Think of it as - “I can drive 55″
Oh Man, Bo Darville Would’ve Dispatched These Guys Right Quick-Like - Jalopnik
Crazy technology used to eval my eyes. APparently the optomitrist has gone 21st century
This is truly genius! This also feeds into Joel’s article about Hittin the High Notes
Oh Alyson Hannigan - why did you do this? Was it the money? Was it your chance to see if you could be the “Star”? I loved you as Willow in Buffy the TV show. You are great in “How I Met Your Mother” ( Which is probably my favorite show of the season).
Maybe she’s going thru a phase (Tat Pics - is it a good sign when you show up on Hanzi Smatter? I think not!) Maybe that’s it. Maybe she had a contract obligation and that is why she was in this. I have no idea.
All I can tell you is that I’m ashamed that I actually paid to go see this movie. First of all - the film makers fell into that simple trap - they worked so hard at referencing other movies and pop culture that they never took two seconds to make any story of their own. Scream did a fantasic job of both making a movie and making references. This film just made references.
Which brings us to the second thing - they ended up picking such sucky films - I hadn’t even seen most of them. There was a scene where the loving couple are talking to a therapist. I have no idea where that is from. If you are going to spend time making a reference you should make them pretty popular ones. (I mean why the hell would you make a refence to BumFight.com ?)
The sad part is that I went in with what I thought were incredibly low expectations. Wow - I had no idea that you could release a film this terrible with a straight face. I mean I know that Feb & Sept are generally the months the studios dump their worst trash out in the theaters just to get it out there - but - there should be a law against this.
I was going to say that this film was going to be such a bomb that it would end up hurting her career - which is a shame - because as I said I like her a lot. I got corrected on that by Box Office Mojo. Apparently they spent $20mil to make it - and have already taken in $33mil. Now that is probably only break even once you fold in marketing - but wow! The most amazing part is they did almost $20 mil on the opening weekend (Which they probably could have done better if they had released it the weekend before Valentine’s Day instead of the weekend after).
You know it’s things like that this that explain why people are staying out of the theaters. I mean - I at least had some idea what I was getting into - I have to believe a lot of people left the film thinking they were cheated…
Bottom Line: It is NOT FUNNY! If you want to see Eddie Griggin spit out another man’s chest hair - go ahead - but other wise - for the love of all things great an small - avoid this even on latenight television.
We saw a trailer - it had
Vincent D’Onofrio in it. I like him a lot. It seemed very indie - and the sound track has Polyphonic Spree and Elliot Smith.
I’ll admit right up front that my fiance was a heck of a lot more excited about the film than I was. I’m not sure what it was about the trailer that she liked so much and I didn’t.
This is sort of that classic indie style film - meaning it is very much a character/dialogue driven film. Nuts and bolts it’s about a kid who sucks his thumb. He tries to get that sorted out and find a better life. If this was a main stream film it would be a case of boy has problem, boy meets girl, boy over comes problem, and boy gets girl - roll credits.
That’s not the case here. I wish I could explain it - without ruining the film. But I can draw parallels which will hopefully help you figure out if this film is for you.
There is this book called “Catcher In The Rye”. It’s famous. I had to read it in High School. (I think I inherited my copy from my brother - every curse word in the novel was carefully highlighted - that seemed like his handy work). In the event that you haven’t read it - it’s about a couple of days in the life of this 16 year old boy. He doesn’t really like his life - or anything for that matter. He’s pretty pissed off at the world as a whole. Apparently normal teens love this novel because they can deeply relate to his cynisism and outlook on the world.
I hated it. I spent the entire novel thinking - “Dude - suck it up and sort your shit out - it’s not that difficult if you take five seconds off from complaining and do something”. What does this have to do with Thubmsucker - quiet a lot really. The main character has some of the same problems. It’s a lot more complicated because he ends up taking drugs (which actually help) and then smoking pot (which makes him feel better after the ridilin he was on) and then….
