Dum da dum da dum!
I swear, only in Canada can you have controversies like this, and in particular have them end like this.
Word to the wise: three things you don’t mess with in Canada: Hockey, Beer, and National Health Care. Despite what you’ve heard elsewhere, the Apocalypse will happen when hockey players use private insurance that won’t let them drink beer.
CSI: Dialog Written By Millions of Monkeys Copying Tech Manuals 3
Just let me whip up a Python script here to recursively query the root server for the host name of that IP address… wait, even that isn’t as bad.
Yes, I'm Posting an xkcd comic
Duty Calls
At Some Point You Just Have to Laugh
…and who better to get it started than Harold and Kumar.
Some Top 10 Lists Really Are Worth Reading
The list itself is perhaps not that interesting, but you just don’t see copy like this that often. It almost makes the 80’s worth it.
Stop Giving Money To Stupid People
Okay, I’m starting to understand why some people in this country no longer believe in evolution. When you have examples of people becoming millionaires for being stupid. I’m sorry, but when someone ends up with more money than I’ll probably see in a lifetime of labour, and they earned this for essentially mindlessly following instructions from a voice on a phone, something is wrong. Did anyone on the jury consider that by doing this they are actually making this hoaxster’s life easier? I mean, if this guy calls a McDonald’s where I’m at, I’d be stripping down while mentally focused on figuring out what I’d do with the $6.1 million that is coming my way.
Those Crazy... Middle Aged People?
All those stupid things that teenagers do? It looks like the current group of middle aged adults do them more. There appears to be some clever use of statistics for some of the data, but still, the picture that emerges is one of baby boomers who aren’t really growing up much from their childhood years. Way to go guys!
AFI Top 100
Mostly because everyone cares what movies I watch and therefore would like nothing more than to read about it on the ‘net, but partly because I just do whatever Corey does, I present this list:
(Seen It, Tried to watch it, haven’t):
- “Citizen Kane,” 1941.
- “The Godfather,” 1972.
- “Casablanca,” 1942.
- “Raging Bull,” 1980.
- “Singin’ in the Rain,” 1952. (I was too young to see the point in watching a guy sing and dance while someone sprayed water on him with a hose)
- “Gone With the Wind,” 1939.
- “Lawrence of Arabia,” 1962.
- “Schindler’s List,” 1993.
- “Vertigo,” 1958.
- “The Wizard of Oz,” 1939.
- “City Lights,” 1931.
- “The Searchers,” 1956.
- “Star Wars,” 1977.
- “Psycho,” 1960. (Fell asleep… I’m not kidding)
- “2001: A Space Odyssey,” 1968.
- “Sunset Blvd.”, 1950.
- “The Graduate,” 1967.
- “The General,” 1927.
- “On the Waterfront,” 1954.
- “It’s a Wonderful Life,” 1946.
- “Chinatown,” 1974.
- “Some Like It Hot,” 1959.
- “The Grapes of Wrath,” 1940.
- “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” 1982.
- “To Kill a Mockingbird,” 1962.
- “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” 1939.
- “High Noon,” 1952.
- “All About Eve,” 1950.
- “Double Indemnity,” 1944.
- “Apocalypse Now,” 1979.
- “The Maltese Falcon,” 1941.
- “The Godfather Part II,” 1974.
- “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” 1975.
- “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” 1937.
- “Annie Hall,” 1977.
- “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” 1957.
- “The Best Years of Our Lives,” 1946.
- “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” 1948.
- “Dr. Strangelove,” 1964. (Rented it 2x and had to return it before I had a chance to watch it)
- “The Sound of Music,” 1965.
- “King Kong,” 1933. (I’m sorry, it’s just a big ape… this seems like B-movie Sci-Fi whenever I try to watch it)
- “Bonnie and Clyde,” 1967.
- “Midnight Cowboy,” 1969.
- “The Philadelphia Story,” 1940.
- “Shane,” 1953.
- “It Happened One Night,” 1934.
- “A Streetcar Named Desire,” 1951.
- “Rear Window,” 1954.
- “Intolerance,” 1916.
- “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” 2001.
- “West Side Story,” 1961.
- “Taxi Driver,” 1976.
- “The Deer Hunter,” 1978.
- “M-A-S-H,” 1970.
- “North by Northwest,” 1959.
- “Jaws,” 1975.
- “Rocky,” 1976.
- “The Gold Rush,” 1925.
- “Nashville,” 1975.
- “Duck Soup,” 1933.
- “Sullivan’s Travels,” 1941.
- “American Graffiti,” 1973.
- “Cabaret,” 1972.
- “Network,” 1976.
