The funny thing about sequels is that they are rarely better than the original but generate more money. Hangover Part II is no exception but definitely worth watching. It’s hard to beat the original. Four guys wake up in Las Vegas after a bachelor’s party sans bachelor with the nastiest of hangovers and no recollection [...]
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We now live in a world of growing extremes, quite simply the haves and have nots. But what exactly is it that the haves have?
Despite all the doomsday prophecies and user disgust, Windows isn’t really going anywhere. Sure, smart companies use Google Apps & Docs and/or LibreOffice unless they’re tied into legacy custom software or antiquated IT department policies but Microsoft still has most computer manufacturers firmly in their pocket. It’s really crazy when you think about it because [...]
I was reading Paul Buchheit’s article The Two Paths to Success about the article Are Chinese Mothers Superior? and ended up writing a comment so long it mutated into a blog post. I think Paul makes a great point and kids that find their own way will be infinitely more happy to be in complete [...]
The Social Network is the tale of Facebook and more importantly Mark Zuckerberg’s rise as the founder of Facebook as he becomes America’s youngest billionaire. The main flaw with the movie is the lack of a central character that audiences can identify with or at least hate. Instead we’re presented with a cold, heartless robot [...]
Like all great things open source software started off with good intentions. I give, you give, we all give so the world can receive. The amazing thing about open source software is how far it’s come. Open source provides us the foundation for things we take for granted from programming languages, web servers, web frameworks, [...]
Empire of the Summer Moon is a somewhat sad but gritty account of the last Native Americans to roam the plains. It’s set against the American frontier’s brutal expansion to finally fulfill its “Manifest Destiny”, the bitter and violent fight with the Native Americans, an abducted white girl who became a full Comanche and the [...]
Around a week and a half a go I took up the first book of the Millennium Trilogy and went on a wild ride through the entire series that ended just now. The series takes us into the lives of a suave disgraced middle-aged journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, a young, anti-social hacker who [...]
Shopgirl takes you on a journey of bittersweet love by Mirabelle, a Vermont girl who finds herself catering to the rich behind the counter of Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills. She’s a starving artist of sorts, lost in LA. She meets two men. Jeremy, an awkward dreamer with a heart of gold. He’s quirky [...]
I’ve been watching a lot of comedies lately, meaning to review every single one of them. The problem is, even though I enjoy them immensely, every time I sit down to write a review my mind draws a blank. I’d be lucky to get three sentences that pretty much sum up the movie. These summaries [...]