I saw the movie “V for Vendetta” yesterday. The movie concerns an Orwellian like state that arise in Great Britain due to the war on terrorist and terrorist attacks. The story is one of conspiracy, liberation and vengeance. It is quite a mix. The screenplay is by the Wachowski brothers and like there past work it is full of philosophical and political dilemma
I watched the Oscars last night. I must give Jon Stewart credit for keeping the jokes and humorous bits coming. Usually after the host does the opening there is very little humor left or expressed in the program. It was different this time. Jon Stewart who is the host of the funniest talk show that is based on the Tonight Show format showed some of his talent
On the heels of a slew of patches due for Microsoft operating systems I figured it is as good a time as any to write (again) about an aspect of my computing experience. There has been a lot of software needing security patches in the last few months and not only Windows, but also the Mac and Linux operating systems. There have been security holes found in iT
It’s been an unusually warm winter so far this year. We have had brief spurts of below average temperature weather followed by very short periods of seasonal weather. The above normal temperature days have by far outstripped the normal days. There have also been an unusually large number of thunderstorms this winter. In a normal winter there are no thundersto
It was around Christmas time of 2004 and the T.V. was playing in the background when all of the sudden I hear a constant piercing shriek and rumbling wail without end coming from the television. What could it be? Was it a horror picture? Were people under attack? No, it was the Oprah Winfrey Christmas show. From the point Oprah gave out the first gift to the end of th
I watched the movie “Pitch Black”on DVD the other day. I went to the theater to see this movie when it came out and was impressed then and on seeing it again I am more impressed. It is a good movie. The story is about a cargo ship that crash lands on this hostile environment three-sun world that is on its way to entering a total eclipse that the planet goes into every
I’ve been blogging for a little over two years now at one site or another. It is a good time to make some observations about my blogging. First I’ve noticed that my blogs can become repetitive. No, I’m not taking about my writing style, which is pretty, for the most part, unedited and therefore sometime repetitive. Besides a very minimum level of spelling an
I am not one of those people who engage in celebrity worship (for the most part). I even find it difficult to remember the names of actors (or any other of the key positions in film-making). Only once in my life have I ever written a movie star. Mind you it is highly unlikely that big time stars will ever read a letter or email you send. They have public rela
I mentioned on my last blog entry that the movie “Brokeback Mountain” about two gay cowboy sheepherders would not be that popular with the masses in the US. I am surprised that it is not even being shown at the theaters in the county I reside in which has a pretty dense population and a good mixture of urban, suburban and rural communities. It also
Another year is here. As usual the media went crazy with all kinds of list and what not. Everybody has a list of some sort. MTV and the VH channels are filled with meaningless list. List like the 100 worst songs (by whose standards?) or 50 worst music videos. I quickly ignore most of the worst this or best that being propagated on MTV, VH1 or any of those channels. <B
Christmas Day is almost here. I must admit the day has lost its luster since adulthood. I guess because there is no week off from school or mucho toys under the Christmas tree waiting for me. I also now feel the day has become too commercialized. Businesses relentlessly try to push their wares on us. And is it may imagination or what that kids are getting gr
When an American says he listens to Spanish music he’s usually not only referring to music from Spain. So when I posted some of my taste in music I mentioned Spanish music, which means all types of Latino (includes Portuguese) music. Maybe to be more precise I should say music from Mexico, South America, many Caribbean Islands and Spain. Or maybe I
There has been a lot of opposition to super stores that sell goods at cheap prices moving into certain communities. The opposition is due to that which comes with stores like Wal-Mart such as low paying dead end jobs, the driving of ‘mom and pop’ stores out of business, and the physical design and acres of land that is taken up by such store chains. Communities feel
I was listening to an mp3 of Symphony No. 2, “Romantic” by Howard Hanson and conducted and played by Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony. All three movements of the piece are good in my opinion. I was first introduced to the piece at the ending sequence in one of my all time favorite movie “Alien” as the alien was flushed into space by the blast of the e
If it's cheap and plays all the formats you need it to play then jump on it (buy it)
I rented the 1950s musical The Pajama Game the other day (I think I mentioned this film in past post calling it The Pajama Gang. As I’ve said on other blog post I have no editor or proofreader so mistakes happen). It was a pleasure to see this movie again after first being exposed to it at a high school play. It’s nice to be able to see movies from the past
In labeling music in my mp3 files sometime I find it difficult to figure out what name I should use in the artist category. This problem mainly occurs with classical, jazz, movie score, and Broadway show music. Things are pretty clear when it concerns pop and rock as long as you don’t worry about the writer of the lyrics and music, which is sometime different from th
I would be remise if I didn’t have one entry in my blog on this site concerning the devastation in the Gulf states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama and the subsequent response of the US government at the local, state, and federal level. In the wake of this disaster the mayor (New Orleans), governors and the US President failed to respond in a timely and
There’s a little stretch there where I couldn’t find time to blog. I’m in the middle of employment change and that with house choirs like panting has affected my ability to blog. My other blog has even gone a longer stretch without an entry. I guess this is just the way things will go occasionally. Job-hunting is a pain. I’m out here putting the so-called ‘Go
I wish you'll stop worrying about points and all that nonsense. The problems I'm having accessing this site have increased. You guys should be getting better at this, not worse. I'm having various problems with this site. Some of it may be on your end and some may not. For instance the buttons used for text breaks within a post or using html are not posting write. The data is either being altered in transit or at your site. This is a problem to work on
One of the funniest things I saw was columnist and news commentator Bob Novak swearing and walking off set during a program segment with the ragin’ cajin’. I admit that sometimes the rapid fire mumbling of James Carville can drive one nuts but decorum demands that you sit there and make it through the segment and not loose your cool. I have read some off the
It's nice to see that all of you are filling in the missing information from the statement by an official from the military. The statement from the military was "to fat to fight". That statement is false and that is all that I was saying. I was trying to be humorous but it seems you guys are taking this fat stuff pretty seriously but I can take issue with your conclusions. It is possible for a to fat person to go to battle and perform as well
The latest game Microsoft is playing is using so-called validation software to rummage through your home computer to make sure it is using a legal copy of Microsoft before it allows you to update. This rummaging and tagging of your computer is suppose to happen only if you want your operating system to get the latest upgrades or tweaks to the Microsof
The army recently said that many service men and women or potential new recruits are “too fat to fight”. Everytime I say these words I have to laugh. No matter if I say it regularly, whisper it, ask a question, or exclaim it, it sounds funny. The words just seem to fit together so perfectly. The meaning of the phrase seems so wrong. What about all
Helix the II and sushik, Your observations are very good.
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