Movies I’m watching
Phase Five completed this afternoon. There’s a spot of cleanup left to do in the basement, but the basement great room has now been converted to a pretty decent media room. We need to do something about the furnishing situation, but there’s a recliner and a papasan chair that make …
One of the gifts I gave Eleya for Christmas was a DVD of the superb ultra-low budget indie film Primer, a film we saw a couple years ago which made a very strong impact. Made by Texan engineer-turned-auteur Shane Carruth, who also starred, edited, scored, and so on, it’s a …
What’s with the aristocratic bent of recent titles here? There may be something subconscious going on there that will make sense to me later, but I’m afraid to look too deeply into it right now. This post is about a film that changed my life when I saw it. I …
Holiday cheer. Happy Thanksgiving day to you and yours if you’re celebrating this US holiday. I just put our turkey in the oven after its leisurely and customary morning soak in brine. Eleya made a beautiful batch of casseroles, side dishes, and pies. Evie is going to help her make …
Sorry I don’t have time to look up links. Google is your friend; use it. ? Fedora. Got a release notes package put together, only to find out that I broke something stupid that I had originally done right and then subsequently “fixed,” in the way that you might fix …
If you want to see the hopped-up, adrenalin-junkie, exploitation-cinema version of a whiny UF journalism student, check out Kurt Russell crying like a little girl at the end of Death Proof, Quentin Tarantino’s contribution to this year’s Grindhouse. Even with 20 or so minutes restored to a film that originally …
Today I managed to get some substantial work done around my “Daddy Day Care” duty: Published some new versions of the Translation Quick Start Guide for the L10n folks Edited a new README for Fedora Live images Imported said README into Docs CVS and set it up for our build …
Today Eleya brought home (admittedly at my request) the Heroes S1 DVD set. I never really saw the show when it was on broadcast TV, so I’m not yet sure how I’m going to fit in catching up to all those episodes before S2 starts at the end of next …
Geek stuff: A while back I posted about a problem with Nautilus’ handling of audio CD copies. In today’s news, that looks to be fixed in the upcoming GNOME release, which should by all rights make it easily into Fedora 8. More geek stuff: Today also saw the arrival of …
It seems that all I’m doing these days is chasing the tail end of whatever I was supposed to get done the week before. Most of my busy time has come from my musical life. Leah has a final show coming up in a few weeks, and inexplicably we have …