Search results

Diasporaby Greg Egan A pretty fascinating read filled with interesting ideas about post-humanity, particle physics, cosmology and universes with more than 3+1 dimensions. It feels a bit like Sci-Fi for and by institutes of technology students though: a lot of hard science, but not a lot of...

Just like the Jboots, it feels every time I use Chrome it's a little slower. I guess they add features that I use less and less and it bloats the whole thing.

Oh well... It's strange that I hit 100 because I did not put that many "strongly". /shrug

Ninja Assassin and V for Vendetta are produced by the Wachowskis. Not written nor directed by them.

What about Nukes with A.I.?

Do you still need anti-aliasing with 4k?

It still was a lot more entertaining than some of their previous meetings. There was some 'pushing the ball around without doing much of anything by fear of a counter-attack', but a lot less than usual between these two and there was a number of well constructed offensive points along with some...

No, I mean a lot of the jokes fall flat because of poor timing in line delivery or poor editing. An example that springs to mind is when Mortdecai flees on foot at some point and is like 'hahah! I am such a great runner!' then it cuts to the fight with the man servant and then it comes back to...

There are some good lines, there are some good jokes here and there and Paltrow (very sweet on the eye) is surprisingly convincing in the part of the woman in love with his wacky husband. As a whole though this is very poor. 90% of the comedic timing is off (sometime dramatically so), the plot...

For the 3rd year in a row at the AO the Djokovic vs Wawrinka match went the distance, but this one will not stay in memories as a classic because both players were very up and down and almost never played well at the same time. On top of that, the tight fifth set that everyone hoped for lasted...

Ghirardelli is safe from this kind of shenanigans since it is a company based in San Francisco that got bought by Lindt (a swiss chocolatier). I am not sure if they import and rebrand, manufacture in California with a swiss formula or just make their own thing, but anyway the situation is...

People need to play Yakuza 4. It might be a tad confusing at first considering it's one big mess of a story through all the episodes, but the game contains video summaries of the previous three and it has several new characters that have only indirect ties with the back story. The new...

Supremely strange first semi final: Berdych started super well and served from the first set, but from there started to be very nervous. He could not close the set on his serve, found himself in a breaker where a nervous and somewhat unlucky Murray could not turn the table on him... and instead...

Fantastic Four canon aside, if someone calls himself Dr. Doom, he is pretty likely to be some sort of emo blogger.

That's not always the case.

We got our other semi: WAWRINKAserved extremely well against Nishikori, dropping serve only once at the start of the third set with a cluster of unforced errors. On the other side of the net, Nishikori was a bit flat and only managed to keep it close in the third. In the end he was pretty...

1st semi final: BERDYCHscored a win over Nadal after a serie of 17 losses (a sad record he shares with Connors who lost 17 times to Lendl between '84 and '92). The spaniard made him a solid by playing very poorly, only getting his game going in the third set, but it was too little too late...

I am looking forward to the interviews for that one, because a super nervous Berdych played his worst match of the tournament and that ended in 6-2 6-0 for him and it event looked like Nadal was about to retire and suddenly in the third set Nadal stopped making unforced errors, managed to return...

Two quarters from the top of the draw: DJOKOVICmade life very difficult for Muller, by getting a lot of serves back in play, by serving extremely well himself and by having a machine-like efficiency once the rallies started, dispatching anything that dropped even remotely short and retrieving...

There is a distinct possibility that Lopez is a god among men: he now saved match points in three out of four matches. He has not won the 5th set against Raonic just yet though.

Miles Teller also played a secondary but key part in Rabbit Hole and was very very good in it. And it's a pretty solid movie too.

We have our two quarters for the bottom half of the draw: BERDYCHmade surprisingly light work of Tomic. He jumped out of the starting blocks for a 4-0 lead and then servers dominated until the end of the 2nd set. Berdych dominated the breaker and from a 2 sets to love lead, everything became...

News of his death are greatly exaggerated: the guy played a shitty match no doubt, but those have been few and far between in the last 13 months, he fought hard (when a couple years ago it would feel like he did not care when he played poorly) and in the end he was 4 points away from winning the...

The 3rd round in the bottom half of the draw saw just the single upset. Dimitrov was really tested by a very good Baghdatis, but the bulgarian managed to break early in the 5th to avoid a very tricky match ending. No such luck for Federer against Seppi as the swiss did not even reach the fifth...

We have our 3rd round: Djokovic has been impressive so far. vs Verdasco made good on his 31st seed. Isner vs Muller upset 13th seed Bautista-Agut to get into this big serving duel. Lopez dodged a bullet in the 1st round and dodged a bullet in the 2nd as Mannarino retired sick when...

It would also make more sense to have done that if it was not filmed in 3 or 4 big blocks. There is so much difference with the kid after each ellipsis that it might as well have been another actor. The opposite in a way is Koreeda's Nobody Knows: it is filmed within a single year, but the...

Querrey is not the most charismatic guy on a tennis court and his style of play is not exactly super exciting Seedicide watch after the first round: Raonic sector: - Benneteau [25] downed by Becker. Wawrinka sector: - Cuevas [27] downed by Bachinger. - Dolgopolov [21] downed by...

These old shows intro made me do some google-fu for an old favorite of mine: I'll add the obvious for all people who grew up in the '80s watching french TV:

Is she your example for "tons of make-up [...] very angular/old faces"?

As the first points are being fought in Melbourne, let's do a quick run down of the draw: DJOKOVICbrings some question marks with him to the AO has he was sick last week and got ousted in the 3rd round in Doha against an inspired Karlovic (who ended up being the only one to break in the...

Cleveland fans were pissed-off because he left after reaching the final (wait... that was the eastern conference final and the year before leaving?). If he left after not making the play-offs, would they have ground for complaints?

The answer is yes. It's not without flaws, but it's packed with very memorable moments, the antagonist remains one of the best acted video game character to date and the story is surprisingly great. At 15ish hours it is also not a huge time investment.

12 Years a Slave deservedly won last year, with a nomination for best actor, a win for best actress a nomination for best director and a win for best adaptation. I'll go ahead a suspect Selma is not as good, but it's true that the lead actor is supposed to do a great job. Maybe Sharpton wanted a...

Best movie as far as I am concerned. I guess Apes suffers from not being exceptional in any way, it's just a very solid big budget movie, but in this day and age that's sadly pretty exceptional. Edge of Tomorrow is not without its flaws, but that's one of the most refreshing sci-fi action movie...

Based on what I have seen this year, the big film that is missing for these lists is Edge of Tomorrow or even Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Both are superior to the somewhat gimmicky and ineffective Boyhood. Also, Lego or not Lego, anything other than Kaguya would be surprising.

I saw 3 out of the 5 foreign language films and the fourth just got released around my parts. Ida and Leviathan are two very good movies, but Timbuktu is very poorly written. Also the random Best Actress nomination for Cotillard in the Dardennes' brother movie is pretty surprising. She was ok...

Find a way to have Chris Isaak back please! Also Moira Kelly (Donna in Fire Walk With Me) > Lara Flynn Boyle (Donna in the show).

Maybe he meant every word of that, but what else could he say? It is very important for the Oculus Rift that Morpheus does well, because if it's a bad product, it could very well poison the VR well. More: it's important that it sells well to boost publishers' enthusiasm for the tech. It's really...

Obligatory 'Bully is very good and you should buy it' post. The european list is totally different though. I grabbed the Another World anniversary edition and Valiant Hearts from it.