Favorite Bible Verses

So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
- John 8:7

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
John 14:12

And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
John 9:1-3

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Romans 13:12

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
Mark 6:3

But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.
Galatians 1:19

While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. 47Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
Matthew 12:46-47

Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
Matthew 13:55

All passages are from the King James version, unless otherwise noted.

Great Movies For Kids - A list of Live Action and Animated Movies

Here's a list of inspiring and otherwise great movies that every kid should grow up with,
listed with the best age for prime viewing.

Star Wars IV-VI, 5-9 (have your kids watch the original trilogy first)
Homeward Bound, 5-9
The Three Musketeers, 7-12 (better for boys, some violence)
Back to the Future, 6-10
The Prince of Egypt, 6-10
Free Willy, 7-10
Fly Away Home, 6-10
Monkey Trouble, 6-10
The Parent Trap (1998, a chick flick)
Matilda, 6-9 (better for girls)
Charlotte's Web, 5-9
The Wizard of Oz
Toy Story, 5-9
Home Alone I & II, 5-9
Big, 6-10 (better for boys)
The Princess Bride
A Little Princess, 5-9 (better for girls)
A Christmas Story, 5-10
Mousehunt, 5-10
The Mask of Zorro, 10-15 (better for boys, rated PG-13)
Honey I Shrunk the Kids, 5-10
The Sandlot, 6-9
The Karate Kid I & II
3 Ninjas, 5-9 (better for boys, any older and they may not like it)
Old Yeller
The Rocketeer, 7-10 (better for boys)
Swiss Family Robinson, 6-10
Little Rascals, 5-7
Home Alone I & II, 5-9
Mrs. Doubtfire, 5-9

Excellent Disney Films

Pinocchio
Aladdin
Peter Pan
The Lion King
The Rescuers Down Under
Robin Hood
The Little Mermaid
The Jungle Book
101 Dalmatians
The Incredibles

Excellent special interest movies for kids

The Greatest Adventures of the Bible: David and Goliath
The Greatest Adventures of the Bible: Moses

Mac Applications to Test Drive

Quicksilver

ShiftIt
(Moves Windows via Keyboard, Is Like Aero Snap for Your Mac)
Coda

Dragoman
(Batch Converts Nearly Anything with Drag and Drop Simplicity)

GMapCatcher
(Browses Online Maps and Saves Them for Offline Use)

Alfred
(Another Nice Application Launcher, Quicksilver Alternative for Mac Users)

Sweet Home 3D
(Models Your Home, Rearranges Your Furniture Without Breaking a Sweat)

Komodo Edit

Highlight

Artisteer
Wordpress/Joomla template builder recently released for Mac.


Tested and kept

Skitch
I use it almost every day now to create screenshots for web development and other geeky stuff.

Movies recommended by others

Here's an ongoing list of movies that other people have recommended to me that sound like they're worth watching

The Robe (Dad)
Amores Perros (Adam R.)
The Big Lebowski (Adam)
Rescue Dawn (Lindsay)

Wordpress site design examples

Vigilance Theme
Andrew Munro Photography

iFixit hardware prices - hard drives

Hardware prices for MacBook Pro parts on ifixit.

Hard drives for my MacBook Pro

11/12/10

500 GB 7200 RPM Seagate SATA Hard Drive (New)
$85

750 GB 5400 RPM Western Digital SATA Hard Drive (New)
$120

500 GB Hybrid Seagate SATA Hard Drive
Hybrid, 7200 RPM with 80% faster access times
$159

500 GB 5400 RPM Western Digital SATA Hard Drive (New)
$78

640 GB 5400 RPM Western Digital SATA Hard Drive (New)
$98



4/29/10

160 GB Solid State Drive
$500

120 GB Solid State Drive
$400

500 GB 7200 RPM Seagate SATA Hard Drive
$130.

Wordpress Plugin Solutions

Email newsletters
Mailchimp
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Email marketing with built in design modules and AJAX powered layout.
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Online forms

Formbuilder
used by: First Ourselves


Flash integration

SWFOBJ
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Image Galleries











Lightbox Plus

example: MontanaArtwork.com

Print friendly pages

WP-Print

used by: First Ourselves
examples: First Ourselves

Faster page loads

WP Super Cache

used by: First Ourselves
examples: First Ourselves: A Sugar Free Diet

Right click prevention

WP-CopyRightPro

used by: Montana Artwork

2010 Birthday Gifts

Some things that ought to be nice little birthday gifts for 2010, to avoid drawing a blank again when people ask me what I'd like for my birthday.

