“I thought it was because of the rhythm. You know, rap-rap, rappity-tap.”

broderic on September 4, 2008

Link of the Day [9.04.08]

Every time I watch an anime about school yard crushes, there’s inevitably a scene of bike riding. You don’t see that on 90210 do you?

All over the world, people are riding bikes as a form of transportation. They go to school, work or to the store. What did they do to make it so much easier to ride a bike? Can the US change? Or are our cities, towns, and homes too inhospitable to developing a bike culture?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/30/AR2008083000632_pf.html

Anime question of the day [8.27.08]

broderic on August 28, 2008

Who needs a remake of Robotech when we have Macross Frontier to watch?

Just release it in the US already. Quit with the lawsuits and give us our US blue ray discs of Frontier. I’ll also buy the original Macross.

Awesome action

broderic on June 13, 2008

Is the “last stand” scene the best in Aliens?

“Five meters?! Four meters?!?! Three meters!!”
“That can’t be right! That’s right inside the room!”

“Do something Gorman!”

“Oh! You want some too?!”

Internal Server Error? WTF!?

broderic on March 27, 2008

This is really weird. When I test out my homework from home (Mac OS X 10.5.2: Safari AND
Firefox), it works. At work (WinXP: IE 6.0), I supposedly get some kind
of HTTP response 500: Internal Server Error. Give it a shot because I want to know if it's just me or if it's
IniTech's firewall rules.
http://db.cs.loyola.edu:4414/hw5/commandResponse.jsp?command=blowupWhat's supposed to happen:
You click on that link, which submits a query to the page
"commandResponse.jsp." The query is that string, "command=blowup."
Submitting this command should cause a "divide by zero" error and the
server should throw an exception. Yet, there's a page to catch this
exception which serves up an HTML page that "blowup" the server. If it
works. The failure that Internet Explorer sees (or IniTech's firewall)
relates to the "divide by zero" exception as it seems to have received
the HTTP 500 response. Currently, I don't know WTF.Submit your results in comments. Specifically mention what OS (Win or
Mac) and what browser (IE, Firefox, etc.) Thanks for the help.If you want to see the rest of Assignment 5, go here:
http://db.cs.loyola.edu:4414/hw5/

Revival Theatre

broderic on January 4, 2008

The Charles Theatre offers you a chance to catch some really good films. They’re doing a revival on Hitchcock. Twenty-five films from here to June.

The question becomes should I watch the ones I haven’t seen or watch the ones I have on the big screen?

I know for a fact that I want to catch Grace Kelly and Ingrid Bergman on 35mm so I don’t want to miss Notorious or Rear Window. The rest? We’ll see.

Season’s Greetings

broderic on December 23, 2007

Is the Vince Guaraldi soundtrack to the Charlie Brown Christmas Special the definitive music for the holiday season?