So once I started watching Superbad I noticed that it was from a Sony studio, which would explain why it's on Blu Ray.
Even so, with my HD DVD player upsampling it, the regular DVD still looked really good, and because it's anamorphic widescreen, I was able to watch it without letterboxing.
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Sunday, December 02, 2007
The Perfect To Retarded Ratio
Having eggs, but lacking bacon, I opted to make pancakes for breakfast this morning.
While I was doing so, my mother called, but I continued with my pancake-making, as it really only required one arm.
Initially I’d established a pretty good perfect pancake to retarded pancake ratio (4 to 1, which is all the more impressive considering I wasn’t entirely focused on the task), but as I was pouring another dollop of batter onto the griddle I opened a pocket of unblended pancake mix, which through the ratio off.
My mother asked how many I was making. I said that, depending on how big you make them, the amount of batter I had makes 6 to 8.
She asked, “You don’t eat all of them at once, do you?”
I said, “Sometimes.” (Read: every time)
Yesterday was fairly uneventful. I woke up at around 8:30, which was surprising, considering that on Friday evening around 6 PM I’d found myself sitting on the couch struggling to stay awake, and by 9 I was ready to call it a night, but managed to hold on until 10:30, at which point I decided there was no earthly reason to continue fighting to stay awake.
Which means that, having waken up at 8:30 on Saturday, I’d slept for 10 hours.
Not sure why I was so tired. Maybe it was a crash that followed the adrenaline surge that preceded calling the hot recruiter and getting shot down.
(There was a huge surge of adrenaline when I realized that I was dialing her number and said to myself, “Wait, I’m not ready yet!” but it was too late to turn back at that point, especially since she answered her phone on the first ring.)
But whatever. Apart from the little Man vs. Wild cartoon I did, I spent most of the day not doing too much besides working on another picture off and on. I actually did a lot of work on the picture, but it’s a pretty complex and involved picture that looked deceptively simple when I first started on it.
On Friday afternoon I picked up my cell phone and noticed that I had a voicemail message, which was puzzling, as I should have heard the phone ring.
Further investigation showed that my phone was, for some reason, unable to play ringtones, or any other audio file for that matter. I tried playing an mp3, but, while it went through the motions of playing it, no sound was issuing forth.
I took the battery out to reset it, which resolved the problem.
Of course, even if the sound had been working, I realized, I wouldn’t have heard it ring, as there was no corresponding indication of a missed call, which means that the incoming call had just gone straight to voicemail anyway.
In any case, the person calling was a recruiter from the company that I actually want to work for. My prospective boss had asked her to call me to find out when I need to make a decision about the offer for the job that I don’t want.
I didn’t tell her that I’d already accepted the job (with the intention of saying “thanks, but no thanks” as soon as I get an offer for the job I do want), but I don’t go in to do the paperwork on it until Tuesday morning, so I gave her that as the deadline.
Hopefully that will speed things up and they’ll get approval to go ahead and hire me before that.
Yesterday the 5 free HD DVDs that I got as a rebate on my HD DVD player (they’re now offering 7 HD DVDs, per an ad I saw online) arrived in the mail.
I don’t remember what movie I did select, but I know that I didn’t select The Frighteners, but that’s what I got. Oh well, it was free, the other 4 were right, and there wasn’t anything among the choices available that I really wanted anyway.
In addition to that movie, I got Darkman, because it’s just some really cheesy, over the top Sam Raimi fun, the John Carpenter version of The Thing, because it’s a cool movie, Aeon Flux, because it wasn’t as horrible as a lot of people made it out to be and it actually had some good scenes, and Swordfish, because Halle Berry’s naked breasts in 1080p.
I was surprised (and annoyed) to see that Superbad is coming out on Blu Ray rather than HD DVD, considering that most of Appatow’s other movies went the HD DVD route.
So I guess I won’t be seeing faux jailbait running around in their underwear in glorious HD…at least not until I’m fully ensconced in the world of the gainfully employed and buy a new Media Center PC that has a Blu Ray drive.
While I was doing so, my mother called, but I continued with my pancake-making, as it really only required one arm.
Initially I’d established a pretty good perfect pancake to retarded pancake ratio (4 to 1, which is all the more impressive considering I wasn’t entirely focused on the task), but as I was pouring another dollop of batter onto the griddle I opened a pocket of unblended pancake mix, which through the ratio off.
