Adam.

Black Adam stars the Rock. It’s just one of the many this year he appears in. He’s seemingly in everything. One of the things Hollywood seems to be doing is not making any movies without the Rock and I can’t stand it. There are no more movies. There is just the Rock on screen.

Anyhow, I have no idea who Black Adam is in the DC Universe. I do know he’s sort of Shazam’s enemy. That previous sentence barely makes any sense to me. I go with the flow anyway.

Yadda yadda yadda. Black Adam must save the world. He does. Justice League. Justice Society. Etc.

2 of 5 stars.

It’s The New Style

broderic on October 23, 2022

Did the usual Sunday thing and headed to the bookstore, the new, improved B&N, just to check it out. Eventually, I did buy the latest issue of Monocle to make the trip worth it, but the new store isn’t a place to hang out any more. No cafe and barely any seating. It’s slightly cramped. It’s missing the technology/computing section.

It reminds me of the bookstores you used to find in a mall, B. Dalton’s or Walden Books. They had the latest best seller, not a deep back catalog, magazines, and limited selections of various genres. We’ve gone back in time.

The most bothering thing is missing many of the familiar faces that I was used to. The one gentlemen who moved over from the Borders that closed a few years ago. The baristas in the cafe. So now its just a smaller crew a few new faces, too. Just wonder if they landed on their feet somewhere.

I am going to have to break my habit of going there often. Maybe twice a month?