Ichiro v Matty Weit Weit
You just don’t run on Matt Weiters. I love this game.
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I like visiting sites of the animes I watch, because of the gewgaws and bibelots that they have for your blog. Here’s another one from the current anime, Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko. Your guess is as good as mine. Got to catch ’em all.
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Just throwing this up here as place holder to remind you (or rather me) that this is a really good anime…
The Internet Ate My Baby
Upgraded the MobileMe calendar to the latest one because they kept hassling me every time I logged on. Of course doing so came with plenty of caveats. First is that it is really for Snow Leopard. Sadly, my main machine is still Leopard. I haven’t taken that plunge because of the file binding issue. Second, is that MobileMe hates the Camino browser and Mozilla in general. Not really, but Camino is getting long in tooth and is probably on its way to the dev/null in bit bucket heaven.
So I go ahead any way. Ignoring these warnings.
Once I am done I am curious as to what really happens upon the sync. I open up iCal. Create a test entry. Click sync.
I get the weird diff viewer telling me I had a couple hundred events that were about to be deleted. Cool! It’ll clean my stuff up. Of course it will and it did. Cleaned it all sparkly and new so that I had no more calendars in iCal. Now how am I to sync? Luckily, Apple knows that some users are just lazy and has helpfully created a support page to address syncing with 10.5.x. My calendars are back.
Now hop do you sync with 10.4.x?
Need a cohort
Just rolled in from a night at Camden Yards. Orioles take the second straight game from the Mariners. I did not wear my Ichiro jersey. I am a true homer. Only if Marge was there would I have. And tonight was a perfect night for some fun companionship.
With work being the way it has been with the layoffs and the fill in spots, your humble narrator had to lose one position and back fill another, stupid position, and he could use a nice game like this one.
On the ride in, I chatted with a gentleman who was just going to Pickle’s Pub and/or the game. I told him King Felix was pitching for the Mariners and that I had no hope for a win. Chris Tillman gonna pitch for the O’s and hope was non-existant. At least, I can watch the great Ichiro. You know he’s my second favorite.
I arrived early enough to catch the last half hour of the Mariner’s batting practice. Again I make the mistake of sitting in the bleachers in center-right. The weak hitting M’s only put 4 balls on the fly there and 3 or so on the bounce. I gave up on shagging balls and sat down and watched all the other dudes try and catch. An M’s fan kept yelling for a ball, but it ain’t happening if you don’t have tits.
I get a drink and then some nachos to begin the game. I’m down in my season tickets seats with a father and his young M’s fan. Guys are from Philadelphia. Go figure. Kid’s wearing the Ichiro shirt that I should’ve been wearing.
I yell to the ball girl. (Christen or Kirsten?) “First, foul ball give it to the Ichiro fan!” She smiles and nods. It doesn’t happen. I chatted with her in the bottom of the eighth. Maybe I’ll see her again the next time around.
Chris Tillman throws 200 pitches in the first 4 innings, but we are tied. Then all-star AJ comes through and drives in 2 runs on 4-4 evening. Ichiro gets thrown out by Matty Weit Weit. The legend of Bobby Andy doesn’t get going. Nick Markakis and Mark Reynolds were out of the lineup. Felix Pie taking his place and making some plays.
It was a good night with the win. I drank some beer and forgot about work for a few hours. It’s the best thing and I wish some girl would come along.
I rode home on the light rail beaming chatted with an Orioles usher about his work — he was going to another job. Tough. My work? Also tough.
But at least the Orioles win.
Something Borrowed
Mom wanted to watch a movie for Mother’s Day so instead of Thor we went and caught the other movie opening that weekend, Something Borrowed. What we all do for our mothers is not enough. I can only say I experienced 0.01% of the pain of childbirth watching this movie. It was painful and I can’t imagine the rest.
First, I can’t get over Kate Hudson as a 30 year old. Isn’t she older than me? And if she isn’t I’m scared.
Next, I hope the book is better with better written characters that are not cliche: the hard charger, the walkover, the long suffering guy pal. I’m hoping that their relationships are fleshed out better. Why stick with that girl? Why did they never hook up? How can those two not be friends?
Third, express not repress your feelings. Say you like the guy. Tell your best friend that you like the guy. Convince yourself that you deserve him. He’s only looking at you with sparkly eyes as well. Jeez, get a clue.
Finally, if you’re best friends, I want to know why you can’t talk to each other?
Jeez, chick-flicks, they get a bad rap, but then a movie like them their deserved reputation.
2 of 5 stars
Link of the Day [5.09.11]
Danny Choo went to Good Smile Company’s 10th anniversary party and photographed at least 100 nendoroids. I have a third of these…
Thor
Caught the noon showing of Thor in a relatively packed house. It is rare to misjudge people’s enthusiasm for a movie. I thought no one was going to watch so I went a couple of minutes before the start. I rolled into the parking lot and found a lot of cars; these must be for the earlier show. They were also for my own show. I had to sit up front.
This is the best Natalie Portman movie so far this year. The god of thunder became the god of love under her gaze.
The story is about redemption and humility. In order to gain the throne, Thor must show that he is deserving. He may rule at war, but is he wise in the ways of ruling? Is he deserving of the throne? Only if he’s cast out of Asgard into the mortal world of Midgard can he find his way back.
I sort of dug this version of Thor. It is filled with really good actors for an comic book movie. Stellan Skarsgard, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Renee Russo, and Natalie Portman all bring a weight to this movie that revolves around kingly dealings. A lot better cast that can handle the comic-ness of this all.
3 of 5 stars.
Link of the Day [5.06.11]
Loved reading today’s link about issues with text editors for OS X.
I did recently take a look at TextMate and found it striking that it was released some time ago. I am surprised to see that it hasn’t been updated for a while.
As a software engineer, I live by the text editor. I did like BBEdit, but I can’t stand the small font it uses. I am an emacs kind of guy (the ctrl-k, ctrl-v comes from there! Try it in OS X as an alternative to open-apple-X, open-apple-C) so I am looking for something along the same lines. But no vi. No to vi.
It turns out I really like TextPad on Windows. Like it better than any text editor I’ve used. It’s because I know how to use it. Wish I can find one for OS X. I think I’ve done this post before.
http://chipotle.tumblr.com/post/5207966724/text-editor-intervention
It’s on right now. Turn the channel to channel 11
Because I am already enjoying tonight’s episode of Community, I can only think of one thing to say. Magnitude, take it away…