April, 2008:

“Altered States”=so good

I have the “Altered States” DVD from Netflix.

The DVD is a horrible transfer and has, shamefully, never been remastered and resissued.

Despite those flaws with the DVD itself, the film is wonderful.

The story is great, it has talented actors, and the visual effects are amazing (especially for 1980).

I threw the DVD on as a distraction and now and not going to be able to stop the film until it has played through. In some ways it reminds me of “Dreamscape”, but “Dreamscape” is not half as interesting as “Altered States”.

Here are some YouTube clips

Trailer

Scene

Clip

Fan montage

Vimeo vs Flickr video

Apr 9th, 2008

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Same video file uploaded (albeit a crummy quality source file)

Flickr

Vimeo

Far too many OS X software updates: I am scared.

Apr 9th, 2008

by zebtron.

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I am filled with fear!

I wish every company was as nice as my bank

Apr 8th, 2008

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Spent yesterday dealing with billing, tech support, and such from 4 different companies to try to get my Comcast billing straightened out. Short story is that Comcast dropped the ball and lost my third party billing (work pays for a BB connection) billing information in the transition from Insight to Comcast.

I finally got the tech support folks at work to call some people with pull and got it fixed in a few hours.

Today my consumer experience was much better. I called my bank and visited a branch.

The people are always nice, and helpful.

So I whined about how crummy Comcast is, now I am praising Monroe Bank (Bloomington, IN).