Archive for December, 2007
Review of Borne Ultimatum
by Jacob on Dec.28, 2007, under Reviews
I recently checked Borne Ultimatum out of the RedBox, and watched this thrilling movie on my temporary home theater system. I’ve seen a number of movies over the Christmas break, and this is one of my favorites.
This movie features ex-CIA agent Jason Borne seeking to find out about the top-secret CIA operations which have turned him into a killing monster.
It is pretty easy to make a recommendation for this movie, as it is very similar to the previous two movies in the trilogy. Those people who liked the other Borne movies will like this movie as well. Those who didn’t enjoy the other movies, probably won’t find much to enjoy in this movie either.
This movie was packed with thrilling fast-paced action, but it didn’t seem as novel as it did in the first movie because it is a lot of more-of-the-same type of exciting action. This movie was great in that it had more plot progression than did the previous movies, and it did a fairly good job at tying up the trilogy story line.
I don’t think they should come out with any more Borne movies, if they did, I think the next movie should be called Borne Again. (laugh, its a joke).
I’m moving to Fort Collins, Colorado
by Jacob on Dec.20, 2007, under Life
Last week I was interviewing with Hewlett Packard in Fort Collins, Colorado. They were interviewing me for a software developer position to do programming for embedded Linux systems. The trip was incredibly fun, and the interview went well too. The day after I got home, I received a phone call from HP and they extended the job offer to me.
I’ve accepted the offer, which means in January I’ll be moving to Fort Collins, Colorado. I’m very excited about this time of my life and I’m looking forward to all the new adventures which await me.
Movies I own
by Jacob on Dec.18, 2007, under General
- Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Spiderman
- The Incredibles
- Transformers
- Eureka season 1
- Oceans 11
- Back to the Future trilogy
- Pride and Prejudice
- Finding Nemo
- The Princess Bride
- Life is Beautiful
- Star Wars Episodes 2 & 3
- Star Wars original trilogy (on VHS)
- Monster’s Inc
- Ghostbusters
- Cars
- Ratatouille
- Shrek
- Hook
- Fantastic 4
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Apollo 13
- Toy Story
- 24 seasons 2&5
Christmas Update: I added some movies to the above list that I received for Christmas.
Update Nov. 7, 2008 Added some movies that I’ve more recently purchased.
Review of Wendy’s in Fort Collins
by Jacob on Dec.14, 2007, under Religion
Wednesday night, I used the drive through at the Wendy’s at 3710 S College Ave. in Fort Collins, Colorado. Their service was too fast, which means they gave me food which was already sitting around, and when I looked at my Junior Bacon Cheeseburger, I found that the meat was exceptionally smaller than I’m use to.
I had also thought that they had forgotten to give me a spoon for my chili, but it turns out that I was dumb and just couldn’t find it.
My blog post found in JBoss Richfaces source
by Jacob on Dec.09, 2007, under Technical
Today I discovered that a link to a post on my blog is included in the source to JBoss Richfaces. The blog post that was referenced was a small note I made about bug in the Safari web browser. They provided a workaround in Javascript code for a suggestion box, and they referenced my post in a comment in the source code.
It makes me feel good when I see things that I’ve written appear in real-world applications. It is also nice that the source code is open, which means that anyone can look at it and appreciate my website address.
