I finally canceled both. We don’t order enough movies or games to make either of these services pay off, financially. The result would have been different if the Netflix Video On Demand service supported OS X.
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Knight Rider Light Bar
Saturday, February 16, 2008
UPDATE (2/17/08): Added more videos to the bottom of this post.
UPDATE (2/17/08): Code is available here.
I’m making a Knight Rider (KITT) Light Bar to celebrate the premier of the new Knight Rider Made-For-TV Movie (tomorrow night on NBC). I’m using an Arduino Diecimila board and 18 LEDs.
Here’s a picture from a few hours ago. [...]
Murderball is uplifting, irreverant, gritty, fun, etc..
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Murderball
Year: 2005
Director: Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro
Length: 88 minutes
Category: Sports
Media: DVD
Rating from Rated R for language and sexual content.: R
Rating: out of 5
I felt guilty adding Murderball to my Netflix queue. As IMDB says, it is “a film about quadriplegics who play full-contact rugby in Mad Max-style wheelchairs - overcoming unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.” It has exploitation written all over it, right?
I couldn’t have been more wrong. The movie is mostly honest and these players are leading incredibly rich, fun, colorful, athletic lives. And the movie was very informative about the game rules, training, etc.
On the negative side, I don’t think their presentation of Coach Joe was balanced(the faq session with him in the special features section is excellent, though). Also, I would really like more information about the dangers of the game - some of those hits were pretty rough.
Review: King Kong
Monday, December 19, 2005
King Kong (2005) is an action movie. It’s a great action movie.
I don’t remember much from the original(although I DVR’d it Saturday night and I’ll watch it this week), but this version definitely stands well on its own.
The CGI is awesome. The action is breathtaking. The acting is as good as any [...]
Murderball review (in hReview format)
Monday, December 19, 2005
hReview Version:0.2
Murderball is uplifting, irreverant, gritty, fun, etc..
Dec 19, 2005 by jtokash
Review Type: product
Murderball
I felt guilty adding Murderball to my Netflix queue. As IMDB says, it is “a film about quadriplegics who play full-contact rugby in Mad Max-style wheelchairs - overcoming unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.” It [...]
Saturday, July 30, 2005
New Serenity Trailer
Firefly Theme song:
take my love
take my land
take me where I cannot stand
I don’t care
I’m still free
you can’t take the sky from me
take me out
to the black tell ‘em I ain’t coming back
burn the land
and boil the sea
you can’t take the sky from me
have no place
I can be
since I found Serenity
but you can’t take [...]
HHGTTG
Saturday, April 30, 2005
The lyrics to “So Long and Thanks For All The Fish”:
So long and thanks for all the fish.
So sad that it should come to this.
We tried to warn you all but, oh dear.
You may not share our intellect,
Which might explain your disrespect
For all the natural wonders that grow around you.
So long, so long, [...]
Ep3
Friday, April 29, 2005
Kevin Smith reviews Episode 3. Careful - LOTS of spoilers. Short version: He likes it!
FYI, I read the novelization and loved it, except for the end. At the end it was cluttered by connecting the dots between eps1-3 and eps4-6. I’d rather they leave that kind of minutae to our imaginations, [...]