Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Re peat and peas



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As I was farting around with my new phone I realized that I can load up the actual blogger editor and do a post without utilizing email or other mobile blogger features. If you click on the "html tab" you can use your keyboard after tapping the text area. In compose mode nothing seems to work, at least on my phone. Of course this means that to add pictures or any other type of formatting you need to write in the code yourself and then simply publish. Still quite amazing that I can do this at all.

Android ROCKS !!

Monday, August 22, 2011

Awww...Mondays #91


Awww...Mondays #91 with Sandee from COMEDY PLUS !

It has been ages since I have dome one of those linky meme type posts, and I love this one because it is so easy. Pick a photo, post it, link it.

This is my dog Mardy in the hallway, a bit scared because "he hates this hallway"

cute pet photos

Saturday, August 20, 2011

GIANT mess of a Post and maybe the WORST ever!



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So, as a big blogging CHEAT, and also a curiosity experiment, I am going to attempt loading my Face Book feed here. Yes, I know any blogger reading this will feel ripped off, so my apologies in advance. Not sure how this will work, but as I always say, "Forge on ahead like you are on fire and wearing horse blinders". [[ yes, I do that sometimes ]]. If my blog blows up or some AJAX cop shows up with a blog warrant please call my mother and let her know I am in blogging prison. As far a Facebook coding goes it is a java applet scripting wild western with tech geeks playing John Wayne. HIGH HO AJAX AND AWAY !!! OK, maybe that was the Lone Ranger? LONE AJAX RANGERS ?

Speedcat Hollydale PICATSO

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EDIT: Seems my new LIKE/UNLIKE button has bugs. DAMMIT !!! back to the drawing board as they say. Next week I will hijak the twitloader. lol

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Is your Droid X currently rooted, but you want the latest Gingerbread version for all the bug fixes? Well, you’re in luck! MyDroidWorld has posted files and instructions for your Droid X rooting pleasure. Here’s how the rooting process is going to go down:


2 hours ago My personal favorite nebula is called the "Bug" or "Butterfly" Nebula. If you had to pick ONE nebula as your bestest greatest nebula, which nebula would it be? Remember, picking two nebulas is cheating in this nebulean poll of greatest nebulas. NEb YOU laHHHHHHHHH !!!!!! high YAH

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Speedy steals the Facebook Feed and creates international meltdown: SPEEDCAT HOLLYDALE PAGE: GIANT mess of a Post and maybe the WORST ever! Has worked at Hollydale International Group inc.., Studied at Hollydale Acadamee of Chikins and Polltearies, Lives in Hollydale, California ...Knows Português, Polish, Swedish and 7 others, From Barcelona, Spain







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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Jump without Gravity

jump without gravity on my minds beach with ripples and waves

A seamless tear, a salty tear
a rift across the skies
a vestige spanning miles and miles
a touch not felt, it brushes my skin
intonation reverberates in my bones
fervency that glows casts shadows of blue
the wonder, the thought, the conscious deliberation to do
what to be, what to aspire, what path I create
some ripples cause waves, some waves reach shore
the beach i see .. transformed by me

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Jib Jab Dancers


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Review of the movie Rio

movie RIO blue talking bird that needs to fly
This is a well written review of the movie Rio a friend of mine wrote. It is published here with permission from the author, and linked to the source at the bottom of this post


So I finally got around to watching the movie Rio, which is a movie I had been wanting to see ever since I first saw advertisements for it.
My excitement was two-fold: First, I love birds...Not much to explain there, I just think birds are awesome. Second, I'm naturally drawn to 3D animated films, due mainly to the sheer amount of possibilities that the particular media opens up for telling a story. There are quite a few things I want to talk about, so I'll just go about them categorically. (I won't outright spoil anything, but there will be clues that you may be able to piece together to reveal some major plot points.)

Premise- Rio is a 3D animated film about a Blue Macaw called Blu (named after the Team Fortress 2 team of the same name) who gets ripped from his happy home in Moose Lake, Minnesota and thrust into the wild jungle of Rio de Janeiro.>Obvious comparisons can be made between Rio and Rango, both of them being 3D animated films released within a month of each other about semi-anthropomorphic animals taken from their domesticated lifestyles and thrown completely out of their element, but that's actually where the comparisons end. Whereas Rango is less of a family movie and more of an adult one, about a guy who finds his calling helping the downtrodden, Rio is a 100% family movie about a guy who learns what it's like to be free while trying to thwart the bad guy and his 2 idiot side-kicks.

