The actors' dialog was excellent in that it sounded like they were actually talking. This movie was definitely worth seeing. The end becomes difficult to follow which warrants watching it multiple times. Apparently out of the 80 total minutes shot for the movie, only 4 were cut out. That's one hell of a good ratio. I give this movie a 8/10 for it's dialog, budget, and intelligence. Primer is no action or comedy movie, it is for the mind.
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Primer
Thursday, March 23, 2006
WORK!
I have been so busy this week. I can see how some people can't just leave work at work and go home when they know they've worked enough. I have started to do that lately. Letting things go for a while never killed anyone (I don't think). I get about a 30 minute break today because I created it, not because I don't have anything to do. So much stuff to do that its ridiculous. THat's about it.. I'd rather spend my break not writing this blog. ;)
Monday, March 20, 2006
Indie Music CD
I am currently looking through as much of the internet as I can get my hands on in order to put together an indie CD of maybe 17 songs or so. I will post a link to this CD for your enjoyment on this and maybe the other blog as well. I am really looking forward to it. I have gotten about 24 songs so far, but I want to get about 40 so I can narrow them down to the best. Hopefully I'll be done with this in about a month or maybe before. I am looking everyday. :)
Busy Yet Bored
Lately I've been too busy to write on this blog, but not busy enough to not be bored at times. I still don't know how that works. So this is just going to be my current mind dump. I got my KVM switch and it's working fine for my Slackware server and my PC at home. I'm working on securing my lniux box and have implemented several things, yet I realized there's really nothing on it to protect... yet. I have been busy trying to write a good review of a new album by Dave Doobinin on my other blog http://auralreview.blogspot.com/. I am just about half way through with In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality, but it, too, is a little boring at times. One of the main things I can count on to NOT be boring is my girlfriend, Diana.
I have decided to dual boot my PC at home AND my work laptop to both Windows and Linux. Slackware on my work laptop and Ubuntu on my home PC as soon as the new one comes out. That might keep me busy for a while. I still keep up my routine of going to work out 3 times a week. I think I may want to start going to a coffee house with my work pc so I can work on linux, my server, and my work work at the coffee house. Of course they have to have free internet.. so this limits it to two places that I'm aware of in Memphis. Java Cabanna or Atlanta Bread company. We shall see what will come of this. Until then, check out my other blog. I listen to music until I get sick of it just about daily. You never know what you're going to find.
-Pro
I have decided to dual boot my PC at home AND my work laptop to both Windows and Linux. Slackware on my work laptop and Ubuntu on my home PC as soon as the new one comes out. That might keep me busy for a while. I still keep up my routine of going to work out 3 times a week. I think I may want to start going to a coffee house with my work pc so I can work on linux, my server, and my work work at the coffee house. Of course they have to have free internet.. so this limits it to two places that I'm aware of in Memphis. Java Cabanna or Atlanta Bread company. We shall see what will come of this. Until then, check out my other blog. I listen to music until I get sick of it just about daily. You never know what you're going to find.
-Pro
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Our government/economy is destined to collapse
You heard it here first (maybe). Our government or economy is set for a crash unless those who are greedy and in power do something about it. This won't happen. It's depressing. Too bad money, oil, and greed run this country incorrectly I might add. Every empire in the past has come to its collapsing point. They reach their peak and then begin to fall. Do you think it's any coincidence that the Euro has gained so much on the dollar? Do you think it's happenstance that arabic banks have started changing their money from the US Dollar. I think not. I think it all means something and I think that we should be prepared. I keep getting really bad feelings about the United States. I read an article today about how the federal government won't be able to pay off its debt unless we do something... how is this even possible? We keep spending... but on what? I haven't seen any money go to schools, roads, public anything. I believe power should be shifted back to the states since our name is the United States of America, and not the federal government of america. The government's job is to serve the people, not exploit them. Though I supposed pretty much every government has had to exploit the weak and the poor in order to gain more money and power themselves. Why should the supposed best country in the world be any different? The masses are too fat, happy, apathetic, and selfish to change anything. I think for this reason that the US of A will spiral downward towards a collapse. Even Alan Greenspan retired... I think the economy just about killed the poor guy. There are plenty of signs and there are few options. I don't know if we can make it to the next presidential election. May God have mercy on our souls and our corrupt country.
Monday, March 13, 2006
Trip to Beaufort, SC
It has been yet another week with no blog. Surprising since when I first started this, I was doing almost two a day. I recently took a trip with my girlfriend, Diana, to see my Dad in Beaufort, SC. I didn't even know how much I needed a vacation until I was on it. I shuffled some hours around last week so that I could leave at about noon Wed. 3/8/06. I went home, ate lunch, and packed. Nick picked us up at a little before 3PM so we could catch our Delta flight. Diana apparently hates flying. Luckily we made it fine to Savannah, GA (about one hour away from Beaufort) at about 9PM. My stepmom, Kay, and my Dad picked us up at the airport and we talked for the hour it took us to get to their house.
