I went to see The War of the Rohirrim last night with my kids. We were going to go last week for my birthday but had to change plans. I enjoyed the movie and I felt like it fit well into the LOTR world and represented the culture of Rohan well. I liked that Miranda Otto (Eowyn) narrated the story. It was a nice tie in to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
For some reason, I thought about the time we saw Frozen in theaters with our kids this morning while taking a shower. Maybe one of the songs came to mind. Not sure why I started thinking about it.
An hour later while looking at my Facebook memories, I discovered that we saw the movie on this day 11 years ago. Wild coincidence that I had the thought earlier in the day.
I love this time lapse video of Budapest. It came up in my Facebook memories this past week. I visited a majority of the locations in the video on my trip this past April.
I enjoyed seeing Interstellar in IMAX® last night with two of my kids. I had seen it 5 years ago with my son on our TV. It was great to experience in IMAX® and I had fun hanging out with my kids.
I noticed that I was getting a lot of traffic to my recent post on reacquainting myself with Craft. Based on the source of the traffic, I deduced that the post must have been featured in an email newsletter. I was thinking it might be the Craft CMS newsletter–because I had mentioned them on Bluesky when I publicized the reacquainting post. But I had not received the newsletter in my inbox so I could not confirm.
I was checking my email while waiting for the Interstellar at an IMAX theater and saw the newsletter in my inbox. I confirmed that the Craft CMS newsletter was the source of the increase in traffic for that article.
My daughter is a big Laufey fan. She was able to see her in concert in Nashville in April. My daughter has made me into a fan. Today, my wife, daughter, and I went to see Laufey’s A Night at the Symphony: Hollywood Bowl at the movie theater. It was filmed earlier this year and included commentary by Laufey at different parts of the film. We all enjoyed hearing her perform along with the LA Philharmonic.
The start of the film included a trivia game. I got one of the questions right.December 3, 2024View single note
I like that the latest Smashing Magazine newsletter greeted me in Hungarian. Jó estét translates to “good evening.” They do a random greeting in each newsletter. I think it is the first time I have seen Hungarian.
My son and I watched a Chattanooga Mocs men’s basketball game this afternoon. It was his idea and it was fun to hang out with him on his first full day home for Thanksgiving break.
The sky had a pink and then purple tint as the sun was going down on this rainy overcast day. According to one source that I saw: “the colors are the result of the angle of the sunlight, and how it passes through raindrops and particulates, which scatter the light.”
I saw that the Twin Drive-In off of 291 Highway is closing for good. I didn’t realize that it was still open.
I remember spending many summer nights at this drive-in. I have memories as a kid going with my family. And later, I went with my best friend in high school. Two movies that I remember seeing with him are Rocky IV and Karate Kid.
I remember the animated commercials for the snack bar when I was younger. And I remember enjoying visiting the snack bar to buy popcorn or candy. I believe they also had a playground next to the snack bar.
I came across this photo of a LEGO sculpture on Facebook. It is a reproduction of one of the four lions that flank the entrances to Lanchíd (Chain Bridge) in Budapest. I had captured one of the lions in a photo on my trip to Budapest in April.
This LEGO sculpture was well done. It looks like it is a 1:1 scale with the real thing. I loved playing with LEGO as a kid and still enjoy them. It was fun to see that someone had built a model of these iconic lions.