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“Hello There”

It took about 4 weeks of waiting and I finally binge-watched “Obi-Wan Kenobi” mini-series on Disney+.

SPOILER ALERT: It took the whole 6 episodes for Obi-Wan to utter his iconic phrase.

Obi-Wan Kenobi, the series, is the proper sequel to 2005 film Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, also known as Star War The Third Gathers: The Backstroke of the West

Counting from 1999 film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, that’s twenty-three year span of Ewan McGregor’s portrayal of Obi -Wan Kenobi. It is bitter sweet and full of memories.

As a fan of Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi series help me cope with the atrocious Sequel Trilogy. Don’t at me.

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Avatar and Avengers: Endgame, an Ode to Zoe Saldana

To paraphrase Mr. Big’s 1992 song To Be With You:
“Waited on a line of greens and blues”

As of June 23, 2019, Avatar and Avengers: Endgame are the first and second highest grossing films of all time, respectively. Avengers: Endgame headed back to the theater with unreleased footage in effort to unseat Avatar.

Whether or not the attempt is successful, both films have the same name in the casts: Zoe Saldana.

She was blue in Avatar and green in Avengers: Endgame.

One more note, both 20th Century Fox (distributor of Avatar) and Marvel Studios (Production company of Avengers: Endgame) are subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios.

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“Up” This Week and “Star Trek” Next Week.

First I have to mention that I did not see both “Up” and “Star Trek” in the theater. I picked up “Up” Blu-ray+DVD on Tuesday even though I don’t have a Blu-ray player. Well, for $19.99 I got “Up” Blu-ray and DVD in one package. Pixar knows story-telling and I am a huge fan of theirs. Watching this movie gave me some *sniff-sniff* moments.

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Next week “Star Trek” is coming out on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Download. Yes I am talking about the new “Star Trek” that was released earlier this Summer 2009. Yes I am also a huge Star Trek fan. I am referring to the franchise, of course. If only Paramount Studio would sell the Blu-ray and DVD in one package, I’d be getting the Blu-ray too.

Star Trek – (Three-Disc + Digital Copy) Blu Ray @ Amazon.com
Star Trek – (Two-Disc + Digital Copy) DVD @ Amazon.com

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Disclaimer

If you bought anything through Amazon link above, and I get some kickbacks.

“If you buy these DVD’s, I can buy a MacBook Pro” to paraphrase the great Robert Schimmel.

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Camino 1.6.1, Cyberduck 3.0.1 and then some.

May 20th, 2008

Camino 1.6.1 is released.

Camino 1.6.1 contains the following improvements over version 1.6:

  • Camino will no longer crash when attempting to add a search engine that uses POST.
  • Camino displays more useful error messages when it is unable to add a search engine.
  • Camino supports a wider variety of search engine definition files.
  • Restored compatibility with Adobe Dreamweaver and other applications that use a deprecated AppleEvent to open documents in Camino.
  • Improved robustness of code used to access the Keychain.
  • Command-period will now close the Find toolbar on Mac OS X 10.5.

Download Camino here:
http://caminobrowser.org/download/releases/1.6.1/

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Cyberduck 3.0.1

Cyberduck is an open source data transfer program for Mac OS X. It supports myriads of protocols such as FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, etc. Version 3.0.1 has just been released and the release notes can be found here.

Get the latest version of Cyberduck and please donate to the developer if you like this apps.

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…and then some

I visited the office of the people who sold the “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” script to Disney. I told them how my jaw dropped in disbelief the first time I saw the trailer on YouTube through Reddit. They admitted that the trailer Disney put out is somewhat misleading.

Anyhow, I did mention Tom Rinks, Taco Bell, and Carlos Alazraqui to them. In a funny coincidence, these people are Seth McFarlane’s management company. As many of us know that Seth McFarlane is the creator of Family Guy. I did mentioned to them that Carlos Alazraqui was the voice of Taco Bell Chihuahua and Family Guy’s own Mr. Weed. Small world.

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Dear Disney, What The ASDF Are You Thinking?

Pixar won’t save Disney this time because it has nothing to do with Pixar. Enter “Beverly Hills Chihuahua”, an abomination of a movie.

Apparently Disney has the idea that talking Chihuahua is the next big thing. Wait a minute, Tom Rinks wants his idea back. Is this 1995 all over again? Taco Bell Chihuahua, remember him?

The next time I talk to Carlos Alazraqui, I’d for sure bring this up.