I was sick part of the week last week. That, coupled with the Thanksgiving holiday, allowed me to get through some more movies on my never-ending list. Without further ado, from worst to best: On the Waterfront: The 1955 Best Picture winner. Bleh. Boring. Brando’s newfangled “method” acting made everyone else look like they were [...]
Archive for November, 2006
Bond… Love those opening credits
Continuing with my trend of lack of actual content and growing obsession with lists of movies I have to see NOW, I give you: 45 Years of Bondage: Every Single James Bond Credit Sequence Ever – Cinematical I love those opening credit sequences. I can’t wait to see the new Bond, though it will probably [...]
Use Firefox to keep tabs on your cell minutes
Verizon Minutes Used Firefox Extension Something for the Firefox/Verizon user subset of readers. I went over my minutes last month, something that I hadn’t done in a very long time. Hopefully this will help. I know, I know #646, but I always forget to do that, and I spend a lot more time looking at [...]
Geek to Live: Consolidate Firefox’s chrome – Lifehacker For those Firefox users out there (and that should really be all of you, unless you’re rockin’ Safari) who like to tweak their settings a bit. I found this really useful as I’m always trying to see as much of a web page without having to scroll. [...]
30 in 15?
On recounting I see that I have 30 movies still to see: 1981 Ordinary People1980 Kramer vs. Kramer1979 The Deer Hunter1971 Patton1970 Midnight Cowboy1968 In the Heat of the Night1967 A Man for All Seasons1964 Tom Jones1957 Around the World in 80 Days: Special Edition1956 Marty1955 On the Waterfront1953 The Greatest Show on Earth1950 All [...]
Office Space: Recut
I think I love this almost as much as I love ‘The Shining’ trailer where its recut to look like its a feel-good family movie. Its so very Friday and I’m right on the edge of being asked to come in on Saturday (or at least stay late tonight)… SCARY!
Random post-election thoughts
After three weeks of endless pre-recorded phone calls (I got at least one per day), the election is finally over. All the negative ads will cease and my tv watching can be returned to normal. Except apparently not. I turned on the TV at the all to early hour of 6:45am to see the final [...]