Movie Monday: Gravity

Today's review is

Gravity

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Status: Watched

Quick tip: Don't bring your calculator, but do bring your glasses. Some may need their xanax as well. Oh, and if you don't like Sandra Bullock, you should probably sit this one out.

No space aliens here, or grandiose save the world tale, just a really intense survival movie. Most of it is done exceptionally well, and the suspense is carried up to the very end. In one scene you see a little bit of [--] in the background sort of in the corner, and then you see more, and it gets closer and it ramps up quite well.

There are a few issues though, with the fire extinguisher scene really being the worst, where the suspension of disbelief is really tested, but it is manageable.  

Rating:  3.5/5 stars for personal preference 4.5/5 for general ratings.
Watch it on the big screen.

Written 2013-10-31

Stupid Saturday: Blogger f**ks up backgrounds

I have a background, it is the right size and everything, but when I upload it blogger rebalances the colours so that they are all fooked up. I have no idea why, the file size is only the slightest bit smaller. I even tried doing a higher compression and it does the same thing. Now it looks ugly.

TV Thursday: Galilei Donna

Today's review is

Galilei Donna

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Status: Ep 4 - still watching

Quick tip: If you plan on taking a drink every time someone says Galileo or Galilei be sure to stock up beforehand. Naruto says "nani" less than these people mention Galileo.

Basically there are these three girls and they are the great great great ... great great great granddaughters of Galileo, one of them is a lawyer, one is a klutzy martial arts master, and one is a genus inventor. Oh, and apparently Galileo made some super weapon or something and now everyone is after it. Of course the girls don't know where it is so they have to hunt down the clues to find it before the evil corporation or (presumably) good pirates get their hands on it. There is really nothing original, and I'm fairly sure the writer has an "unnatural" obsession with Galileo. (I mean, I have nothing against Galileo, but this is just too much)

So, why am I still watching it? Well...

• I don't have anything else [that I want] to do.
• None of the charters need a breast reduction.
• I haven't seen a little girls panties or crotch yet.
• No harem or fetish elements.

Now I realize that those may not be great reasons, but it generally accepted that if you want to watch anime you have to put up with the results of a sexually repressed society, (Someone really needs to legalize porn in Nippon...) and a break from the usual is worth it enough to put up with what is a fairly average show.

Rating:  2.5/5 stars
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Adventures in money saving!

I have a laser printer which I use to print all my schoolwork. I refill the toner cartage to save money, and as a result the print drum has some streaks on it. You don't notice it when I print B&W text, but grayscale photos (that cheap lasers are never very good at to begin with) can't be seen very well.

This isn't usually a problem, but for one of my classes we need a photo of ourselves on the cover page, and you couldn't make out the photo. I could have just given up and printed it on my inkjet but I tried moving it to the side of the page with less streaks with a small amount of success before realizing that I just needed to adjust the image brightness and contrast before printing it to make it visible on the laser printer.

With just a moment of fiddleing I saved myself from having to print a more costly page.

Project

I made a butterfly puzzle.

It has 6 parts. If your butterfly does not have all of these parts (Right wing, Left wing, Body, Proboscis, Blue pieces, and Yellow pieces) Then you did not get a complete butterfly kit.
Please note that the cutouts from the brown wings are not needed and may be missing (as shown) but all of the yellow and blue pieces are needed.

The first step is to punch out the inner brown shapes on the wing and replace them with the yellow and blue shapes. Peaces should snap in with relative ease, if they don't they may go in a different spot. If any pieces are loose use some tape on the back of the wing.

With all the pieces securely inserted into the wing it is time to insert the wings into the body as shown below.

Then, simply insert the proboscis/eye piece as shown below.

Now you are done Enjoy!

Erin's wedding

Here is a quick post of a few photos from my friend Erin's wedding. Click the photos to see bigger and check back soon for more.