• Shower Slate [via Cool Tools]
• Battery Tester ZTS Mini-MBT [via Ken Rockwell] [Adorama] [Amazon]
  
• How to Cook Everything 2006 | 2008 [via Cool Tools]
• Screenplay books: Good Will Hunting, The Prestige, and Star Wars
• How to Write a Movie in 21 Days
• 100 (One Hundred) 14mm Single Standard Size DVD Cases
• Subscription to the Enterprise
  
• Cables to connect the keyboard to the stereo

Personal Astrology

For fun:

• I'll Be Bach t-shirt
• Save the Clocktower
• Analog Retirement (film joins VHS, cassette and floppy) t-shirt
  
• No Comment t-shirt
• Know your cranes t-shirt
• (Jesus) BRB t-shirt
• It's a Trap! t-shirt
• What the Duck camera dial t-shirt
• Mouse potato t-shirt
• I Know HTML - how to meet ladies t-shirt
• Word Nerd (Scrabble) t-shirt
• Keep the Dream Alive (Alarm snooze) t-shirt
• The Ukraine is Weak (Risk) t-shirt
• I'll Say Sorry, But I'm Not Taking Off My Glasses
• Do a Barrel Roll t-shirt (for Adam)
  

Best Movies Watched Journal

A list of the best movies I've seen and would recommend, or the best movies I've watched each month. Highlighted titles are ones I plan to add to my collection. Green titles are movies that are currently in my collection.

November 2020

Rewind (documentary)

Borat 2

Earlier in 2020

Dark Waters

The Social Dilemma

The Way Back

The Gentlemen

Parasite

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

1917 (saw in the theater)

Knives Out

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Tom Hanks)

2019

Yesterday

Ad Astra (saw in the theater)

Rocketman

Bohemian Rhapsody

January 2015
Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Boyhood

December 2014
Interstellar
Days of Heaven
Barry Lyndon
It's a Wonderful Life
White Christmas

November 2014
Gone Girl
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I
Logan's Run
The Station Agent
A Most Wanted Man


October 2014
Locke

Not Suitable for Children
Jodorowsky's Dune (Documentary)
The Grand Budapest Hotel

September 2014
Blue Ruin
Dan in Real Life
The Rover
Nebraska
Noah


August 2014
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
Side by Side (documentary)


July
Submarine
Joe


June
Lone Survivor
Edge of Tomorrow
Safety Not Guaranteed
22 Jump Street

May 2014
Her
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Captain America 2: Winter Solider

March 2014
Dallas Buyers Club
Much Ado About Nothing
More Than Honey (Documentary)
Perks of Being a Wildflower
Five Broken Cameras
Wolf of Wall Street

February 2014
Blue Jasmine
Enough Said
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Queen of Versailles
About Time
12 Years a Slave
Wikileaks Documentary

January 2014
Frozen
Saving Mr. Banks
Rampart
Primer
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Don Jon
Bellflower
Captain Phillips
Stuck in Love
Pain and Gain


December 2013
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (3-D HFR)
Prisoners
Prince Avalanche
Blue Valentine
American Hustle

November 2013
Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Before Midnight
The Way Way Back

October 2013
Gravity (3-D)
Warren Buffet: Bloomberg Game Changers

September 2013
The Legend of Ron Jeremy
Barney's Version
Trance
Kings of Summer

August 2013
The World's End
In the Loop
The Place Beyond the Pines

July 2013


June 2013
In July
Robot and Frank
Monsieur Lazhar
Match Point
Cloud Atlas
TBP AFK
Side Effects

May 2013
The Master
Liberal Arts
Mud
Margin Call
Maria Full of Grace
Star Trek: Into Darkness

April 2013
Coriolanus
Moonrise Kingdom

March 2013
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (documentary)
Lars and the Real Girl
The Sessions

Feburary 2013
Silver Linings Playbook
American Movie
Flight
Like Crazy
Lost in La Mancha

January 2013
Zero Dark Thirty
Les Miserables
Premium Rush
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Looper
The King's Speech

