Review Haiku – Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Posted on January 31, 2008

A perfect disguise
Assassin as game show host
Give it to Barris

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Review Haiku – Pan’s Labyrinth

Posted on January 30, 2008

A series of tasks
She will have to prove worthy
War and girl ended

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Dropping

Posted on January 29, 2008

Crazy day today. Work was busy and will be busy tomorrow. It was mostly cloudy and drizzly today, but the temps got into the low 50′s so it wasn’t too bad. In the evening, during class, a thunderstorm rolled through and there was a tornado warning. We finished class about half an hour early during a break in the weather. Good thing too. By the time I got home it was snowing.

To top it off, about an hour after I got back to the apartment, the fire alarm went off. Strange, because we had a fire drill at work yesterday. Anyway, I put on a jacket and shoes, pretty much wearing what I was wearing earlier, but the temps were in the low 30′s and it was very windy. Most people who left the building went to their cars, but since I don’t have one, I just sort of huddled next to a minivan, using it as a windbreak. The drizzle started turning to ice, so the roads will be chaotic tomorrow.

Right now, weather.com report the temperature as 14 degrees F with a wind chill factor of -5 F. The wind is supposed to continue tomorrow, so it will be an interesting trek into work. Luckily, no classes for me tomorrow, though I have a test in French on Thursday.

Review Haiku – Finding Neverland

Posted on January 29, 2008

Peter’s a skeptic
A boy who never grew up?
It’ll never fly

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“Web technology is social.”

Posted on January 28, 2008

Reading this article over at the Guardian, I started wondering if websites are analogous to towns, cities, and other physical places.

Places like Facebook and MySpace seem like good metaphors for cities. A few million inhabitants of various interests, ages, races, backgrounds, etc, all in one “location”. Joining a site is similar to moving to a new city. You move in, get your space organized, do a little decorating, and make friends.

Search sites like Google might be thought of as airports. While they might be destinations in and of themselves, most people use them as a launching point to go somewhere else.

A site like mine might be thought of as a house in the middle of nowhere (Offtopic: “the middle of nowhere” is a great example of formulaic language). There are a few visitors from time to time, and sometimes people will look at it as they drive by (e.g. it appeared in their search results).

Another analogy for this site might be to think of it as an apartment and all of the other sites on the same server are in the same apartment building. In this case, the webhost might be thought of as a city or town, except I don’t think there is a lot of interaction between sites based on which host we’re with or which server we’re on.

Just an idle thought while browsing the web.

Review Haiku – Letters from Iwo Jima

Posted on January 28, 2008

Flip side of the coin
To bear the unbearable
It is their honor

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The Davos Question

Posted on January 27, 2008

What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?

Went to YouTube and found a bunch of videos for this on the main page. Wasn’t what I was looking for, but I was intrigued enough to do a little Googling on it.

I’m not going to embed the main video for it, but it’s worth a look to get an idea of the background.

I can’t think of any one thing that would make the world a better place. I can think of many things that would probably help out in some way. I think poverty and education are probably the biggest problems facing the world, because they are the root of many other problems such as wars, drug abuse, STD’s, etc. In the movie Gandhi, there was a quote, “Poverty is the worst form of violence.” I don’t know if Gandhi really said it, but it rings true. If a person has an education (or is at least literate) then he or she can probably acquire the knowledge to rise up out of poverty…hopefully.

Review Haiku – Network

Posted on January 27, 2008

He is mad as Hell
Not going to take it anymore
The ratings are great

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Tagging pays off

Posted on January 26, 2008

I guess my tagging the articles paid off in an unexpected way. I was just going through the spam messages in the moderation queue and found one that read exploitation films with a link to some other site. Of course, it was spam, so I deleted it, but I thought it was funny because it was very unexpected.

Review Haiku – Chinatown

Posted on January 26, 2008

LA is growing
They’re planning for the future
Now find the daughter

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