Hot on the heels of my Netflix post, I just finished watching Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and noticed that Michelle Monaghan was in Gone Baby Gone as Angie Gennaro, but her KKBB character was in a commercial for Genaro's Beer.
I am too bored.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Netflix
On Recommendations: They recommended Kangaroo Jack to me because I liked Ratatouille and Kung Fu Panda. To their defense they also recommended Ice Age, which I actually did like. Why don't they consider the number of stars as well? Maybe there just aren't enough >= (4 - \epsilon) starred movies to go around (Kangaroo Jack had 3 + \epsilon, so maybe it's not that bad). I wonder when they will incorporate improvements from the Netflix competitions.
On old movies / tv shows: Do they make more money off of folks who rent old movies? Old movies are already shown for free on public TV, basic cable, and even online. Oh well, I should rent a movie based on its utility to me, not them, anyway. On a related note, I recently enjoyed the train station scene from The Untouchables (too young when it was first released).
It's much better to let y'all see that scene in context than to post the isolated youtube clip.
On old movies / tv shows: Do they make more money off of folks who rent old movies? Old movies are already shown for free on public TV, basic cable, and even online. Oh well, I should rent a movie based on its utility to me, not them, anyway. On a related note, I recently enjoyed the train station scene from The Untouchables (too young when it was first released).
It's much better to let y'all see that scene in context than to post the isolated youtube clip.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
The Phoenix Wright series is awesome.
If only there was a way to convert theorem prover queries into amusing court cases and have children of all ages help us find contradictions.
Misc:
http://objection.mrdictionary.net/index.php
+ the whole slew of youtube videos (e.g., this, this')
If only there was a way to convert theorem prover queries into amusing court cases and have children of all ages help us find contradictions.
Misc:
http://objection.mrdictionary.net/index.php
+ the whole slew of youtube videos (e.g., this, this')
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Ocaml documentation in emacs
Zach made a post for how to do this in Vim, so I was curious how to do it in emacs. First define this in your custom.el or whatever
then add the binding w/ something like this:
To use it from tuareg (or ocaml) mode, put your cursor over the name of an Ocaml standard library module (e.g. "Set" if you have the text "Set.union ..." in your source) and hit "M-?"
(defun ocaml-lookup-module ()
(interactive) ;; to run from keybinding
(let ((sym (thing-at-point 'symbol)))
(if sym
(shell-command
(concat "firefox http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/"
(concat sym ".html")))
)))
then add the binding w/ something like this:
(add-hook 'tuareg-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(define-key tuareg-mode-map (kbd "M-?") 'ocaml-lookup-module)))
To use it from tuareg (or ocaml) mode, put your cursor over the name of an Ocaml standard library module (e.g. "Set" if you have the text "Set.union ..." in your source) and hit "M-?"