Just decided to go poking around the web to see if there was any news about a DVD release of Kenneth Branaugh’s Hamlet. Turns out there is! Warner Home Video is slated to release a 10th anniversary special edition DVD in 2006! Kick-ass!
Monthly Archive for June, 2005
Finally got around to integrating my movies page with the rest of the site. It’s definitely hacky at this point (made a custom wordpress page style containing most of the php code and simply created an empty page that uses that style), but at least it works. Still need to refine it some. I stripped out most of the db fields from getting displayed since I’m don’t have as much screen width to work with, but I should fine tune what I display. Should also decide whether I want to link to my own custom entry for each movie when you click on it in addition to providing the IMDB link, or if I should just simplify my db substantially and only provide the barest necessities locally. Oh, and I suppose it would be slick if I provided a “I’d like to borrow this movie” button so that friends/family that are local can easily notify me when they’re looking over the list online. And perhaps get searching working again. But my tinkering is never really done. There’s a number of backend fixes I should probably consider at some point for adding new entries (ability to select alternate english titles for international films, fix the IMDB lookup to reflect changes made to their interface, …).
I hate stupid people. Amanda and I were enjoying a nice dinner at Nitaya Thai last night when this flock of heathens came in. I knew they were heathens because they promptly asked for a kids’ menu. Where do they think they were… Denny’s? Gets worse from there. When they find out there’s no kids’ menu, they’re youngest broodling has the nerve to confront the waitress with a loud, finger-quoted “what do you mean no kids’ menu?!?!?” Good to see kids are being raised to be respectful, well-mannered little mongrels… Then the elder mouth-breathers ask if they serve anything besides Thai food, because they’d really like to eat something that’s not Thai food. The nerve of these heathens. If you didn’t want Thai food, perhaps you should check out a place that’s not a Thai restaurant. I suspect McD’s would be more to their liking… Fortunately they left at that point, which is good since I’d rather not have to listen to them whine about how they can’t get burgers and chicken nuggets and are being forced to experience alternative cultures.
One of those problems I have with some people… completely unwilling to try new things. My folk raised me to at least try new things before deciding I didn’t like them (unlike some people who know they don’t like things before even trying them). Sometimes this works out and I find some new favorite… and sometimes I have a Happy BucketTM experience. But even then I come out with some great stories and can impress some people with my bravery. 
I’m a little late in posting this (ISCA ‘05 in Madison and all that rot), but in Steve Jobs’ keynote at Apple’s WWDC he dropped a bombshell… Apple’s dropping the PowerPC and switching to Intel/x86. Engadget has some analysis on the decision, but I guess it largely boils down to limitations they’ve experienced with the PowerPC platform. To recap, Motorola had been making all the PowerPC chips for Apple until their G5 schedule didn’t meet Apple’s needs. IBM stepped up with what was essentially a slimmed down version of it’s POWER5 chip which it promised would scale in clock rates like nobody’s business. Turns out it hasn’t scaled anywhere near as well as anticipated and power dissipation has definitely been an issue (think they’ve topped out at 2.7GHz and the PowerMacs have been using watercooling for a while now), which of course doesn’t bode well for portable applications (ie G5 Powerbooks). Interesting thing is apparently Apple’s seen this a long way off and has had an internal build of OSX/x86 for the past 5 years (since the beginning?). Not entirely clear when the switch will be, but I’m getting the vibe that the first boxes will be coming out next year (low end stuff like the Mac Mini?) and will take a couple of years to convert the whole product line. Too bad the PowerPC stuff didn’t pan out better than it did. It struck me as a pretty slick architecture (certainly beats out the ancient kludgy crap that is x86 ISA), and Altivec is supposed to kick much ass compared to the half-assed x86 solutions (MMX, SSE, SSE2, etc). Guess we’ll just have to wait and see…
A physically attractive female who looks as if she may belong to a sorority, while at the same time being dressed like a complete slut. A true sorostitute would wear a low-cut halter top and a short, tight skirt in the middle of wintertime.
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