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Month: June, 2009

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Okay, okay! So maybe I was a little peeved in my last post about Ebert’s review of Revenge of the Fallen. But it just goes to show when you expect too much from Hollywood, you will get burned. Now on to my thoughts on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen!

Ebert is an Elitest Douche Bag

Firstly, go read Roger’s completely ignorant review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Then come back and tell me what’s wrong with it. Ya know what? How about I just tell you myself.

Before I rip his review apart, let me explain why transformers is a franchise of low expectations. Transformers is at it’s core, a [...]

Upgraded software isn’t always better

My wife has a 5 or so year old Dell PC running Windows XP. Since the day that computer left the factory it has not had any defrags, drive reformattings or anything of the sort. It’s essentially all factory with the exception of years of documents, photos and other data scattered all over the hard-drive. [...]

Less CSS for Ruby Frameworks

Less is a ruby CSS interpreter. It is essentially the same as Haml/Sass in terms of the conventions it provides. The big difference here is that Less allows you to write CSS as you normally would, but with time saving conventions. In other words, imagine if CSS had a love child with Sass.

I still have [...]

On Mobile Stores and Product Demos

Today I went to do some pre-purchase shopping for new mobile phones and plans. Since AT&T support is not available in Kearney, NE, it was high time to actually get out to get some figures and test out some phones. Since Alltel and Viaero are really the only real carriers/providers in Kearney, those were the [...]

Terminator Salvation: Dime a dozen

Going to the movie theater for cinetomic (yeah, I made that word up) awesomeness is one of the few hobbies I can really enjoy both by myself and with friends. This weekend was no exception. I decided to give Terminator Salvation a try to see if it lived up the hype and complete Bale mental [...]