Monthly Archives: August 2006

Snakes on a Plane

In short: Don’t bother. I just walked out in the middle of it, and the manager at the theater was nice enough to give me a pass to get into another movie for free, so technically I’m not out anything but an hour of my life.

I was expecting campy, ridiculous, funny bad. Instead, I got rancid-meat-in-a-bucket-of-egg-yolks-and-kim-chi-left-out-in-the-sun bad. I like bad movies, mostly because I enjoy mocking them, but this was simply terrible. Seriously. I can’t even come up with a word to describe how utterly awful it is.

Save your money, or if you must, go see “John Tucker Must Die” instead — even though I’ve not seen it, I’d rather encourage people to support a movie which uses MySpace in its advertising, so long as it keeps them from going to see “Snakes on a Plane.”

I’m Getting Fed Up with Apple

After a terribly disappointing round of announcements at WWDC, I’m giving serious reconsideration to my affiliation with Apple and the Mac OS X platform. I’ve grown weary of Apple’s constant push to upgrade – if you’re not running the latest version of Mac OS X you may as well be running DOS. I’m tired of their flirting with the server and enterprise markets – they offer some fairly decent servers in the Xserve, but they run Mac OS X Server on them, which is an excellent server operating system if you don’t mind system management practices that date back to the early Eighties and a reliance on GUI tools – almost all of which only run on a Mac OS X client, by the way – for doing things remotely. I’m not the only one leaving or considering leaving the polished white and brushed metal of the Apple camp. I agree with both Mark and Cory’s reasons, but I’ve got my own personal gripes to air.

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