filmcritic.com: The Top 50 Movie Endings of All Time
This list is missing my second-favorite ending of all time: “The Third Man”’s long walk of dismissal. But “Chinatown”: what an ending. Also, I like “Blade Runner” w/o the “new” ending, if I remember correctly.
(tags: halfass movies endings)
Entries from July 2006
links for 2006-07-31
July 31st, 2006 · Comments
Tags: Links
Am I crazy or does this look like Maple?
July 31st, 2006 · Comments
Am I crazy or does this look like Maple?
Originally uploaded by Vidalia.
Vidalia finds Maple’s Dopplegaenger in Los Angeles advertisements.
Tags: General
Venice
July 31st, 2006 · Comments
Canal
Originally uploaded by scottpartee.
The first half (yup, I said half) of our Venice pics are now on Flickr.
Tags: General · Italy · Photos and Photography · Travel
Busdrivers Rising…
July 31st, 2006 · Comments
10 Days and counting until the Chef and Ms. T. arrive in Vienna and we all start doing damage.
Hells yeah.
International System Administrator Appreciation Day
July 31st, 2006 · Comments
Just received this in a forward:
System Administrator Appreciation Day
If you can read this, thank your sysadmin
A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an operating system, patched it for security, made sure the power and air conditioning was working in the server room, monitored it for stability, set up the software, [...]
Tags: General
Did I Really Just Spend 2 Hours on Youtube?
July 29th, 2006 · Comments
Yup! I did.
Bratislava
July 22nd, 2006 · Comments
Bratislava
Originally uploaded by scottpartee.
Our set of photos from our short trip to Bratislava are up on Flickr.
I’d definitely like to go back. The people seemed nice and the city was pretty cool, despite having been pretty thoroughly wrecked by communists and bad modernist architects and [...]
Tags: Euroland · Photos and Photography · Travel
links for 2006-07-21
July 21st, 2006 · Comments
Natchez, Mississippi – The Official Natchez Tourism & City Government Web Site :: www.visitnatchez.com
I’ve eaten some of these pralines. Yummy.
(tags: natchez halfass mississippi)
Tags: Links
Cafe Engländer
July 21st, 2006 · Comments
Cafe Engländer
Style/ethnicity: Wiener Cafe
Location:
Postgasse 2
WienA-1010
Austria
Food rating: out of 5
Decor rating: out of 5
Service rating: out of 5
At first glance, this didn’t appear to be much of a locale. The menu was small and the initial look at the exterior revealed nothing special.
I picked up my menu and noticed a special coffee section that included “Austrian” or “Italian” coffee. That seemed like a good sign, so we went ahead and seated ourselves and awaited our waiter. Turns out the coffee was a false hope, but more on that in a moment.
We delighted in the fact that the cafe serves freshly-made soda zitrone, which is simply fresh lemon juice mixed with soda water but perfect for a very hot day.
We ordered an Italian bread salad with arugula and proscuitto and the “wok” salmon, which was served over a selection of braised julienne vegetables with basmati rice on the side. Both were excellent and especially good when one considers that this is a cafe and our total bill came out ot less than 25 EUR.
We finished with coffees. As usual, ithat’s a pretty big mistake here in Vienna if you care to drink good coffee. I ordered an Italian roast grosser brauner and my wife ordered a cappuccino. The coffee was ashtray nasty but served with flourish and style. It was slightly edible, so we drank it.
The service is friendly and efficient by Vienna standards. Even though our waiter never smiled, he brought Maple a bowl full of straweberries and cream.
Tags: Austria · Food and Cooking · Vienna
Recent Dialogs
July 20th, 2006 · Comments
Polyglot In Bath
Maple: Sawatdee ka!
Daddy: Wow! Do you know what that means?
Maple: I want to go to Thai food.
Daddy: Maybe we can go for dinner on Friday.
Maple: Khap khun ka!
Daddy: Do you know what that means?
Maple: Danke schön for rice.
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A visiting friend, Jennifer, enters the through the main door.
Maple: Hello, [...]
Tags: Children, The · General
Spargel!
July 20th, 2006 · Comments
Spargel!
Originally uploaded by scottpartee.
Spargel season was a hit, no? I mean, did you think you’d ever tire of spargel risotto with spargel cream sauce on a bed of spargel with spargel beer and spargel dip for your bread and maybe some bits of spargel in [...]
Tags: Food and Cooking · General · Photos and Photography · Vienna
Knowledge Worker
July 20th, 2006 · Comments
Work
Originally uploaded by scottpartee.
This is where billions in economy are generated every day: in tiny little insipid cubicles in rows under flourescent lights. His domain sprawls before him. His candy bar lunch twists restlessly in his Mountain Dew-addled belly. The knowledge worker. The self-managed class. [...]
Tags: Atlanta · General · Work
links for 2006-07-14
July 14th, 2006 · Comments
Clown Registry Dezign Data Model
Nice weekend, everybody!
(tags: halfass clowns)
Tags: Links
links for 2006-07-13
July 13th, 2006 · Comments
Kino unter Sternen – 2006 – Open Air im Augarten
Open air films every night in Augarten. Niiiiice. Pretty good program, too.
(tags: halfass film vienna wien vie)
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links for 2006-07-12
July 12th, 2006 · Comments
YouTube – sonic youth – expressway to yr skull (with stephen malkmus)
That’s pretty cool! Wish the whole thing were up.
(tags: halfass sy sonicyouth malkmus)
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