Station in the Metro

  • Indy DVD Website

    So, the new Indiana Jones DVDs boast:

    Now, that’s all well and good. What they don’t happen to mention is that to access this special website, you must be running the InterActual Player 2.0, which only runs on Windows. Granted, they merely require Windows 98 SE or higher, which I could easily run in […]

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  • And in the end…

    I just finished Cowboy Bebop.

    All of it.

    :: deep breath ::

    Watched the movie last night, and it took me a while to get back used to the faster pace of the episodes tonight. The movie, as it tuned out, needed to come before the last three episodes (one standalone, and the 2-parter), not […]

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  • Tweekend Vegas Audio and iTMS

    AAl loaned me a copy of The Crystal Method’s albums Tweekend and Vegas, and I’ve been listening to ’em an awful lot over the past few days. It’s good music to listen to while you’re working, not unlike the Blue Man Group album Audio.

    Now that Apple has released iTunes for Windows, as well as the iTunes Music Store (or iTMS), I thought I’d try using their new iTMS Link Maker to share these musical choices:

    • The Crystal Method > Tweekend
    • The Crystal Method > Vegas
    • Blue Man Group > Audio
      …is, alas, not available on the iTMS, but is available from their website blueman.com, as is their new album, The Complex.

    Don’t have iTunes? Now you can pick it up for Mac or Windows:

  • Blowers mar the joy of leaves

    I find that I often agree with Roger Ebert’s reviews of movies, and again, I agree with him here, in a small essay against the most evil of powered lawn implements: the leaf blower.

    http://www.suntimes.com/output/eb-feature/cst-edt-ebert14.html

    As a side note, I have often said that if, at some point, I am to be responsible for a large amount of land, like a homestead or that artists’ village I keep dreaming about, I will require all of the groundskeepers to use hand-powered tool at all times, excepting if they need to prune a very large dying tree or something. Rakes and old-style push mowers are nearly as efficient, and much easier to abide when you’re trying to concentrate.