The Salon - A graphic novel, murder mystery about art in Paris right before the cubist period. I really enjoyed this, it was silly and a little crude at times, but definitely a solid rental. Score: 4/5 Really liked it.
City People Notebook - This is the first Will Eisner graphic novel that I've actually enjoyed usually I find them preachy and I find his characters to be shallow and not grounded in reality. But in this one he discusses a bunch of phenomenon that I experience daily with accuracy and humor. Score: 3/5 Liked It.
Kasper Hauser Comedy Podcast: Ep. 13 This American Life 2 - Greatest parody ever of all time. Most of their sketches are pretty good every once in a while they totally miss the mark, but mostly pretty enjoyable. Overall podcast Score: 3/5 Liked it This episodes podcast score: 5/5 Loved it!
Jordan, Jesse Go! - A two guys chatting style of podcast, that I really enjoy. The dynamic is pretty entertaining, at first I really disliked Jesse Thorn he seemded kind of obnoxious, but after a bunch of episodes I now really like both of them. They take call-ins for people's momentous occasions which are usually pretty entertaining, and generally just discuss the nature of life in your early twenties with a decent sense of humor. Score: 4/5 Really Like it.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
MI:5
Is a great television show.
With one tragic flaw.
Fucking computers. Any god damn espionage that involves a Turing machine of some kind looks like someone slapped a god damn powerpoint presentation on a Windows 95 operating system. It's ridiculous. It totally removes me from the story, is unbelievable and doesn't even have a reasonable operating interface. It reminds me of a sim hacking game JRPM pointed out to me the name I cannot recall but it had silly cutesy graphics and a simplistic premise. But was entertaining when movies were on in the background before it became intensely frustrating.
Casino Royale got it right. Obviously it can be done.
What I don't understand is that the fake UI seems to have been designed by someone who's never used a computer before. A stored password on a laptop that gives direct access to MI:5's main servers simply by clicking a shortcut on the desktop? Come the fuck on! But they had to use a computer in order to make the fake program! So where's the breakdown happening? I'm assuming that it is a money issue that the computer screen designer had bigger more expansive goals but did not have the time or the money to see them realized. That it was not specifically but there just to piss me off, by a show that in all other respects has re-affirmed my faith in humanity.
With one tragic flaw.
Fucking computers. Any god damn espionage that involves a Turing machine of some kind looks like someone slapped a god damn powerpoint presentation on a Windows 95 operating system. It's ridiculous. It totally removes me from the story, is unbelievable and doesn't even have a reasonable operating interface. It reminds me of a sim hacking game JRPM pointed out to me the name I cannot recall but it had silly cutesy graphics and a simplistic premise. But was entertaining when movies were on in the background before it became intensely frustrating.
Casino Royale got it right. Obviously it can be done.
What I don't understand is that the fake UI seems to have been designed by someone who's never used a computer before. A stored password on a laptop that gives direct access to MI:5's main servers simply by clicking a shortcut on the desktop? Come the fuck on! But they had to use a computer in order to make the fake program! So where's the breakdown happening? I'm assuming that it is a money issue that the computer screen designer had bigger more expansive goals but did not have the time or the money to see them realized. That it was not specifically but there just to piss me off, by a show that in all other respects has re-affirmed my faith in humanity.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Time's A Wastin'
*Disclaimer: This post is super live journally because I'm starting on a campaign to bitch about my job less to my roomates, and it also has to come out somewhere.
Am I the only one who notices that giant countdown timer in the lower right hand corner? Is it just me?Am I all alone in understanding that we only have a limited amount of time here? If shit's gonna go down we have to make it go down, it needs to happen here and now. If it's not just me then why do my co-workers want to waste 30 of the precious minutes I have to spend on this earth discussing low-fat muffins.
Also small interruptions can become big things when in the fishbowl world of a small office. However a loss of perspective on this becomes intensely frustrating, such as when my boss runs out of his office jumping and yelling about some smallish ridiculous thing. Everybody laughs. A nice convenient interruption. And then the German has to go and fucking ruin it by announcing, "I swear sometimes it's like a circus in here!" Cue canned laughter from other office drones.
No, it is not like working at a circus, running around handling animals, dodging acrobats, setting up tents at state fairs and packing up after the weekend is what working at circus is like. The same way sitting in front of desk for 8-9 hours, desperately trying to find reasons to like the people you are surrounded by for eight hours a day is what working in an office is like.
Maria Bamford Discusses:
Am I the only one who notices that giant countdown timer in the lower right hand corner? Is it just me?Am I all alone in understanding that we only have a limited amount of time here? If shit's gonna go down we have to make it go down, it needs to happen here and now. If it's not just me then why do my co-workers want to waste 30 of the precious minutes I have to spend on this earth discussing low-fat muffins.
Also small interruptions can become big things when in the fishbowl world of a small office. However a loss of perspective on this becomes intensely frustrating, such as when my boss runs out of his office jumping and yelling about some smallish ridiculous thing. Everybody laughs. A nice convenient interruption. And then the German has to go and fucking ruin it by announcing, "I swear sometimes it's like a circus in here!" Cue canned laughter from other office drones.
No, it is not like working at a circus, running around handling animals, dodging acrobats, setting up tents at state fairs and packing up after the weekend is what working at circus is like. The same way sitting in front of desk for 8-9 hours, desperately trying to find reasons to like the people you are surrounded by for eight hours a day is what working in an office is like.
Maria Bamford Discusses:
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