Archive for July, 2005

Blast from the past

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

I’ve just imported about a hundred posts from December 2000 through May 2003. The posts are kind of a mess, since during this time I used four different blogging systems (hand coding, Blogger, Movable Type, Blosxom). As a result, my RSS feeds may be a bit messy as I update and reformat these older posts. […]

The Godfather (1972)

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

It’s odd that we’ve made it to the seventies before having trouble getting ahold of the DVDs we’re supposed to watch, but Netflix seems to have some gaps in its collection of Oscar winners from the era.

I first watched The Godfather trilogy my freshman year in college, as I was avoiding anything resembling studying for […]

The French Connection (1971)

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

What struck me the most about this movie? That it was odd to see Roy Scheider and Gene Hackman looking so young — almost distractingly so.

I’m having trouble thinking of anything to write, it’s been a few weeks since we watched this movie. Nothing much about it has really stuck out in my […]

Can I try that again?

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

In recent days I’ve found myself feeling stupid with alarming frequency. I’ve been asking questions I should have known the answers to, gotten frustrated by problems with simple solutions, and generally felt foolish on too many occasions. On one occasion I discovered that downloading a directory with about 5000 small text files (most around 4k […]

The Big TV Post

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

Thinking about the loss of TV Torrents made me realize that for somone who “doesn’t like to watch TV” and doesn’t have cable (and gets pretty lousy reception) I sure watch a lot of TV.

Wedding Crashers

Saturday, July 16th, 2005

Good, not great. Never painfully obnoxious. Luke Wilson and Vince Vaughan work well together.

Wedding Crashers @ IMDb

The results are in

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

The results from the triathlon have been posted.

I finished 61st out of 70. I had a pretty good swim (#20, 15:04), a slow bike (#61, 58:48), and a slower run (#65, 36:32). I thought I could do better on the swim, but the placing is really good. I know I could do better on the […]

In Good Company

Monday, July 11th, 2005

In Good Company @ IMDb

It’s done

Monday, July 11th, 2005

We both finished the race! We finished in under two hours! We both hurt like hell!

The swim

I didn’t feel as good about the swim as I did during the practice. I finished in about 14:00, which still puts me about two minutes faster than my pool time, but I was hoping for something closer to […]

Here it comes

Saturday, July 9th, 2005

The Triangle Triathlon is this weekend.