Month: July 2004

Show laces and knots

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How many ways do think there to lace your shoes? I thought thre were about 3: one way is like they do it in the shop, which you can see when you buy new shoes; another is like I do it – left over right, right over left, left over right, etc; and another one like some cool sport guys were doing it – with laces appear only as horizontal stripes. Well, there are a few more.

How many ways to think there are to tie your shoe laces? I thought there were two: one way like I do it, and another which you use before going to the rock concert, which envolves a lot of knots and duct tape. It turns out, that I was wrong again.

Now we can all go practicing our mad skills of shoes lacing and knoting. :)

Doom 3 news

I’ve been very busy at work for the last few days and somehow managed to miss Doom 3 announcements all over the web. If you did too – here is a round-up…

Id Software actually finished Doom 3 and sent it to the print. It will be available around the world starting from 5th of August this year (less then 3 weeks left). Slashdot story on the announcement is here.
There also an updated story here, which links to the blog entry of Todd Hollenshead of Id fame.

Doom people should run as fast they can into hardware shops to upgrade their PCs. I myself will wait for Quake IV. :)

Minor downtime

There was a minor downtime today, but you shouldn’t have noticed anything. Apparently, last time when I was fixing sound on the server, I misplaced the IDE RAID controller card. Since then there was no music in my house. Today I got really bored with it and the number of requests from my wife approached the critical number, so I decided to fix it.

Overall, the machine was down for about 5-10 minutes. Everything is in perfect condition now and I am not expecting any other downtimes any time soon. Enjoy. :)

If These Walls Could Talk 2

Coninuing today’s TV session, there was an excellent piece called “If These Walls Could Talk 2“. It’s a film, which is about evolution of society in regards of women independence and lesbian issues. It pictures three stories, one that happens in 1961, another in 1972, and the last one in 2000. It is the best film I have seen on the subject so far. Strongly recommended.

If you by any chance wonder if they show any sex and boobies in there – they do. But it’s not a porn film by any means. Sweet though. :)

Meanwhile I’ll switch the TV off and go rate this piece on IMDB as 8 out of 10. Bed time.

Carlito’s Way

Al Pacino is always pleasent to watch. This guy surely knows how to act. When he does the solo of the main character it is even more enjoyable. Today they were showing “Carlito’s Way” on TV, where Al Pacino is exactly in the middle shiny main central role. :)

On one hand, it is a regular crime flick with Italian mafia, women, money, guns, and every other thing you get to expect from this sort of movie. On the other – excellent actor’s performance makes it so different from the bunch of others, and so enjoyable. It also seems like a middle-life work of Al Pacino. He is partially young and restless like in his previous movies, but he is already experienced and touchy like in his following films. It feels somehow modern, but it has this end of 70s, beginning of 80s look to it, although the film was done in 1993.

Watch it if you want something with a classic Italian mafia flavour and Al Pacino on top. 6.5 out of 10.