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The Soul Of A New Machine

By Jay Lagare on Sunday, July 15, 2007

I finished migrating all (I hope) of my data from Selene, my personal Thinkpad X22, to Ilsa, my new office Thinkpad T60. The migration itself was rather painless but then again, I’ve done it quite a few times already.

So far everything seems to be running well and I don’t seem to be missing any data. But to be sure, I’ll be monitoring the data next week before I completely sanitize the copy on Selene. We don’t want anyone finding incriminating evidence now, do we?

I actually much prefer carrying and using the smaller and lighter Selene but I’ll be lending her to a dear friend of mine who will be going to the US for a month. He doesn’t have a notebook and being the nice person that I am I volunteered to lend him one. Hahaha.

I, of course, I have another, more pragmatic, reason. I’m again dabbling into software development and the X-series was not really designed for such things. The T-series, on the other hand, is a real problem-solving, number-crunching, data-processing machine so it should help things go faster.

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Children Of Men

By Jay Lagare on Saturday, July 7, 2007

Children Of Men is set in a gray dystopian London of the future. Mankind is on the verge of extinction because of no children being born for previous eighteen years. The world is in chaos as desperation and gloom set in. Theo (Clive Owen) was contacted by Julian (Julianne Moore) to help her with a mission. The initially reluctant Theo eventually was convinced. What happens next is a frantic run while being chased by those who would stop the mission. During the whole thing, Theo doesn’t go around dispatching his enemies left and right but he’s as heroic as any, more so even. Some claim this movie is the new Blade Runner. I’m not quite sure about that but it is nonetheless a good sci-fi/action movie.

Rating: 4/5

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Transformers

By Jay Lagare on Friday, June 29, 2007

Transformers is the movie version of the Transformers animated TV series. Like the TV series, it is about the battle between two opposing groups of ‘bots: The goodie goodie Autobots and the evil Decepticons. I’ve never been a fan of the TV series. So I’m sure I wasn’t able to completely appreciate this movie version. Still, I liked it well enough especially since the ‘bots were much more intricate and complex than their TV series version and the action much more frenetic. Yes, it is first and foremost an action movie and it provided a lot of action kicks. You can’t help but be thrilled as the ‘bots transformed, ducked, spun, and pummeled, and shot at each other. This was especially true during the climactic battle in the middle of the city. Buildings and rampaging ‘bots: always a great combination. And human military forces weren’t so bad either. Aside from the action, there was a little bit of comedy, romance, and drama thrown in for good measure. Good movie. Now can somebody please make something like this for Robotech?

Rating: 4/5

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Crazy Love

By Jay Lagare on Sunday, June 24, 2007

by Poco

Verse 1
Fmaj7
 C                 Fmaj7
Tonight I'm gonna break away
G        Fmaj7    C
Just you wait and see.
                 Fmaj7
I'll never be imprisoned by
  G     Fmaj7 C
a faded memory.

Verse 2
                      Fmaj7
Just when I think I'm over her,
     G      Fmaj7      C
this broken heart will mend.
                     Fmaj7
I hear her name and I have to cry,
    G          Fmaj7  C
the tears come down again.

Chorus:
                   Fmaj7
It happens all the time.
     G          C
This crazy love of mine,
              Fmaj7
wraps around my heart
  G        C
refusing to unwind.
Fmaj7 G   Fmaj7  C
Ooo   Ooo Crazy Love
Fmaj7  G   Fmaj7  C
Ahh    ahh

Verse 3
Count the stars in a summer sky,
that fall without a sound.
And then pretend that you can't hear
these tear drops coming down.

Chorus

Verse 4:
Tonight I'm gonna break away
Just you wait and see
I'll never be imprisoned by
a faded memory.

Chorus
C                          Fmaj7 (strum sustain)
Tonight I'm gonna break away...

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Heroes

By Jay Lagare on Sunday, June 24, 2007

I’ve been marathon watching Heroes. It was much more interesting than I expected. It’s basically about otherwise normal people manifesting powers. It’s a recurring theme used in stories like X-Men. But this one focuses on the ordinary lives of the characters as they interleave with the main plot line. One thing I really liked: The heroes don’t wear fancy hero costumes. Why would anyone want to wear colorful, tight-fitting clothes anyway?

At the rate I’m going, I should be done by the middle of next week. Looking forward to it.

Rating: 4/5

UPDATE: I’ve finally completed it. What can I say? The season ender was majorly anti-climactic. What a bummer!