life

It’s certainly been a while since I posted anything that cannot be described as depressingly numerical, dull, or entirely pointless.

I could talk about Lola Rennt on blu-ray,but when I did get to enjoy it in full HD the impact was noticeably lessened by how well Matt’s plasma TV could upscale a DVD. I can only conclude that Blu-Ray is for people with equipment that cannot upscale (I was thinking of linking to VLC here, but they’ve improved a lot recently) or for upscaling to displays the size of a tennis court with as many pixels as a Russia with the population density of Manhattan Island would have people. There’s little analysis I can perform on it without seeming deeply fatuous, so I’ll refrain. It is a wonderful film, and I surprised myself with the amount of the German I could understand.Sheiße! Manni!

I have been reading quite a bit lately, and by that I mean, more than I usually bring myself to, and less than I would like to. For all the intellectual benefits it brings, I’ve yet to find somewhere comfortable to do it. 

I’d like to devote a small section to the entire rebranding of this blog. Although that’s a silly term to use here- it’s pretty much what I’ve done. I mean, this is hardly a brand. So, as from a few days ago, madebyalex.org has ceased to exist and been replaced with  MostFoolhardy.org, in some vain hope that using the same name for this blog as I do across the internet at large will somehow encourage me to write more.

Madebyalex was a poor name, and somewhat arrogant. It has not been renewed. (This is also because godaddy.com is not a company I relish doing business with, but that’s for another day.)

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Oh, and lieu of any interesting content here is a video of Plant and Page playing Nobody’s Fault But Mine:

Oh, and if you want to get the best upscaling performance when you watch video on your pc- changing the resolution of the screen to the same as the source and telling your graphics card to handle all upscaling itself works quite well. This same effect can be achieved with media-player classic homecinema, but I’m not sure how. Also the PS3 has an exceptional upscaler and can make even the worst quality videos watchable.