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Saw that the other day. It left me a bit unsatisfied. It feels a bit like Linklater is afraid of his own project as he is very aware the potential for false 'good ideas' is pretty high and that trying to save the movie with editing and reshoot is not an option without a time machine. As a...

Bought the US Open Day Session shirt of Stan Wawrinka... there must be a Fedor / 'americans are fat' / 'japanese are racists' joke in there.

Regional train underground station, Lausanne, Switzerland. Grey day at Montbenon park, Lausanne, Switzerland. Lake L?man.

I dug up my crappy digital camera this week-end (still better than the one of my vintage dumb phone) and thought I could dump here some of the pictures I rediscovered in it. Tokyo, Meiji Jingu entrance. Could be a good album cover for some prog rock / idm project...

Federer closed the deal in three sets against Fognini (and its better than way because the italian was playing very very well in the third) to book Switzerland's spot in the final for the second time in the long history of the event (the first time was in 1992 against the USA that then fielded a...

Creepy Castle by dopterra Kickstarter An acquaintance is doing this exploration / somewhat action-rpg thing, ZX Spectrum style! Monochrome sprites and no superposition! Check it out of it's your thing.

After the double matches, France is through to the final as Tsonga and Gasquet beat the super excellent Berdych-Stepanek duo (their two Davis Cup crowns were gained thanks in no small part to how efficient this pairing has been over the years). Apparently, Berdych played very poorly and in spite...

Isn't the poll all kind of screwed up relative to its objective since it is not gender specific?

My almost 10 year old digital camera proved to be a little too crappy to take decent pictures from my seat (a tad too far + artificial light). But here is one of Bolelli and Federer warming up: The italian played a very good match, forcing Federer into backhand to backhand rallies or...

I have a friend who works for the internal shipping department of a multinational company. The cheapest and most reliable way they found for stuff to reach their russian based branches is to send it three times. Relevant to the thread, because it also involves multiples.

Other than John Rambo?

Davis Cup Week-End! France vs Czech Republicat Roland-Garros, the grounds of the French Open. Amusingly, a tennis stadium was first built on these grounds for the Davs Cup final of 1928! Berdych is playing for this tie and a ailing and aging Stepanek has been replaced by the somewhat...

I hear it's not against the EULA to play with clean hands or to clean the controller once in a while.

It should be mentioned that banks and investors shying away from a potentially independent Scotland is not indicative that an independent Scotland will fail in their eyes, it just means there is uncertainty, which is something most banks and investors shy away from.

I had to used the advanced search function to dig this one out from page 987243! Anyway: indies! Secrets of Raetikon: You play a bird in a 2D game about exploration + physics puzzles + avian fights. Pretty neat visuals, but I found just about everything else lacking. A testament to that is...

It has to do with the Tanks / Ballot boxes ratio. About the Euro question, I'll let an economist fill the specifics, but I think it's a package that comes with good and bad things (probably more of the former) and, unsurprisingly, the good is quickly forgotten when the bad happens...

I think it's poem. Pedo: Deep poop, dope pee.

Nishikori did not play his best, but Cilic played another full match. Some unforced errors here and there, sure, but he served well enough for those to be of little consequence. Like Federer in semi, Nishikori had some opportunities but did not make the best of those. Would it have been another...

History time. For shit and giggles I wanted to check how rare a grand slam final between the 10th and 14th seed is and the answer is... pretty damn rare. I checked from 1980 onward and it did not happen in the US Open. The best I could find for the Australian Open were a Safin (9) vs...

I don't know if it's still true, but CDs used to be ridiculously expensive in Japan, so foreign artists often included exclusive tracks or swag in the Japanese versions of CDs to limit importation from the US. As a result you have music aficionados around the world that import these Japanese...

It seems pretty tough to accuse him of being a racist considering it's only when he investigated as to why they sold fewer season ticket than other franchise that he realized the audience was overwhelmingly black. Also he qualifies the unsubstantiated claims that the arena and its surroundings...

Federer did not play the best or cleanest of matches, but Cilic played an incredible match. The serving quality was expected, as was the rock solid backhand, but this returning quality and the very consistent depth and weight of shots preventing Federer to mix things up was astonishing. And so...

Zombikori? Nishizombie? He played well and managed the match brilliantly, but you must say Djokovic helped him more than a little with a surprisingly high level of nervousness resulting in a number of tight looking shots. I guess Nishikori finding a way to hang in there in the third, not...

I decided to play Bastion before buying Transistor and was extremely underwhelmed by the gameplay after a couple levels. My question then is two-fold: should I soldier through Bastion because it delivers further in on the story front (past the amusing narrator trick)? Is there a chance for me to...

Am I right to assume labor day week-end messed with the schedule? As in, ep4 has not been broadcasted yet?

They actually do that pretty often when he enters the court! I am not sure when and where was the first time or even if only Federer get the imperial treatment, but it's been at least a couple years now.

So.... somehow we got our semis. DJOKOVICdid not play a stellar match, probably made a little uncomfortable by a surprisingly aggressive Murray, turning the match into a much more pleasant viewing than some of their earlier battles. Sadly for the scott, he ran out of gas in the third set...

Technical question: after the meal at Donguri did all your clothes smelled like cooking? I went to a similar type of restaurant (to eat monja though, yours was okonomiyaki I assume, but it's very similar) and after this stuff I had to shower and change just like if I did a shift in a fast food...

Oh. Car scene alright, but not the one I had in mind.

I am pretty sure it was an action scene involving cars at a crossroad... my memory of the scene is fuzzy because I saw the movie once at release time and never read the graphic novel(s?).

When I saw them arriving on court and how windy it was, I though Berdych, his stratospheric ball toss and pretty flat shots would be in trouble. That much trouble I did not expect though. As a world class arm-chair psychologist I would also say that I found Cilic a little too happy to win. My...

Who is the third one?

Are you a priest or a serial killer? Or both?

I hope it's not as bad as Dreamcast triggers. Finding a 2nd hand Dreamcast controller without broken triggers is a challenge!

This Djokovic vs Murray match is strange, with so many ups and downs for both player. Also I don't remember seeing 2 tie-breakers in a same match that perfectly mirror each other. 7-1 Djokovic in the first and 7-1 Murray in the second with exactly the same point progression 4-0, a mini break for...

We have the quarter finals line-up: DJOKOVICwon in straight sets against Kohlschreiber, but he was tested. The german could very well have won the 2nd set, he in fact had a set point on the Djokovic serve that the serb saved in an epic rally. Very convincing level of play by the World N?1...

You might want to check how many units they move of these games in Japan. These grindy non-narrative games are also easy to make by medium size studios.

Wait wait... was the teacher bitten by a radioactive spider?

About theWTA, I feel I should also mention 21 year old from Serbia Aleksandra Krunic. Older than Bencic, but also way out of the Top 100. She qualified and reached the 4th round after beating 27th seed Keys and 3rd seed Kvitova only to lose to Azarenka in a tight three sets matches. Krunic is a...