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?

Mt. Fuji (Extended Edition)

broderic on October 20, 2022

This is the extended edition to the previous post. Most likely it’s the one they watched in studio. Surprisingly, this is the first of its kind from the show — a long, uninterrupted journey with the members. It’s also the first time I believe we’ve really gotten an extended glimpse of these newest members. Again, their effort really makes me happy. If you’re not a fan after this, I don’t know if you have a heart.

Fujisan

broderic on October 16, 2022

Well the rumors were true. Fifth generation climbing Mt. Fuji.

I’ve always loved these episodes — part of the hit campaigns. The ones that they go climb Mt. Fuji are especially favorites. This episode has Nogizaka’s 5th Generation members doing the climb. Amazingly they all made it up to the summit — in fact they went further than any of the members going to the real summit and not just to the last lodge at the summit. It seems fairly easy, but I am sure there can be some more difficulty.

Here’s the reason, I love the group.

20 Years of Richest

broderic on October 15, 2022

I remember sliding the CD into my car’s CD player and absolutely falling in love with the songs on this disc. I had just made the turn from Borders in Timonium onto York Road heading for the beltway. At night and the orange glow from the sodium halide lights just contributing to the atmosphere of the opening song, Heaven’s Gonna Burn Your Eyes. For the next month or so, it was always playing. I figure that it was my favorite album for the longest time. The remix album came out the next year with my favorite version of Resolution. I believe I have mentioned that I would love this album to be playing at my wake.

Give it a listen. Thievery Corporation’s Richest Man in Babylon.

“Dave, please, I don’t think now’s the best time to regale you with stories of my world famous root beer jacuzzi.”

broderic on October 1, 2022

Because the first post of September didn’t follow the rules for News Radio Quote Month, then the first post of the next month, which should’ve been the last post of last month, will be last News Radio quote you’ll get until next year! It’s my blog so these are my rules which I don’t follow.

Anyhow, let’s enjoy idols going to watch baseball games. Here’s Hazuki and Yuna-chan watching a Chiba Lottte Marines game versus Seibu Lions from Saitama. I will enjoy it a lot.