December 2012 
Django Unchained
Russian Dolls
The Hobbit

November 2012
Skyfall
Greenberg
The Artist
Lincoln

October 2012
Argo

September 2012
End of Watch

July 2012
The Dark Knight Rises
Bernie

June 2012
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Prometheus (3D)

May 2012
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Avengers

April 2012
The Hoax

March 2012
The Hunger Games
21 Jump Street

February 2012
Limitless
50/50
 
January 2012
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Ajami
War Horse
Midnight in Paris

December 2011
Friends with Benefits
Horrible Bosses

November 2011
Captain America
Infernal Affairs

October 2011
The Ides of March
 
September 2011
The Tree of Life

August 2011

Source Code

The Lincoln Lawyer

July 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II

June 2011
Red Cliff
Chungking Express
X-Men: First Class
Narc
Frozen River

May 2011
Training Day

Uncertainty

127 Hours
 
April 2011
Hereafter
Antwone Fisher

March 2011
It's Kind of a Funny Story
The Fighter
Goodbye Solo
Babel
Syriana

January 2011

InterMission

Insomnia
Black Swan
Unforgiven

December 2010

The Town

Inception

Easy A
Waking Life

November 2010
Gone Baby Gone
Shutter Island
The Edukators
Casino

October 2010
M

The Social Network

September 2010
Some Like it Hot

August 2010
The Sword in the Stone
Nobody Knows
Shine

Ghost Writer

July 2010
Kramer vs. Kramer
Pride and Prejudice
Cold Souls
O Brother Where Art Thou
Koyla
The Color Purple
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Toy Story 3

June 2010
The Insider
12 Angry Men
The Karate Kid (2010)
American Teen
Europa Europa
Into the Wild
Bad Lieutenant
Field of Dreams (had not seen since my pre-teen years)

May 2010
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Husbands and Wives
Trucker
Cashback
Bonnie and Clyde
The Sting
Hotel Rwanda

April 2010
Waltz With Bashir
Amores Perros
Serpico
Junebug
Mystic River
An Education
The Wrestler

March 2010
Brothers
Precious
Up in the Air  
The Hurt Locker

February 2010
All the President's Men
A Serious Man
Donnie Brasco
Food, Inc.

January 2010
Moon
Good Bye, Lenin
Chinatown
Why We Fight
Amreeka

December 2009
500 Days of Summer
District 9
Savages
Rendition
 
November 2009
The Apartment
Up

October 2009
Sin Nombre
Shattered Glass
Nothing But the Truth
American Violet
Zodiac

September 2009
Pan's Labyrinth
Reservoir Dogs
Rachel Getting Married
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
The Silence of the Lambs
State of Play

August 2009
North By Northwest
The Graduate

July 2009
Singin' in the Rain
The Half Blood Prince
The French Connection
Seven Pounds

June 2009
Annie Hall

April 2009
Doubt
Vicky Christina Barcelona

March 2009
Goodfellas
Flash of Genius
Assassination of Jesse James

February 2009
Gran Torino

January 2009
Benjamin Button
Slumdog Milionaire
The Counterfeiters
 
October 2008
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
 
August 2008
Enchanted
Joyeux Noel

July 2008
Pulp Fiction
The Dark Knight
The Talented Mr. Ripley
A Few Good Men

June 2008
The Fountain
American Gangster
Michael Clayton
 
May 2008 
Iron Man
Lost in Translation
 
April 2008
Glengarry Glenross
Brokeback Mountain
There Will Be Blood
 
March 2008
The Lives of Others
No Country for Old Men
Before Sunset
 
February 2008
Juno

Monthly Movie Roundup

Here's a roundup of the new movies released every month that should be worth seeing (based on high Rotten Tomatoes scores).

May 2010

April 2010

March 2010

February 2010

January 2010

Web Design Commentary

Bank of the Rockies Home Page
Comment: Their homepage doesn't look as polished as the other banking sites. The design looks like it was not created by a professional. They are a hometown bank and much smaller than their competitors in the area: First Interstate, Sterling Savings Bank, and American Bank of Montana.

Webpages to check for updates

• Refurbished Macs - iMac
• Mac Buyer's Guide: Know When to Buy Your Mac, iPod or iPhone
• Browser market share

Last update: 11/5/09

Comedies with a heart

Mrs. Doubtfire
Groundhog Day
Big
The Terminal
Superbad
Knocked Up
Elf
Roxanne
What About Bob?