My dad had a guest house built and barely finished before we got there. The guest house sits back and to the right on the property and includes a single car garage, a small workshop for my Dad's woodworking tools, and a guest suite with a kitchenette. The colors are French, blue and yellow, which make the guest suite look bright, happy, and open. There are many windows in the guest room as well which also adds to the openness.
Wed. night we pretty much got there and unpacked, then went to bed. Thursday morning I had to wake up at 6:30AM to do some work for about 4 hours. This was extremely frustrating considering that my Dad's internet connection kept cutting out since their ISP Hargray is horrible in their area and can't keep a connection. By the way Hargray, it's not CLIENT SIDE you IDIOTS. INCOMPETENT PEOPLE THAT TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THOSE WHO KNOW LESS BY TELLING THEM IT'S THEIR FAULT MAKE ME SICK. That being said, I had to 'borrow' the neighbor's wireless. Their wireless wasn't very strong in my Dad's house so thanks to the new and "better" asset management software hogging all the bandwidth, I got cutt offline probably 10 times until it was finally done making my life a living hell. After that things went smoothly. Once I was done with the work, I helped my Dad clean up his office for a new desk so I could set up his computer. While I was doing all this work, I felt bad for Diana who had to entertain herself for countless hours, but I knew I had to work and I'm pretty sure she knew when I asked her to come, though I dunno if either of us knew how much I had to work. Luckily that day we got to take a couple of walks, one to the big dock and one to the smaller one. Later that night we took a car down to Beaufort's downtown area. We ate at a restaurant called Panini's. It was alright, but my lasagna was a little over cooked. There were plenty of shops to take a look in after we ate.
Friday I worked again in the morning setting up my Dad's new office fruniture and computer... then I finally got to a near completion stopping point and Diana and I went to the beach. On the way we stopped at a small seafood restaurant and got fried pickle spears and chicken fingers. The chicken fingers weren't exactly cooked all the way through and I ate a whole one. This made us both lose our appetite. After they took those off the bill and we paid, we continued to the beach. We walked up and down the beach without shoes collecting shells along the way. It was extremely windy that day and a little overcast. We both had on light jackets to shield us from the wind and the sand that it carried. After we collected enough shells, we headed back to the homestead. A little later that night we grilled out steak and greens. That was a great dinner. It was hard to believe that we would be leaving the next day.
Saturday morning we woke up and ate corn pancakes which were quite good. We also got to take a boat ride and check a crab trap to see how many were in it. This day it was very sunny and much less windy than the day before, though the boat ride was still bumpy. We got to see an old plantation house which was very cool. I took my Yashica camera with me so I could get some good black and white pictures. This was one of them. This reminds me... I hope that putting the camera through the Xray machine didn't destroy the film. Oh well, a little late to worry too much about that now. After we got back, we packed and headed out about 1PM to Savannah, GA where we ate lunch and drove around to see all the pretty squares in the downtown area. We also walked along the touristy area on the riverbank so Diana could do a bit of shopping. After a couple of hours, my Dad dropped us off at the airport so that we could come home. We each checked a bag and waited for our flight.
The two flights home were much better than the two going to Savannah, GA. Delta seemed to sense our bad flights and tried to make up for it this time. The flights were fine, but Delta promptly lost our baggage and didn't bother to tell us. We had to go to the window and wait in line to give them our information. This consequently bumped Chris over the free 30 minute time frame for short term parking. Delta says they don't have anything to do with parking and parking said the same thing about Delta when we asked if we could get the ticket validated. Funny thing they're both at the airport. It being completely Delta's fault that we went over the 30 minute time limit, I don't see why they couldn't pay for the parking. Fortunately we got our bags yesterday and they, and everything in them, smell of jet fuel. Thanks Delta.
I don't know what it is about me and companies/corporations, but it seems they always try to screw me (Delta, Airtran, Cingular, Sprint, Buy.com, Time Warner, MLGW to list a few). I guess it's fitting that I am currently employed by one. I really enjoyed the trip and I'm very glad that Diana got to go with me. It leads to a less stressful work week.
My dad had a guest house built and barely finished before we got there. The guest house sits back and to the right on the property and includes a single car garage, a small workshop for my Dad's woodworking tools, and a guest suite with a kitchenette. The colors are French, blue and yellow, which make the guest suite look bright, happy, and open. There are many windows in the guest room as well which also adds to the openness.
