Tag Archives: movies

House of Leaves

Published: 6 February 2010
I bought a new book last night: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. And by “new”, I mean new to me, not new as in it just came out. It apparently was published in 2000 but I just now heard about it (on Reddit, actually) and got intrigued so I bought [...]
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couldn’t watch Watchmen

Published: 20 December 2009
We got a bit of snow, enough to cover my brother’s porch, the trampoline, and the cars, but only barely enough to dust the grass. That was last night, when it was still coming down. At one point when I went out, I couldn’t tell if it was rain or snow before it [...]
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Paranormal Activity… I guess?

Published: 24 October 2009
I just got back from seeing Paranormal Activity with Jon and, honestly, I’m disappointed. There was all this hype about the movie, like it’s the scariest thing in years, it’s like a Hitchcock film, it’s an intelligent horror movie, etc. It wasn’t bad, and I appreciated that Micah and Katie seemed like normal [...]
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Harry Potter and the Boring Prince

Published: 19 July 2009
I went to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince last night with Jon and Mark, and it was surprisingly painful. The movie was okay, though definitely one of the dullest HP movies I’ve sat through, but the real kicker was the company around us. The theater was packed, of course, and while [...]
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visits and kung fu

Published: 15 May 2009
I’m at my parents’ house with Jon, wrapping up the last of our travelling around Kentucky. We visited his family for three days and have been visiting mine for the past two; we’ll head back to Lexington this evening. I’ve taken a lot of photos of the new kittens at my parents’, as [...]
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The Dark Knight and Pradipta’s Rolodex

Published: 26 July 2008
Let’s see, what all has happened in the sixteen days I haven’t posted… Well, opening night of The Dark Knight, I went with a group of folks to see it. We got there half an hour early, having already bought our tickets earlier in the day, and there was a gigantic line just [...]
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extracting audio from a DVD

Published: 24 December 2005
It's pretty easy to extract just the audio from a DVD in Linux, using Mplayer, sox, and either Audacity or split.
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