August 2007 - Posts
I like to like things somewhat off the beaten path. But when asked what my favorite movie of all time is, like almost everyone else I know who has even a smidgen of taste, I say "Blade Runner".
No need for me to wax poetic about how great it is. I mean it has been around for 25 years now, and if you don't already dig it nothing I say will change your mind.
I was playing a new XBox360 game I can't mention last night and after I finished I decided to poke around the Live Marketplace. I noticed a video from "Comic-Con" with "Blade Runner" in the title. Turned out it was a Q&A session with Ridley Scott, Sean Young, and other members of the cast & crew discussing Blade Runner: Final Cut, a 5 disc set that will be released this December.
View the trailer here.
Update: More great info on www.thedigitalbits.com.
Update: Ridley Scott interview here.
Wow! How did I miss the news of this earlier?!? The 5 disc set includes a newly cut version of the movie ("The Final Cut") with added & extended scenes, added lines, and updated special effects (but no CGI, yay!). Disc 2 includes the original US Theatrical version, the original International Theatrical version, and the Director's cut from 1993. Other discs include a 3 hour documentary with tons of alternate shots of scenes, featureless, and the rare "Work Print Version".
Amazon has the set on pre-order in DVD, HD-DVD, and Blue-Ray form. I already placed my One-Click order for the HD-DVD version!
Name dropping trivia: Darryl Hannah who plays Pris, and her sister Page, were friends with my sisters. In fact my oldest sister Amy lived with Darryl in Telluride for a while.
I just updated my Windows Home Server with
Ed Halloway's PhotoSync Beta 2.
This Add-in for Windows Home Server automatically ensures that all photos stored in a particular folder on your home server are automatically published to your Flickr account.
I have a shared folder on my home server named \\server\screensaverpics. Every time we offload photos from a camera I copy a few of the really great photos to this folder. Then all of the PCs in the house have their screensavers set to the Windows "My Pictures" screensaver pointing to \\server\screensaverpics.
Now that I have PhotoSync automatically publishing that folder to my Flickr account all those great pictures are automatically published to all of my friends and families too.
I've always been a huge fan of Robert Ludlum. I started reading his books when I was in middle school. I don't think the Bourne trilogy are his best works.
I think The Osterman Weekend was my favorite.
But with the Bourne Ultimatum coming out as a movie this week I felt I needed to go back and re-read the series. I frankly do not remember if I ever watched the first two movies or not. But I know I want to see the latest one but I do not want it to "spoil" the books. Hence I must re-read them first.
Today I finished The Bourne Supremacy. Classic Ludlum with great texture, a thick plot, and an ending that is just a bit too tidy. Good stuff though.
Now off to the used bookstore to buy The Bourne Identity. I thought I had ALL Ludlum books in my library in hard back, but I can't find Identity or Ultimatum... Hmmm...
I've been quiet on my blog because I have been waiting to get it upgraded to CS2007. Thanks to Kevin Harder's help I finally got it done. I will be tweaking the look and feel for those of you who do not use a reader, but for now this is what you get.
With this change my ancient and very crusty web server machine is offically retired. This web server is actually a VM running within Virtual Server...
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