I just got back from watching “Brokeback Mountain”. To sum it up quickly, it has to be the saddest love stories that I’ve ever seen. I cried so hard through so much of it that I had to borrow tissues from the lady next to me. I also reminded me of one [...]
Archive for February, 2006
Brokeback Mountain
Posted in Culture on February 26, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Howl’s Moving Castle
Posted in Culture on February 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I had gotten off of school, driven home, and was having dinner when I thought I would just check the listings for movies. Much to my surprise there was a diamond in the rough. A Hayao Miyazaki film! The theater is a 10 minute drive and it starts in 15 minutes, so [...]
Fscking WordPress and Pre Tags
Posted in Computers & Internet on February 24, 2006 | 3 Comments »
WordPress refuses to leave pre tags along. I wrote a very simple wiki during the period of a week about a year ago, and an simple poorly written wiki even knew better than to fuck with pre tags. This is why I haven’t used software like this in the past. You would [...]
Ruby Movie Maker
Posted in Ruby on February 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
About a year ago, I had an idea for a simple ruby project that would be used to make a form of animated movies. The concept was simple. You would create a ruby class as such:
class Tree
def pos
[Math::sin(@ticks)*3,Math::sin(@ticks)*5]
end
end
Then the program would run and for every class you define it would call as needed. It would [...]
Documentaries, Foreign Films, and Independant Films
Posted in Culture on February 24, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I found this video rental store about a ten minute walk away. As far as I can tell, it is the closest video store to me. It is on the edge of the college campus and that seems to shine through at this place. They have all of the main stream movies that “everyone” is [...]
Wisconsin State Capitol
Posted in Personal on February 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Wisconsin State Capitol
Originally uploaded by badcherry.
I just got back from a walk to the state capital (yeah, I walked there and back, a total of 10 miles), and boy are my legs tired. I took many pictures, but I like this one the best. When I got home I made myself a sinful dish (with [...]
Produce PLU’s
Posted in Health & Fitness on February 22, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Did you know that you can tell the method of growth by the PLU sticker found on produce in the grocery store. It is very simple.
4 digits means that the produce was conventionally grown.
5 digits beginning with an 8 means that it is genetically modified.
5 digits beginning with a 9 means that it is [...]
Codename Scill
Posted in Ruby on February 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I mentioned in a past post, that I am working on a ruby curses application framework. At this time, I am about 1/3 completed with it, and it looks very promising so far. I am calling it “Scill” which is an acronym for “Simple Curses Interaction Layout Layer”. I’ll try and give a brief summary [...]
East West Classes
Posted in Education on February 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Two days ago was my first day of class at the East West Healing Arts Institute. Things went very well, and I got to meet a lot of very nice people. Most of my classmates are amazing individuals, and I greatly look forward to spending more time with them. The teacher, Dr. Xiping Zhou, is [...]
Hairspray
Posted in Culture on February 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Today I checked out some cd’s from the local library and among them is “Hairspray”. In the last couple of years, I’ve listed to several new musicals, but haven’t found any that I have been satisfied with for quite some time, but “Hair Spray” is different. The first time listening to it, I found myself [...]
