Slumdog Millionaire **** – Sure it was good. Perhaps the fact I’ve seen City of God prevented me from being wowed by it. City of God was similar but much more intense. Slumdog could have been a lot more disturbing than it was and I’m glad it wasn’t! I liked that it had a happy ending.
I’ve never had an opportunity to work with CGI until now. CGI is defined on wikipedia this way:
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard protocol for interfacing external application software with an information server, commonly a web server.
The task of such an information server is to respond to requests (in the case of web servers, requests from client web browsers) by returning output. Each time a request is received, the server analyzes what the request asks for, and returns the appropriate output. The two simplest ways for the server to do this, are the following:
- if the request identifies a file stored on disk, return the contents of that file;
- if the request identifies an executable command and possibly arguments, run the command and return its output
CGI defines a standard way of doing the second. It defines how information about the server and the request is passed to the command in the form of arguments and environment variables, and how the command can pass back extra information about the output (such as the type) in the form of headers.
Here is a great getting started article on CGI.
The Outlaw Josey Wales ***** Great movie all the way through. Terrific non-patronizing potrayal of American Indians. Chief Dan George is hilarious. I jokingly compare the story to Room On The Broom, one of my favorite kids books. Josey keeps picking up assorted folks along his travels. Near rape-scene with brief nudity.
Punch Drunk Love ** A bit plodding. Interesting but not memorable. Adam Sandler plays a sort of sad sack who gets in trouble after signing up with a phone sex service.
Stand By Me **** This classic has some rough language and shows 13 year olds smoking. River Phoenix and Wil Wheaton are terrific. It’s on the low end of the R rating. Recommended.
Some Kind of Wonderful ***** One of my favorite John Hughes coming of age movies. I loved Mary Stuart Masterson in it. Eric Stolz was ok though he seemed kind of uninspired throughout except for the tense scene with his father where he finally showed some emotion. Good story and great happy ending.
Monster vs Aliens *** Animation was great, it was entertaining and funny. It did not rise to the level of The Incredibles. I didn’t think the story was that strong or engaging. I found the monsters so arbitrary and hard to really care about, except for Susan who wasn’t really a monster. Kids loved it, of course.
There are three primary fields I know of around Austin. We’ve been to Hill13 the most because it is the most convenient to us. I have not been to Texas Paintball but I know it is a much larger place and a more expensive than Hill13. Some of David’s friends that have been there prefer Hill13. They particulary did NOT like crack house field at Texas Paintball. They actually quit in the middle because they were too intimidated at being “trapped” in the crack house. David and I visited Extreme PB years ago and liked it. We hope to return soon. Here are comparisons of the three fields:
Texas Paintball (No outside paint allowed)
Reviews: http://www.pbreview.com/fields/reviews/639/
Price: $41.95 (500 rounds) $15 field fee
Paint: $43 1000 rounds, $78 2000 rounds
Hill13 (Outside paint for personal guns allowed)
Reviews:http://www.pbreview.com/fields/reviews/2956/
Price: $40 (500 rounds). $12 Field Fee, $8 all-day air
Paint: $17 500 rounds, $30 1000 rounds, $57 2000 rounds. They charge $8 for allowing you to use your own paint unless you previously bought it there.
Xtreme Paintball (No outside paint allowed)
Reviews: http://www.pbreview.com/fields/reviews/2562/
Price: $40 (500 rounds, includes NXE Pack (pods & belt) )
CO2 Refill: $19,12oz $2 20oz $5 all-day
Paint: $35/$40 1000 rounds $60/$80 2000 rounds
Other field not visited:
Outlaw Paintball Field (Pflugerville)
