So last night at 7:10pm I got to sit down next to my trusty sidekick Beki and watch Legion. Firstly, the previews were pretty great.
The first one was about the Hot Tub Time Machine (see trailer), which looked really hilarious. I especially liked the bit where the black guy asks what colour Michael Jackson is to find out if they traveled back in time. Priceless. After that we saw one for Death at a Funeral (see trailer) with Chris Rock. Loved the bit where Chris Rock said something about their dead father being in a homosexual relationship with a small person, but Martin Lawrence’s character big hang-up is that the guy is white. It looks like funny stuff, so of course I’d like to see it.
Randomly there was this preview for Takers (see trailer), which has a pretty decent line-up. Paul Walker, Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, Zoe Saldana (who is in everything right now). All I could think at the end of the preview was…how grossed out was Zoe? I mean she had to be romantically involved with Chris Brown for the movie. Sounds absolutely heinous to me, but I guess the poor guy needs an acting career since he fubared the rest when he pummelled Rihanna.
FINALLY ABOUT THE MOVIE
I don’t even know how to put it all into words. I thought it was an absolutely fantastic film. The selection of Paul Bettany for Michael was perfect. I totally loved him in the role. The guy who played Gabriel not so much, but it’s probably because I liked the fact that Constantine had a gender-bending version of Gabriel as one of its angels (boy was she/he crazy or what). Dennis Quaid was cool too. Okay, everyone was pretty cool. I just liked it all.
Where was I?
This is a lot like the story of Mary and Joseph and baby Jesus with a little dash of god being vengeful. I am just now realizing that I can’t really say much without giving something away. You’re just going to have to WATCH THE TRAILER and take my word for it that it’s worth going to see. It’s one of those things where you just need to see it and you’ll get it. I’m sure someone out there will hate it, but I really couldn’t care less. It was really interesting story, the time flew by.
This stop-motion animated film takes viewers on an exhilarating existential journey into the fully imagined, tactile world of Madame Tutli-Putli. As she travels alone on the night train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past, she faces both the kindness and menace of strangers. Finding herself caught up in a desperate metaphysical adventure, adrift between real and imagined worlds, Madame Tutli-Putli confronts her demons.
Watched this movie last night; thought that it might be kind of good, but sadly it didn’t end up that way at all.
There were definitely moments of terror that actually seemed pretty great suspense-wise, but because of the utter failure to create a plot and actually make a decent movie; the director wasted those moments that we’ll never get back to put in another film. Thanks a lot.
Overall I was pretty disappointed with the film. As my wife pointed out, it had every cliché it could possibly get in at any moment and we would both like to know one thing…
WHAT IS THE POINT IN HIDING THE KILLERS FACES DURING THE ENTIRE MOVIE!?…They removed their masks at the end and we still didn’t see their faces! Sounds like a cheap cop-out version of the Halloween movies. Did Liv Tyler owe a favour to a filmmaker friend of hers? I sure hope so, cause it was a bad decision to make this film.
At least there wasn’t a ton of blood everywhere, I’ll at least give it that. And they barely used sound as a gimmic. Although, when they made the DVD they made sure the voices were lower so you had to turn up the sound to hear it and then made the rest of the sounds louder so when sound did show up, it surprised you. Cheap scares. Give me Saw anytime.
Since its launch on Oct. 21, there have been nearly 80,000 downloads internationally and just over 56,000 in Canada from people seeking out the NFB’s documentaries and animation.
What happened? We went to the Eaton Center in Downtown Montreal and let’s just say…it was PACKED. Stopped off at Old Navy for items and the lineup went around the store, no joke. All around. And that wasn’t even at the peak of the day yet. We finally got out of there an hour and a half later and found ourselves jam-packed in the halls and suddenly this group of people start running through the halls followed by a few police officers. Everyone was wondering if it was shop-lifting or fight or something, but it was probably shop-lifting. Great time to do it.
Now surprisingly, even though I’ve been in Montreal for 3 Christmas’, this is my first time actually attending the full experience of Boxing Day. Let me just say I’m not too encouraged to do it in the future. I’ll wait for the 27th next year. I’m tired. I’m sore. But I look awesome in my new Matrix coat. Okay, it’s not the Matrix. But it looks cool.
On the plus side…I’ve bumped into so many people; been smushed between so many people; shoved and prodded by so many people, that I won’t be short this year on human contact.
Just made a small change to the NFB Video Plugin for Wordpress, the width/height weren’t setting correctly when you updated from an older version that used different variables.
Now the default is set to 516-337, and it should also set it to that height if your fields are empty for width/height. It’s just to avoid the player being a tiny little mush ball of uselessness cause the width wasn’t defined.
There was mention that the plugin makes it impossible to add/crop images in the uploading process, I’m not sure how that’s happening just yet, if anyone is having this issue can you tell me where in the process you see the fail? I’ll continue investigating in the meantime.
So in the last couple of weeks we’ve been implementing agile practices at work (We’d done a bit, but only recently the boss decided we should all be doing it) and I really enjoy it. I’m one of those people who are actually between two teams. There’s the one team that uses the Scrum and one that uses the Kanban.
I’ll have to go into what the differences are in another post, mainly because it’ll take a long post to explain all that relatively sanely. I’m just too tired to do it right now.
So anyways, I went out and bought a bunch of post-its, got out my white board and set up my Kanban for my big project at home. Since I’m a 1 person team, my board is simple.
- Backlog (as much as my board can hold of these)
- Todo (max 4)
- Integration (max 2)
- Programming (max 3)
- Validation (max 2)
- Done
I have a list of things that I should be getting done in each category in order for it to get moved to the next column and I can’t pull any forward until things get done. One thing our instructor told us to do also was to put ‘blocked’ and ‘ready’ notes on things so we know what’s coming up in the backlog so when a spot frees up in the todo list we can go ahead and put it in and also if we’re blocked on something and it depends on something else.
It’s pretty cool, but like I said it’ll take another post to talk about it, this is just a random personal brain fart to say I’m doing it, cause it’s fun.
There’s a good chance that you’ve probably seen this before and weren’t able to come up with a solution and ripped your hair out trying to get it and maybe that’s what you were about to do before you stumbled on this. I was shown this by a coworker this morning and I decided to add it to my ever growing list of reasons why IE6/IE7 reminds me of a mother-in-law with it’s horrific ability to nag for details. (Not my case, my mother-in-law doesn’t care about anything)
So! Actually there are 2 things I’ve seen that work :
1. Remove the margin-top from the element (especially things like headers and put padding or line-height instead)
2. (from coworker) set your element to have vertical-align:top and suddenly it disappears!
Hope that helped someone. If not, well I guess I’ll keep looking.
