Mmmmm, zombies! Can’t wait to see the next season of the Walking Dead on AMC this fall. It’s coming October 16. Check out the Comic Con trailer.
Thanks Brian!
KNIGHTS OF BADASSDOM trailer courtesy @briangerhardt
Posted on July 27th, 2011
This looks to be the definition of awesomeness!
Thanks Brian!
Bedtime Stories
Posted on July 27th, 2011
I originally saw Bedtime Stories—one of Adam Sandlers better films—possibly in the theaters when it came out. I don’t quite remember. At least I am sure that my two oldest saw the movie already. For some reason, the movie came up in casual conversation on the way home from football camp. Antonio was telling Marco about it and we all got kind of excited to see it again. As it turns out, Lisa had never seen it nor had Serafina. This was the makings of a grand movie night.
When we got home, popcorn was made, the lights were turned off, and the volume turned up. In the end, huge success! Everyone was dancing and kicking the shit out of each other during the credits. For some reason, Marco turned into Bruce Lee and his brothers were sparring with him. Much crying and revenge ensued. I’m not sure why this happened as there was no martial arts action in the movie. Maybe this is just the way these boys show their excitement. In any case, all went to bed soon enough without complaint.
The cast for this movie is impressive: Adam Sandler, Keri Russel (do you remember Felicity?), Guy Pierce (the Momento guy!), Russel Brand (ha, love him), Richard Griffiths (the d-bag uncle in Harry Potter films), Teresa Palmer (so hot), Lucy Lawless (Lucy Lawless!), and Courtney Cox. Oh, and a brief appearance by Carmen Electra who was the so-called ‘hot girl.’ PS: she had nothing on Teresa Palmer, Lucy Lawless, or even Keri Russel, IMHO.
If you haven’t seen it, highly recommended.
Dead Snow, just for you @carlohartelucci
Posted on July 26th, 2011
I just finished watching a really great zombie flick called Dead Snow, a Norwegian film with English subtitles. If you like Zombie films and you like WWII films and you like seeing people hanging from cliffs, holding on to a zombie’s entrails for their dear life, then Dead Snow is for you. Rarely will you find a film with more death clichés, more gore, and more pissed off med students doing their best to stave off a horde of crazed Nazi zombies. In the end, it doesn’t matter. I mean, how can you beat a horde of zombies, let alone Nazi zombies.
Here is a clip from one of my favorite scenes:
Folks, it doesn’t get much better than this.
July is landing fast
Posted on July 25th, 2011
July came quickly and is ending quickly. This past weekend I hosted a BBQ for an old college friend who I haven’t seen in over 16 years. I was able to get together all of my local friends who went to Buffalo, too, and we had a nice time catching up.
My son Giovanni is growing up fast. His birthday is in January so he’s never had a pool party for his birthday. We changed that this weekend when we hosted his friends for a 1/2 Birthday Party (today is his actual half-birthday). Giovanni and his friends had a grand time in the pool, throwing water balloons at each other, and watching tasteless adolescent videos on YouTube. Yesterday, he was at the beach all day with his friends. I was hoping to see Captain America with him Sunday night, but I found out he made plans with his friends :-). My boy is growing up.
As for Captain America, great flick. I was eager to see it and wasn’t disappointed.
This week, Antonio and Marco are in Broncos football camp and next week the football season officially begins. I can’t wait. I love the sport and love watching my kids practice and play.
Finally, I started taking Judo and Brazillian Jiu Jitsu. I went to the Joe Moreira clinic hosted by the school on Sunday. I’m hoping Marco takes Judo as it is a good compliment to his wrestling. The BJJ classes work better for my schedule, but I hope to take both Judo and BJJ. BJJ is a lot different than Tae Kwon Do, as you can imagine. Instead of stepping back and forth, getting kicked, and jumping around, I was on my back and knees and being choked for 3 hours. I’m still practicing Tae Kwon Do at home and still hope to get my master degree from my school one day, but the new studies are really interesting and I’m looking forward to the change of pace.
Mac OS X Lion
Posted on July 23rd, 2011
Like most Mac Geeks, I installed Mac OS X Lion on my Mac Pro the other night and last night is the first time I spent any time with it. I aso installed it on all of my other Macs since it’s free to do so for as many Macs as you own (those with Snow Leopard installed). I don’t want to bore you with a review as there are far more competent reviews out there.
I do have some favorite features and some gripes:
- Being able to resize windows from any corner rocks, just like Windows, but since I use HyperDock and can manage my window sizes much more effectively with Windows 7-style monitor docking, this is not such a big deal.
- Full-screen apps break multi-monitor support. IMHO, Full-screen apps should not span to the second monitor by default. This should be an explicit choice of the app and the user should have the ability to disable this.
There, that wasn’t too boring, was it?!
Veracity SCM
Posted on July 17th, 2011
From the blog of Eric Sink:
This release is a big milestone — it is the first release which we are identifying as “ready to use”.
Even though we have been dogfooding Veracity for over a year, each release has been accompanied by verbiage which discouraged people from relying upon it. This was mostly because we thought we might still change a repository storage format in ways that might not be backward compatible. Well, we have finally decided that this hesitation is no longer necessary. All future releases of Veracity will be compatible with a repository created with version 0.9.1.
Version 1.0 is coming very soon. In fact, we considered blessing this build with the magical “1.0″ designation. But we decided to do a little more polishing and make 1.0 happen during the week of OSCON at the end of this month.
Seems like the veracity scm is feature-rich and could give git a run for its money.
I see that veracityhub.com is already registered ;-)
Leading a good life
Posted on July 17th, 2011
I saw this on hacker news:
@newsycombinator: How to Cure Deep Procrastination http://j.mp/oleHU7
When I started reading, I almost dismissed it. Then I saw what the article was actually about and it resonated with me. I love this part:
“Why should I expend all this difficult energy?”, it asks once again.
“Because it’s part of a well-thought through plan for leading a good life,” you now respond.
“Sounds good,” it agrees while you head to the library.
Previously, the answer I would give would be related to a medium-term goal: such as have a happy job or I can pay off my mortgage earlier, or I can go on this vacation with m y family. I love the [obvious] extension here into the more important: leading a good life.
Nature: We Miss You
Posted on July 14th, 2011
Wow, this is powerful. Check it out.
WE MISS YOU from fireapple films on Vimeo.
More good stuff from haha.nu.
Stephen Fry, Kinetic Typography
Posted on July 14th, 2011
This is a pretty amazing video, beautiful to the ear and the eye and also to the mind. Check it out, you will not be disappointed.
I can’t wait to get to work and embrace all those crazy words which seem fringe and incorrect, yet everyone knows exactly what I mean. Yeh!
via haha.nu