After much window shopping, I finally took the plunge, and picked up at TViX HDM-6500A to play rips of my DVD collection (following the logic that information in whatever form always wants to be made more available). It’s a tinker’s dream, and I have to say I tinked it to near perfection. (more…)
I have from time to time needed to be able to encrypt/decrypt something, but didn’t want to hassle with using gnupg/whatever to do it. So there was my itch, now the scratch was an opportunity to write some C code (which I hadn’t done in a long time).
I have to say it was so much fun writing this- the part that took some work was running it through Valgrind, and getting rid of what memory leaks were left. The testing was extensive, and I ran it through a test suite I wrote in Perl for quite a while until I stopped it at 218 million transactions, and it still only used about 900k of ram (memory usage never grew). Pretty cool.
So my good friend Elaine told me about something she and her significant other did over the weekend (he said it was the funnest thing he’s done in a LONG time), and I JUST had to share this with everyone:
The rules are simple, on a 4×4 grid, put some quality of a douchebag in each square. Some examples are:
Anyway, two or more people face in opposite directions, and start scanning the crowd for matches. Find a match, and cross it off- standard bingo rules apply.
Only Elaine could have come up with this, and when she told me, I was dying from laughter. She rocks.
Yes, the subject was a joke, but frankly, so many people mess up the innocent apostrophe, it’s driving me NUTS. The apostrophe is talked about in grade school, and it has nothing to do with spelling, so why is it that this simple concept can’t be done correctly. In short? If you’re an adult, and you can’t use *basic* punctuation, you look really bad to those that can (and probably losing a large amount of credibility in the process). So, here’s the succinct lesson (non exclusive of course, but catches about 90% of the crap I see):
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Yep, Z and I finally saw it tonight- mainly because it was about to leave the theater, but there was a place nearby that will still showing it. So a few big points- I can’t believe they made this only a PG-13! The thought of my nephew being able to go in and see this by himself really saddens me- some people say this isn’t dark, but I suppose all things are relative, and if you compare this to something like Leaving Los Vegas? That placated acceptance is just wrong.
Two other things that irked me- could they have cut down on Batman’s gruff voice? I mean, please. Secondly, I could see mouths moving in the last 5 minutes of the movie (and honestly pretty much the whole movie was like this), but I have NO idea what they were saying- the music was as loud as their speech, so whatever the movie was trying to convey was completely lost (unless there wasn’t anything to the dialog anyway, so what does it matter?).
Too bad. Overall, I think I’d give this a 6.5/10. Despite this, I can absolutely agree Heath’s performance was beyond impressive. What a loss to no longer have him with us.