Best. Fight. Ever.
Posted on 2007-09-03 at 15:43
This fight scene is the tits:
That's all I need to say.
Synchronicity and the Pop Culture Meme
Posted on 2007-07-18 at 21:36
I think my school is less Mr Miyagi and more Cobra Kai
Also, I think I prefer it that way. ;-)
These are a few of my favorite things
Posted on 2007-05-01 at 08:05
So, there are 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 things I like. I'll limit this point to 3:
- Linux
- Movies
- High Definition Video
Gravitas
Posted on 2007-03-26 at 20:54
I've been told my blog lacks that certain sense of gravitas needed to be considered real social commentary.
To those doubters, I say "I'm rubber and you're glue, what you say bounces off me and gets you a pick ax in your spinal column, bitch! Bring it! I'll kick yer doubtin' ass!"
Ooo, I just remembered I have Take the Lead upstairs to watch. Antonio Banderas dances for the kids. How can this be bad? It's like Dead Poet's Society had sex with Flashdance and this movie was its illegitimate love child.
"Make Up" or "Make Believe"
Posted on 2007-01-21 at 15:07
There too he sculptured a broad fallow field
Of soft rish mould, thrice ploughed, and over which
Walked many a ploughman, guiding to and fro
His steers, and when on their return they reached
The border of the field the master came
To meet them, placing in the hands of each
a goblet of rich wine. Then turned they back
Along the furrows, diligent to reach
Their distant end. All dark behind the plough
The ridges lay, a marvel to the sight.
Like the field in the quote above from Homer's Illiad, these women are made into an image of beauty. It is not the dirt in the field we find beautiful nor the woman under the makeup, but rather it is the beauty, even the dignity, that our culture bestows on them that makes them pleasing to us. Aesthetic beauty and moral beauty are not easily distinguished. Like the education of our children, we move purposefully from a natural to a cultural state. It's what we do. We transform nature. We make it in our self-image as we perceive it, and when it gets too hard to do on our own, we ask for help---from ploughmen, makeup artists, painters...and each other.
I was leaving the building for the day. A co-worker was leaving at the same time. When we saw each other standing up, we gave our daily good bye's, put on our coats and left our cubes. Hollywood would have the decency to fade to black at this point, but real life is not so interested in transforming nature. No, we'd said all that needed saying. We both got up and left. Problem is, we both went the same way. So now, we are walking to the parking lot together in an awkward silence. No script was prepared. No protocol readied us for the silent walk out. I said, "So it's not so easy to get rid of me, is it?" We laughed. The moment was rescued from reality and given a cultural context---hence a beauty. As a species, we don't like ugly.
So, what does it mean to say someone is a human? I suppose it depends on who you ask, but I would argue that we are not merely complex bipedal mammal. Being human is more than that. It's about stopping to enjoy a warm fire in a winter chill, it's about having a dream, seeking out the things that are pleasing. Being human is about enjoying the beauty that we, each of us, adds to the world in which we live. I could be crass about the Hollywood makeovers in the video above, but I think I'll just be grateful to the directors, the artists, designers, scriptwriters, and air-brushers who are trying to give us a little bit more beautiful world than the one in which we find ourselves. I don't see anything wrong with that.
Dear Mr Vernon
Posted on 2007-01-09 at 08:46
We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay telling you who we think we are.
You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basketcase, a princess, and a criminal.
Does that answer your question
Sincerely yours,
The Breakfast Club.
Bryan and I are going to see The Protector today
Posted on 2006-09-16 at 09:28
Can't wait. It's gonna rock so hard! Watch the trailer below and prepare to be impressed.
Windows Media Center Edition 2005 blows vomit
Posted on 2006-08-25 at 21:55
OK. It's a bit of an overstatement, but...
When you buy a Media PC with a stereo rack component look and feel that bills itself as a replacement for your Tivo, it should be able to fill that role. Windows Media Center Edition 2005 does not. The system would go into suspend mode and require a reboot to return to normal operation. It wouldn't play many of the media files I threw at it. I understand not playing flac files out of the box (it's a bit obscure, I suppose) but many AVI files and even some MPGs were non-working. All those files, for the record, played just fine in Linux. The guide information was regularly incorrect. And finally, when I finally decided to show it to someone else, I fast forwarded through the commercials of a show only to find that it would not leave fast-forward mode.
Needless to say, the system was returned. I want to be clear, the system, an HP Media Center PC, was not the problem. The problem was entirely Mirosoft's. All the problems had patches which fixed those problems and added new ones. In the end, I found myself performing maintainence on a box that was supposed to be a stereo rack component. I don't have to do this for my DVD player, nor for my extant Tivo. I don't feel that I should have to do it for my Tivo Replacement.
Total satisfaction score: 3 out of a possible 10. The idea has promise, but the software implementation was a miserable failure. I suspect MythTV would have been a better choice for HP to put under the hood.
Buy my new DVD you will
Posted on 2006-05-04 at 07:32
Rumor has it that Lucasfilm will be releasing the original theatrical version of Star Wars (as in "Han shoots first" and "No tricked out special effects") on DVD later this year.
And all God's people said AMEN!!!
UltraChrist
Posted on 2006-02-22 at 07:33
What would Jesus do if he returned to Earth and discovered he was wildly out of touch with modern trends? Don a Spandex costume and fight sin on the streets of New York City, of course! But as always, he faces several obstacles: a disapproving Father; the Antichrist, in the guise of the New York City Parks Commissioner; and the temptations of a beautiful seamstress.
Daredevil: The Man Without Fear
Posted on 2005-11-05 at 08:01
Screw Ben Affleck. This guy should be playing Daredevil in the movies. I've never seen anything like this in my life.
Soon
Posted on 2005-09-27 at 08:01
Serenity opens in theaters on Friday, September 30. It's the only movie I intend to watch in the theaters this year. The rest can wait for my home theater. Serenity, however, is different.
Serenity
Posted on 2005-07-17 at 08:03
You can't stop the signal! Spread the word!
Netflix Fu
Posted on 2005-05-10 at 08:01
So, I'm in the Netflix tribe now and I love it so far. It's great for feeding your bizarre interests (no, not THAT kind of bizarre, perv!). I have added a ton of Kung Fu training videos to my Netlix list. I'm gonna use them for exercise. I can't wait to get the first one: Shaolin Basic Skills. I'm a freak. ...everybody was kung fu fighting...