Mac Mini Desktop 11-19-2008
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.
Show me your desktops.
I was wondering what your desktop looks like. Cluttered with files? Neat and pristine like the day you bought it? Weird desktop pics, funky icons, or a completely different theme? Windows, Mac, Ubuntu, commnad line?
Just show me your desktop.
So post a picture somewhere, flickr or some such, and put the link in the comment or on your blog. Let’s see what we can see.
Because mutiny on the bounty’s what we’re all about
I’m gonna board your ship and turn it on out
No soft sucker with a parrot on his shoulder
‘Cause I’m bad gettin’ bolder – cold getting colder
Terrorizing suckers on the seven seas
And if you’ve got beef – you’ll get capped in the knees
We got sixteen men on a dead man’s chest
And I shot those suckers and I’ll shoot the rest
Beastie Boys, “Rhymin’ and Stealin'”
It’s Wednesday and I’ll make it super kawaii for you. Check out this webcomic, and then go see Dr. Valar because it’s so sweet that your teeth will hurt the moment you read the first panel.
This one is a problem with the fansubbers.
As you can see, they’re a bunch of amateurs. While I completely appreciate the fact that I can watch the latest season of anime from Japan in much the same time as the Japanese, I wish they would be more professional and take their time at presentation. Why is it that I can still read the comments one fansub member is leaving for another? Shouldn’t this have been scrubbed out before the burn session?
Or maybe this is a problem with .mkv implementation in VLC?
What wackness is that!
Another big oops for the open source and fansubbing community. Why am I downloading .mkv? It’s pretty much just nothing but trouble. Supposedly this video format allows better subtitling, but as you can see it’s implementation in VLC leaves a lot to be desired. I wonder who’s at fault here?
Quantum of Solace jumps right in where it left off two years ago. At least that’s what I thought, because I have only seen Casino Royale once in the theatres many moons ago.
I like the Bond girl who fits the classic Bond girl mold, Strawberry Fields. She doesn’t tell us her first name. She’s against Bond at their first meeting like the loyal henchwoman of Bond nemesis of old. Yet, she hops into the sack with Bond, and fatally winds up metaphorically being dropped into the shark pit or killed by the bad voodoo. She learns that you shake your ta-tas at Bond then you’ll take a dirt nap.
I really don’t have much to say about it, but maybe I might watch this on DVD more than its predecessor.
3 of 5 stars
Changeling is another Clint Eastwood flick that may be prestigious enough to warrant an Oscar nom if it was a better movie. It’s another of his explorations into the darkness of man รก la Mystic River or Unforgiven. Yet, it wasn’t at first. It seemed to wander from theme to theme without a care.
I thought it was Angelina Jolie’s annual Oscar entry. Then it became a police procedural focusing on the corruption of the LAPD. Was the LAPD really just a bunch of no good thugs? Are they still? Are all cops just criminals with badges? Then the movie became about the Mira Loma serial killings. What?
One thing going for this movie is that it was short for a 140 minute movie. I was intrigued by how all the themes were introduced then twisted away for the next theme. The director’s slight of hand made it three films in one. It should’ve ended with the cowboy telling us the dude abides. We’re all LA now…. Who is the changeling?
3 of 5 stars
Role Models is too heavily steeped in Judd Apatow-isms.
You have one Paul Rudd as one of the leads. He’s famous as being the funny, straight guy, second banana, good buddy in Apatow films. He’s not a leading man, but a solid buddy to anchor the serious man stuff. You have McLovin’. Really, that’s all he is — McLovin’. He’ll always be — McLovin’. And that’s what we’ll always remember him as. Finally, you have the Apatow script of man-childs growing into responsibility as more manly man-childs.
As I watched the movie, I can’t help but think about an Apatow flick. There was bro comedies before Apatow, but once he hit in the summer of 2007, there is nothing left but Apatow bro comedies. It’s too bad as this would’ve been a really stupid fun flick to watch if not for the spectre of Apatow.
The one thing that this movie has that beats Apatow is a running time of reasonable length, and an ending that ended the movie.
2 of 5 stars.
“We could live offa the fatta the lan’.”
Lennie, Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
I’m just bookimarking this on my blog.
While today’s link is too airplane-centric, I think it has some simple common sense advice for the would-be modeler, namely, me!
