Yesterday, we continued the grand tradition of Turkey Day at the Kommune. It was a little less smooth than last year, because this year everybody was exceptionally busy and stressed-out with deadlines. In fact, so busy that we already rescheduled from Canadian Thanksgiving to American Thanksgiving so that everybody could attend. Since my own take…
Month: November 2007
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
On the weekend, I also found out that I would not be getting a free trip to Europe — I had submitted a paper to Eurographics, and had I been accepted, UBC would have paid for me to go there next year to present it. And if I had managed to get in, I was…
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004)
Yesterday was errands day. The downside of my start-up work lifestyle is that my free-time hours during the week are infrequent and generally spent going to the gym and/or being pretty tired. The upside is that, unlike PhD work, I can usually step away and relax for an entire weekend at a stretch and get…
great moments in film criticism, #2
“Then the animals begin to flee, the alien ass weasels arrive, and the film abruptly morphs from Stephen King’s Clerks to a Max Fischer production of Aliens.” Nathan Rabin on Dreamcatcher (it’s the Rushmore ref that makes this a cut-and-save)
OS X Leopard thoughts
Just wanted to say, I’ve been using OS X Leopard for about a week and overall, I’m really impressed. The installation was a bit of a pain, due to my years of abusing the OS in ways Apple apparently didn’t forsee, but after removing a few toxic-to-Leopard files and directories, I was up and running….