Dark City Director's Cut

I was just talking with Nikhil today about Dark City and just a flood of memories came back about how amazing that movie was. It's an incredibly dark noir sci fi in the vein of Bladerunner. Suh-weet.

Turns out there's a Director Cut slated to come out July 29th! YES! I am so getting this.

The Truth about Cats and Dogs

Just a few short observations after now having lived with a cat, and subsequently a dog.

  1. Cats are pretty picky with what they eat.
  2. Dogs eat their own poo.
  3. Cats beg for food by showing affection. They LOVE you. After you feed them, they couldn't give half a crap if you live or die.
  4. Dogs beg for food by actually begging. Like a beggar.

The moral: Cats are like bloodsuckingly selfish infinitely intelligent beings, and dogs are like retarded children.

What a productive morning!

I recently started using this great new product called RescueTime. It's a little app I run at startup that doesn't seem to slow down my computer at all but keeps track of what I do at the computer. Later, I can tag my items.

Initially I was pretty resistant to the entire tagging thing-- but you know, the idea has totally grown on me. Because I tag them instead of an automated algorithm, the numbers / tags in the software mean something real to me. I know exactly what constitutes 'work' and what doesn't.

Here's my graph for part of today (as of 2PM or so)... already about 7 hours of work, and the day is only half done. Yes! ;-)

the new official Posterous Posterous

http://blog.posterous.com/

Add it to your reading lists, friends! The best place to hear about the new new things will be at the Official Posterous Posterous.

What's new? Comment replies by email! Don't you hate how facebook and other sites just prevent you from doing the most natural thing in the world -- hitting that reply button? Well, all your dreams are coming true now. Hit that reply button.

Also... an updated reading list page. Out with the old, and in with the new!

Posterous -- it's how email and the web was meant to be. We should have low budget ads with two people dressed like a web browser and an email envelope dancing together.

Stars aligned

Got a front row seat at the bar with Sachin, cold brew in hand, $2.99 sliders on the way and the Lakers are losing the deciding game of the NBA Finals. It doesn't get any better than this.

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Across the Universe -- amazing movie

Across the Universe is out on DVD. It's a masterpiece -- a marvel for any Beatles fan. If you love the Beatles, you have to see it. This movie musical just captures the time so amazingly, and the musical performances by the whole cast are phenomenal, especially Evan Rachel Wood and Jim Sturgess. A special treat: appearances by Bono and Salma Hayek! The cinematography is quite good too.

Don't expect a traditional movie -- it's very much a musical homage to the greatest musical oeuvre in the history of popular music.

Jude: Where are we going?
Lucy: We're going out of our minds!

Caveats with Attachment_fu

Here are some simple lessons I learned today while working on profile pages on Posterous.

The power of open source + Google in action. It is an exciting time to be alive.