Monday, September 22, 2008

2006 Santa Ynez Valley Winery Cabernet Franc

This is a very dry wine, that paired very nicely with my salmon, asparagus and capers pasta a couple nights ago.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Ghostscript PDF Printer

Well, I've been mailing a lot of documents to all kinds of people, and I prefer to mail them in a "locked down" format so that no changes can be made for obvious reasons.

Business people like Word (the "smell" of LaTeX gives of an academic vibe whereby you might as well tattoo "sucker" on your forehead.)

Enter the Ghostscript PDF printer.

Like all free software, it's a pain in the ass to set up but once you do, it works like a charm.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Elegy

I had read good reviews of this, and so I went to watch it with my friend Jeff, who knows a ton about movies. I enjoyed it, though I can't put my finger on why, nor do I think it's going to be especially memorable. I didn't think it was particularly accurate, as I did with "Closer", nor deep, and it did get a little saccharine in places. But I especially loved the score, and I thought the photography was OK.