Well that’s really the thing. I felt like the whole movie is a slice of life without the summation that I really wanted after plodding through a film that only lasted 96 minutes but felt like 3 hours.
The main actor has seriously greasy hair and looks like he just stepped out of Seattle in 1992. The supporting cast is awesome. D’Onofiro plays the distant father. Who I swear I kept feeling like he was a step father because he was so mysterious. And there is a small scene when he accidentally switches into his character from Law & Order - he’s all twichy and odd - which is a bit out of character for an ex-footbal player.
The other two to mention are Keanu Reeves & Vince Vaughn. I have seriously mixed feeling about Reeves. If things weren’t bad enough for him before - I saw the “Keanu Reeves Breafast Sausage” skit on Robot Chicken and now I think of it every time I see him. He turns in an ok performance as a new age dentist - who at first has all the answers and later is just there to remind you Kenu Reeves is in the film.
Vince Vaughn does an awesome job of being a Debate Team teacher. What can I say - I’m not sure he’s really doing that much acting. It comes across as an impersentaiton of a high school teacher more than anything. But I will say that he was probably my favorite about the movie.
Bottom Line: It wasn’t for me - the pacing sucked, and I guess I’m just not that cynical. If you are a disaffected teenage - rush out there and get this right now - other wise - go watch something that doesn’t feel so much like homework.
I had to post a link to this. It’s basically another of the PHP sucks rants. This one is actually very well written. (I did not infact know about the memory leak cause by returning references in 4.4).
Here’s the real reason I posted it though:
Jonas Maurus’ maurus.net » I’m sorry, but PHP sucks!
You have found the ideal framework or base for your software and it’s written in PHP
This website runs on WordPress. It has by far the best UI of any weblogging application. It also means that I have to navigate around all the problems I mentioned in this document. My guess is that in the long run that will take more time than not using a PHP based weblogging application, but for now, I just wait for PyBloxsom to catch up.
I think this is really a testament to how great WordPress is. I have met a number of PHP-haters who run WordPress (Hi Corey). That to me is ultimate validation. Sure if you get under the skin it can get ugly - but are far as using it goes - it’s been smooth sailing.
Declaration of Revocation by John Cleese
10. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call ‘French fries’ are not real chips. Fries aren’t even French, they are Belgian though 97.85% of you (including the guy who discovered fries while in Europe) are not aware of a country called Belgium. Those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called “crisps.” Real chips are thick cut and fried in animal fat. The traditional accompaniment to chips is beer which should be served warm and flat.
The true history of the article.
Ok so in the past I had problems generating rdocs under XP. Rake upgraded to 0.70 and it started again. I assumed this was a windows thing again - but it turns out it is bigger than that. I confirmed by creating a new project on my Linux server and I got the same error
–line-numbers –inline_source not a valid option…. (or there abouts)
Turns out you can’t pass rdoc a string of options from the Rake file. You have to pass each option on its own.
A bucket of patches for the problem. Since there are already a number of patches for this - I’m going to assume that the next version of Rails will have this fixed out of the gate….
My fiancee has a laptop that she is going to be liquidating shortly on ebay. This of course rasied the issue of how do we prep the drive to make sure nothing ends up getting passed on to the new owners.
I’ve used a number of different tools for this purpose in the past. To be honest I’m not sure if they were the best option but I generally figured something was better than nothing.
Today I spent a little time looking around to figure out what my options were. Basically, this is also a new situation for me because her laptop only boots Windows. Normally I end up using Linux tools for this sort of thing.
That’s when I found : Darik’s Boot and Nuke
This thing is awesome. Basically it’s a floppy disk or bootable cd that you boot and it detects all your drives. You select the method (there are several to choose from) and let it do its business.
It takes a while - but it’s super easy! And according to this newsforge article it’s even used at the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to prep computers for disposal.
So next time you’re going to sell a hard drive to some stranger - take an afternoon and put DBAN to work.
OK That is cool! It is a point of sale system in a box.
