*Cinema — The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski (2008)

• I know, I know I just never got around to seeing it.

• John Goodman was great, but my goodness, I just wanted his character to shut up the entire time.

• Quite possibly the least annoying role Jeff BRidges has ever played.

• A perfect role for Tara Reid.

• Julianne Moore’s manner of speaking was bizarre and great at the same time.

• I think my favorite thing about most Coen brothers movies is the way every single facet of one of their films is just so stylized, and each time, its a completely different style.

• I absolutely loved the ending.

Fall Screenshot

For no particular reason, a screenshot!

Feel free to ask any questions. :)

Bowtie

My friend Laurent helped create a new Mac application called Bowtie. It’s easily the best app out there to accompany iTunes.

Its basically an iTunes remote app. The beauty of it is in its simplicity. It can display album artwork and let you control iTunes from the desktop. It will post what you’re listening to last.fm for you. It does these things without hogging your computer’s resources and while looking beautiful. Bowtie boasts an extremely easy to use theming system based on html+css+javascript. It already has tons of themes, and promises to have many more. Absolutely fantastic.

The best part though is… its free! So go get it! :D

*Cinema — Wonderland

Wonderland (2003)

• Very interesting to see Val Kilmer play the same character Mark Wahlberg previously played.

• They obviously both played the role of John Holmes with a a child-like quality.

• Yet Wahlberg played Homes at around ten years old, while Kilmer played him as a toddler.

• Generally the toddler was more annoying and much less empathetic.

• The real story behind this movie is what makes it so compelling. Its nuts.

• Kate Bosworth has fantastic hair in this movie.

• Definitely weird seeing Dylan McDermott in the role of David Lind. Weird seeing him trying to look and act like a scary guy.

• Did I mention how great the real story is behind this? Cause it is.

Uselessness

Bird in the Supermarket

I survived the short-answer half of my Physiological Psych test. Considering the fact that he gave us no real insight into what it would consist of, I’m pretty sure I did pretty well. Have a few essays to write for the second part by Friday… but I’m just relieved to be done with the first part.

So! As you might know, I’m a big fan of twitter. Today the guys at twitter were kind enough to offer me the username liz. When I first signed up a looong while ago, the username Liz was taken. However over the past several months the account has been dead, and they were nice enough to kill the account and offer it to me. This totally made my day (as silly as it is). So… go add me! Yay! :)

The new spiffy address is: http://twitter.com/liz/

Unibody MacBook

When I first heard that Apple was going to hold a Laptop event in October, I had no plans on getting a new laptop. However once they came out, I couldn’t resist. This is mainly because it finally seemed like the perfect compromise in Apple laptops.

I had been wishing and waiting for a 13.3” MacBook Pro. The fact is that a 15” MacBook Pro was simply too large and too heavy. The MacBooks were underpowered and not quite as sexy. But then the new 2.4 Ghz Aluminum MacBook was announced, and I was smitten.

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Progress

Yay.