And I have to admit, everything about it that I said was good, is still good.  And Johnny Depp got better!  Listening to him without the bias of being uber excited to watch the movie, without the overblown expectations of a simpering gushing fan of the musical, and without the original cast recording tracks running in full digital Dolby surround in my head, was actually bearable.  Combined with his intense acting and innate kookiness, his performance was actually more than acceptable to say the least.

But oh goodness gracious, if I was keeping a running score for this show, everything still evens out even after Johnny’s surprisingly stellar performance because on this second watching Helena Bonham Carter tanked and canceled out any twinkie points the movie might have earned.  She paled last night, more than ever!  I realized just how terribly inappropriate her voice was for the movie.  She can’t sing the part of Mrs. Lovett.  She just can’t.  She shouldn’t have been allowed.  I winced every time she hit the high notes.  Or the low ones for that matter.  She can hold a tune.  But I would prefer if she did it at arm’s length.  At one point I was actually thinking that the director should have realized his casting mistake earlier on in the movie, but then thought that the ensuing fight and emotional breakdowns must have been more painful to consider than making sure the movie is faithful to its origins.  I mean, he is married to her after all.

All in all, still a delightful, bloody, gory, amusing, musically inspired, artistically photographed, beautifully staged movie.  Just with not very good singing.

is all i can say.  i watched it, was blown away by the cinematography, the costumes, the voices of everyone else apart from the lead characters, was appropriately squeamish in all the right places, was particularly impressed with the makeup and the lighting and the sets, was amused at the in jokes and the changes in lyrics they had to do so that the lines would fit movie-goers as opposed to more linguistically inclined theater crowds and

meh

is all i can say.

i suppose you can have phenomenal stage direction, realistic prosthetics, unbelievable lighting, and one of the best soundtracks in the world, but if the actors are just not up to snuff, all you would get is a movie that is average at best and only deserving of a (INSERT TITLE OF POST HERE)

doo00ds, it’t got hot girl fights and fixing computers and a hot blond chick who’s actually a ninja but who’s actually not and martial arts and nerdiness and computers and media and screwdrivers and tango and hot chicks and pasty white geeks and stanford and smartiness and nerd herd cars and xbox and helicopters and goodness gracious watchit watchit watchit

ITAPPMONROBOT 

I read this and was sad for the widdle robot that could, bravely doing its job in the face of the absurdity of its actual existence.  It was built to press that button, and darned if it wouldn’t continue doing that job until the day its circuits finally die down, or it’s broken down for scraps, whichever one comes first.

Why we use i, j, and k in for loops

This is interesting.  I have used ‘i’ ever since they taught me to do it that way in school.  ‘j’ and ‘k’ followed naturally.  Good to know I was somehow tuned in to a coder’s hivemind all those years.

• mssql_fetch_field() only returns the first 30 characters
• “WHERE 1″ is not allowed
• ORDER BY field_with_text_datatype is not allowed
• SHOW TABLES is not recognized
• There is no last_insert_id() function
• mssql_fetch_field() returns only the first 30 letters of a field
• The SQL function CHARACTER_LENGTH() is defined as LEN()
• The SQL function CURDATE() is defined as GETDATE()
• The datediff function requires 3 arguments.
• ‘CONCAT’ is not a recognized function name.
• The text, ntext, and image data types cannot be compared or sorted, except when using IS NULL or LIKE operator.
• Conditional IF statements are implemented differently
• The syntax for LIMIT is RowNumber, and is different in ways other than just changing the function name

I <3 PHP+MySQL

There are 52 weeks in a year.

There are 624 weeks in 12 years.

Two weeks out of 624 is 1/312 in fractions.

That is 0.0032051282051282051282051282051282.

That is 0.0032. This is what we will call, for lack for a more scientific term (at least until we have it patented or published) a blip.

A blip is a non-numeric number, just like the googol. A googol is 1 followed by one hundred numbers, and is used to represent almost unbelievable quantities. It is a more convenient way to call a large amount without having to specify an exact real number.

On the other hand, the blip is coined as a word to specify incredibly small amounts. Not infinitesimally small numbers, as in those used in scientific equations or experiments, just casually small amounts, as those that can be used in everyday parlance, and usually to specify an amount (or lack thereof) of time.

So we can say, for example, that something came and went in a blip.  Like, my Christmas bonus was in my bank account for only a blip.  Or, the days before the deadline felt like a blip before we had to deliver.

A blip is also conveniently onomatopoeic.  It is exactly as it sounds, a very short electronic static hiccup delivered in either one or two musical notes, but never longer than that.

A blip is over before it even started, a burp in time, a comma in a series of events, a drop of water in the sea of life.

Ok, that last one was a bit overreaching, but still.  A blip is a blip.  Gone in a sec-

gasps, wheezes, shakes, snorts with laughter while still watching The Big Bang Theory, now going on episode 5, with a cylinder of chips and some juice.

life is good.

i can just read the scripts for this and it would still make me LOL, goodness graciousness, its just so freaking GOOD

Oh, goodness, so good, tv show, perfect, so funny, can’t write, too funny, too perfect, look it up, so so good, with the nerdy goodness, and the IQ and the smartness, gaaaah I hate this speechlessnessness…