Ratatouille

Trailers for Ratatouille have been showing up on TV more and more recently, and Lisa spotted something about a "sneak preview" on one. After a bit of digging on the internet, we got ourselves some tickets for a showing on Saturday (the 16th) and headed out to see it.

And it was awesome! My memory is probably skewed, but this is certainly one of my favorites. I was a little worried about the 1:50 running time, but it just flew by. It was surprising to have another good theater experience (we saw this in AMC Saratoga, but the new theaters in Valco were nice for our previous movie), even with a sold-out crowd.

Ratatouille is an amazing film, and I'm happy that we stumbled on this opportunity to see it already. This frees up my schedule for that other thing on June 29th :)

Sibelius 5

I'm excited. Very excited. Sibelius 5 is announced, and it has undo!!!

:p

To be fair, it has always had great undo, except for plugins - and now those have it too. I've barely had a chance to look at the other features, but there is one other that sticks out - this version is a Universal Binary.

Just those two make it an essential update for me. More when I have time...

iPhone excitement

A couple of weeks ago I was fine waiting for the iPhone. There hadn't been many interesting articles about it for a while, which lulled me into a state where I forgot that I REALLY REALLY WANT ONE. But as it turns out, my current phone actually wants it more.

I started hearing static from my old T610 that would change depending on how I was holding the phone. It wasn't something about the signal, it would change depending on how my individual fingers were positioned. I eventually figured out that by squeezing the phone fairly hard it wouldn't have any static, but that is not a fun way to carry out a conversation.

The prospect of buying a replacement phone two months before the iPhone seemed ridiculous, but I needed to do something. After thinking out loud around my coworkers, Iroro graciously offered up his old phone for me to use, and things started working again.

For a couple of weeks.

Now the static has crept into this phone as well, and I must continue to wait for the iPhone. At least I have pretty iPhone ads to keep me interested.

(sigh) It's gonna be a tough month.