Really slow month, less than a dozen entries so far. Mostly it’s been out of admin-guilt since I fucked up Ron and Matt’s sites. Now both of them are back up, but we’ll have to manually copy and paste the old entries. Lame. Thankfully though I moved both sites over to a MySQL backend, so hopefully we’ll never go through this nightmare again.
It’s been brought to my attention that my site is the 11th result when searching for “Luke” on Google. Schwing!
It sure was. Actually, I think I don’t like this movie. Robin, Athena and I watched it last night and Robin was the only one that came out with a good experience. Personally, I felt this movie was like a twenty- to thirty-minute love story, with an hour and a half of Japanese scenery smothering it.
I’d love to see Bill Murray and what’s-her-name in a full story together. I can dig that. I’d also like to see a full length movie-format documentary on Japan. But this thing felt like Coppola was unsatisfied with competing in either the short film or documentary category at Cannes or Sundance and said, “Fuck it! Let’s just make both!”
Now if the painfully overwhelming setting of Tokyo and other small parts of Japan actually had anything to do with the plot, right on, that’d be cool. It didn’t though; this movie could have easily taken place in any city on the planet. They touched a little on Japanese culture - and almost every part they touched on was pretty damned insulting to Japanese people. They make fun of the fact that the Japanese mix up the “R” and “L” phonemes while speaking English - so the girl actually asks Murray why this is. He sloughs it off and says it’s for a joke.
So most little cultural tidbits were like this - show us really crazy Japanese stuff without explaining any of it (like a freaky talk show host, painful translators, etc), and to make the audience laugh and forget that this is pretty much the Simpsons episode where Homer almost cheats on his wife.
I’ll probably watch it again on the movie network or something, but maybe with the volume muted. It might be better that way.
I don’t want to sound like a total cynical asshole, which I usually am. So please refer to my entry from a couple days ago where I actually a bunch of movies high praise.
So the vacation officially ended this morning, and it was pretty damned good. Over the last 8 or 9 days my girlfriend and I saw a ton of stuff in Toronto (and some outside, like Niagara Falls). She also brought me a bunch of movies for my birthday, all cool and all region two baby.
Other things we checked out were Casa Loma, the CN Tower, the ROM, and tons of shopping. Oh yeah and get this - both of us got a cold yesterday morning… Boooo!
Just kidding. But I am on vacation, pretty much the first one of any decent length I’ve had. My girlfriend arrived on Sunday morning (6 AM at the airport!), and we’ve been hanging out in the city and having a good time, so it’s been quiet here for a bit.
One Internet thing that caught my eye was this bullshit about Verisign resolving all bad .COM DNS names to an advertisement. Did they even think about what this would do to caching proxies?
This thing is pretty fucking genius. It looks like it automatically pulled in search terms from Google, along with a broad category from the DMOZ project. Needless to say, Spamassasin and what not didn’t catch it.
Hey - I just searched in Google for as 400 java and found www.neuro-tech.net ranked 3. I have a related website about Computers - Hardware that’s purely informational (so I’m NOT a competitor of yours) and I’d like to link to your site.
I consider my site to be one of the best resources for information regarding Computers - Hardware. I get a decent amount of visitors to it so if I link to you, your site should get some decent traffic from it.
I only link to good quality sites… I think you’ll find my site to be high quality as well. In exchange, we require that you link to us from your homepage. I’ve already linked to you from my site and will keep it there for a few days until I hear from you. Please let me know asap if you’re interested.
Thanks!
Take care… God Bless,
OK, I’m totally stumped with this one. I still can’t fix Matt and Ron’s blogs. Apparently, when I upgraded some packages on the system (specifically the Berkeley database libs) it broke MovableType’s DB_File package. The best option I can think of is using something like user-mode Linux to install an old copy of the system and libraries, and convert the blogs to a MySQL table on that virtual machine. This sucks.
The site might be up and down for a bit, upgrading a ton of packages.
Matt pointed me to this article about paying drug addicts to be sterilized.
I mean, it might work - if addictiveness comes from your genetics than it’s feasable. But fuck, that doesn’t make it any less horrifying.