Story- As mentioned earlier, Rio is a family movie. Now, family movie isn't the same as "kid movie". I watched it twice in the span of 12 hours, which is a rarity for any movie for me. I was actually very surprised at the roles that humans played in this movie. Of course the villains are human (except for one), but in a movie where the primary characters are animals, there is very rarely any humans having significant supporting roles. Rio is the exception to this. Laura, Blu's owner, gets a lot of screen time, and although she rarely is the one who progresses the plot (usually being one step behind Blu and Jewel), she is given just as much depth and character as anyone else in the film. There's also Tulio, the Brazilian ornithologist, sent looking for Blu, the last male Blue Macaw, in order to...introduce...him to Jewel, a female Blue Macaw, in order to save their species. He's portrayed as a crazy goof that is extremely passionate about his work, to a fault, and while at first you're unsettled by his strangeness, it doesn't take long for him to endear himself to you with his awkward charm.

Visuals- This movie is absolutely stunning, visually. It's beautiful. From the models, to the texturing, to the animation, to the camera angles, everything is pristine. The character models are diverse, and convey their emotions very well. The birds look great, which would be expected, considering they are the primary animals in the movie, but even the animals that only show up once or twice are just as detailed and well constructed. Animation deserves special mention, because even for a mainstream animated film, the animation is gorgeous. Everything is very smooth, and aside from the occasional hovering bird (which they make work), everything is very realistic. They managed to capture the grace of flight, as well as the awkwardness of birds walking, and tie it all in with all the gestures and mannerisms needed to make the characters not only believable, but relatable as well. Even the humans, who, as I said before don't generally get a lot of screen time in animated movies about animals, are diverse and believable.

Music- Music deserves a special mention here, because although it is definitely not a "musical", there are several parts of the movie that are heavily musically oriented. The songs are all very rich, diverse, and catchy. I caught myself rewinding the movie to play them back once they've finished. Beyond that, I don't know what to say. It's hard to describe music.



Criticisms- I find myself having a hard time coming up with criticisms for this movie. Everything about it is very polished, even down to the ending credits sequence. However, nothing is perfect, and there are a few things that I should mention. The "evil" bird is just a bit TOO evil to be believable. He could have used some more depth. It also bugged me that his explanation for how he turned evil and why he's doing this is summed up in a single 30 second song. Even just spending a bit more time on his backstory than just an "I'm evil, and here's why" PowerPoint set to catchy-but-repetitive music would have added to his depth and believability.
The other thing worth mentioning is that there are a few dead spots in the movie. I didn't notice it the first time, but the movie seemed quite a bit shorter the second playthrough, and after going over the movie in my head, I noticed that I mentally skipped over a couple scenes that don't really add to the movie at all. Comparisons could be drawn to the "We're traveling!" scenes in the Lord of the Rings movies, in that they explain things that don't really need explaining in the first place, such as "In between the time that they got on the motorcycle in one place, and got off it in another place, they rode the motorcycle!".

In conclusion, I recommend watching Rio if you get the chance. It's a fun ride, and the best way I've seen birds in a movie.Also, let me know what you think of this write-up. I could make more, if this one is well-received.



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SPECIAL NOTE: Thanks to JM for providing this post! Here is a link to the origin author


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    Monday, August 8, 2011

    My Favorite Mermaid


    


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     Ohh blog of mine, you are so lonesome and nekids. Where are the posts and stories? Well, I have been busy swimming in the ocean - yes, I met a mermaid.
     


    She makes the coolest clothes out of shells! They always show mermaids in movies that get legs for a period of time, but let me tell you now, that's just Hollywood mumbo jumbo. Mermaids stay in the water ... always. Her name is Kwallinapollinatooeewaliwalichee. I forgot it a few times and almost ruined the entire affair, so I said it 100 times in the shower. I sing in there too you know. Anyway, going out to dinner with a mermaid is cheap. I no longer need a wallet or any money. We eat fish and sea weeds (mine with a light vinaigrette). Turtles? They are so funny, and never forget anything, kind of like an elephant with a shell, "unsalted". If everything works out, we may be married by late September, which would be slick because that's when mermaids lay eggs.