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Review – Movie – Coraline

It’s a little hard to describe this movie without mentioning Alice in Wonderland.  So I’ll just get it out of the way.  This is more or less Alice in Wonderland meets Nightmare Before Christmas.  Not surprising on the latter part since it’s done by the same guy who did Nightmare Before Christmas. With this comparison out of the way, the genre that best describes it would be “Children’s horror” I suppose.  It’s actually rather creepy in many parts, especially in the final third or so of the film.  It’s also the final third where things feel like they fall apart…
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Review – Movie – Scott Pilgrim vs the World

I generally like to avoid giving away too many spoilers for anything new so I’ll break this review in half so to speak.  I’ll preface this a bit with my thoughts and feelings before going into this movie. Based on almost no evidence, the original thought was “Hey look, it’s River City Ransom the Movie”.  These character all come off the way Kunio and company would if they were live action players in a film with a plot slightly deeper than “Fight across the city to rescue your girlfriend’.  In addition to the seemingly gratuitous River City Ransom influence, there…
2009 Reading List
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2009 Reading List

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick Published: 1968 | Pages:244 My Rating: 4/5 Description: Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1) Orson Scott Card Published: 1985 | Pages:324 My Rating: 5/5 Description: But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway almost as long. Ender's two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. While Peter was too uncontrollably violent, Valentine very nearly lacks the capability…
Review – Movie – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
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Review – Movie – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

NOTE: I was originally going to make one long review with a spoiler filled section of bitching following this segment. Unfortunately due to the somewhat random and incoherent nature of the plot, the spoiler filled section became very random and incoherent. In the interest of making some level of observations, I’m going to go with the non spoiler filled section here and sort out the rest later for a second post. Ok, Revenge of the Fallen. Transformers 2. In case you missed it, my Transformers 1 review can be found here. This movie is certainly an action flick. Lots of…
Programming (Part 2)
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Programming (Part 2)

I promised a part two so here it is… The first post can be found here. As previously mentioned, my previous self taught programming experience involved BASIC and whatever the TI-85 uses.  I had my first official taste of taught programming in College a couple of years after High School with C.  My Engineering degree required I take “Programming for Engineers” which was basically C programming to solve iterative math problems.  Most of the programs we did were by the book style involving arrays and graph style equations.  The book for the course was actually two books and we only…