Thursday, June 20th, 2013

Pinterest Tricks

A funny fact for INTJ

Looking for a Pin It button, I found Chykalophia Design. You notice the button right after the post title and somehow asymmetrically. Why do I have it there, and not aligned with the others? Because it was created by Ari Krzyzek from the above mentioned site, and is a combination between the pinmarklet (a bookmarking device one put on the browser's bookmarking toolbar) and a png button. It's not a plugin, it is a piece of code which let you to choose the picture to pin, every time. There is Brian Gardner who pushes up Darren Rowse and offers also some good links on his post, with a tutorial to use on Genesis, but it came to the same result as the "pin it" button I have on the plugin I'm using. I had it disabled for a good time now, because I considered it's not relevant for pinning, but when its counter works, you can see how many pins you have related to that post, yours or "re-pins". Actually it promotes your post on Pinterest, choosing to show there the featured picture or worse, in case you haven't set one, the first picture it finds. It's really dumb. So, if you really feel to pin one of my pics, or any video, use the button on top of the others (that is, if you don't have the good one on your browser). That button perfectly described on the article where the link is … [Read more...]

The Girl Next Door

Group Picture with Paul Dano, Amanda Swisten, Elisha Cuthbert, Emile Hirsh, Sung Hi Lee and Chris Marquette

Wonderful teenage movie, made in 2004 by Luke Greenfield (nothing quite memorable to this one), after a screenplay by Stuart Blumberg (Thanks for Sharing and The Kids Are All Right, both after this one), David Wagner (Van Wilder), and Brent Goldberg (Van Wilder and Saving Ryan's Privates - I liked the title of this last one, otherwise, I never heard of it as a movie). [all pics otherwise differently credited, are from imdb] Ambitious High School senior Matthew (Emile Hirsch), dreams of a career in politics. He has been accepted to Georgetown University, but will only be able to afford it if he can win a large scholarship by proving he had a truly memorable high school experience. However, his luck changes when he meets his next door neighbor Danielle (Elisha Cuthbert). Danielle and Matthew each turn out to be the perfect complement for the other, and they are immediately smitten with one another. The relationship is challenged when Matthew discovers through his friend Eli (Chris Marquette) that Danielle was actually an adult film actress. [source] Following Eli's advice, Matthew takes Danielle to a motel, where Danielle guesses that Matthew has discovered her past and punishes him by performing a striptease and offering herself to him. Here, she calls him out on … [Read more...]

Wet Shaving Update

Croma Diamant Double Edge Blades

As an update to my post The Art of Wet Shaving, I wanted to show you a video on double edged shaving blades making. This following one was filmed at Croma factory in Germany. As I said in the mentioned post, the form of the blade as we know now, came in 1904. Gillette's 1904 patents gave it the power to block entry into the installed base of handles that it would create. While other firms could and did enter the replaceable-blade market with their own handles and blades, no one could produce razors or blades styled like Gilette's during the life of the patents. Gillette set a high price for its handle and fought to maintain those high prices during the life of the patents, through 1921. Nowadays Gilette is selling expensive disposable blade cartridges with expensive handles. Some of them are "improving" by the year. Unfortunately that's not true. How else could they still make huge profits if not selling dear "disposable" values. The classic double edge is today manufactured in Sweden (7am), Russia (Astra, Gillette, Iridium, Rapira, Nacet, and Polsilver), Greece (Bic), Germany (Bolzano, Croma, Merkur, and Wilkinson Sword), Israel (Crystal and Red Personna), Turkey (Derby), Korea (Dorco), Japan (Feather and Kai), Egypt (Lord and Shark), Bangladesh (Shahzad and Sharp), … [Read more...]

Borat

Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) singing the National Anthem with his own words.

Borat is one of the most hilarious films I've ever seen, and it's on my favorites list. I'm not sure if this movie made Sacha Baron Cohen one of the most popular actors through the American public. It is a metaphor, it is ironic, it is brilliant. The mockumentary concept is not new, but was triple refined in this case. Borat is one of the best comedies ever made, it made my Best 20, and not only. I'm afraid, it wasn't wholly appreciated in USA and in Romania. You see, the Romanians are very proud (at least, so they like to fashion themselves), and they took offense in block for everything related to a Gypsy connection. It wasn't the first time in history when someone presented different views on things made to look in a certain way. The Hungarians, and the French are already famous for offending the Romanian officials. [source] Strangely, in this case, where Borat presented his "home" and "village" from Kazakhstan, which was filmed in a Gypsy village in Romania, not the officials took offense, but the villagers. The name of the village is Glod (of some Slavic origin), meaning "mud". The Gypsies who were paid a "fortune" to become cinema stars (approximate between $5 to $70 per person), were duped by Ed Fagan, the controversial disbarred attorney, "famous" for suing Swiss … [Read more...]