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Club Uropa
An assault on all five senses
I went to Club Uropa in Dallas last night with Jennifer, her cousin, and her cousin’s “husband”. While it was kind of nice getting out of the house for something other than work, it was an assault on all five senses. The “music” (who considers rap to be actual music? Seriously?) was loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss, the way the lights were flashing could probably cause someone to go into a seizure, it smelled like sweaty fish from all the slutty girls around (I am pretty sure I caught syphilis or gonorrhea from sharing air with them), people kept touching me and bumping into me (and they all felt sticky and slimy), and I got handed a Bud Light. That place found a way to assault all five senses. It was still nice, though, because I was with my wife. But if you are ever looking for a club to go to, stay away from this place.
My rating: stars
I use Google products religiously. There. I said it.
Any mail I am receive is procmail-ed to GMail. I read everyone’s blog through Google Reader. I manage my bookmarks through Google Bookmarks. I even have a recipe or two saved on Google Base.
Why do I use Google? Simplicity. With a broadband connection, even with my slow computer, Google’s apps are faster than something running locally more often than not. And since my information is saved to Google’s computers, I don’t have anything to back up other than my music.
I do have a couple of issues with these products. Reader needs a “Mark all read” button, though this can be hacked around with Greasemonkey (and Geekmonkey) Calendar seems to have problems keeping the event bars lined up with the times in the grid, which I can forgive for now since it is three days old. Edit: I was using a Camino nightly build. I am now using the stable and this problem went away. Bookmarks should be exportable.
But other than these couple of issues, I love Google’s services. I could use another reader, but then I would have another site to remember to visit, another password to remember, my personal information on some other company’s computers. It just isn’t worth it for small quibbles.
As for privacy, I am not worried. Google refused a government order to turn over search results that didn’t even ask for user names. They use my search history to give me ads I will want to click. So? I found ThinkGeek from a banner ad and it is now my favorite shopping site online. Privacy nuts should be more worried about their ISPs who have ALL your information pass through their pipes.
Lay off Google.
IM Smarter is a program that does several tiny jobs so seamlessly that it should be in everyone’s software arsenal.
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I thought at first that the movie would just be a sequel of The Nightmare Before Christmas, which I thought sucked hugely. It was quite good though.
The main character is betrothed to some girl from a prestigious family without money, while his family has money without prestige. Their marriage is arranged by both families as one of convenience, but he quickly falls for his bride. However, he is a bit inept and has trouble remembering his vows. While practicing them in the forrest, he slips the ring on what he believes is a dead twig, but in fact happens to be the hand of a dead girl. He realized that he loves her, yet is stuck between the worlds of the living and the dead, bound to both by love and obligation.
It was very well done, with much better animation/claymation than Nightmare had. The plot seemed slightly thin, but the characters were done well enough to more than make up for that.
Rating:
★★★★☆
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