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[Feb. 28th, 2011|11:35 am] |
Sick all weekend. Watched Enter the Dragon and Black Dynamite.
2011 movie count: tbd
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| Just when you thought it was safe... |
[Feb. 8th, 2011|12:03 am] |
Yeah, I'm still here, but I've gotten out of the habit of reading. Too much to do, too little time.
I watched... some movie a few weeks ago... but I can't remember what it was right now. I also watched Kill Bill vol. 1 and 2 this weekend. I thought vol. 1 was enjoyable, if mindless, and vol. 2 was boring as all get out.
2011 movie count: 3 |
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| Yeah, I don't keep up with stuff here enough. sorry. |
[Dec. 13th, 2010|06:54 pm] |
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Yesterday blessed_lunatic and I watched the 6 episodes of The Walking Dead. It wasn't horrible, no matter what atox says. I've also been playing Left 4 Dead 2. It's not bad either. That means a lot of zombies, though... and they JUST KEEP COMING. |
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| 28 days later |
[Oct. 25th, 2010|08:56 pm] |
I watched 28 days later tonight. Does that mean I have to dream about zombies again?
2010 movie count: TBD
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| Zombie dreams |
[Oct. 23rd, 2010|11:28 am] |
Last night the dream started with a group of us driving down the street and suddenly being warped into a parallel version of the world where everything was similar but in a state if ruin.
It was dark and we quickly found ourselves being attacked by zombies. We barricaded ourselves inside a nearby school. We took minimal loses and we soon found out that the zombies could not operate in the daylight.
The next days and weeks found us gathering resources and defending ourselves well, but the zombies were smart and they eventually defeated our defenses, killing our taking almost everyone, but I managed to survive.
Shortly after that, a large group of bikers and a few cars come through the dimensional rift. I did my best to help them and we decided to explore further, finding a community of normal people that we joined up with to fight the zombies.
Then I woke up.
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| More movies |
[Aug. 13th, 2010|03:19 pm] |
I watched The Losers and Iron Man 2 (although I haven't seen the first one). They were both what you would expect, a mindless way to blow a few hours.
2010 movie count: TBD
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| Movie time |
[Aug. 8th, 2010|09:24 pm] |
I watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Green Zone today. I generally don't care for Jim Carry movies, but the idea was interesting. I thought the execution was a little lackluster. I caught on fairly quickly... Maybe fifteen minutes in.
I thought it was more interesting in it's exploration into the nature of long term relationships than in the memory erasure stuff, although it is a nice reminder that we really are the sum of our experiences, memories, and thoughts.
Green Zone was more thought provoking than the average action thriller, but I found the premise rather depressing.
2010 movie count: TBD
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| 3 Days of the Condor |
[Aug. 2nd, 2010|12:42 am] |
We watched 3 Days of the Condor tonight. It came on AMC to promote their new show, Rubicon, which I am going to give a shot.
Condor was pretty good, although it has the same kind of slow pacing that is typical of movies of that era.
2010 movie count: TBD
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| Inception |
[Jul. 23rd, 2010|10:18 am] |
I went to see Inception Monday night. It was good. Go see it. We don't get enough new movies that are original and require thought. Think Donnie Darko.
2010 movie count: tbd
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| Settings Profiles uses |
[Jun. 17th, 2010|10:52 pm] |
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So, here are some of the ways I use Settings Profiles.
- Control phone volume in certain places at certain times (work, church, etc.)
- Control power consuming features in certain places and/or times (wifi off at work, wifi on at home, etc)
- Nag reminders every X minutes for missed calls or text messages (replacing Missed Call app)
- Turning on the ringer and ringing over and over on specific text message (replacing lost phone finding app)
- Turning on media volume when I plug in headphones
- Turning on power consuming features when the phone is charging
- Turning off everything but the ringer at night when I am at home and I should be asleep
- Turning on GPS for short periods of time when I know I'll actually need it
- Turning off power consuming features when the battery is very low
Now, all of this can get a bit complicated. If you just wanted a simple time based set of profiles, something like Timerrific would suffice. Settings Profiles allows for multiple profiles to be applied in a stacked manner which allows for a lot more variation in complexity. A side effect is that it takes some thinking (like a programmer) to understand how things will interact. I'm going to try to deconstruct some of my configurations here.
First of all, I have four locations. Mostly because I'm boring. I have Work, Home, Home (wifi), and Church. Aside from the Home (wifi) one, these are all location based and, since I don't enable GPS very often, that means they are using the Google location API. This generally works fine, although it seems like there are issues sometimes. I think in part of my house the closest cell tower doesn't provide adequate coverage, so a different cell tower that shouldn't have the range to get here does and it makes it seem like the phone is about a mile further North than it actually is. I believe this is due to living on the side of a hill which faces away from the closest tower. Aside from that, it seems to work well.
I also have a ton of profiles, some of which exist for rules and some of which only exist for ad hoc activation.
Rules Sets:
- Airplane - turns off all radios (for ad hoc use)
- Audio On - turns on media and ringer volumes
- Auto Sync - turns on auto sync (this was for a failed experiment, I might discuss it later)
- Bluetooth On - duh (for ad hoc use)
- Charging - turns on wifi, auto sync, and sets the screen timeout to 5 minutes
- GPS on - duh (for ad hoc use)
- High Power - turns on wifi, auto sync, sets the screen timeout to 1 minute (this is deprecated)
- Loud - Sets the media and ringer volume to high (for ad hoc use)
- Media On - turns on the media volume
- Power Save - turns off bluetooth, wifi, gps, auto sync, sets the screen timeout to 15 sec, turns off vibrate
- Ring Only - turns off the media and notification volumes, turns off vibrate
- Silent - turns off volumes and turns off vibrate
- Vibrate - turns off volumens and turns on vibrate
- Wifi On - duh
- Work Power Save - turns off bluetooth and wifi, sets the screen timeout to 30 seconds
Okay, so those are the configurations. Then things get all complicated with rules. Some of them are quite simple. When I'm at home, it turns on wifi. When I'm at home and it's night time and I don't have headphones plugged in, it goes to ring only and power save mode. When I'm at work during business hours, it turns on work power save and vibrate modes.
The complicated ones are triggering notify events on missed calls and missed texts, and doing loud notify events when I get specific information in a text. I don't really use some of the capabilities around texts received or incoming phone calls from specific numbers or groups. Let alone the calendar stuff.
I really just scratch the surface of what can be done, I just think it's unfortunate that it's probably daunting for most people to figure out the nuances to setting up things so they work the way they want. That's probably the biggest problem with an otherwise incredibly powerful tool. |
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