By now you know The Departed won the best picture Oscar last night. The win was very deserved. I saw it on Saturday and as soon as it was over, I knew it was a lock to win. Its Oscar competition was solid, but The Departed was just at another level.… more »

Some random things to note. Back in college, my pals and I used to play video games. I know. Unbelievable, but true. Miguel made short films about it for his film class. He's now put those on-line. Tridi got back from India and put a zillion pict… more »

There's not much to Half Nelson. A junkie school teacher in Brooklyn fights drug addiction while one of his 6th grade pupils fights to make it in a rough 'hood. Half Nelson is one of those stories where the teacher befriends a student but this time, it's… more »

My hard drive is 200 GB and it's been getting full. Most of what I've been filling it up with is music, pictures, recorded TV, movies and a few games. I feel like reformatting my hard drive soon, but I don't want to burn all that media to DVD's. That wou… more »

In this post I made about soccer nerdiness, I proved my own nerdiness by performing a tracert on Tridi's IP address in India. For the n00bs, an IP address is sort of like the phone number for your computer. Anyone online has one. My blog logs IPs when us… more »

On Saturday I was lucky enough to get tickets for the California Philharmonic's presentation of Four Visions of Romeo and Juliet. They played four works based on Shakespeare's most famous play, one of which happens to be my favorite 5 minutes of classica… more »

Thanks to oscartorrents, I was able to see this one. Unfortunately it came and went through theaters faster than I was able to get out to see it. This is too bad because this is the kind of film that needs to be seen on a big screen. It's scale is massiv… more »

The World Press Photo awards have been announced. You can see the results here. The overview is here, but if you start with the first one, you can just keep clicking "next photo" and see them all. Be careful, some of it is very graphic. I found this seri… more »