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I are'nt ded
While this thing still works, it seems that I have not much clue about how to operate it anymore. LJ seem to have been determinedly moving ahead with New Stuff, while I quite liked the old things, thanks, and that was a few years ago. Or "forever", in computing terms. Oh well. -
Lucy
Luc Besson! Scarlett Johansson! Morgan Freeman! Kick-butt! What's not to like ( Read more... ) -
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
This was a lot better than I expected ( Read more... ) -
The Raid 2
The Raid was a surprise smash-hit, helped considerably by the simplicity of its plot: A police captain leads a squad of rookies in a raid on a tower block in a Jakartan ghetto, to capture the gangster that rules the whole block. It goes wrong, and the rookies have to fight their way up, to win. A low-budget concept that could continually re-use ( Read more... ) -
Olympus Has Fallen
I watched this on the flight out to Vegas. It had been lurking on the iPad after being downloaded for a previous trip ( Read more... ) -
Star Trek Into Darkness
Well, that was fun in a total-bobbins things-go-boom sort of way.
( No intentional spoilers, but enter at your own risk anyway... ) -
Maypole!
For watervole: maypole dancing spotted, at 1:19 in on this 1920 video from Belgium. -
iOS Twitter clients
I have a wifi-only iPad. I often use it to read Stuff when I'm out of wifi spots - travelling to/from work, say. I download a bunch off new stuff while I'm in range, for various apps: mail, webpages, twitter.
The default twitter app sucks, for this purpose.
First: I want to fetch all the new tweets. All of them. Not just a few, and I certainly ( Read more... ) -
The Amazing Spider-Man
Well, it's just asking for it, with a title like that, isn't it?
I was underwhelmed, to be honest. Full disclosure: I didn't really go into this with open arms. Metaphorically speaking, I was leaning back, arms folded, feet up, glaring at the screen and daring it to be any good, so perhaps it's not too surprising that it fell short of the hype, if ( Read more... ) -
Latin translation needed
Hello, Lazyweb.
A friend of mine is looking for a latin translation of "Helsinki Liechtenauer Academy". (Liechtenauer was a Medaeval German fencing master who wrote one of the earliest known treatises.) My friend writes:
I'm kind of hoping to get some form of a fencing group going at some point, so I was wondering how something like "Helsinki ( Read more... )