I use Linux a bunch. Not for everything, but I like it when a device that I own is running, or can run Linux. I installed Linux on my PS3, back when that's what PS3's Open Platform meant. I was excited years ago about having a car stereo that would run Linux. It's not that Linux is a great system, it's that I really dislike closed proprietary ( Read more... )

I was cruising around the internet, like ya do. I know that there's a book out there, somewhere, written by one "Dave LeCompte" that's not me, that came out in 1987, and is some sort of club self-rating guide, whatever that means. I'd be tickled to find a copy, but so far, haven't managed to turn one up ( Read more... )

Let's see. Witness for the Prosecution - Agatha Christie story, with a cranky guy tended to by a clingy nurse. If you've seen "The Man Who Came to Dinner", that part might be familiar. Not a bad movie. Twisty and turny towards the end. I called one of the turns ( Read more... )

Cue balalaika music ( Read more... )

I have not yet seen a Lawrence Olivier character that I liked ( Read more... )

Wuthering is a regional term, meaning "stormy ( Read more... )

I've got a variety of ways to put movies in front of my eyeballs, involving satellites, or bartering, or whatnot. But the primary way that I watch these "films" is on DVD, as delivered to my mailbox by NetFlix. It would have been slightly more convenient if I were able to upload a CSV file, saying "here's a bunch of movies I'd like to watch. Go". ( Read more... )

Fill in the blank: "Soylent Green is _____". Whoops, there goes that movie ( Read more... )

Another western movie from the guy who did Giant and A Place in the Sun, both of which I watched recently. Seems like westerns ought to be seen at 16:9 or a wider aspect ratio; 4:3 is just wrong.

Have I ever mentioned that Technicolor was named for MIT? It's true.

I've been using SwapADVD.com to supplement my NetFlix queue. This gets me the out- ( Read more... )

I was disturbed by the resemblance the last 10 minutes or so of Birth of a Nation had to Night of the Living Dead.

Erm, spoiler alert, I guess.