I just got back from the 12:01AM showing of Sin City, and it was well worth the effort. In a sentence, this was the Pulp Fiction of comic book movies, and I imagine many knock-off films will follow this flick as well. Don’t be mistaken, if you’re not into gratuitous violence and scantily clad women, …
Author Archives: sandro
Do donation requests make sense?
The last few of blogs I visited in Blog Explosion have all had “make a donation” buttons; do these things make any sense? One of the pages was so poorly designed that I can’t imagine that the content was any good. I couldn’t check because after scrolling 9-10 screens I hadn’t hit the content yet …
Sony PSP: succumbing to temptation
I returned from Nashville to discover that my roof has sprung a leak. In spite of several impending repair costs (roof, car, cameras), I succumbed to temptation and bought a Sony Portable Playstation (PSP). Initially I had no interest in Sony’s latest gadget, after all I hardly have time for games anymore, and there are …
Back from Nashville
Got back from Nashville way too early this morning; this trip has officially required an all-nighter each time before I flew. My sleep schedule is now officially FUBAR. I spent most of the time in Nashville legitimately earning a living, and only had an hour or two to hit the downtown area. What free time …
review: I ♥ Huckabees
Visiting Nashville
I just landed in Nashville, TN for a few days of work at Vanderbilt. I’ve never been to Nashville, and I’m not really sure what to do for fun. Anyone have suggestions?
review: Catwoman
Ok, I basically enjoyed Catwoman. I mean really, Halle Berry strutting around for 90 minutes in a tight-leather outfit; I was going to enjoy it for that reason alone. But frankly, it wasn’t that bad. I think most people who saw it took the movie too seriously; I saw it as part of the same …
Tools for more effective blogging
Last week I posted four suggestions for improving your blog (or website), this time I thought I’d recommend a few tools that go along with those suggestions. Screen Size Tester – check what your page looks like on different sized screens. While this tool does not simulate different browsers or include the blog explosion banner, …
Dinner with Jef and Becky
My friend Jef and his girlfriend Becky came over for dinner and a little hot tub last night. We had a pretty good-time, and I used it as an excuse to crack out a few recipes I had been meaning to make and post. So here’s the menu (with links to the cookbooks or the …
Apple I: It’s alive!
I completed the Apple I replica (Replica I). I had a couple of false starts, and ended up redoing a few low solder joints, but all in all the assembly went pretty smoothly. All told, I probably spent 3 hours on the assembly, and didn’t really run into any real problems. Tom Owad’s book “Apple …