November 2011
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Love in the Afternoon
It’s been awhile, so I thought I’d get back into posting with a tribute to my second favorite Eric Rohmer film, Love in the Afternoon (sometimes called Chloe in the Afternoon in the English-speaking world).
I love so many things about Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales series, and it’s fitting that the series ends with this film, because it’s the most fully formed, and...
September 2011
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Thoughts on Android and Virgin Mobile (Part Two)
In in the first part of this two-part post, I summed up some of the positive points of the Android-powered LG Optimus V and the Virgin Mobile US voice and data networks. Now on to the criticisms:
I wanted to originally write this follow-up post towards the end of the year, giving me a solid 6 months or so to test out the features, but after about 4 months my wife and decided to bail on our...
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Twitter as Google Reader Replacement →
For the past few weeks I had pondered a couple questions that the attached link answers/solves quite nicely: how does one kill (or at the very least cut-down on) the time-suck that is RSS and what’s a good use for Twitter aside from sending the random missive about English soccer?
August 2011
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The Third Reich
The title of the “lost” Roberto Bolaño novel, now being serialized by the Paris Review (starting with the Spring 2011 issue). I ripped through first two available installments in one or two nights a few weeks ago. I have a copy of 2666 on the shelf that I need to crack open, but aside from that, I haven’t read any of his other work.
That said, if the The Third Reich is any...
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Thoughts on Android and Virgin Mobile (Part One)
After several years of holding out, about 4 months ago me and the wife jumped on the smart-phone bandwagon and purchased a couple of Android-powered LG Optimus Vs through the Virgin Mobile network.
Up to that point, we’d been using old fashioned Motorola flip-phones through Verizon and a iPod touch to check email when we were away from home at a hot-spot. Needless to say, if you’ve...
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The Magic Mountain
A few weeks ago I finished Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. I’m not sure how to best describe what I felt when reading the novel. Maybe some combination of enjoyment, at times an acute feeling of being overwhelmed, a touch of boredom — a whole gambit of emotions, really. If you know nothing about it, the book is around a young man (Hans Castorp) who visits his cousin at a...
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A Morning mit Bundesliga
(image via gorriti’s flickr stream)
Hoping for an EPL game to follow this morning, ESPN3 was streaming a Bundesliga match between FC Augusburg (recently promoted to Bundesliga 1) and FC Kaiserslautern at Kaiserslautern. As will probably be the case during much of the season, halftime was spent doing a little wiki research on both the clubs and the Bundesliga in general.
Evidently,...
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Aston Villa Out of the Running
This is a bit premature, but I’m drafting a post on my quest to find a EPL team to support this year, as the NBA is probably going to be dead this upcoming season, and I need a fix to get me through the dark days of winter. It’s a shame too, cause I was all ready to see Thad Young win sixth-man of the year, but I digress…
Anyway, I’m streaming the Fulham-Aston Villa match...
Pimm's Cup
Didn’t think my first post back after a 3 month+ blogging hiatus would be about alcohol, but I can surprise even myself at times. Anyway, Pimm’s. It’s this gin-based liqueur from England. Perhaps you’ve tried it, yes? If you haven’t, go out and get yourself a bottle and a little Canada Dry as a mixer. Heavenly, dangerous stuff. Perfect summer evening refreshment...
May 2011
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Tiny, inexpensive computing →
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK registered charity (Registration Number 1129409) which exists to promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into learning computing.
We plan to develop, manufacture and distribute an ultra-low-cost computer, for use in teaching computer programming to children. We expect this computer to have...
April 2011
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– That is my memory of all those first punk gigs: excitement mixed with fear. Everything was twice as intense. You just don’t get that now. Can you imagine going to a gig and being scared? It just wouldn’t happen. Or watching a band come onstage and thinking the singer looked amazing? The first time...
January 2011
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