Dec. 26th, 2005

cyrano: (haring rampage)
Hope this works--ljpoll has never done this before.
Anyway. I've got discount ticket thingies for AMC to see films that have been out at least ten days. And I'm thinking that among the things I want to do tomorrow (go to safeway, go to tj's, go to bevmo, wash the dishes, tidy the house, clean the litterbox, change the water, destroy the cats' very souls, play about 3432452435 hours of Sims2) one of them is go to the cinema and have Jamba. So the question then is (or 'questino' if you're Senor Draco) which film should I see.
And lucky you, you get to help me. If I haven't already left. (:

[Poll #640255]
cyrano: (genius (kia))
My friend Windrose is wrist splinted and is looking into speech-recognition software. I figure it is quite possible that some folks on my Friends List are at least peripherally acquainted with the topic, either through general geekery, professional interest or personal need. She says she looked into it several years ago and the quality was craptastic but suspects they've made a couple of advances since then. (:
Today is apparently your day to offer your opinions on my journal! You know you want to.
(Here's the link to her actual entry looking for advice.)
cyrano: (haring ufo)
Spent much of the morning building new playlists for the Sims2 radios, and it amused me muchly to restructure the 'hiphop' channel with Frank Sinatra, Max Raabe, Richard Cheese, Doris Day and the like.
Looks like I'm going to run to the store(s) quickly, feed the starving cats and then see if I can cram three movies into the evening. I'm going to have a serious case of church ass.
Remembered to call my mom finally.
Will somebody tell me why, if I don't like rap, I like this? Maybe if I can't understand the inane things they're saying I like it just fine. Although... no, even when they're American I usually can't understand the inane things they're saying. (As an aside--maybe some of my linguistic friends know. The Slovene alphabet has characters, specifically C S and Z, that sometimes come with a little Nike swoosh over them, like ^ but upside down and rounder. How is that character pronounced? Right now I'm going with 'ch' 'sh' and 'zh'.)
cyrano: (sleepy)
So I saw two movies, both way more crowded than I had the least interest in dealing with. Who would have thought, two weekends (and more) after release, that many people would want to go to the cinema on a Monday? Probably anybody who remembered that it was the day after Christmas and realized that the cinema would be full of parents and children on holiday break, children who would cry and race about and plaintively ask 'Daddy, why are they hurting the fox?' and 'What does that do?' and 'Can I have more popcorm?'
They were both perfectly serviceable films. I was reminded of just how much Lewis' story was not a Christian allegory and was amused when each King and Queen was assigned a cardinal compass point and an element upon coronation. And I liked the Fairy Puffs breakfast cereal at the Hufflepuff breakfast table.
I may attempt to watch them again with fewer people and when I can see the screen at a reasonable non-neck-breaking angle. But definitely not the movie going experience I'd hoped for. Rather disappointed. At least there was jamba.

Wherein it is proved again that I am thick as a whale omelette )

And yet, I still don't see it anywhere. Just in case, I even had Firefox do a 'FIND' on the word poll on the Update Journal page. Anybody who can help me? Speak right up.

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