It’s Possessive

broderic on May 9, 2014

Just received this from Japan. It’s the K-ON! Music History’s Box filled with 12 CDs worth of music from one of my all time favorite anime, K-ON! It’s supposedly all the soundtracks, released music, and singles. I used the word supposedly because I can’t read Japanese, and I have yet to listen to any of the disks. You see, I don’t have a CD player. The new MBP doesn’t have a drive. So now I’ll have to listen to it in my cars. I am going to figure out how to rip all of these to this computer.

I can’t wait to listen to them…

Link of the Day [5.09.14]

broderic on May 9, 2014

I prefer Emacs. Vi makes you crazy especially the first time you load it up. You say how the hell do I enter text. Then you want to quit, and you'll say how the heck do I quit this program. Then you force kill the process to exit and never come back.

Plus, there are Emacs key bindings within OS X therefore the muscle memory is there while using my OS of choice.

Vi is the devil.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/05/
oldest_software_rivalry_emacs_and_vi_two_text_editors_used_by_programmers.html

Benchmark

broderic on May 7, 2014

I threw the Kona on the Jetta this morning so that after work, I would head out to the NCR Trail and ride. I use the NCR to gauge my fitness. The ride today tells me that I am not ready for anything more than 20 miles, and those miles have to be hill less .

So on the trail, it felt like I was riding in sand. Or at least my brakes may be rubbing. So I unhook the front brakes, but the bike still felt heavy. You feel it in your thighs. I concentrate on pumping the legs. Still slow and heavy. I average about 14 MPH. I don’t go fast — maximum was 18.6 MPH.

I felt like I was going slowly. Maybe later in the season, I will be fast. I’m going to have to work on it.

The Other Woman

broderic on May 3, 2014

When you see me blog about a movie like The Other Woman know this, it’s not my choice to go see a movie like this. I like watching movies and I’ll watch almost anything. I’ll catch dumb comedies. I’ll gladly watch superhero, action flicks. I’ll go see ghost stories. And with The Other Woman, I’ll watch chick flicks.

Yes, it’s a chick flick. In the theatre, the majority of the audience was female. They were grouped mainly in groups of 3 or more in what can be described as girls’ night out. Yet, it was the late afternoon film. We’re all trying to save some cash.

Anyway, the film is standard ladies revenge flick on the cheating husband mixed with girl bonding. Leslie Mann plays the wife whose husband has cheated on her. Cameron Diaz is a high powered lawyer who was the mistress. Then swimsuit model, Kate Upton, is the second girl who mistress. They all get revenge on the husband because he’s a terrible, terrible person. The husband is some generic guy. Supposedly, he’s in Game of Thrones. I haven’t seen an episode.

The surprising part is that it was a Leslie Mann film. She stole the show. Cameron Diaz played second fiddle. I kept thinking about her as the monster from The Counselor. Kate Upton, meh.

I don’t hate the movie, but it wasn’t for me.

2 of 5 stars.

Link of the Day [5.02.14]

broderic on May 2, 2014

Are you reading The Dissolve every day for your movie fix? If not, why not? They’ve got some good writers and intriguing features. I visit it daily myself, because I like reading about movies.

So anyway, like yesterday, you’ll get another link for summer movie previews. This will help you figure out which movies to watch this summer. It’s different from yesterday because it doesn’t have any leprechauns.

http://thedissolve.com/features/summer-movie-preview/

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!