Photo: is this blood?
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My MOM swears the splotches on the concrete outside her apartment is blood. It looks like paint to me, but what do I know? I’m just a blogger.
So, you be the judge. Is my MOM’s apartment complex a crime scene waiting to happen, or do they need to hire painters that keep their work area clean and neat?
admin @ March 9, 2010
DailySkew: offering a different perspective on current events
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Here are some more random thoughts:
- mass production is great until you have an error in the system; then you have mass defects (ask any car manufacturer)
- why ™ we do this:
– many reasons
– we believe in sharing our opinions
– we believe our opinions come from a healthy, balanced perspective
– to point out skewed perspectives
– to prepare the way to help my son with healthcare costs, as necessary
– this is cathartic
– a memoir; a historical account for future reference and generations
– to exercise freedom of expression in the digital age
– to reveal hidden nuggets of truth as an award to those who take the time to read the DailySkew!
admin @ March 9, 2010
Choose right or easy, tightrope path
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Here’s some random thoughts from today, while at Church:
- There’s a quote from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by Headmaster Dumbledore where he says something like, “We have to choose between what is right and what is easy.” Now the source of the words are irrelevant — it’s the words themselves that keep coming back to me. It’s a nice way of summing up one aspect of the truth
- The straight and narrow path is more like a tightrope — we are always in danger of being knocked off while we seek to be balanced
- Part of being balanced is not over-exerting yourself. You need down-time. Consecutive days of overdoing it leads to burn-out and may inspire unhealthy behavior
- I’ve learned that I tend to over-stretch my body or over-exaggerate exercise movements. I think I do this because it feels like I’m working out harder. It’s better to be balanced physically and focus on correct posture — thanks, Wii Fit!
- It’s easy to slouch in a chair. It’s right to use abdominal and back muscles to sit straight
- It’s okay to push beyond your comfort zone … but it’s also okay to pace yourself. You don’t want to be uncomfortable all the time, either. Sometimes a comfort zone is a great spiritual place to recharge your batteries — like a mountain climber who breaks camp at a plateau before reaching the summit
admin @ March 7, 2010
The problems with Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief movie
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So here are the problems with the Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief movie:
- the budget was too small to tell the tale properly
- the story moves way too quickly — I mean, one second Percy is finding out he’s the son of a Greek God, next he’s at Camp Half-Blood. The quick transition makes Percy appear shallow
- zero character development; I mean, it was cool to see that the main character was dealing with dyslexia in the beginning, but that pretty much gets forgotten once the story gets going
- SPOILER: I mean, Luke becomes a bad guy with almost zero hint … Athena’s daughter is practically killing Percy in one scene, then they’re befriending each other in the next, with a throwaway line about “Strong feelings” explaining her vicious attack
- after reading Wikipedia’s description of the book, I realized that the producers dumbed down the movie; this is a common mistake — producers should trust the source material and the intelligence of an average audience member. Having Kronos in the movie would have made more sense. Budget constraints and lack of trust prevented that from being in the movie
- It comes off as a Harry Potter rip-off due to:
– the use of the two guy, one girl team
– Chris Columbus’ terrible directing, whose lack of skill was apparent during the first two Harry Potter movies and brings you back to that time when you couldn’t wait for someone else to take the reins
– Percy grew up not knowing about his gift, just like Harry
– Percy and Harry don’t listen to authority figures
– Both come from modern-day broken homes
- Now, according to Wiki, Rich Riordan wrote the original manuscript back in 1994, three years before the first Harry Potter novel came out. The book wasn’t published until 2004. That, and that this is about Greek Mythology, makes it different. However, Harry Potter’s success cleared the path for stories like this. “That’s fine.” And, I’m sure editors and marketers have done their best to, uh, massage the story so that it appeals to Harry Potter fans. “That’s fine.” As long as people don’t call Rich Riordan some innovative genius, I’m cool with it.
I wouldn’t mind reading the book … I’m afraid to see the sequels to this movie. If it’s not a hit, I assume there won’t be any.
Personally, if a movie studio refuses to put up the big bucks for the first movie, the project should not go forward. Doing the first movie on the cheap as a sort of trial balloon for a sequel is INCREDIBLY LaME (Lazy Man’s Ethics).
admin @ March 7, 2010
Mark Zuckerberg hated, Twitter Desktop Client
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What I learned listening to TWiT:
- Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg is hated by competitors and is known as a “little thief.”
- Twitter wants to release its own simple Desktop Client to open acess to more users; there will also be ads in the twitter stream (est. 1 out of every 200 tweets) for every Twitter desktop client program.
- there’s a movie coming out called The Social Network, which is based on a book called Accidental Billionaires, which is about Mark Zuckerberg and other Internet entrepenuers who made it big.
- Pleaserobme is a website that shows when people are not home, based on their foursquare and gowalla profiles.
- Chatroulette is a website created by someone out of Moscow; it took two clicks before they ran into a pervert
- news stations jipped local coverage from Chile after the earthquake/tsunami from ustream. Apparently ustream is beating out justintv, livestream, etc, according to the TWiT experts. Ustream gets streams legally.
admin @ March 5, 2010
medlineplus goes mobile
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For those of you looking for realtime info about medicines or illnesses on your mobile — for example, how taking a prescription drug interacts with other medications, or H1N1 symptoms — check out Medlineplus for smartphones. This is the phone version of the Medlineplus website, and it’s powered by the National Library of Medicine, a government source of info.
admin @ March 5, 2010
Miked Up: Yankees Spring Training notes
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Here’s what I learned listening to Miked Up from Legend’s Field in Tampa:
- looks like Nick Johnson will bat 2nd and Curtis Granderson will bat 7th to start the season
- there are five pitchers vying for the fifth spot in the rotation
- Cashman is worried about Tampa having a big year
- the Hard Rock casino in Tampa allows smoking anywhere on the premises
admin @ March 4, 2010
Miss Me Yet? Bumper Sticker
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It didn’t take long … apparently the marketer behind the Miss Me Yet? billboard has created some bumper stickers to profit off the Tea Party movement. “That’s fine.”
It makes me think of a great Miss Me Yet? bumper sticker that would only sell in San Fran and here:
Miss me yet?
Damian and I would proudly put that Bonds bumper sticker on our cars.
admin @ March 2, 2010
Frost Foreground, Dog Background
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“Beware the Ides of March….” Here we are, March 1st, and I’m still getting frost on my window in a place known for its warmth. The temperature here is only a couple of degrees warmer than Washington, D.C.
What’s the point of being in Florida during the winter again?
Oh, well. At least we don’t get blizzards! Ha ha!
admin @ March 1, 2010
Tranformers: War for Cybertron game coming soon!
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For those of you who long for Decepticons that actually look the way they did in the cartoons and comics of yesteryear, it looks like the new Tranformers: War for Cybertron will be right up your alley.
Seeing the original Shockwave on the preorder kiosk caught my attention.
Somehow, it took me back to 1986 and Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth. That was the first Commodore 64 game that had an actual voice-over! Man, that was a cool game.
Looking online, I just found out that the developers have worked closely with Hasbro to come up with the backstory for this game. Apparently it’s the origin of the 1980’s cartoon Transformers, and we’ll be seeing the main characters in their Cybertonian forms.
That is totally awesome.
I doubt I’ll have time to play this game, but I certainly look forward to reading the reviews and seeing some gameplay video on Youtube or whatever.
admin @ February 27, 2010