Wed. night we pretty much got there and unpacked, then went to bed. Thursday morning I had to wake up at 6:30AM to do some work for about 4 hours. This was extremely frustrating considering that my Dad's internet connection kept cutting out since their ISP Hargray is horrible in their area and can't keep a connection. By the way Hargray, it's not CLIENT SIDE you IDIOTS. INCOMPETENT PEOPLE THAT TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THOSE WHO KNOW LESS BY TELLING THEM IT'S THEIR FAULT MAKE ME SICK. That being said, I had to 'borrow' the neighbor's wireless. Their wireless wasn't very strong in my Dad's house so thanks to the new and "better" asset management software hogging all the bandwidth, I got cutt offline probably 10 times until it was finally done making my life a living hell. After that things went smoothly. Once I was done with the work, I helped my Dad clean up his office for a new desk so I could set up his computer. While I was doing all this work, I felt bad for Diana who had to entertain herself for countless hours, but I knew I had to work and I'm pretty sure she knew when I asked her to come, though I dunno if either of us knew how much I had to work. Luckily that day we got to take a couple of walks, one to the big dock and one to the smaller one. Later that night we took a car down to Beaufort's downtown area. We ate at a restaurant called Panini's. It was alright, but my lasagna was a little over cooked. There were plenty of shops to take a look in after we ate.
Friday I worked again in the morning setting up my Dad's new office fruniture and computer... then I finally got to a near completion stopping point and Diana and I went to the beach. On the way we stopped at a small seafood restaurant and got fried pickle spears and chicken fingers. The chicken fingers weren't exactly cooked all the way through and I ate a whole one. This made us both lose our appetite. After they took those off the bill and we paid, we continued to the beach. We walked up and down the beach without shoes collecting shells along the way. It was extremely windy that day and a little overcast. We both had on light jackets to shield us from the wind and the sand that it carried. After we collected enough shells, we headed back to the homestead. A little later that night we grilled out steak and greens. That was a great dinner. It was hard to believe that we would be leaving the next day.
Saturday morning we woke up and ate corn pancakes which were quite good. We also got to take a boat ride and check a crab trap to see how many were in it. This day it was very sunny and much less windy than the day before, though the boat ride was still bumpy. We got to see an old plantation house which was very cool. I took my Yashica camera with me so I could get some good black and white pictures. This was one of them. This reminds me... I hope that putting the camera through the Xray machine didn't destroy the film. Oh well, a little late to worry too much about that now. After we got back, we packed and headed out about 1PM to Savannah, GA where we ate lunch and drove around to see all the pretty squares in the downtown area. We also walked along the touristy area on the riverbank so Diana could do a bit of shopping. After a couple of hours, my Dad dropped us off at the airport so that we could come home. We each checked a bag and waited for our flight.
The two flights home were much better than the two going to Savannah, GA. Delta seemed to sense our bad flights and tried to make up for it this time. The flights were fine, but Delta promptly lost our baggage and didn't bother to tell us. We had to go to the window and wait in line to give them our information. This consequently bumped Chris over the free 30 minute time frame for short term parking. Delta says they don't have anything to do with parking and parking said the same thing about Delta when we asked if we could get the ticket validated. Funny thing they're both at the airport. It being completely Delta's fault that we went over the 30 minute time limit, I don't see why they couldn't pay for the parking. Fortunately we got our bags yesterday and they, and everything in them, smell of jet fuel. Thanks Delta.
I don't know what it is about me and companies/corporations, but it seems they always try to screw me (Delta, Airtran, Cingular, Sprint, Buy.com, Time Warner, MLGW to list a few). I guess it's fitting that I am currently employed by one. I really enjoyed the trip and I'm very glad that Diana got to go with me. It leads to a less stressful work week.
Monday, March 06, 2006
AOL Opens up AIM Code
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Watching a DVD on your Computer
Watching a DVD on your computer may not be as easy as it sounds. I have been frustrated year after year of all of this software that comes with DVDs to supposedly let you watch it on your computer. All of this software is half assed and my computer has crashed so many times when trying to view a DVD that I bought. I think that it's a load of crap that you cannot watch a DVD you bought on your or any computer. The reason you need this software is because the DVDs are encrypted with CSS (Content Scrambling System). The DeCSS is the program needed to decrypt the DVDs, but is not available free because the people who created CSS wants you to use hardware to play the movie so they could receive royalties on it. Crock of shit. Anyway, now you don't have to have non free software or hardware to play DVDs on your computer. This program is called DVD43. It runs in your background and recognizes when you put a DVD in and will decrypt everything allowing you to watch the DVD in a multitude of media players. While it's not the ideal solution, it's still one that works. Hope you enjoy.
Ultraviolet
Rating: 1/10 (The 1 is because I don't see how they could possibly even put this movie out. The fact that they did means they know something I don't.)
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