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The Fall

// September 26th, 2008 // View Comments // Entertainment

Last night I finally got a chance to see The Fall, a film by Tarsem Singh that had limited release in theaters.  It is quite honestly one of the most visually enchanting films I’ve ever seen.

The plot revolves around a young girl staying at a hospital in the 1920′s after injuring her arm in a fall.  While there she meets a bedridden man by the name of Roy who begins to weave an amazing story of revenge, love, loss, and adventure for the young girl, beautifully brought to life within the girl’s mind’s eye.  During the telling of the tale it begins to take on a life of it’s own as both Roy and the young girl interject their own emotions and dreams into the story. As the film progresses you learn more and more of the little girl and Roy’s histories and how they came to the hospital, leading to stunning realization.

The movie is a feast for the eyes.  Stark, bold, and vivid colors and stunning vistas permeate the tale within the tale, contrasted by the subdued landscape of the hospital setting.  The story is at times tragic, uplifting, and touching.  The performances by Lee Pace (Roy) and the young girl (Catinca Untaru) are superb.

Check out the trailer, and let me know what you think.

Gbridge=Awesome.

// September 24th, 2008 // View Comments // Technology

Today’s post is brought to you by Gbridge, a very handy little program that takes all the guesswork out of remote connecting to other PCs.  Gbridge works by using your Gmail account as a login.  After installing the program on the PCs you need to connect to it’s as simple as logging in and selecting ‘DeskShare’.  You’re instantly connected to a PC remotely, allowing you to fiddle with it.  It’s a little slow, but that may just be my connection here at work.

Why’s this handy for me, you ask?   My PC spends most of it’s time idle while I’m away at work.  With Gbridge I could set it up to begin converting or encoding music or video, and it would be ready by the time I came home.

It’s also a nice solution for remote tech support without having to get into the guts of VPN stuff.

Anyway, it’s pretty cool, so check it out.

FINALLY

// September 18th, 2008 // View Comments // Technology

It took them long enough!

Finally, Scribefire includes info about the WordPress issue, as well as routing to a page displaying the upgrades included in a new version of the extension when you update it.

They’ve got some sort of advertising setup thing going on, might play with that, but I don’t wanna have bothersome ads on my blag.

History Lessons. . .

// September 11th, 2008 // View Comments // News, Thoughts

It’s totally not insensitive or crass to create a quiz based upon the deaths of 3,000+ people.

What the hell. . .

Way to trivialize the worst terrorist attack to ever happen on US soil.

On the other hand, in another ten or twenty years all of this will probably be taught in history and social studies classrooms all over the country. We already teach our children about the atrocities of WWII, and they occurred only a few decades ago. Like it or not, the events of September 11th, 2001 have had a tremendous impact on everything that’s happened in the past seven years, and it’s influence on the world will continue to resonate for years to come. What matters is what knowledge we can gather from this tragedy. Already engineers have learned how to produce stronger, more resilient buildings.

I don’t know what else to say, but my heart goes out to all of those effected who lost someone in those senseless acts of violence.

Keep on truckin’

// September 8th, 2008 // View Comments // Entertainment, Rants

Anyone who knows me is aware of my job history.  I worked for UPS for three years while going to school, and while it was a tough job, it was a lot of fun and started me on the path of getting in shape.  As such I’m a bit partial to the company, so seeing this little bit on CNN.com warmed the cockles of my heart. A driver hit his millionth mile in his delivery truck on his 22nd anniversary with the company.  How’s that for an accomplishment?

Yes, my cockles.

You want to touch them, don’t you.

I’ve gone global, apparently

// September 4th, 2008 // View Comments // Thoughts

According to Google Analytics, I’ve received visitors from both Shantou, China, and Brisbane, Australia.

While I do know folks who live in those countries, it seems unusual that they’d visit or even read my stuff.

So uh, hello people from Not-The-US. Unless of course you’re just bots or sinister gold-farmers.

You should comment so I can get to know my international audience.