http://grismar.net Whatever Grismar is up to now Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:02:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My girlfriend doesn't like any computer games. Any computer games? Well, there's one she does like and in fact went to the trouble of installing herself: the 11th Hour. Yes it's old^H^H^Ha classic. But playing it together - which I have to admit is an altogether different experience on a ... http://grismar.net/2008/10/08/old-and-wrong-but-not-forgotten/ Hellboy (2004) - [rate 2.0] After watching Hellboy II on the big screen, I felt the need to rewatch Hellboy, since I'd missed the middle part the first time I watched it and never gave it a good look. One thing I immediately noticed is how much Hellboy and Hellboy ... http://grismar.net/2008/10/01/hellboy/ Hellboy II: the Golden Army (2008) - [rate 3.5] The signature style of Guillermo del Toro and Mike Mignola's comic universe of Hellboy and the BPRD mix surprisingy well in this fantasy action thriller. Although the story is fairly straightforward and bears little hidden meaning, it's entertaining and it looks ... http://grismar.net/2008/09/27/hellboy-ii-the-golden-army/ 3:10 to Yuma (2007) - [rate 3] It's a good thing I hadn't realized this one was written by the same scenarists that wrote Wanted, or I might have worried that my verdict was influenced by my recent experience of that movie. 3:10 is a decent western and manages to ... http://grismar.net/2008/09/27/310-to-yuma/ Wanted (2008) - [rate 2.5] Wanted makes you wonder about the merits of rating movies with stars. Rating a movie with stars relates it to all other movies you've seen sofar, nevermind the genre, age or other attributes. Wanted is a pretty good movie if all you were looking for ... http://grismar.net/2008/09/18/wanted/ I've completed my trip across in the USA in three ways today. #1: I've met up with the final friend in the USA I wanted to visit; #2: I stood in the water of the Atlantic at Viriginia Beach, after starting out with my feet in the Pacific off the ... http://grismar.net/2008/09/12/wrapping-it-up-mission-success/ The good news is that I keep running into interesting people to talk to. The bad news is that it leaves me precious little time to keep my blog up to date. For the curious: I've only three more days left in the US. Today I will be traveling to ... http://grismar.net/2008/09/10/good-news-bad-news/ It's not exactly the first thing you expect to go out when a hurricane strikes, but it turns out that wireless internet becomes pretty hard to come by. I drove south from Arkansas, into Texas where I stayed in Dallas and then Houston. In Houston I ended up in a ... http://grismar.net/2008/09/09/hurricanes-hurt-the-interwebs/ My recently acquired laptop has a screen that suffers the same problem as pretty much any laptop screen you can get nowadays. It's glossy, shiny and mirrorlike. It's a frustration shared by a lot of consumers and there has been a comprehensive article on shiny screens on Ars Technica since ... http://grismar.net/2008/09/06/glossy-screens-the-idiot-looking-back-at-you/ Unlike the northeastern and eastern bit of Arkansas, the central and western parts of it are actually a pleasure to drive through. The country is verdant, hilly and varied and if it weren't for the lack of notable cities I could see people really wanting to move here. And from ... http://grismar.net/2008/09/06/40/