I sometimes feel like an artist that can’t draw, paint, or sculpt…
…but tries to do all three anyway…
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Corpse Bride at Rosebud
We saw Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride at the Rosebud Cinema Drafthouse this weekend. It was very cool. Still hard to believe it was all stop-motion. Well done, Mr. Burton.
As for the theater, that too was quite good. Heck, it was excellent! The Rosebud Cinema Drafthouse is not some huge multiplex with 500 teens and 50 movies showing, it’s an old fashioned theater that shows one movie, and provides couches, tables, chairs, food & drink (including pizza, beer, and other beverages) and a real nice atmosphere. This is the place you want to see movies.
Since it’s a small theater, the wait in line was pretty much non-existant, and since there is only one movie showing, if you happen to have to go to the restrooms, you’ll still hear the movie, as the sound is piped in there as well. Nice! Oh, take a look at their FAQ for some amusing answers and email addresses.
I guess they show football games on the big screen for free during the season, which is a cool idea, and I’m sure they make out great on food & beer sales. Hmmm, maybe they should start showing videoblogs… ;)
Oh, I should also mention Bombay Sweets a little Indian restaurant on 13th Street on Milwaukee’s South Side (right across the street from Lincoln Music.) As for this place, the atmosphere is decidedly lacking, but the food is amazing, and incredibly cheap as well.
Ok, that sums up my weekend…
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NSLU2 (Server?)
NSLU2-Linux looks like a fun little project. The Linksys NSLU2 is a “Network Storage Link” which means you typically attach it to your network, add an external USB hard drive, and it’s a file/backup server for the computers on your home network.
Pick one up at Amazon for about $80, and while you’re there grab an 80 GB drive for under $100 and you can build a nice little (and quiet) server running Linux, and once you’re running Linux, well, you open up a whole new world of possibilities…
Some links:
- Fun with SLUGs
- Turbo Slug
- Brainwagon Radio: New, but Still Noisy Recording and the NSLU2
- TomsNetworking: Hacking the Linksys NSLU2
- Linux on the NSLU2
- nslu2-general Yahoo! Group
- nslu2-linux Yahoo! Group
- How to Set up an NSLU2 with a Mac
- Use a Linksys NSLU2 on Mac OS X 10.3
Need more info? It’s all over the place, just search for NSLU2 linux.
(I have a whole nother post on the trends I’ve noticed in small, cheap, hackable devices. So stay tuned…)
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RasterWP
I’ve been testing out the WordPress.com service over at RasterWP.
First impressions… Nice, but that’s not surprising, WordPress itself is very nice. It’s Ajaxy for sure. It seems aimed more towards the newbie users, nothing wrong with that, just making an observation.
I’ve had problems with the “visual rich editor” so far, but that is to some degree me trying to break it, which I did. Anyway, I’ll test some more if I get a chance. Results will be over there, and I’ll try to add a summary over here.
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Damn Excel!
Face it, even though Excel is a spreadsheet, the vast majority of users think it’s a database. Sure, why not? It’s got columns and rows and you can type data into it. Isn’t that what a database is?
In the olden days it was common to let people think this way, and then just dump the data out to a tab-delimited file and use Perl to rip through it. That was the olden days, because now we’re used to the new days, and Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
The Spreadsheet::ParseExcel module makes it pretty easy, and those people can keep sticking their data into Excel, and we’ll keep right on ripping it out with Perl. (Thanks Kawai Takanori!)
Even after all these years, when PHP and Java got bigger and stronger, and Ruby showed up and what not, Perl is still a great language for processing text and data, mainly due to the huge amount of useful modules available.