My mother asked how many I was making. I said that, depending on how big you make them, the amount of batter I had makes 6 to 8.
She asked, “You don’t eat all of them at once, do you?”
I said, “Sometimes.” (Read: every time)
Yesterday was fairly uneventful. I woke up at around 8:30, which was surprising, considering that on Friday evening around 6 PM I’d found myself sitting on the couch struggling to stay awake, and by 9 I was ready to call it a night, but managed to hold on until 10:30, at which point I decided there was no earthly reason to continue fighting to stay awake.
Which means that, having waken up at 8:30 on Saturday, I’d slept for 10 hours.
Not sure why I was so tired. Maybe it was a crash that followed the adrenaline surge that preceded calling the hot recruiter and getting shot down.
(There was a huge surge of adrenaline when I realized that I was dialing her number and said to myself, “Wait, I’m not ready yet!” but it was too late to turn back at that point, especially since she answered her phone on the first ring.)
But whatever. Apart from the little Man vs. Wild cartoon I did, I spent most of the day not doing too much besides working on another picture off and on. I actually did a lot of work on the picture, but it’s a pretty complex and involved picture that looked deceptively simple when I first started on it.
On Friday afternoon I picked up my cell phone and noticed that I had a voicemail message, which was puzzling, as I should have heard the phone ring.
Further investigation showed that my phone was, for some reason, unable to play ringtones, or any other audio file for that matter. I tried playing an mp3, but, while it went through the motions of playing it, no sound was issuing forth.
I took the battery out to reset it, which resolved the problem.
Of course, even if the sound had been working, I realized, I wouldn’t have heard it ring, as there was no corresponding indication of a missed call, which means that the incoming call had just gone straight to voicemail anyway.
In any case, the person calling was a recruiter from the company that I actually want to work for. My prospective boss had asked her to call me to find out when I need to make a decision about the offer for the job that I don’t want.
I didn’t tell her that I’d already accepted the job (with the intention of saying “thanks, but no thanks” as soon as I get an offer for the job I do want), but I don’t go in to do the paperwork on it until Tuesday morning, so I gave her that as the deadline.
Hopefully that will speed things up and they’ll get approval to go ahead and hire me before that.
Yesterday the 5 free HD DVDs that I got as a rebate on my HD DVD player (they’re now offering 7 HD DVDs, per an ad I saw online) arrived in the mail.
I don’t remember what movie I did select, but I know that I didn’t select The Frighteners, but that’s what I got. Oh well, it was free, the other 4 were right, and there wasn’t anything among the choices available that I really wanted anyway.
In addition to that movie, I got Darkman, because it’s just some really cheesy, over the top Sam Raimi fun, the John Carpenter version of The Thing, because it’s a cool movie, Aeon Flux, because it wasn’t as horrible as a lot of people made it out to be and it actually had some good scenes, and Swordfish, because Halle Berry’s naked breasts in 1080p.
I was surprised (and annoyed) to see that Superbad is coming out on Blu Ray rather than HD DVD, considering that most of Appatow’s other movies went the HD DVD route.
So I guess I won’t be seeing faux jailbait running around in their underwear in glorious HD…at least not until I’m fully ensconced in the world of the gainfully employed and buy a new Media Center PC that has a Blu Ray drive.
Friday, October 12, 2007
In revenge, we can receive emails from him.
On Wednesday my ability to restrain myself was put to the ultimate test, a test that I passed by not screaming “Son of a bitch!” at the top of my lungs in Best Buy after walking in and seeing my TV on display, on sale for almost $200 less than what I paid for it.
As soon as I spotted the display I told myself not to look at the price because I knew it would be bad – though not that bad – but I was unable to avoid the temptation.
Despite this, by the time I left I did so with an HD DVD player in hand.
If you’d asked me a couple of months ago, I would have told you that Blu Ray was going to come out on top in the HD format wars, but things have changed since then, and now it looks like HD DVD has the edge.
Still, somewhere along the line I’m going to buy a nice new Media Center PC to hook up to my TV, and I’ll be getting one that has a Blu Ray burner, thus giving me access to both formats.
