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Monthly Archives: November 2015
Review of “Man from U.N.C.L.E.”
* * C Henry “Superman” Cavill and Armie “Lone Ranger” Hammer star as rival agents turned allies trying to find the nuclear scientist father of Gaby, played by Alicia Vikander (Ava in Ex Machina) before a couple of villains can … Continue reading
Posted in movies
Tagged alicia vikander, armie hammer, henry cavill, Hugh Grant, jared harris, movie, review, the man from UNCLE
1 Comment
Hash Table Shootout Updated
I spent today working on the Hash Table Shootout project. Check out the updated version on git hub: https://github.com/jimbelton/hash-table-shootout. I added a new fast benchmark that counts the number of unique words in the King James version of the bible … Continue reading
Posted in programming
Tagged benchmarks, hash tables, hash-table-shootout, hashing, programming
1 Comment
Answers to Questions for Atheists by Matt Slick
These questions were posted by Matt Slick on the web site of the Christian Appologetics and Research Ministry. I’ve provided my answers. Matt writes: These questions are not meant to be show stoppers. They are only for research purposes so … Continue reading
Posted in philosophy
Tagged atheism, christian appologetics and research ministry, christianity, spirituality, theology
3 Comments
Review of “The Nightmare”
* * * B This docudrama on sleep paralysis is truly creepy. The film consists mainly of interviews with half a dozen or so people who suffer from the malady, with dramatizations of their experiences with shadow people, demons and … Continue reading
Posted in movies
Tagged demons, movie, review, shadow people, sleep paralysis, the nightmare
1 Comment
Review of “Ant Man”
* * * B Ant Man exceeded my expectations. It was a good, entertaining film. Paul Rudd was excellent as the ant man, as was Michael Douglas as mentor and inventor Hank Pym. Evangeline Lilly (Tauriel in the Hobbit movies) … Continue reading
Posted in movies
Tagged ant man, corey stall, evangeline lilly, hank pym, michael douglas, movie, paul rudd, review, scott lang, stark industries, the falcon
1 Comment
Review of “Spectre” (no spoilers)
* * C The fourth installment of the Daniel Craig Bond reboot fails to deliver. After the fantastic first installment, based on the last Ian Fleming James Bond novel never made into a serious film, the lackluster sequel, and the … Continue reading
Posted in movies
Tagged ben whishaw, christopher waltz, daniel craig, dave bautista, ernst stavro blofeld, ian fleming, james bond, lea seydoux, moneypenny, monica bellucci, movie, mr hinx, ralph finnes, review, spectre
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Review of “The Prince”
* D What would happen if John Wick had a daughter, and she was Taken? That’s the premise of this dull derivative action flick. The cinematography and fight choreography are bad and boring (unlike those in John Wick, which were … Continue reading
Posted in movies
Tagged brian miller, bruce willis, jason patrick, jessic lowndes, john cusack, movie, review, the prince
1 Comment
How To Use Heroku
Heroku is a cloud based development platform, part of Salesforce, that allows you deploy web based applications in the cloud. I’ve been playing with it to see what it can do. To create a new Heroku app named app-name in … Continue reading
Python virtualenv How To
To install the virtualenv command, run: pip install virtualenv If that fails and you have root priviledges, run: sudo pip install virtualenv To create a python virtualenv called venv, run: virtualenv venv To activate that environment, run: source venv/bin/activate You … Continue reading
Posted in programming
Tagged pip, programming, python, the hitchhiker's guide to python, virtualenv
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