Archive for the 'Cinema' Category
Saturday, September 8th, 2012
I’m a collector. I’m not a hoarder because I display my collections. One of the things I’ve steadily collected over the last 15 or 20 years is quotations. Not “quotes”, quotes is a verb… These quotations were spread over journals, webpages, .sig files, and blog postings. As I had a lot of time on my [...]
Posted in Cinema, Internet, Literature, Music |
and Tagged: Amazon, API, Facebook, Flickr, IMDB, iTunes, Last.fm, mashup, OpenGraph, PHP. Twitter, Pinterest, quotation, quotations, quote, Rotten Tomatoes, Wikipedia |
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
I just finished watching the documentary “Hitler’s Children” on the Knowledge Network. It isn’t a great film, but it did get me thinking. Adolf Hitler of course had no children, but other members of the inner circle had children and now grand children. A Jewish filmmaker interviewed several of them and asked them about how [...]
Posted in Cinema, Genealogy, Search Engines |
and Tagged: concentration camp, documentary, Eichmann, Frank, Göring, Goering, Höss, Himmler, Hitler, Hoess, Nazi regime, reputation, responsibility |
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Monday, March 12th, 2012
It was someone else’s idea to cast her as Chun Li, but Morgana Mou (牟丛) is an aspiring model, actress, and martial artist. She has a demo real online which hopefully I can embed from Youku.com. Given how popular my blog is for some keywords I decided to share her clip. Chun Li despite being [...]
Posted in China, Cinema, East Asia, Gaming, Japan, Korea, MMA, Search Engines, 健美 |
and Tagged: actress, Baidu, Chinese, Chun Li, 牟丛, dubious, Evolve MMA, 김옥빈, film, Fox Force Five, Gina Carano, Hitomi Tanaka, 함서희, Kill Bill 3, Kim Ok-bin, kung fu, martial arts, Morgana Mou, Nicole Chua, Park Chan-wook, pic, picture, Quentin Tarantino, Resident Evil, role, Rumi Maeda, Russ Meyer, Seo Hee Ham, Singapore, Steven Chow, Street Fighter, training montage, video, Weibo, zombies, 前田瑠美 |
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
As my latest period of unemployment continues to lengthen I’ve worked on an ever larger collection of PHP code that I’ve written and used to make several web mashups. As I’ve learned of new APIs I’ve thought if it made sense to add them, most don’t. I did start adding support for the BestBuy Remix [...]
Posted in Cinema, Internet, Literature, Music |
and Tagged: Amazon Product API, API, Best Buy, BestBuy Remix API, gitHub, mashup, PHP, Rotten Tomatoes, stackoverflow |
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
I do too much thinking. Perhaps I should have been a philosopher, but I don’t want to live in the streets like Diogenes. I need income, quite badly really. So I sometimes wonder if all the time I spend thinking, I should be spending doing something else. Ditto for blogging. But what? Regardless, over the [...]
Posted in Cinema, Guitar, Internet, Literature, Music, Online Social Networks, Self Marketing |
and Tagged: Art, Beatlemania, Blues, cool, coolness, country, folk, James Dean, Joseph Campbell, Marilyn Monroe, monomyth, monoriff, Nietzsche, Pirsig, pop culture, pop music, recorded music, riff, rock, sampling, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, society, theory, timeless, timelessness, timeliness, Townes Van Zandt, Velvet Underground, writing |
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