Archive for April, 2003

X Men 2

Wednesday, April 30th, 2003

I just saw X Men 2 with Anna today.

Man, I loved it.

Bryan Singer and the crew has done such an excellent job of transforming my childhood imagination into a movie.

Just excellent. Go see it. Preferably more than once, so they'll make another one. And another. And …

There were two kids to the left of me, [...]

Non fiction

Sunday, April 27th, 2003

For a while I have been reading fiction books at the pretty steady rate of 1 book per 5-12 days.

I recently decided I ought to find some books that teach me things while entertaining me. Or just things that aren't fiction.

I bought "stupid white men" by Michael Moore, and "lucky man" by Michael J. Fox [...]

Bruce Lee Quote

Saturday, April 26th, 2003

"Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own"

Speech to text

Saturday, April 26th, 2003

I have been trying out DragonDictate for a little while, and I am incredibly disappointed.

Jens once showed it to me, and it didn't work very well, but that was with a crappy microfone and it wasn't trained for me, etc.

Now I tried spending the time training the program, with two lengthy training sessions.

I don't really [...]

Stop Press

Friday, April 25th, 2003

Noel is now Noah.

Parents changed their mind.

Welcome to the world Noah :)