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Awhile back I walked around my neighborhood with a digital camera snapping pictures. At the time, there was a huge redevelopment project that had finished up in Edward Everett Square, featuring a huge pear and a bunch of bricks with sayings inscribed into them. Here’s a few of the pictures I took that day of the new Edward Everett Square. Big props to the Edward Everett Square Redevelopment Project for sprucing up the neighborhood.
You can check out these pictures and others at my flickr page.
Five minutes into The Simpsons movie, the guy sitting behind us summed up my opinion quite well, “it’s already worth the $10 ticket”. I chuckled and nodded my approval as I settled in for a joyride through my adolescence with all my old animated chums.
I had reservations about the The Simpsons Movie before going in but was excited nonetheless, the sheer amount of jokes and new territory the producers broke in the first act of the film makes it the best Simpsons content of the last five years, easily. The second act does drag a little bit but is still funny, and the pace picks up again in the third act of the film. I don’t want to spoil the movie for anyone, but I don’t understand the reviewers out there who claim this movie didn’t feel epic enough; Springfield is on the edge of annihilation, that’s not epic enough?
A movie hasn’t brought me this many laughs in a long time. It might not be the funniest movie ever, and it certainly isn’t the best Simpsons content ever, but it’s damn good. Any true Simpsons fan will love the references to classic episodes and the new ground explored in both jokes and animation style. The producers used just enough Computer Generated animation to appease the eyes while still maintaining the classic Simpsons style. A movie with 18 years of hype simply cannot satisfy everyone, but as a lifelong Simpsons fan, I was pleasantly surprised.
For a show that started drastically decreasing in quality over five years ago (peaking well before then) to release a movie this funny and capable of appeasing its massive hype is a sign there’s still life left in the Simpsons franchise. Hopefully, now that the writers can focus on the show again, the quality of the TV episodes will pick up too. Until then, I’ll be watching the Simpsons Movie several more times, as it’s simply that good and contains a bounty of jokes I missed over all the laughter.
Score: 4.75 [out of 5]
Note, the above three images are from the publicly released trailers of The Simpsons Movie and are the copyrighted property of the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
It seems the internet is obsessed with cats, and just how freaking cute they are. Well my humble opinion is dogs are a much better pet, animal, and friend for several reasons, not the least of which is that they are able to be vicious and cute. So to counter the internet’s cute cat bias, here’s a few pictures of our dog Misia.
If you wanna see more pics of Misia, check out my Misia flickr set here or let me know by commenting below!
Last week, I wrote a post about 3 Useful Del.icio.us Tags, Life Quotes, & Traffic Generators, which was part of a blog project contest hosted by Daily Blog Tips. Well, the full list is up and after reading through all 115 entries, it’s obvious there’s a lot of quality bloggers on this list! You can check out my favorite posts below, but also check out the full list if you’ve got some spare time.
The posts were broken up by category so you’ll find my top 3 favorite posts, listed arbitrarily, from each category below. These posts were chosen based on personal preference and relative usefulness so don’t be discouraged if your site isn’t listed!
Blogging
Good advice.
I always lose track of comments I made somewhere so these sites are very useful. I tried cocomment once but will have to give it another whirl or try the other two sites.
Be careful using this one!
Honorable Mention: Three Things That I’ve Yet To Achieve as a Blogger by Rhys
Business & Career
Too bad I work for a financial services firm, which does a lot of accounting so this isn’t very applicable. Accounting relies on paper.
Great insight and very true.
Useful information and advice for everyone, even if you’re not looking for a job right now.
Honorable Mention: Top 3 Reasons Why You Have to Work from Home by Alfa
Entertainment
Though I disagreed with the top three (check out the comments on the post for my top three), the idea and writing is solid.
Reading the Declaration of Independence, good advice for any day.
Free + Willie Nelson = Awesome!
Honorable Mention: Three Great Anime Blogs and Maybe Anime? by Carlie
Health & Fitness
Good advice for diabetics, and a good read in general.
I’ve always wanted to run the Boston Marathon, hopefully this post will encourage me.
And this post will motivate me to get in shape for the marathon.
Honorable Mention: The Top Three Reasons Why I hate Diets by Joey
Make Money Online
This category only had 3 submissions, so to be fair to the other categories I’m only choosing one post.
As an economics geek, Pedro’s analysis of the opportunity costs of blogging was a very interesting read.
Technology
Interesting analysis of how the Prius is not the best thing since sliced bread, for some people.
Wicked useful! Thanks Kuanhoong.
As someone who built my own PCs back in the day, this post was cool!
Honorable Mention: 3+3 free tools for moving your life and your stuff online by Tanya
Travel
I’ve always wanted to visit Japan, seems like such a cool place.
Honestly, I don’t have a huge desire to go to Hawaii, but if I do I can go on the cheap!
Great, now add Cyprus to list of places to visit…this list is too big!
Honorable Mention: 3 wonders of the world that designers should have voted for by Mirko
Web Development & Design
Nice, I’ve been considering making a unique style on this blog so look out for some changes.
Very useful tips, especially on javascript compression.
Very handy, I need to implement some icons on this blog so this is very good timing.
Honorable Mention: How I built 10,000 links in 3 weeks
Random Topics
This guy needs a wallet chain wicked bad.
Funny (and useful) phrases women like to hear. Thanks Paris!
Simply awesome.
Honorable Mention: Ten things i didn’t know about the number 3 until now by Blaiq
Good job everyone and thanks to Daniel for hosting this project/contest!
