Month: February 2008
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Movie: Thank You For Smoking
Nothing like a good satire to cleanse the palate. I enjoyed the title sequence almost two years ago. Friday night, I watched Thank You For Smoking. Full bore fun, riding the commercial and political system we have to the (almost logical) extent…this movie doesn’t have a (cough) filter (cough). Metacritic: 71
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Psssssttt…OpenDNS is hiring
Engineering positions in San Francisco, available now. Even if you’re not an engineer, if you refer someone we hire, there’s a cash reward in it for you ($1K). (Just in case good karma wasn’t enough.)
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The geographic center of baseball
I’ve never heard of Alex Reisner before today. My gratitude to Adam Kalsey for the link. I just now realized that Reisner’s post is from March of 2006, almost 2 years ago. But this is timeless, not timely. What a marvelous, brief examination of history and its forces: Baseball Geography and Transportation. Effectively annotated with…
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Monday night links
Rather than spend time trying to buy an airline ticket I don’t want, I’ll clean out the inbox with a few links gathering dust. This weekend, I saw the $1 image stabilizer in action, and Rich got some great pictures of the kids. Pretty sharp! Last year, I saw the Windows Vista packaging in person…
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My favorite email subject line of the past week
Most spam I receive is of the usual variety of supplements, etc.. Only occasionally do I get a 419 scam, but I did enjoy last week’s subject line from the “Compensation Head Office” Dear Prominent User of the Internet Hey, we’re all famous somewhere.
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Movie: Catch a Fire
The domain is already parked, and that tells you a lot about a movie that’s less than 2 years old. Metacritic gave Catch a Fire a 62, for “generally favorable” reviews. My feelings about the movie…mildly favorable, at best. Not bad, but not worth your time. Based on a true story, this apartheid-era chronicle does…
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Book: Treasure Island
When the boy tears through book after book, I sometimes follow after him. Treasure Island is such a well-known tale, but I’m not sure I’d ever read it before. Maybe it’s not the original buried treasure story, but this is rightly the best known. Action throughout, clear language without being childish, and the hero (and…
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You know your blog is stale when…
…the wife who gives you grief for blogging mentions that your blog is getting stale. Hmmm… maybe I can clean out the inbox later tonight.