I’ll be purchasing Caravan Palace ASAP. I’ve found a group that embodies the music I love. Apparently it’s called Electro Swing. I haven’t heard a single one I haven’t liked yet.
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What I was kinda hoping Apple would post this morning.
Such a missed opportunity. Instead they announced some sort of e-reader thing.
Skribit — Piss off Formspring, Skribit was here first
There’s this new craze on Twitter to get people to ask you questions anonymously and answer them on Twitter or your website. It uses this little site (run by FormSpring.com) called formspring.me to solicit questions, and people derive some amusement from it.
BUT
The day I heard about it, I thought immedaitely of skribit.com which I had only JUST installed on my site a week earlier and does exactly what formspring.me does only prettier, usefull-er and integrated-into-your-site-ier which for me are all important things.
Artichaut by Chinese Man — Swinging Music I Like
not visually appealing, but a terrific track
When I find music that I like I can’t let it go until I share it. This is one of those tracks.
Buy Artichaut on iTunes or on Amazon.
To @brizzly @tweetie @seesmic @echofon: Add this feature and I will have your babies.
An example of my proposal
I don’t want a separate app where I have to gather all my friends and influencers in one place all over again — I have that in Twitter.
What I want from you is a way to flag a user (secretly) as someone whose opinion has aligned with mine in the past, so that when they say “I love this new movie”, I’ll be reasonably certain that I will too. And if I could flag someone’s opinion as wrong((that’s what we’re all thinking right?)) most of the time, then I will know that when they say “I love this song”, not to bother clicking through to it. It might mean that some of the users in my stream have slightly darker or lighter updates so I can tell at a glance which ones I’ve flagged as trustworthy or mostly wrong.
Heck, just being able to easily see that someone is in a “trusted” private Twitter list with a glance at my main stream would be double handy. Do that.
Thank you for listening. If you do this, you will win the world.
PS. to all the people I follow: I’m not talking about any of you. I think all of you have fantastic taste. It’s those other people I worry about…
Javahackercoding ∞
I lost track of what week we’re up to, and I’ve got a few updates to roll into this one, so my titles are off.
Had a major assignment and a test since last time I updated, so I thought it might be time to report how they went.
I was happy with my assignment and my grade of Satisfactory, until I realised I could have gotten Outstanding! Apparently my only mistake was to not:
Keep the instance variable on the same line as its label.
Eg in my toString class I put:
Instead of:
Obvious, but worth marking me down? Maybe I did something else wrong, but I don’t think so.
I also attempted the test which included a section on Arrays. I haven’t done any study on arrays. I was worried. But the test was open book, so I learned what I needed as I went, and even had time to attempt the merit. My result?
That’s better!
So I’m pretty happy with that.
Now on to Polymorphism and Interfaces!
Astro Boy (movie review)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y23aI4HO_w8
I was a fan of the 80’s Astro Boy series, which I’ve begun watching again as a adult. I haven’t ever read the original manga though which I’m sad about. I am a big fan of the robot boy with the rocket legs and the machine-gun butt though so I was stoked to get to see this new CG animated movie version.
I was a little disappointed. It’s a good movie, but it feels like it lost it’s edginess. The original cartoon was creepy at times? — ?a bit dark and disturbing. Maybe things don’t creep me out like they did when I was younger but this felt sugary-sweet and a little to happy. The music was cheesy kid-move fare, and the plot was wrapped up so happily I thought I was going to puke.
Yes it’s a kids movie. Yes it wasn’t pitched at me. But the original cartoon had genuine moments of despair and heartbreak for the characters. Why the makers of this thought that kids couldn’t handle some of those concepts now is beyond me.
The whole thing was a bit too Dreamworks-esque. It borrowed ideas and elements from so many other animated movies (and relied way too much on the so-scared-I-peed-myself gag) it ended up uninspired and dull, instead of exciting and fresh like Astro Boy was when I was a kid.
It’s a standard kids movie: harmless and fun. But it’s not the same Astro Boy of previous incarnations, and it’s not at all challenging or interesting.
Rating: 2/5
Cloth Nappies — a blokey perspective.
So while I’m girly-blogging (see my cupcake post from earlier today) I thought I’d share a bit about our use of cloth nappies. I’ll try and give a blokey perspective, and as Mil says guys talking about cloth nappies are hot, I’ll willingly give it a go.
Before our little one was born, Mil convinced me to give cloth a chance. Cloth nappies are reusable and softer than disposable, and over the two to three years a kid can be wearing them, can save you a lot of money.
I love the smug feeling I get from using cloth nappies, but the biggest draw for me was just doing the math.
Rocketships, Monster Trucks and FLAMETHROWERS
Totally manly.
Totally.
So anyway, I made cupcakes today. To be fair I live with two girls, so I did it for them. Monnie is running a Cup Cake Camp soon, and being the chef of the family felt like I would probably end up being the one to make cupcakes for it, so I thought I had better practice.
Inglourious Basterds vs Up
A conversation I had with my sister recently:
- Carlynne
- have we discussed inglourious basterds yet?
- me
- you mentioned it
- Carlynne
- You seen it?
- me
- no
- Carlynne
- WHY IN THE HELL NOT