- “The African Queen,” 1951.
- “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” 1981.
- “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, 1966.
- “Unforgiven,” 1992. (I’ve seen the second half of this like 3x)
- “Tootsie,” 1982.
- “A Clockwork Orange,” 1971.
- “Saving Private Ryan,” 1998.
- “The Shawshank Redemption,” 1994. (Top 100… really?)
- “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” 1969.
- “The Silence of the Lambs,” 1991.
- “In the Heat of the Night,” 1967.
- “Forrest Gump,” 1994. (More bizarre than Shawshank.. what happened in ‘94?)
- “All the President’s Men,” 1976.
- “Modern Times,” 1936.
- “The Wild Bunch,” 1969.
- “The Apartment, 1960.
- “Spartacus,” 1960.
- “Sunrise,” 1927.
- “Titanic,” 1997. (Was dragged kicking and screaming by SO. Broke up a few months later.)
- “Easy Rider,” 1969.
- “A Night at the Opera,” 1935.
- “Platoon,” 1986. (I liked Full Metal Jacket better)
- “12 Angry Men,” 1957. (Saw a remake ;-)
- “Bringing Up Baby,” 1938.
- “The Sixth Sense,” 1999.
- “Swing Time,” 1936.
- “Sophie’s Choice,” 1982.
- “Goodfellas,” 1990. (This is on TV all the time, but I can never commit to watching all of it for some reason)
- “The French Connection,” 1971.
- “Pulp Fiction,” 1994.
- “The Last Picture Show,” 1971.
- “Do the Right Thing,” 1989.
- “Blade Runner,” 1982.
- “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” 1942.
- “Toy Story,” 1995.
- “Ben-Hur,” 1959.
It’s funny how mine seem to come in clumps. I’m proud to say that I’ve seen all of the top 10 except the chic flicks like “Gone With the Wind”, “Singin’ in the Rain”, and…. “Raging Bull”? Yeah… no explanation for that one.
Overall score: 55%, but 70% of the top 10. I’m actually surprised, because I don’t watch movies that much. My overlap with Corey is just 23%, which is totally bizarre since we grew up around the same time so we automatically have overlap for things like Star Wars, E.T. and that curse of our generation: Titanic.
Anyway, that gives me some good ideas for movies to rent, particularly Raging Bull.
iPhone Article 4
This article was place here merely to cash in on the massive iPhone craze. People are so crazy about iPhones they will apparently generate millions page views for any article about them, no matter how thin on content. On top of that, I suspect Google’s AdSense is going to pick up on iPhone being a high value keyword, so there will be lots of iPhone ads on this page. People will in turn click on those ads for the same reasons they came to this page and voilà: instant revenue.
To review the formula:
- Create zero value add iPhone article with AdSense ads.
- ?
- Profit.
I had to put this in the “continue reading” section to encourage more page views ;-) :
In case you didn’t already know it, the iPhone went on sale today at 6pm.
I hereby pledge that if the total AdSense revenue from this page exceeds the cost of an iPhone + a 2 year contract, I will buy one. ;-)
Reality Distortion Field in Full Effect 1
So, today we’re all supposed to be gaga over the new iPhone from Apple. As the owner of a Sprint PPC6700 I’m having a hard time getting that excited. I wonder if, once the Job’s reality distortion field has passed by everyone, if the excitement will lead to the same realization I’m having right now.
From a hardware perspective, there really isn’t much that’s exciting about the iPhone. It’s features match up pretty well with my 6700 (the 6700 doesn’t do 802.11g, the 6700 is CDMA and can use Sprint’s EV-DO data service, its camera’s resolution is somewhat lower, and the 6700 has a mini-SD slot).
The form factor is different. The iPhone is slimmer, and in order to achieve that it gives up the slide out keyboard (which is really nice). That’s an interesting trade off, but one that other manufacturers have gone with, although I think Apple is the first to completely eschew any kind of keypad.
The user interface is different. If there is anything innovative about this phone, it’s going to be the UI, but of course multi finger touch screens aren’t exactly new. I’m not sure what exactly Apple has “patented the hell out of”, but I could see where this could prove to be a killer feature.
Personally, a stylus is a nice way to avoid fingerprints on my screen, but otherwise it would be nice to throw it away. Still, the PPC-6700 is currently available with $100 manufacturer’s rebate, which makes it roughly 2/3 the price of the iPhone, and also suggests there will be a new model out shortly, and this is months before iPhone even launches.
Compared to the options available for WinCE phones, the iPhone seems kind of lacking to me. The only asset it really has is that it isn’t marketed by Microsoft, who have done a horrid job promoting WinCE phones.
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