Spaceman-Spiff September 15th, 2008
I’ve been loving this camera since it was announced and previewed: [1] [2] [3]. Besides the upgrades from the D80, the most attractive feature is, of course, the ability to record 720p video at 24 fps.
I’ve been watching some professional and user-made videos today, and a few of them caught my eyes (click on each link for the HD version):
Am I gonna buy it? Probably not, at least not this year (my Nikon D40 is only 6 months old). It’s still the first generation video D-SLR. It will just get better and better with upcoming versions. Auto-focus, larger resolutions, longer recording time, stereo sound, etc, etc.
More videos to watch here: http://vimeo.com/D90/
Spaceman-Spiff July 29th, 2008
Wow.
I have to see it again…
Joker says to Batman, “You just couldn’t let me go could you? This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. You truly are incorruptible aren’t you? You won’t kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness, and I won’t kill you, because you’re just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever.”
So sad that’s not going to be the case. Different Jokers may come, but we won’t see the same one again.
Spaceman-Spiff July 18th, 2008
A great add-on for Japanese learners. It adds furigana to kanji characters in webpages with a click of a button. There’s also a preference to set your level of kanji and to ignore furigana for certain kanji characters (that you have memorized).
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Mozilla.org has the older version of the add-on. The project page has the latest version that works for FF 3.
Spaceman-Spiff July 9th, 2008
I vowed to stop buying DVDs since they will soon be obsolete. I haven’t gone HD yet, but I didn’t see much point collecting DVDs if I will just complain about their image quality in the future and ended up buying their Blu-ray versions. Before this week, probably the last DVD I bought was Sin City collector’s edition over a year ago.
Last weekend in HMV, I couldn’t resist getting Memento’s special edition DVD. The packaging was so nice. Also got Seven for $10 each. Both were special edition DVDs.
Today, I was at Wal-mart, and surprisingly found some good movies in their $5 DVD piles. Usually only real old movies or crappy movies, like Daredevil, are in those piles. But I found some cheap special/collector’s edition DVDs: bought Hellboy for $9, Catch Me If You Can for $5, and Planet of the Apes for $5. The last one isn’t a fav, but what the heck, it’s a $5 collector’s edition. I probably will enjoy watching the extra features more than the movie itself.
Well, at least my DVD player does upscaling. So it won’t be so bad when I go HD.
Oh, and the roommate bought the Daredevil DVD…
Spaceman-Spiff March 19th, 2008
I had Foxkeh Theme installed on my Firefox since months ago. I never used it till today. The menubar is too much for me, but the running Foxkeh animation is really cute.
More on Foxkeh:
Spaceman-Spiff January 13th, 2008
My annual (and sometimes only blog post =P).
I feel I’ve seen a lot less movies in the theatres in 2007 compared to 2005 and 2006. Part of the reason was cause my movie buddy moved out overseas. Another reason is cause I worked full time the whole year, and sometimes in the weekends I just feel like staying home and lazying around (watching TV shows or DVDs). I’ve seen a lot more TV shows and Dorama in 2007 than ever before…
Now, let’s round up 2007 movies that I’ve seen.
Fav (Great) Movies
- Bridge to Terabithia
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Good Movies
- Zodiac
- Planet Terror (funniest “horror” movie I’ve ever seen)
- Waitress
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
- Ocean’s Thirteen (better than 12)
- Sicko
- Ratatouille (I still don’t buy the idea of rats cooking good food, but nevertheless it has a nice story)
- Stardust (good cast and interesting side characters, not so much with the 2 main characters)
- Juno (very funny dialogs)
So-so Movies
- Meet the Robinsons
- Blades of Glory
- No Reservations
- The Simpsons Movie
- 30 Days of Night
- Bee Movie
Bad Movies
- Ghost Rider
- The Last Mimzy
- Pathfinder
- Shooter
- Next
- Spider-Man 3
- Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (better than the first, but still sucks)
- Evan Almighty (they’re trying too hard to make Evan looks like Bruce, but it’s so out of character compared to the original)
- Live Free or Die Hard (crappy plot)
- Transformers (all eye-candy, no plot)
- Balls of Fury (if you’ve seen the trailer, you’ve seen all the funny parts)
I’m still missing a lot of good movies in 2007. Current to watch list for 2007 movies: Breach, 300, Death Proof, Sunshine, Lust Caution, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
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