Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince

This movie is great. This is going to be mostly a review on what I think about the movie and how much the whole series has grown as a whole. This movie has everything that an action drama thriller should have. The Harry Potter series started out with the characters as children and as they grow up they start going through changes that all teenagers go through. They also get darker and scarier. Personally I don't think they do, but many parents have been complaining about this because it isn't child friendly anymore. However, I think this is great. Just as teenagers go through awkward moments with hormones and drama these characters do a great job of displaying that. The special effects in this movie are amazing. It makes you think wow what if magic was really possible. The special features of the movie goes through many of the tough shots that were taken and explains how they did the scenes. The director and everyone else is rather amazing. Seeing how much of the film is taking in front of a green screen yet they visualize everything is amazing.

The Mac

I love my Mac but currently I have been disappointed with it. I am fairly familiar with both the main systems which are the Mac and Windows. For the longest time I was a window user and still am. I have both systems at home and use one for certain reasons and use the other for different task. Well the most disappointing part of the Mac that I have found recently is the lack of personalization that it has. On windows I could pretty much change anything I wanted on it. I am talking the way menus look, colors schemes fonts, icons, pretty much anything, even the logon menu. Well the Mac is far behind in this aspect. Currently there is no program for this to be done. On Tiger which is the old Mac os you had third party software that would allow you to change it but I think that Apple should just make it so that you can do it and it is built in already and not having to download third party software that could possibly hurt the system.

ATL

Going back to the topic of jerseys, a topic that I talked about several blogs ago when talking about the Seattle Seahawks. Well here recently the Atlanta Hawks came out with new topics and I love them. I am not a Hawks fan at all. I am a blue and gold for life, aka the Pacers. But the Pacers are behind the league in new jerseys. Currently there is a 3yr rule that states when a team comes out with a new home and away jersey, they can't adjust them and make a alternative. Well I am going to explain the ATL one. It is very basic and gets to the point. It has the initials that we all know what they stand for. I hear ATL and it makes complete since. The Pacers need to catch up with the times and do something similar. Here is the ATL jersey.

CNN

So I am getting pretty tired of watching CNN for news. I think they need to spice things up and make them different from all the other news organizations. I am thinking perhaps if they came out with regional channels so that you hear more local news. I am proposing having a west coast, midwest, east coast, mountain west area, and something for the south too. This is something that would make the news so much more appealing to me. Right now I hear tons of national news which is great but it just gets repeated all day through out the day. If you did something regionally also you could have some what local news mixed with national news. Currently the local news does hit the topic of national news but when there is nothing going on locally it is boring to watch and they come up with some of the most unnecessary topics. This is my idea for CNN and I wonder if they would even consider it. They currently have CNN International which is nice for foreign countries but what about something regionally?

Slipper Noodle

So this is my first time going into this bar and I am going to talk about the design of the bar and how unique it is compared to the rest of the bars.

This may be my favorite bar now. It is so much different compared to the others is different. You walk in and it looks like your usual place but however this place makes it a much better experience. The place has a live band every night. Not your usual rock band either. This place is a jazz bar. So you won't run into your usual large drunk crowd that you see at most of the bars downtown. As far as prices this place does a pretty good job at keeping them reasonable. They are about the same as most of the bars except for the really crappy ones. All in all this place is a great place to visit. The employees are really nice and helpful. Not to mention this place serves great food. It is delicious. Probably the best bar food you will find anywhere.I recommend it and don't see it going out anytime considering this is the oldest bad Indianapolis.

Video Wallpaper

About 4 post ago I talked about how research is moving forward to making newspaper be able to display video. Well why not put that same technology into wallpaper. When you type in video wallpaper into a search engine, basically all you get is something similar to a screensaver that runs in your background of your programs. What I am thinking is why not get rid of TVs? Currently Tvs are expensive as can be and require room, although they are getting thinner every year. I don't think anyone could come as thin as wallpaper. With the video I posted 4 blogs ago, it looks like this will soon be possible. Other pros to this would be a massive screen, probably the biggest screen you can get without buying a projector and while the wallpaper wasn't showing a video. You could have it be like a video wallpaper for a computer. Play some nice smoothing video of the beach and be able to change the wallpaper to virtually anything you want, that way you wouldn't have to be changing actual wallpaper.

These are other pretty cool house designs:

Touch Screens

Everyone keeps saying that touch screen is the future and everything will be touch screen in the future however I think this is wrong. I love my touch screen iPhone but having a touch screen laptop or computer would be a pain I think. Using my finger as a mouse sounds great and convenient but I really don't feel like reaching across the table to touch it. Maybe if they make a computer that the screen is in the desk then that would be pretty cool. Also finger prints would drive me nuts all of the screen. Here are currently some other touch screen devices that I was able to find.

This Microsoft Surface idea is pretty cool and would be fun to play with. I would really like to see it be integrated with bars. Imagine going into a bar, either sitting at the bar or a table doesn't matter and having that be your table. Being able to order your drinks there and keep a running tab in front of you so you know what you've ordered. While not ordering the screen could display regular television. Perhaps a football or basketball game. Many bars already have touch screen game displays.

How ever the Microsoft Surface would be able to display better games with multi-touch features. Also instead of having to pay cash you could just add the game playing charge to your tab. This would be an amazing idea and I would go to a bar that had this at least just to mess around with the table.