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Movie Notes: Alice

July 3rd, 2009

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Alice Tate (Mia Farrow), a wealthy but bored Manhattan housewife, contemplates leaving her husband (William Hurt) after some mysterious treatments by an acupuncturist.

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Movie Notes: Crimes And Misdemeanors

July 2nd, 2009

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Judah (Martin Landau) unsuccessfully tries to end an affair with stewardess Dolores (Anjelica Huston), who is increasingly getting out of hand and threatening to expose everything to his wife. Meanwhile, Cliff (Woody Allen) is filming a documentary starring his successful brother in law Lester (Alan Alda), and finding it to be extremely stressful.

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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 Ads: Not Much To Offer, So Confuse ‘Em

July 2nd, 2009

TechnologyAfter hearing someone vomited, I checked out some of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 ads. While the cheap PC ads do have a point, these IE 8 ads make the Seinfeld ones look really good. Which is bad.

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Movie Notes: Another Woman

July 1st, 2009

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Graduate school administrator Marion (Gena Rowlands) is writing a book, when she starts hearing the private confessions of patients in the neighboring psychiatrist’s office. She begins contemplating her marriage to Ken (Ian Holm) and former love, Larry (Gene Hackman).

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Movie Notes: September

June 30th, 2009

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Insular Lane (Mia Farrow) moves to a country house with her friend Stephanie (Dianne Wiest) and boisterous mother Diane (Elaine Stritch). Things become complicated when writer Peter (Sam Waterston) and French teacher Howard (Denholm Elliot) arrive - it’s soon clear that everyone is in love with everyone else. Soon, Lane’s dark past comes to the forefront once again.

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Based On My Wife, I’ve Been Using Social Media Incorrectly

June 30th, 2009

TechnologyAfter taking a break from FriendFeed and using Twitter only sporadically over the weekend - I feel better already.

For starters, I must admit: I was (and still am) addicted to social media. I’ll take the blame myself, although its constant presence on my iPhone (via Twitter clients and BuddyFeed) didn’t help matters. The urge to check out “what’s going on right now” was omnipresent, and often indulged.

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Random Stuff: Gecko, Lynch, Shatner, Fincher, Helen

June 30th, 2009

WebomaticaGPS blamed for demolishing the wrong house.

Cool just for the synopsis outline of Wall Street II.

This one dude didn’t like Up, a movie which practically everyone else really enjoyed. Both the review and comments beneath are worth reading just to entertain a contrarian opinion and witness a hostile reaction.

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Movie Notes: Radio Days

June 29th, 2009

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A heartwarming nostalgia trip to World War II America when radio was a primary form of entertainment.

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Book Notes: Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes

June 29th, 2009

Twin PeaksA Twin Peaks book, with the full title of: The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes. It tells Agent Cooper’s backstory, starting as a young boy, through transcriptions of his quirky habit of recording notes in a personal tape recorder, usually addressed to a mysterious “Diane.”

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FriendFeed Could Do Comments Better

June 28th, 2009

TechnologyPerhaps it is a “day of FriendFeed bashing.Mike Arrington over at TechCrunch wrote a post comparing FriendFeed to syphilis, criticizing it as prone to mob formation.

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