Life just got a little bit better: Ratatouille on Blu-ray as of November 6th, 2007. This movie deserves a HD release and I’m glad to see that it is getting one. Soo soo goooood!

I just called Jon up at 0821 PT and woke him up. Mind you, this is the guy that goes to bed around 1 am and also mind you that this is the guy that didn’t sleep for three days back at E3 2004. Still…it wasn’t nice. My bad.

Sometimes it’s best to consider some challenges to be video games. For the last week I’ve been looking through iptables and iproute2 while I put together my home firewall. It wasn’t so much the firewall that I needed but rather a firewall, NAT, SNAT/DNAT for multiple machines, and all of my data in an easy to reach place. While there are multiple ways to do this (bridge comes to mind) it seemed like it was about time that I try to make a cheap and complex solution out of it…for the challenge!

The unedited photos for CUC 2007 are up! View them here.

So Akshay is calling it “quits”. Quit being a baby and post away. Regardless of what anybody says your blag has entertaining bits. Of course, your last post is entertaining in that it reeks of self indulgence and the same things you complain your blag of containing too much of.

Geoff and I had a good conversation over dinner (while Eric H. listened in) about stall counts in Ultimate. Given different strategies in Ultimate the highest levels have in recent memory simply involved moving the disc around very quickly and quite a bit in order to create the chance for a huck (long pass downfield). Our primary concern was that at lower levels people hang on to the disc for quite a long period of time.

Akshay continues on his path of ignorance in a bid to make his opinion seem important and educated. I will attempt to answer his comments by addressing each component of his argument. He argues that there is a degree of plausibility to “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” with regards to Nicholas Cage kidnapping The President of the United States [of America]. Wait a second, he’s taking this movie seriously? Perhaps you need to get a reality check Akshay but the reason we go to movies is to be entertained.

Akshay posted something interesting over at his blag. What would possess somebody to condemn a movie and an entire industry based upon the release of a sequel. National Treasure was a fast paced action flick that was entertaining on the whole. The sequel seems like the same sort of adventure ride and I’d like to note that just because Cage says he’s going to something the whole point of the movie is that he may or may not…da da daaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Download 3rd party library. Configure. Compile. Compile error. Fix compile error. Read license agreement. Remove fix. Download patch. Apply patch. Compile. Compile error. Can’t fix compile error due to license agreement. Download patch. Apply patch. Compile. Compile error. Can’t fix compile error due to license agreement. Search for patch. No patch found. Hmm… Delete 3rd party library. Write my own library. Compile. Link. Deploy. Such are my days and nights.

This trailer for “Shoot ‘Em Up” is rated R, do not watch it if you object to some strong language and a lot of violence for what looks to be a great action film.