I was on the fence about buying the HD DVD player. Shortly after I moved into the new place I got one of those “welcome to the neighborhood” packets from the post office, along with the confirmation that my change of address had been accepted. In the packet was a coupon for 10% off at Circuit City.
So it was my intention to use that and buy an HD DVD player from Circuit City. Of course, well after I left home and was on my way to Circuit City I realized that I’d forgotten to bring the coupon.
With the trip to Circuit City cancelled, I had time to kill (I was going to be meeting Scott at the comic shop and didn’t want to go home and then head back out again), so it was for that purpose that I actually stopped at Best Buy.
The reason I decided to buy the HD DVD player at Best Buy was that it had a nice feature set, was a known brand (Toshiba), there only appeared to be one left, and it included two HD DVD movies in the box, one of which was 300.
(The other was the Bourne Identity, which, yeah, okay, I can stand to have.)
Unbeknownst to me at the time, but beknownst to me after I paid for it, it also came with a rebate for five free HD DVDs. I had a list to choose from, and most of them were decent, for the most part. Nothing really great, but, especially given that they’re free, nothing to really complain about either.
I have no idea which ones I chose; Wednesday was far too long ago for me to remember. I know I picked Swordfish over Full Metal Jacket, even though Full Metal Jacket is vastly superior as a movie (Well, the first half is. The second half not so much.), simply because Swordfish has something that Kubrick’s movie does not: Halle Berry’s boobs in high definition.
That trumps Vincent D’Onofrio’s brains splattered on the wall any day.
Oh, right, spoiler alert. In Full Metal Jacket Vincent D’Onofrio’s character blows his brains out.
In any case, it’s taken all day to write this, so I suppose I should post it and get it over with.
Oh, and the post title comes from a wonderfully bizarre translation from French (I guess) to English in a spam e-mail I received that was going on about some nonsense about not being able to send e-mails to one of our customers.
As soon as I spotted the display I told myself not to look at the price because I knew it would be bad – though not that bad – but I was unable to avoid the temptation.
Despite this, by the time I left I did so with an HD DVD player in hand.
If you’d asked me a couple of months ago, I would have told you that Blu Ray was going to come out on top in the HD format wars, but things have changed since then, and now it looks like HD DVD has the edge.
Still, somewhere along the line I’m going to buy a nice new Media Center PC to hook up to my TV, and I’ll be getting one that has a Blu Ray burner, thus giving me access to both formats.
I was on the fence about buying the HD DVD player. Shortly after I moved into the new place I got one of those “welcome to the neighborhood” packets from the post office, along with the confirmation that my change of address had been accepted. In the packet was a coupon for 10% off at Circuit City.
So it was my intention to use that and buy an HD DVD player from Circuit City. Of course, well after I left home and was on my way to Circuit City I realized that I’d forgotten to bring the coupon.
With the trip to Circuit City cancelled, I had time to kill (I was going to be meeting Scott at the comic shop and didn’t want to go home and then head back out again), so it was for that purpose that I actually stopped at Best Buy.
The reason I decided to buy the HD DVD player at Best Buy was that it had a nice feature set, was a known brand (Toshiba), there only appeared to be one left, and it included two HD DVD movies in the box, one of which was 300.
(The other was the Bourne Identity, which, yeah, okay, I can stand to have.)
Unbeknownst to me at the time, but beknownst to me after I paid for it, it also came with a rebate for five free HD DVDs. I had a list to choose from, and most of them were decent, for the most part. Nothing really great, but, especially given that they’re free, nothing to really complain about either.
I have no idea which ones I chose; Wednesday was far too long ago for me to remember. I know I picked Swordfish over Full Metal Jacket, even though Full Metal Jacket is vastly superior as a movie (Well, the first half is. The second half not so much.), simply because Swordfish has something that Kubrick’s movie does not: Halle Berry’s boobs in high definition.
That trumps Vincent D’Onofrio’s brains splattered on the wall any day.
Oh, right, spoiler alert. In Full Metal Jacket Vincent D’Onofrio’s character blows his brains out.
In any case, it’s taken all day to write this, so I suppose I should post it and get it over with.
Oh, and the post title comes from a wonderfully bizarre translation from French (I guess) to English in a spam e-mail I received that was going on about some nonsense about not being able to send e-mails to one of our customers.
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