I pulled Groundhog Day from here: Amazon.com: Comedies With Heart

Academy Awards list

Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winners to See

• Unforgiven
• Driving Miss Daisy
• The Last Emperor
  

Nominees to see

• Frost/Nixon
• Atonement
  
• Babel
• Good Night, and Good Luck
• Mystic River
• Seabiscuit
• The Hours
• The Insider
• The Thin Red Line
• Shine
• The English Patient
• Il Postino
• JFK
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• The Color Purple
  

Academy Award for Best Cinematography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winners to See

• Pan's Labyrinth
• Mississippi Burning
  

Nominees to See

• Changeling
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
  
• The New World
• Cold Mountain
• O Borther, Where Art Thou?
• Kundun
• Searching For Bobby Fischer
• Farewell My Concubine
• Thelma & Louise
• Ran
• The Right Stuff
  

Academy Award for Best Film Editing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winners to See

• Unforgiven
  
• JFK
• Born on the Fourth of July
• The Last Emperor
• Raging Bull
  

Nominees to See

• Into the Wild
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
• Babel
• Cinderella Man
• Cold Mountain
• Seabiscuit
• The Hours
• The Insider
• The Thin Red Line
• Out of Sight
• Shine
• Crimson Tide
• Hoop Dreams
• Thelma & Louise
• Driving Miss Daisy
• Empire of the Sun
  

Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winners to See

• Talk to Her
• The Usual Suspects (see entirely)
• Thelma & Louise
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• Chinatown
  

Nominees

• Frozen River
• Happy-Go-Lucky
  
• Lars and the Real Girl
• Babel
• Syriana
• Good Night, and Good Luck
• Hotel Rwanda
• Billy Elliot
• Being John Malkovich
• Magnolia
• Shine
• Do the Right Thing
• Crimes and Misdemeanors
• A Fish Called Wanda
• Salvador
• The Purple Rose of Cairo
• Tootsie
• Manhattan
• The Deer Hunter
• Rocky
• Dog Day Afternoon
  

Movie Budgets

Updated on 4/20/10

Juno, $6.5 million

Thank You For Smoking, $6.5 million

Stranger Than Fiction, $30 million

Donnie Darko, $4.5 million

The Shawshank Redemption, $25 million

Pulp Fiction, $8.5 million

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, $20 milion

Brick, $475,000

Knocked Up, $30 million

Superbad, $20 million

Pineapple Express, $27 million

Little Miss Sunshine, $8 million

Forgetting Sarah Marshall, $30 million

Crash
The Bourne Movies

Blu-ray Release Timeline

A Timeline of Notable Blu-Ray Releases

November 30, 2009
Gone With the Wind

November 3, 2009
Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Theatrical Editions)
Forrest Gump

October 6, 2009
Snow White

September 29, 2009
The Wizard of Oz

September 1, 2009
Gladiator
Braveheart

April 21, 2009
X-Men Trilogy

January 27, 2009
The Bourne Trilogy

October 14, 2008
The Matrix Trilogy

September 23, 2008
The Godfather Trilogy

December 18, 2007
Blade Runner

October 23, 2007
2001: A Space Odyssey

Computer Games

Cube 2: Sauerbraten and the Beginners Guide
Half Life


Old Games / Emulated Games
Namco Assault (played inside MAME) gameplay video on YouTube.
Future Tank (Amiga system)


Explore more:
Recommend some games with low computer requirements. | Ask Metafilter

List of free first-person shooters - Wikipedia

An earlier post about Windows games in VirtualBox.

365 Day Challenge: Shed One Thing Per Day

Started today, July 8th.

7/12: A bunch of TIME magazines from 2005. (recycle)
7/9: State of Fear by Michael Crichton (donate to local library)
7/8: The Blackbook photography ad book (donate to local library)

Kids Say the Darnedest Things

Valerie: You don't want to sit on a pillow that has tears on it.

Benard: They need my weight and "heighdth".

Me: Who said Give me liberty or give me death.
Benard: St. Joseph.

Twitter followers

7/5/09
3 out of 13 followers are humans, not spam bots or advertising accounts.