Leap Day

broderic on February 29, 2008

Hey! It’s leap day. I missed it the last time round.

Maybe you’ll be reading another post here on the next one.

Enjoy the extra day!

Best Picture Oscar

broderic on January 22, 2008

I think this is the first year ever that I have seen all 5 films
nominated for Best Picture: Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton, No Country
For Old Men, There Will Be Blood. My pick would be There Will Be Blood, but I like Michael Clayton as
well. Michael Clayton doesn't have a chance in the world. The money
pick seems to be No Country For Old Men. Yet, Atonement may sneak up
and win considering that it has already won the Golden Globes, and Juno
is a hit with the young and hip crowd which Hollywood believes itself to
be.It's a very interesting year. I'm still surprised that I have seen all
of them, on the big screen, before the Oscar ceremony.

Data Integrity

broderic on January 12, 2008

The other night I posted an old paper from school in which I reviewed Blood Simple. It was from my days at the U in the film program. CMP 403 I think was the movie reviewing class. You sit around Tuesday or Thursday in the movie theatre in the Memorial Building. My instructor at the time was Bill Cosford, the critic for the Miami Herald. He’s since passed away and the theatre has been renamed after his honor.

We spent 14 weeks watching a film at a time. Then we’d turn in some review. I think I got a B in that class. Judging from some of the comments to the post, you guys liked it. I kind of don’t. I realize that maybe I should’ve been less academic with the review. Maybe more like a review you find in the paper. I guess that’s why I got a B in the class. My writing was too academic without a voice.

Yet, you wonder, “Where did that post come from?” “Did you copy it verbatim from a paper?” Nope. It’s on a 720Kb floppy from the early 90s! And getting it off the disk was an adventure.

First, I had to resurrect my PowerBook 190. The laptop battery is dead as well as the clock battery. I have to plug it in to have it running. My old papers are either written in a MS Word 4 or 5 or MacWrite. I have neither on that laptop, but luckily it has DataViz’s MacLink translator software to convert it to Claris write. So I save it to plain ascii text. Thank god for plain ascii text.

Yet, the PowerBook 190 doesn’t have internet connection (dial up, but…). So I save it to a PC floppy and transfer it through sneaker net to my Win95 machine from which I upload it to the net. Downloard it to the MacMini. And voila, post it back up to blogger.

That data is old. Sixteen years. Amazing that I can still read this stuff. In another few, once my PowerBook 190 and my Win95 PC are dead, I won’t be able to revisit this stuff and things go back to the ether from whence they came.

Sooner or later

broderic on January 10, 2008

With this my last semester in school, I hope to have more time for blogging. I’ve asked for my readers to participate in the comments. I’ve tried being better at participating in yours. I look forward to writing some posts with more analysis and detail to them. I’d like to get better. Hope you’ll join me.

Obligatory Post

broderic on January 7, 2008

This is gratuitious just to keep the streak alive. Nothing much to say. Perhaps soon my review of Atonement, the Pulp Fiction for the geriatric set, non-linear time.

Commenting

broderic on January 4, 2008

Looking over my recent posts, there’s some comments from the usual suspects. I would like to see some others.

So from now on, I’ll try to participate in the discussion in any of my posts. I just posted some replies. Maybe some discussion may spring up? It’s part of my trying to be a better blogger this year. I’ll also try to add some decent comments at your site as well.

I figure that we can make this an open thread.

Recent Keyword Activity

broderic on December 5, 2007

My Google hits just keep coming. In fact, BrowserMetrics is starting to get decent traffic from there. Lots of interesting search results. Here’s the most recent:

western fries — Are they looking for examples? Just stop by your local Royal Farms. Unless they don’t have ’em.
imdb general macarthur pt boats — They must be searching for “They were expendable.”
scopenet.com — “Internet? Inter-not.” NewsRadio nerds.
oksana akinshina naked — Sorry, I don’t have any of these. Were you successful? Please post in comments!
gdansk hot girls pictures — Can your machine handle google saudi arabia?
doobie keebler — Are you doobie keebler? NewsRadio nerds!
the withered arm blurb — What the heck is this? Please post in comments!
phillip hitchcock’s stacey keibler’s legs and ass — Those words don’t make any sense together. Again, post in comments.
browsermetrics — One of you three is lazy. Post in comments about why.
throwdini — NewsRadio nerds!!! LOL!

That’s a lot of nonsense.