Entries from November 2005

Favorite movie reviews

Date November 30, 2005

Every so often I like to go through the movie reviews on Anvil and Sprocket (coming up on our fifth year!) and chuckle at all the pain my brother and I have been through. Here are some of my favorite reviews:
* “Nazca”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/index.php?mode=review&rec=139 — When [Tate] finally tries to kill Miura, Miura and Kiritake are forced [...]

Better late than never?

Date November 30, 2005

“Bush Unveils ‘Strategy For Victory’ in Iraq”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/30/AR2005113000164.html
Would have loved to have seen one of those before we went in.
*Update:* Wonkette seems to think “we’re going backwards”:http://www.wonkette.com/politics/iraq/the-presidents-evolving-vision-140199.php.

Movie updates

Date November 30, 2005

On the Anvil & Sprocket Movie Review:
* I review “_Le Mans_”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/index.php?mode=review&rec=188, the Steve McQueen film about the race of the same name.
* Glen reviews “_Barb Wire_”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/index.php?mode=review&rec=187, the boob film that offers the same pleasurable experience as chewing barbed wire.
* Gary’s “_The Omega Code_”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/index.php?mode=review&rec=185 review gets screenshots.

Wait for the “bling.”

Date November 29, 2005

The general problem with “speaking in a language kids can understand” is kids generally understand plain English just fine, thank you. So result of trying to slangify your message tends to come across like this:
p=. !/textpattern/images/31.jpg (Pro-Abstinence: Wait for the Bling)!
??Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon??
I know exactly what went on at the conference table when this [...]

Guess Sixteen!

Date November 25, 2005

A new random ten for you to guess! If you’re stumped on these, there are still “six lyrics left unidentified”:http://www.thudfactor.com/textpattern/1258/guess-ten. Not even all the easy ones are gone, and there’s at least one I know my “brother Glen”:http://www.art-machine.org/ knows.
Now for the new set. For you newcomers, it works like this: I give you a [...]