Leap Day Post

It's been cold, wet, snowy and disgusting outside lately, which has caused me to spend my time watching entirely too many movies and old episodes on tv shows. Here are my movie and telvision reviews:

Atonement - Amazing story with a touching ending. Writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's (Keira Knightley) lover (James McAvoy) of a crime he did not commit.

August Rush - A touching movie with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents. I am a sucker for happy endings. My favorite character would have to be the little girl in the church choir. She has an amazing voice and "Raise It Up!" should have won the Oscar for best song.

Michael Clayton - I thought the movie moved too slow and I couldn't really get into it.

Jumper - Very entertaining, but the plot was a little "jumpy".

Battlestar Galactica - Matt and I have been slowly watching all 3 seasons of Battlestar Gallactica over the past couple of months and I am addicted. However, the character Starbuck is really annoying and every time she's put in danger I wish they would kill off the character. My favorite character would have to be Sharron, it's nice to see a her being accepted my humans even though she's a cylon. I can't wait for new episodes in April.

Lost - Could this show get any more confusing, every episode brings more unanswered questions. I really want to know who the Oceanic 6 are and why does Kate have a son named Aaron?!? Despite my confusion, I still can't wait for Thursday nights!

A New Post

I seem to be neglecting this blog lately, so I decided to take this snow day to post an update. Some great things that have happened lately are the birth of two new beautiful babies. My mother has yet to send me any pictures of my cousin's new baby Kiara. Matt's mom sent me some new pictures of Matt's new cousin Joseph earlier today. Isn't he cute...

This month Matt and I took a trip to Stamford to look at a couple apartments. We found a place we really liked, but it was a little too far away from the train station. We also realized that it is still a little too early to find private listings for apartments since we don't want to move in until the beginning of June.

Another wonderful thing that happened this month was a flu epidemic that visited out school. Over 300 students were sick the flu, including me. I still have a bit of a cough, but so do most students on campus. I think it needs to stop snowing and Global Warming needs to kick in and boost these temperatures. Speaking of warmer temperatures, what is with Groundhog's Day? I don't understand how you know whether or not a groundhog sees it's shadow. Can people not see a shadow so they conclude that the groundhog has no shadow? Or is there a person who can speak to groundhogs and can ask the groundhog? I also have no idea why the appearance of a shadow or lack there of can tell you anything about how long winter will be this year. I have always been perplexed by this issue and if anyone has any insight into Groundhog's Day, I would appreciate the information.

I have also been extremely busy lately with Gaming for Hope planning. For those of you that don't attend Marist or don't have any idea what I'm talking about, Gaming for Hope is a large LAN party run by the Computer Society and Anime Society. The event involves PC, console, table top games, tournaments and prizes. All proceeds will go to Child's Play Charity, which provides entertainment for hospitals and centers that treat children with terminal illnesses. This year Gaming for Hope will be held on April 19th this year from 1pm - 1am in the Marist College McCann center. For more information go to: http://www.gamingforhope.com/.

That is all for now, but if I will try to post regularly from now on.

Short and Sweet

I have been really busy and haven't had any time to post. However, I thought I would write about 2 links that I think are amazing. The first one I found when I had to write a program that contained an array of 15 regular expressions. I came upon Regex-Tastic when looking for a regular expression tester and it is one of the best I have seen. You can input large amounts of test data and it will highlight all matches and total them. This tester works for PCRE and POSIX. The other extremely helpful link was www.ilovejackdaniels.com. Such a great domain name, especially since it has nothing to do with Jack Daniels. The site contains a number of very helpful cheat sheets for HTML, SQL, regular expressions, JavaScript and many others. I have entirely too much homework to do so I will end this post with "GO PATRIOTS!".