http://linus.grumblemutterspit.org by Linus Enriquez Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:04:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Very Rockford Files-ish, no? Guess he's using the same synth. http://linus.grumblemutterspit.org/2008/08/21/funky-mike-post-find/ This is exciting news. The EVIL (Electronic Viewfinder, Interchangeable Lens) has been announced, and I'm quite happy to know it's Olympus. That's to be expected, considering a lot of the innovation in this space comes from Olympus (they never do get the kudos for much of it, but what can ... http://linus.grumblemutterspit.org/2008/08/05/the-evil-cometh/ So I continue to catalog all my digital and film photos and at the same time resurrect some old photo galleries to SmugMug when I notice that under Vacation I have gone somewhere out of the United States since 1996. I was in China in 1996. I spent the New ... http://linus.grumblemutterspit.org/2008/07/31/for-a-couch-potato-i-go-places/ Since March of this year, I've had to update the PS3 with new firmware every month. Actually, there were two in March and, wheeeee, THREE this month alone. That's just a bad coding if you have to keep shoving "features" every month (frankly, all I'm noticing are ... http://linus.grumblemutterspit.org/2008/07/29/yet-another-ps3-update/ So, in case you're wondering.  Things are fine.  Fox News spent my lunch hour showing a calm and peaceful city with the tag BREAKING NEWS.  THE event of the Chino Hills earthquake was a broken water pipe on a street intersection somewhere.  Who knows how long they kept that chopper ... http://linus.grumblemutterspit.org/2008/07/29/a-quake-a-quake-the-house-begins-to-shake/ I was going to wait to see this in IMAX but I can't say no to Sun when she's so keen on something, so she and I along with her brother Sang and my brother Alan (who'd already seen it) caught a 4pm screening at Pacific Culver 12.  Unfortunately, the ... http://linus.grumblemutterspit.org/2008/07/21/the-dark-knight/ Great cinematography, cool score.  The plot was fairly linear, however, and included three moments of divine intervention in order for it to continue.  Not too keen on that if the rest of the movie appears to be set in a realistic world (no kung fu, no magic swords, so why ... http://linus.grumblemutterspit.org/2008/07/21/mongol/ I'm just finished cataloging all my old photographs from digital images I took prior to acquiring my Olympus E-330 and will slowly create collections to put into the Photos section.  The next major phase, which by my estimation will take, oh, a year or two to complete, is to scan ... http://linus.grumblemutterspit.org/2008/07/14/the-great-photograph-catalog-adventure-begins/ I'm glad I saw this.  I was annoyed that the title of a classic Jules Verne novel was taken and the trailer looked nothing like the story from that novel, but it turns out that the novel is used as a plot device and is very relevant to this new ... http://linus.grumblemutterspit.org/2008/07/14/journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth-3d/ Pretty much like Hellboy except more effects and less character interaction.  Unfortunately, that means the problems in Hellboy are also in Hellboy II; specifically, it's all over the map.  The feel of the movie is hard to peg down because it swings too wildly across the spectrum.  The best parts ... http://linus.grumblemutterspit.org/2008/07/14/hellboy-ii-the-golden-army/