Category: movies
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Why Snakes on a Plane makes me sad
I grew up with snakes. A Burmese Python named, appropriately enough, “Julius Squeezer.” Lots of harmless king snakes and gopher snakes and more. You see, my dad (a biology teacher) was friends with a herpetologist, and the two of them would often conduct hands-on educational seminars around the area to help people understand that snakes…
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Trying out online database services (see my movie list!)
Microsoft Access is for masochists. It’s expensive, a pain to learn, and—frankly—quite overkill for nearly any home application. So, for too long, folks like myself have kept lists in Excel. This works… sort of. But it’s a pain to share, and it lacks a lot of the usefully-database’y features that make working with data multidimensionally…
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Brief Da Vinci code review
I got a free ticket to go see the movie Da Vinci Code and while it won’t say it was worth what I paid for it… well, it wasn’t worth a lot more than that, either. The movie in a word: Joyless. I can count the number of times the characters smiled on one hand.I…
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Well-reviewed movie "Waterborne" now available free on Google Video
I haven’t had a chance to watch more than the first few minutes of this film, but Waterborne has been generally well-reviewed… and you can watch it for free either below or directly on Google’s site through January 15, 2006. Rather than spoil even part of the plot, I’ll instead invite you to begin watching…