Someone got a pasta maker for Christmas! (Me) (Taken with instagram)
God I hope this movie is great. Not just good. I want great. And I don’t think it’s asking too much. It can’t be overstated how Alien and Blade Runner are two of the best sci-fi movies of all time. No one has really ever come close.
Most exciting for me is that Scott’s two sci-fi movies were hard science fiction, not fluffy action sci-fi. No one makes hard sci-fi, not anymore. So if Prometheus is true to his previous genre efforts we’ll be very lucky.
The big question about Prometheus has been, how connected to the Alien universe will it be? And it seems that we’ve got an answer from the trailer: quite a lot. I see the “Pilot” and the U-shaped ship from Alien, which is a hell of a lot more than I expected to see in the trailer.
Also I really love how the letters of the title for “Prometheus” build on screen just like the title in Alien. Nice touch. Actually, the whole trailer is a callback to the the original Alien teaser trailer, including the music.
Have I mentioned how excited I am about this movie?
I got to thinking recently. Why pay $10 or whatever a month for Spotify or Rdio1 when I’ve got 30GB of music on my hard drive that I never listen to? The problem is I open up iTunes, scan through the list of artists and think “I hate all this crap.” But here’s the trick: I don’t hate it all. I just forgot about all the good stuff.
So I started an insane project. I am rating every single song in my iTunes library. The short version of this story is that I’m having a blast and finding a ton of great music I had lost touch with.
There are a few things I’ve done to make this easier.
This is my favorite kind of rant. It’s something I’ve never thought about before but John’s totally right. The childhood band situation sucks. I would love to know how to play the piano right now. Instead there’s a rusty saxophone in my parents’ garage. We didn’t know better when I was a kid but hopefully I can change that for my kids.
Upgrade your low-bitrate music files using iTunes Match -
Works perfectly.
Trailer: Snow White and the Huntsman -
Wow, this actually looks really good.
I felt silly sitting on my couch crying about a man I’ve never met. But he was a hero. And that’s what you do when heroes die. I’ve only been developing for iOS for two years but Steve Jobs has been an influence on me my entire life. Not just his products. His words always inspired me to want to do great things. He always reminded me the world was an amazing place.
I just keep thinking how sad it is that we’ll never again see him enter the stage at Moscone sipping a bottle of Smart Water saying “Good morning!” Then introduce something amazing that changes the world.
Thank you, Steve, for everything.
If you’re a Yankees fan and feel the need to rub it in that the Sox engineered the worst collapse in baseball history (as if I were capable of feeling any worse about it) here are some pointers.
Don’t Straw Man Me
Yankees fans love to do this. LOVE. This is how it goes. They find some douche bag Sox sportswriter and quote him as if he speaks for Red Sox fans, then throw it in my face when he’s wrong.
Shaughnessy is the usual go-to guy for this because he writes such nonsense. I guess people who aren’t Sox fans don’t realize that he’s the biggest tool working in news today and yes I’ve heard of Fox news. Shaughnessy’s goal is to antagonize Sox fans. Whatever he writes is pretty much the opposite of what every Sox fan thinks and feels. Tony Massarotti is a close second, especially with this jackass article he wrote
The current one being thrown around is this NESN article from Jan 2, 2011. The first hint that something’s fishy is that this article was written by a TV station, but whatever. Also I’ve never heard of Eric Ortiz and the only reason we all now have is that he wrote a bullshit piece of link-bait.
The money quote from the article:
The 2011 Red Sox could accomplish a feat that has never been done. They could unseat the 1927 Yankees as the greatest major league team of all time.
Quoting this back to me now on September 30th doesn’t “get” me or “show me” anything. I didn’t write that shit. I never thought that shit. Had I read it at the time I’d have called it what it is, horse shit. Only someone desperate for click throughs would write that nonsense. And only an idiot would think showing me this article humiliates me in some way.
I suppose if your only goal is to make me angry it succeeds on some level but only because I get angry that I have to explain basic logical fallacies. You don’t think I could find some article from YES.com to throw in your face? I’m certain they must have produced a “Yankees Legend” piece on Joba Chamberlain back in 2007.
But I won’t. Because that shit’s too easy.
There’s a million legit things to throw in my face right now, but don’t straw man me.
I’ve never written out my experiences from 9/11 so I thought I’d finally do that. I wasn’t in the towers or even downtown that day, so my story is not so crazy or anything. I don’t want to be dramatic about it, it was just my perspective on one day, but I felt like writing it out. My friends would probably find this the most interesting but here it is for everyone.