I bought the book Bartending last night, to read before bed. I figured it’d be full of amusing and/or interesting anecdotes, and it would restore my will to live after watching The Hunger Games. The problem is not so much what’s there – it is well enough written, and the stories are interesting, even tending… Read more
There’s a difference between releasing three films in a series and releasing a film in three parts. Unfortunately, it appears “The Hunger Games” is in the latter category. A surprisingly depressing movie. It was well produced; it could have had a great ending. Instead it had… basically nothing. It’s worse than a “bad” ending because… Read more
Easter was spent with Marisa’s parents, and her brother whom flew in from Hawaii for the weekend. Though he wasn’t around much, being very busy catching up with friends and running errands and whooshing off to South Lake Tahoe to go snowboarding. It’s a hard life. :P I realised this Easter – why only after… Read more
It’s like driving a beach-ball that fights back. So says Marisa on driving a (2003) Prius. Apparently the 2010 ones are “better” insofar as they’ve had the will to fight back beaten out of them.
Did I stutter? But incidentally, this reveals that – shock horror – I use Bing. I actually use it by default on all my own devices. Why is this so, when I work at Google? Well, first, I don’t work on Search, so I have no particular vested interest in it. Second, after I joined… Read more
Last night Marisa and I went to a performance by Lady Antebellum, with Thompson Square and Darius Rucker opening. At the HP Pavillion. I had forgotten how awful the acoustics are there. Massive reverb, and a closed roof contributing to the cheap-speakers-way-over-driven effect. Which was very unfortunate. But nonetheless the show was entertaining. It just… Read more
Battery life is indeed something of an issue. I can no longer just juice it for an hour or two a day, like with my iPad 2 – instead, it really needs all night to charge. And the battery life is at best the same as the iPad 2. So it doesn’t feel as untethered… Read more