Women hitting men?

I just watched the trailer for “The Holiday”, a Christmas movie due in December featuring Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and Jack Black. The premise is that the two girls lose their boyfriends and then swap houses. Now, when Cameron’s character’s boyfriend says that he did cheat on her, she goes to him and punches him. Hard. Twice. And that is done in a “comic setting.” Hahaha! How fun is it to see someone physically bruise someone else!

Am I the only one who thinks this is stupid stuff to show? It seems that more and more, you see women beating the crap out of men (see Uma Thurman beat up Luke Wilson in “My Super Ex-Girlfriend”). Why? I mean, if it were the other way around, nobody would laugh, most women would be down right upset. And with good reason. When was the last time that you saw a guy take a swing at his girlfriend in a movie, that she didn’t hit him back and that everyone thought it was very funny?

Hopefully, this stupid phase will pass. Video games make kids violent… female role models going beserk on their boyfriend in movies causes violent behaviour!

I’m back

Kint and fidooda were upgrading the server this weekend, and Chris ran into a few problems with MySQL and WordPress. Those problems are now taken care of, we’re all back online! Good job guys.

It all makes sense!

I was listening to the latest Penny Arcade podcast, where they talk about the Playstation “Pornable” (their word) and they often abbreviate it to PSP. Now, they don’t say Pee-Ess-Pee, they make a word with it: Possp. It sounds exactly like the word pus, which I guess explains why Nintendo are totally raping Sony in the portable video games department.

Me and my goddaughter

Today was Father’s Day, and we took a few pictures on my father’s side of the family. Here’s a pretty good shot of me with my goddauther:

Update: not to brag or anything, but can I say that I think that I look hot? :-D And not because it was 31 C out.

Roller blades!

Yesterday, I bought a pair of roller blades! I decided I wanted to get some outdoor exercise. The gym is nice and all, but it’s not very fun to jog 30 minutes indoors when there’s a beautiful day outside. And since the whole bike thing didn’t work out so well last summer, and due to the fact that I once was a big adept of roller blading, hopefully I’ll use the roller blades more than I’ve used the bike :)

The last time I went roller blading was 9 years ago, in secondary 2: there was a end of the school year activity where people could go roller blade on a nice track. A friend of mine went all the way and back again, but when I removed the skates, I had calluses the size of Montana under both feet. That sort of confirmed that the skates I had were not the best quality in the world, and since I didn’t have any money at that time, I never got around to buying a new pair.

I skated in the village for 30 minutes today and when I came home, nothing under my feet. So far, so good! And it was nice to feel the air in my face and even nicer not to have had the dog chasing me problem that I had when I was younger :)

La Bande à Picsou

Salut les français! Je suis entrain d’écouter des émission de la Bande à Picsou, mais en anglais, malheureusement. Est-ce que c’est juste moi ou est-ce que les noms des personnages étaient meilleurs en français? Je pense en particulier à Flagada Jones (quel nom drôle à dire) versus son nom anglophone, Launchpad McQuack… Pas écoeurant, hein? S’il s’adonne que quelqu’un possède tous les DVD de la Bande à Picsou en v.f., j’aimerais beaucoup pouvoir les emprunter S.V.P. Merci beaucoup!

“C’est le plus grand boss de toute la ville, Picsou, Picsou!”

Video of someone drawing a Manga girl

This video, in spite of the shaky camera and sometimes bad angles, is pretty nice. A magician manga girl in 9 minutes (accelerated) with a good Nightwish song.

Gabe & Photoshop

Someone on a forum mentionned that a few year ago, Gabe of Penny Arcade released a screencast of himself inking a strip. I found the video in question, and it’s very interesting to watch him work. Check it out!

Most demanding sport

I was wondering the other night what could possibly be the most physically demanding sport. I had a few sports in mind: soccer, because players keep running during 90 minutes, tennis because you need to run all over the court and be precise, basketball for the same reasons as tennis.

I eventually googled “most demanding sport” and the first link was all I needed: ESPN answered the question. Their experts concluded that boxing is the most demanding sport, and I agree. I would’ve thought that tennis and soccer would’ve ranked higher; I still can’t figure out how baseball is more demanding than soccer.

Azureus: an example of Worse Is Better?

I needed to download a file on BitTorrent the other day, however I did not have enough free space on my iBook to do it, so I used my Ubuntu PC with Azureus. I had never used Azureus before, however I had used Eclipse, and if that was any indication, I figured that Azureus would be big and slow. My instincts were right. Azureus took about 10 seconds to start, gkrellm’s memory usage indicators passed from 10% to 40% and top reported a steady 20% load on the CPU.

At one point, I needed to see the progress of the download, so I went to Azureus and installed a remote access plugin. Pretty useful. Out of curiosity, I quickly checked what plugin writing for Azureus was like. Unsurprisingly, it seemed overly complicated and long — at least in comparaison to the quick functions one can write in Emacs Lisp.

Yet, in spite of its deficiencies, I can’t think of a better BitTorrent client than Azureus. It is multi-platform, it has more features than any other client (including encryption), it has a bunch of community-contirbuted plugins, it’s open source, it has a lot of developpers, it’s available in languages I have never heard about. Basically, it does everything you need plus a whole lot more you want and then some.

So even if Azureus is bulkier than the official BitTorrent client, slower than uTorrent, I think it remains the number one client.