Last week Clinton raised eyebrows by suggesting that she'd like Obama as her VP. Obama returned fire by suggesting that people who are in second place for the nomination are in no position to ask the person in first place to be their running mate. Thus hopes for a "dream ticket" that might unite the Clinton and Obama camps were temporarily dashed ( Read more... )

Ok, you aspiring commercial directors, here's the deal ( Read more... )

A Dog's Breakfast is an amusing black comedy, written, directed, and starring David Hewlett (who some people may know from Stargate: SG1 or Stargate: Atlantis). In fact, all the actors in the movie have appeared in one Stargate series or another, the most memorable perhaps being Christopher Judge (a.k.a "the big black guy with the gold thing on ( Read more... )

Outsourced was my favorite of the five Cinequest movies I saw this year. This was a truly charming and hilarious romantic comedy that totally nailed both the romance *and* the comedy (whereas the mainstream Hollywood studios rarely seem to get one out of two right these days). The film involves an American middle manager who is sent to India when ( Read more... )

When I was in college, one of my favorite late-night activities was to explore the steam tunnels, abandoned dormitory wings, locked towers, construction sites, and any other off-limits part of campus. By the time I graduated I had collected quite a few keys that opened various useful doors (which I passed on to my friends in lower classes, as was ( Read more... )

This movie actually consisted of four mini-stories about different aspects of love, each happening simultaneously in different rooms of the same Los Angeles hotel ( Read more... )

I attended three Cinequest movies this past weekend. For those out of the loop, Cinequest is an independent film festival that happens in downtown San Jose every year around this time. This is the 17th year and every year it seems to get bigger and better organized. I've been attending for the past five years or so (although I missed out on last ( Read more... )

The answer is, if you find the following IRC exchange to be highly amusing:

[14:29] what would be the best language to build a crawler in?
[14:29] jawa.

I noticed this while browsing videos the other day at Fry's:

Is it me, or does the poster/cover for this movie:


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