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Seattle Afternoon

A Curmudgeon’s Holiday

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner…

Sam talks about:

  • Holiday Prep
  • Healthcare
  • Obama
  • Climate

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[wpaudio url=”http://www.abulsme.com/CurmudgeonsCorner/CC20091222.mp3″ text=”Recorded 22 Dec 2009″]

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Equilibrium

The last movie night was a Brandy movie. The movie is Equilibrium. She couldn’t remember having actually added this to her queue and said she had never actually even heard of the movie. She thought maybe she added it just because it had Christian Bale in it.

The best description of this thing is an attempted rip off of The Matrix combined with the 1984 Commercial from Apple. Basic plot is that there is a Big Brotheresque government (except it is “Father”) that has used drugs to eliminate emotion from the populace in order to avoid war, etc. There is a sort of police force that enforces this. One of them misses his meds one day, then decides to fight against the system. The usual sort of hijinks ensue, with a predictable final result.

This was not a good movie. At best it was a distraction for a couple of hours. There were some parts that were unintentionally amusing. The big final battle thing was pretty anti-climactic. There were lots of plot holes. Etc. But you know, whatever.

Brandy wanted to stop watching at a certain point in the movie where they started shooting puppies. But we didn’t stop, we kept going.

I dunno. I didn’t hate it. But it is definitely forgettable. And there is definitely no need to ever see this again.

Do Phones Cause Global Warming?

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner…

Sam and Ivan talk about:

  • The Google Phone
  • Apple vs Google
  • Copenhagen

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In the Big Chair

Alex at Three Months

Just over 17 hours ago, at 00:06 UTC on the 13th (4:06 PM on the 12th Pacific time, 7:06 PM on the 12th Eastern time) Alex turned three months old. Exactly five hours earlier, he shared a few thoughts.

At Amy’s Annual Christmas Concert


Divided Positively

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner…

Sam and Ivan talk about:

  • Polarization
  • Optimism
  • Holiday Shopping
  • Afghanistan

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[wpaudio url=”http://www.abulsme.com/CurmudgeonsCorner/CC20091207.mp3″ text=”Recorded 7 Dec 2009″]

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Kindle Ratio for 5 Dec 2009 – 40%

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For the first time since I started keeping track about a year ago, the percentage of the last 20 books I’ve read which are available on Kindle drops. This is because the book I just finished is not available on Kindle, where the one that just fell off the last 20 is available on Kindle, and none of the other books in the last 20 have become available since I last looked at the ratio. I have said that I will “officially want a Kindle” once my ratio is greater than 50%.