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Another excellent movie and a very good sequel from Quentin Tarantino. Not quite as good as the first but still great. Each movie was written in its own style and are completely different from each other. This one focuses less on the martial arts and more on character development and story.

Wow. What an awesome movie. To start, I've now seen both 1 and 2 and my favorite of the two is the first one. I really enjoyed the swordplay. Gotta give Uma Thurman a lot of respect. She must have worked out and practiced for hundreds of hours to get those moves down.

I loved this novel. I read it while I was in Turkey for J's wedding at the end of October. What an interesting glimpse into the future. The premise regards a huge, innovative company whose primary product is a near-perfect matchmaking service. Behind the service is an AI construct which uses a variety of complicated algorithms to pair men and women together.

I am starting to evolve a strategy to win more auctions while paying as little as possible. If you are familiar with eBay, you know that it allows you to see items up for auction, sorted by time left in the auction. Of particular interest are those items which are down to less than an hour. Those items show up in red in the list.

I have finally discovered eBay. You'd think being a web developer and all, and especially one who thrived and survived in the dotcom bubble days, that I would have discovered it before. But, alas, it always seemed a little too good to be true for me. When I think of auctions, I usually think of some old guy with a loud voice selling off junk seized in a police drug raid.

I haven't posted since waaaaay back in October, before I went to Istanbul to visit Ahu's side of the family. The reason is that this website has been attacked every single day by a new breed of "spam" - the comment advertisement. About 150 or so comments have been added to various articles on this website advertising everything from online casinos to phentermine. I can't tell if it is being done by a person or by a new spambot but its been a bit annoying.

I took the file extension quiz to see what file extension I am. If you have no idea what I am talking about, you don't spend enough time on the web. My file extension is:

I recently found myself surrounded by college-age kids discussing pointillism. Pointillism is the technique of applying many small strokes or dots of color to a surface so that when viewed at distance, the dots come appear to come together in a larger, cohesive image.

Wow! Another fantastic book from Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. This one again features our favorite hero - A. X. L. Pendergast - and brings back some old characters from earlier novels. Similar to Cabinet of Curiosities and Still Life with Crows, this plot features a series of inexplicable crimes.

Election Day is November 2nd this year. Election Day is always the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. Since Monday is the 1st, we have the earliest Election Day that is possible.