One of the things that really gets me about racism is when people complain about the the stuff that doesn’t matter. Here’s two version of a poster for “Couples Retreat”. Your supposed to supposed to be offended by the UK version that has edited out the black couple.
Guess what? If you want to be angry at racism then you should be pissed at the US poster as well as the whole movie. I agree with the movie Studio. They edited out the more minor characters and put the more famous people up front. I’m supposed to feel better about the US poster with the tiny black couple in the background? I’m supposed to feel better about a movie industry that does not give leading roles to blacks unless it’s a film for blacks?
This is just an instance where people see their own biases and become uncomfortable. I’m not singling this movie out. I’ve not seen it and I hear it’s fairly good. But in an industry where blacks are marginalized don’t get pissed if the poster reflects that reality. Instead of adding more black people to posters why not just go see more movies with black people?
Vista was a pain. When I got my new computer with it I had trouble getting the network card to work. Also an attempt to install it on a family member’s “vista ready” totally borked their system and I was up till 4am trying to restore xp. They never upgraded to vista.
But so far Windows 7 is coming up roses. The $50 upgrade I got was a pretty sweat deal and the upgrade was easy. Granted vista and 7 are similar enough that there are no huge architecture changes but the upgrade was super smooth. It asked all the questions in the first 15 minutes and then the upgrade ran with out any hand holding. It took 2 hours. It still did that thing where the progress bar stalls for long periods of time and then races forward. It would have been nice if 7 was more clear that I didn’t need to watch it install, but that might just be the tech geek in me.
I’ve literally only used the OS for 10 minutes but it seems snappy. It also seems to only take about 6-700mb of ram instead of the 8-900mb that vista took up. The task bar seems super slick. I like the idea of pining applications in place in theory but the open programs seem hard to distinguish from the programs that have yet to launch.
I’ll try and keep more notes as I have more first impressions.
If you have Vista and want to upgrade to Windows 7 then NOW is the time to do it. $50 for Home Premium which is the default version sent out with all Dell PCs.
I have this thing I do where I look down at people who can’t handle their umbrella. It’s not that hard to not have it turn inside out. You just point it in to the wind. Come on people!
Today the wind got a little… well lets not make excuses but my umbrella tuned inside out and I broke a streak of that not happening that is I don’t know how old. OLD.
Speaking of streaks people keep track of I have not thrown up in forever either. And haven’t really cried since I saw the last episode of Six Feet Under back in… 2007? I know most people don’t see that as an accomplishment but it’s still something to be noted.
PhoneDog has a great series of videos reviewing the G1. It’s super positive. There are stuff that is not perfect but personally I think people over estimate how perfect the iphone is. You can view more in depth review about the phone here.
Kind of in love with the idea behind BandCamp. Going to go all the bands I like to join. Myspace has been my default way to find new music and probably also the reason I don’t find as much as I would like to.
This is like my new favorite video on the internet. I love when sites update their designs. You get too see what they learned by how they direct the user. Every site relaunch should be required by law to make on of these videos. I’m going to bring it up with Senator Ted Stevens.
It’s official I’m totally freaking out about Cell Phone Radiation. I guess that I spend about 16 hours day with a cellphone in my pocket which is probably a solid dose of radiation everyday.
My plan is just take it out and place it on the desk at work and at home. That will easily knock out 10 to 14 hours a day. I could also put it in my backpack when i travel but I really like having my cellphone on silent 24/7 and I need to either hear it vibrate or feel it to make that work.
Alt + Shift + Ctrl + K 