2008 Aug 4, 8:39
The weekend before last I saw Dark Knight with some friends from work and then we all ate at Z'Tejas after. Like everyone has said and as the name implies Dark Knight is... dark. Dark Knight was a
little over the top at times as compared to Batman Begins but I really enjoyed it. Two times during the movie I thought it had ended but I was wrong. The Joker is both frightening (Cringe inducing
line "Wanna know how I got these scars?") and humorous ("Where is Harvey Dent? ... You know where Harvey is? You know who he is?", as well as the pencil magic trick). I can certainly recommend it
to anyone who enjoyed Batman Begins. The previews included Burn After Reading a new Coen Brother's comedy that I look forward to, and
Quantum of Solace which hopefully does the same thing Dark Knight has, keep up the new direction on the refreshed franchise.
This past
weekend Sarah and I went to a Mariners baseball game. I think this is the first MLB baseball game I've seen in person. Sarah's company gave out tickets for the game and the use of a suite. Its a
room half way up the stadium with comfortable chairs, a mini-fridge built-in to the marble counter-topped center table, and a big flat screen television with the game on it. I suppose that's in
case you don't want to turn to the right and sit at the window, or walk out onto the balcony which features three rows of comfy chairs overlooking the field. Anyway there was free food and drinks
and I met some of the people Sarah works with.
baseball batman nontechnical 2008 Jul 9, 5:37Moore proposes magical divination fills function of generating random outcomes. E.g. shaman reading cracks in caribou bones determines where to hunt avoiding over hunting particular areas or the game
picking up hunters patterns. Wish this wasn't pay site.
random game-theory anthropology divination magic 2008 Apr 2, 6:21Recommended by PA guys: "Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical
objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creati
penny-arcade crayon crayon-physics game games physics drawing 2008 Mar 8, 10:48"remember Dawn Of The Dead? Did you ever wonder how that horrifying turn of events would effect Las Vegas? What about specifically Teller, of Penn and Teller?"
teller penn-and-teller video zombie humor sad via:boingboing 2008 Jan 28, 2:42Use this option with cl.exe (the Visual Studio C/C++ compiler) to see what your files look like after all the #define macro magic occurs. Useful when debugging crufty or organic macros.
microsoft msdn reference c++ cpp preprocessor tool compiler cl 2008 Jan 5, 11:34Cory Doctorow's book Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom available free via Creative Commons. More traiditional singularity style scifi. I liked this much better than Someone Comes to Town.
cory-doctorow scifi disney literature project-gutenberg book books singularity 2007 Oct 3, 11:29University of Michigan's collection 'Traditions of Magic'.
magic history research michigan 2007 Aug 17, 1:37Chris' YouTube profile. Currently contains video of him performing a magic trick.
friend chris-shelton magic youtube video profile 2007 May 1, 4:33In the past I've come up with ideas for software and find that the very idea is implemented soon after. So this time rather than getting down about it I'm going to make it work for me. I'll state
what I want to use and hope that its magically implemented. In order to uniformly support comments on my website I want a web service with the following features:
- Allow users to view and add comments for any particular URI.
- Use OpenID and optionally Card Space to
identify users.
- Use a captcha system that's optionally cute or humorous.
- Has atom or rss feeds of the comments available.
- Doesn't require users to register.
- Doesn't require any extra steps for commenting on a URI that no one has commented on.
I'm going implement this now so no one go off and do it before me so that I can use it without having to do anything...
technical homepage 2007 May 1, 3:48The Sunday of the weekend before last I had friends over and we watched Antitrust and Sneakers. Watching Antitrust makes me wonder if Bill Gates has seen it. Tim Robbins plays a character that is
essentially based on him but so over the top that its ridiculous.
A few days before that I watched The Prestige with Sarah. I can't tell if I was or wasn't supposed to know what was going on until the end but it was cool anyway. I didn't know until later but David
Bowie plays Tesla which is just awesome all the way around.
We also watched The Illusionist sometime before. Both movies are adaptations of novels with stage magicians set in turn of the century England. And I enjoyed both of them. I thought one would be a
rushed attempt by one studio to compete with the another on the same ground but that doesn't seem to be the case. I've noticed this before with those asteroid disaster movies and the two movies about
Truman Capote. It turns out Wikipedia has a
huge list of competing similar movies.
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