We went out to watch Black Swan yesterday, and were quite blown away by it. I wouldn't say there were anything particularly novel about the plot and its devices, but as far as contemporary film-making goes, it was, like the protagonist in the story opined, perfect. I was quite terrified by it all, embodying the quintessential horror-slash-psycho- ( Read more... )

I just thought I'd throw out little all-I-want-for-Christmas post, just for the heck of it. Not that I'm gunning for the crass commercialism of the spirit of the season, but just thinking about stuff I'd like to be saving up for if I didn't have to, y'know, pay the rent.

#1. Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 11

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We have a couch! Awesomesauce colleague AMFM is moving out of her digs and was thinking about selling her furniture. We needed a couch, she had one that would fit in our apartment. We agreed on a price, but later she figured she would give it to us as a wedding present. Yay, couch ( Read more... )

The last few picture-filled posts have mostly been shot with my newest toy, one of the neatest hand-me-downs from Gerald yet. It's been really nice having an SLR again, and having a DSLR makes it all sweeter. There's nothing quite like the portability of a point and shoot, and my Sony DSC T-3 has served extremely well; but then again there's ( Read more... )

When Leslie and Louis were here (they left this morning, after arriving on Friday - and Louis was in shorts. It was -7°c) I got the opportunity to fiddle around with their new camera, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3. What an incredible camera. The quality of the shots are just jaw-dropping. For a point-and-shoot, it sure doesn't produce pictures like a ( Read more... )

My widescreen monitor dreams came true - Gerald bought me a new 20" LCD for Christmas. Yay for best sibling! I picked out a couple of possibles on newegg.ca, and we discussed prices and sizes, settled on one, and ordered it. It arrived on Wednesday, and there really is nothing like more screen real-estate. Easier to do work on it!


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So a few weeks ago, Ubuntu 9.10 (or Karmic Koala) was released. I waited a little bit before upgrading, mostly because the servers and mirrors are always slammed in the first week, and also to have a little time to let any latent bugses get sorted out. A few days ago, I backed up /home/ to my external, and let the upgrade run overnight ( Read more... )

I want one of these!


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A couple days ago I noticed that my razer deathadder was double-clicking about 50-60% of the time. Initially I ignored it as a minor problem, I was busy putting together my presentation for the CCSEAS conference I'm heading off to in Vancouver tomorrow morning ( Read more... )