Sunday morning finds me making dashi following this recipe. It’s nice that I don’t have to boil vegetables for hours. Just soaked the kombu and then boiled with some bonito flakes. I was done in half an hour.
I have about 4 cups cooling in the fridge ready and waiting for the ramen noodle that I will be having for dinner tonight. I will add a poached egg and maybe some wakame seaweed, plus a touch of soy sauce. We’ll see how it goes.
I find my reaction to Young Adult similar to how I felt about Bad Teacher, but without the extreme revulsion. I was puzzled by the main character. I couldn’t like her. She was a nasty person, yet I still don’t know if I liked the movie or not.
Young Adult stars Charlize Theron at her most ugliest. Her character was described as a “psycho, prom queen bitch,” which is an appropriate appellation for her. It succinctly describes her personality. She’s believes her life to be stuck in neutral — divorced, work life as an author coming to a sad end. She needs to live, and she chooses to try and relive her past by going back home to small town Minnesota and steal her old boyfriend back. He has a new baby, but that doesn’t stop her. While in town, she bumps into an old classmate played by Patton Oswalt, who was horribly scarred in a bad beating during high school. They make a pair as she finds a person who is as damaged as she is. Eventually, the week at home unravels in a big embarrassing scene. She confronts her ex, and he pities her. She runs to her friend for comfort and finds that she should embrace her bitchiness.
I’m not sure if I should be happy or not that she goes back to being big city girl. She broke the grip of nostalgia, but embraced being bad. She is a psycho prom queen bitch.
Theron makes for the perfect psycho, prom queen, bitch. She can do haughty, that look in her eyes and her ice queen beauty, equates to crazy. Oswalt is his usual alternative, hipster, cool guy, geek guy self. Patrick Wilson as the former boyfriend makes due as a slightly clueless, hickish dude, who loves his wife, but doesn’t know what he got himself into with his former flame.
The film was a Jason Reitman film from a Cody Diablo script. I couldn’t tell. It missed the glib hiptserism of their previous collaboration, Juno.
I can’t say I liked the movie, but I can say I didn’t hate it.
3 of 5 stars
I have nothing to blog about. Blogging about not having a subject to blog about seems to be blogging about a subject: no subject to blog about.
Aww, who am I kidding. This post is going nowhere. Sorry about that. Here’s a picture from a decade ago: your humble host in Iceland.
That’s the Gullfoss falls just behind me. This ain’t the US; there’s barely any barrier to keeping me from jumping in!
I came up with this game that I used to play with Margaux (Or maybe I didn’t play this game with her, but I did come up with a game). It was centered around bands, their discography, and your own knowledge of. You were to think of a band and focus on their songs. Once you focused on a band, you would say, “You know {insert band name here}. No, their other song.” That should conjure up which song you’re talking about amongst the players. Most of the time you know which song is being thought about, but other times, depending on the band, it becomes difficult.
I came up with this game because of Cold Play. “You know Cold Play. No, their other song.” I bet you now know which song I am talking about.
We turn the corner and get to the home stretch of the album, several songs that are some of Thievery Corporations best. It starts with the title track, The Richest Man in Babylon. Once here, the album moves to its great conclusion. Stick around, it’ll only get better.
I don't think of myself as a reader of Science Fiction. I consider myself a reader of stories first and foremost. If the book happens to be Science Fiction, then I am reading Science Fiction. I read Science Fiction. I read Science Fiction. You should, too. Get thee to the Science Fiction Encyclopedia and pick out something; an author, a book, a theme, something to read and read it.http://sf-encyclopedia.com/
I’m left to wonder how close these songs ripped an posted to YouTube are to the one on the original CD. This version sounds slightly sped up. A check on iTunes finds it 6 seconds shorter. Now I wonder if all the other tunes from this album have been altered from the original. That’s okay. As long as it moves your soul I’ll take it. Good music is good music.
Not on FaceBook and it doesn't even matter.Yeah, I miss lots of things. And probably even miss meeting that girl or some other girl from the past, but does it matter?Anti-social much? Maybe. It's most likely because I maintain this blog that I don't do FaceBook. I like writing here and don't want my blog to die if I spend tons of time writing over there. But I do wish to connect with old friends…http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/technology/shunning-facebook-and-living-to-tell-about-it.html
We’re onto the part of the album which I call the fly by states. Sometimes I listen to the songs. Sometimes I don’t. When I let the iPod play, when they come on, I won’t skip ahead. Yet, they all sound the same. Like I said previous, there’s a lot of latin rhythms on this album.
Network storage will become a bigger and important part of the home-consumer market with the adoption of tablet computers. Currently, iPad 2 maxes out its SSD drive with 64 GB worth of disk space. The Kindle and the Nook tablets are on the low end of storage, but Amazon wants you to use their cloud and perhaps Barnes and Noble does, too. Yet, as consumers go digital with their books, magazines, movies, television, and photos, there is going be a need for local storage.There are Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices already being sold, but it's not a category that the average consumer will know about. This area is ripe for someone with an Apple-like bent to come in and remake the market.Here's how I would make my own NAS appliance:First, wireless and wired. Allow it to be connected by a physical connection.Second, web browser interface. Configuration should be straightforward for the least tech savvy of users, but allow for as much customization under the hood for those techies.Third, hot swappable. Drop in a drive and it should be ready in a click of the mouse. Plus, the chassis for this thing should contain 1-10 drives slots, but are adapted by price point: cheap is 1 drive, expensive is 10 drives.Fourth, BYOD. The user can use any drive they want. Old 5200 RPM spinning platters? Go for it. SSD? Go for it. Mix and match. Do it.I know about Apple's own NAS, Time Capsule, but that is for Apple's backup use case. I'm talking about something for everyone. I'm sure that you'll be buying something of this type in the next year or so.
