Adam Schwabe took this photo of me playing a request at the Drake Hotel’s rooftop bar early Friday evening:
Month: May 2009
There’s a part of me that hopes that the new Star Trek movie premiering today takes its plot from this 1980s Star Trek comic in which the crew of the Enterprise takes on a vampire who sounds like Shaft:
(This fine bit of comic Photshoppery was created by Kevin Church.)
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“Yippie Ki Yay…”
In an earlier article, I wrote about the cleaned-for-TV version of Samuel Jackson’s famous in the movie Snakes on a Plane. Here’s an even better-known line – Bruce Willis’ battle cry from the Die Hard movie series – as edited for prime-time television audiences:
You have to keep in mind that there is no character or concept in the movie named “Mr. Falcon”; the words seems to have been picked randomly. He might as well have said “major factor”, “motor fixer” or even “mojito freezepop”.
(And whoever did the voice rework did a terrible Bruce Willis impression. He sounds more like a young John Travolta saying “Yippee ki yay, Mr. Kotter.”)
For reference, here’s the non-Bowdlerized version:
Inventive as the attempt to come up with a prime-time TV-friendly substitute for “motherfucker” in Die Hard 2 is, it doesn’t hit the creative new heights achieved in this clean-up of The Usual Suspects’ “lineup scene”:
I think it might’ve worked better had they simply bleeped those words out.
Once again, in the name of completeness, here’s the unedited version:
This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.
This week, I’m going to have my hands full on Friday with WordCamp Toronto, so I’m moving my Coffee and Code session from Friday to this Thursday, May 7th, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Dark Horse Cafe (215 Spadina).
This particular Coffee and Code has a theme: developing and deploying PHP applications on Windows. I’ll be talking about and answering questions about PHP on Windows, the Web Platform Installer (which I recently covered in this article) and the PHP FTW! contest, which pits student developers against professional developers for cash prizes.
Come on down and join me for a coffee! I’m going to see if I can bring some PHP-themed goodies to give away, just in case my scintillating company and Dark Horse’s great coffee aren’t enticements enough for you to drop by.
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방구 (or: “Did You Fart?”)
“Chiamattt” is the younger brother of my high school pal Kevin, and he recently discovered the golden rule of farting: location, location, location.
If you’re a fan of the Violent Femmes (and if you remember rotary-dial phones), you’re going to recognize the reference in this piece of retro-themed art by so0meone going by the name “9 0 0 0”:
There’s more stuff like this in 9 0 0 0’s Flickr photoset titled Plan 9.001.
This is the most awesome accordion cover EVAR! (Hint: "Quiero Que Me Quieras" is Spanish for "I Want You to Want Me".)
And hey, happy Cinco de Mayo, everyone!