Andy Bartlett on June 27th, 2009

Have been in Kansas all week visiting my parents; my two brothers and I were together for the first time in five years, since my wedding, so that was pretty awesome. Also, was the first time for my parents to have all seven granddaughters together; so it was a great week all around. Will be [...]

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Andy Bartlett on June 16th, 2009

Let me make one thing clear – I hate comment spammers. Inundating my inbox with spam is one thing; I can filter the vast majority of it to a junk folder and never have to deal with it. Comment spam, I have to deal with each and every one individually, and having comment spammers force [...]

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Andy Bartlett on June 15th, 2009

After having this project shelved for a couple of months now, I finally got around to starting construction of my Coraline house popup that I started back in March (Adam will surely be excited ). I built the top and bottom for the popup and started working on the “Coraline” logo for the front cover. [...]

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Andy Bartlett on June 14th, 2009

Today I finally found a lounging chair for my office at home. It’s a filthy, disgusting pile of grossness; the upholstery, which looks to have been formerly a very nice wine-colored velour, is crushed and worn thin; dirt and sand fly out at all angles when you kick it; and it looks like it used [...]

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Andy Bartlett on June 12th, 2009

Mel and I knocked out three movies this week – we joined the 21st century and rented our first three BluRay discs. PS3 + mega-clearance on a 37″ LCD = we’re finally living in the present, home entertainment-wise. Gran Torino [IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes] We missed this in the theaters and had been waiting patiently [...]

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Andy Bartlett on June 11th, 2009

I upgraded the backend of andybartlett.com to WordPress 2.8 today; will have to play around with some of the new features, as they seem interesting. I still haven’t taken much time to really dig into WordPress and figure out how it works beyond “Find theme that I like, apply it, write some nonsense and hit [...]

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Andy Bartlett on June 8th, 2009

Somebody found this blog using the following search term: “why is marcus more advanced than t800″ Yes! Why indeed? It makes no sense… Stupid, stupid Terminator: Salvation. To the person who made it here due to that search term, I say “welcome.”

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Andy Bartlett on June 7th, 2009

The cinema redeemed itself yesterday in a big, big way. After sitting through two hours of the disastrous “Terminator: Salvation” on Friday, I rebounded in a big way by seeing “Hangover” yesterday with Melissa. Having seen a little about this movie on-line beforehand, I figured it’d be worth watching. It’s so far beyond simply “worth [...]

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Andy Bartlett on June 6th, 2009

The newest additions to our home media server: Movies: Anchorman Television: Alias: Season 3, episodes 21 and 22 Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Season 1, episodes 5-7 Nip/Tuck: Season 1, episodes 1-13 (complete)

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Andy Bartlett on June 5th, 2009

Ugh. That’s my one-word review for Terminator: Salvation [IMDB|Rotten Tomatoes]. There’s so much wrong with this movie I’m not even sure where to begin… First, in the previous Terminator films – particularly in the most-recent two – one needs a relatively large ability to suspend disbelief that the human resistance could not only defeat Skynet’s [...]

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