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Posts Tagged ‘Film’

Embedded

I was thinking of writing some video game reviews today. I could tell you all about “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon 3: Advanced Warfighter” (Ubisoft) or even “Fight Night Round 3″ (Electronic Arts) and how much fun I’ve been having with those titles despite their respective — often glaring — weaknesses and limitations…
I could also talk at [...]

A whole lot of rueing

phik gave me a good laugh this morning with his post, I never get those 5 hours of my life back. I vaguely remember seeing some exchanges between him and vlad in irc last night while checking the computer between episodes of Zatoichi. The scrollback log seemed to go on forever so I glazed over [...]

And that’s that

Apple’s February 28th keynote is over and they’ve announced only one of the products I was interested in and a couple of products I have zero interest in, and actually find kind of insulting.
The Intel Mac mini has all the stuff I’d hoped for including an optical output and a dual core processor option. It [...]

Let the Apple Rumors Fly

The past week has been all a-buzz with the latest in rumor-mongering about what Apple will announce at tomorrow’s event. Scarcely one month after the January keynote, Apple is announcing some “fun new products”. Here are my predictions / hopes, distilled through my web-browser and giving credit to no one whom I may have stolen [...]

The Cycle of Turkey

Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
It’s early and I haven’t gotten much sleep. Turkey makes you sleepy, which lends itself to naps. Naps make you non-sleepy, which tend to keep you awake. It’s a vicious cycle.
This weekend was nice. The entity known as “c+b” came over Sunday night and we dined on bird and chocolate pudding cake as [...]

Serenity

Ah, neighbours. It’s fun living in an apartment building. I’ve been spoiled for so long by not having to deal with anyone in our building that I was karmically due to have a bunch of students move in down the hall. There was a party last night and they were pretty obnoxious, but I’m hoping [...]

The New Batch

As summer winds down, the advertising begins for this year’s batch of new television shows. One show that’s been getting a lot of press is Prison Break airing Monday nights on the Fox network at 9PM EST. Last night was the two hour “pilot” and we invited friends over to eat some noodles and watch [...]

The Machinist

dria and I watched “The Machinist” last night, the directorial debut of Brad Anderson. Borrowing perhaps too much from influences “Memento” and “Insomnia”, the movie feels a fair bit like those other, probably better psychological thrillers. That is not to say that The Machinist is without its own merits, though – there are some good [...]

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