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Recommended movies and TV shows

23 June 2012 by Dan Webb

Some that I’m enjoying now or that I watched recently


  1. The Adventures of Merlin (3 seasons X 13 episodes, so you can get quite immersed) – Arthurian tales with enough grounding in the archetypal stories that they have my respect, simple enough in story construction that they’ll be appreciated by all ages.  I enjoy the acting, costumes, swordplay, etc.  I think it’s quite good at dealing with questions of identity, which the original archetypal stories did masterfully.
  2. Masterpiece Contemporary: The Last Enemy (5 episodes)
  3. The Story of India (6 hours) – The history of mankind in general and of India specifically, told by a guy whose interesting and engaging as a person and who clearly understands and respects the many philosophies that have moved through India.
  4. Empires: The Medici, Godfathers of the Renaissance (4 episodes X 1 hour) – looks interesting.  I haven’t watched it yet.
  5. The Tudors – I’ll bet you’ve seen it.
  6. The Forsyte Saga (10 episodes)
  7. Limitless – a movie you’ve probably seen


All-time Favorites


  1. Dangerous Beauty (my favorite movie)
  2. The Red Violin – You MUST have seen this one already.
  3. Gloomy Sunday (CD only) – Just watch it!
  4. Masterpiece Theater! Foyle’s War – Made me think of my Edinburgh days as a boy.
  5. Prime Suspect (7 seasons) – Helen Mirren is awesome!
  6. The State Within (7 hours)
  7. A Good Woman
  8. Chocolat
  9. Don Juan DeMarco (CD only)
  10. De-Lovely
  11. Malena
  12. Cinema Paradiso
  13. ALL Jane Austin movies
  14. Paris, Je T’aime
  15. Horatio Hornblower: The New Adventures – 2 full-length films – I wish there were 20.
  16. Smilla’s Sense of Snow
  17. The Count of Monte Cristo
  18. Tea with Mussolini


Off-the-Wall or Somewhat Riskier to Modern Tastes


  1. Deep Water
  2. Big Love (CD only — 5 seasons X 3 or 4 discs per season, typically 2 episodes per disc as I recall) – Fun view into relationships and cults
  3. Island at War (6 episodes)
  4. The Grand (10 eposides)
  5. To Serve Them All My Days (13 episodes)
  6. Woman on Top
  7. Basic Instinct 2




Filed Under: Dan's Frequently Visited Links, Entertainment, Resource Links, Search & Reference

Entertainment Links

28 October 2011 by Dan Webb

…and other handy sites!

Dan’s favorite jokes
Pretty Good Jokes from “Prairie Home Companion”
The Capitol Steps
The Onion
The Daily Show with John Stewart — The Colbert Report
Doodle.com — Find a time for a meeting by enabling invitees to show their best times
Create a Facebook Like button or Open Graph tags
Join.me — free group screen sharing
(For $30/month or $300/year, Join.me Pro enables you to use a branded, persistent address – e.g., https://join.me/DanWebb – as well as some additional features.)
What is “Scrum” agile product development? (video 8:00)
Geek Wisdom by Technology Entrepreneur Paul Graham
Google Reader for RSS feeds
Resources for Web developers — XML resources for developers — Live Face on the Web (for commercial promotion)
Android App of the Week — Browse the applications Dan uses on his Android phone
Synch your Outlook contacts with your Gmail contacts — CompanionLink ($40)
Synch your Outlook calendar with your Gmail calendar — Google Calendar Sync (free)
WebSharing — Browse the files on your Android device and download them to a local folder — Get the app
Learn About App Inventor for the Android operating system
Clock and stopwatch — in a popup window — a fun analog clock for stoners (IE only)
Search & Reference (dictionary & thesaurus) — urban dictionary, Wikipedia —
Google.com, HotBot.com advanced search —

Search the US Patent & Trademark Office’s public records — Excite photos

  • Maps — Google maps, Yahoo maps, MapQuest — World Atlas — Holt, Rinehart, Winston World Atlas — satellite photos — Microsoft campus map
  • Measures & Conversions — units of measure (conversion), world time converter, current time (accurate to .3 sec), time references, phases of the moon — currency conversions
  • local free WiFi hotspots — wireless coffee shops
  • King County Library System — Books24x7.com

Weather, Sports, Recreation & Health — 10-day forecast for Bellevue — hour-by-hour forecast — pollen forecast

Travel & Transportation — Puget Sound Traffic Map — Puget Sound Traffic Cameras
Washington State Ferries — Alamo Car Rental — Thrifty Airport Parking coupon — WallyPark coupon

News — Listen to NPR over KUOW — Windows Media — high bandwidth (20 to 135 Kbps)

Music — Pandora.com — KMTT.com (The Mountain) — KPIG.com — RadioTower.com — Radio-Locator.com

Financial Info and Purchasing

Intellectual Property Protection

Collaboration — Common Errors in English — the meanings and origins of phrases

Security and Privacy — Microsoft Windows Security Essentials (free malware protection)

my recipes

Other Handy Sites

  • http://ADrive.com — Transfer large files
  • http://YouSendIt.com — Transfer large files
  • Qwest White Pages (people)
  • Qwest Yellow Pages (businesses) — Opt out of Yellow Pages delivery to save paper and energy
  • InfoSpace.com White Pages and Yellow Pages
  • Ultimate White Pages
  • Stop delivery of printed phone books
  • Look up Telephone Area Codes and Country Codes
  • Use an area code to find a location
  • Look up Telephone Prefix Locations by Area Code
  • country calling codes from anywhere to anywhere
  • U.S. Postal ZIP Codes — Find a ZIP Code for an address — Find all cities in a ZIP Code
  • Hold my mail while I’m away
  • US Time Zones
  • Time Zones Worldwide
  • US Federal holidays
  • Random quotes
  • Roberts Rules of Order online
  • Free Astrology Charts
  • convert units of measure
  • ZipInfo.com (latitude-longitude, time zones, etc.) — enter ZIP Code, return city — enter city, return ZIP Codes
  • Create PDF files online
  • Vixy.net — Convert a Flash Video (FLV) file (YouTube’s videos, etc.) to an MPEG4/AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP file online
  • Check your own e-mail from anywhere with a Web browser — E-MailAnywhere.com 
  • Check your Web browser’s capabilities
  • Display all the Web server variables
  • RealGuide — streaming media content

 

Filed Under: Entertainment, Resource Links

Sports & Recreation

27 October 2011 by Dan Webb
  • sea kayaking
  • surfing
  • Coastal Marine Forecast National Weather Service, Seattle
  • Tides near Seattle
  • Tides near Port Townsend and the San Juan Islands
  • Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission
  • Oregon State Parks
Filed Under: Entertainment, Resource Links, Sports & Recreation

Celebrate!

27 October 2011 by Dan Webb

Celebration


There’s a hidden power in celebrating our own and others’ accomplishments and successes — even the small ones.  Our productivity is boosted by finding humor in the day-to-day craziness of our work environment and taking time to rest, replenish, and renew.  When we’re looking for enjoyment as we work with our teammates, we find it, and that uplifts the whole team.

Here’s an experiment that may make you more effective and happy in your work.


  1. Make a list of the experiences you enjoy the most in your work — the experiences you want to dominate your work life.
  2. Now, make another list — the experiences you’d most like to be different.
    (Which list did you make first? If you made list #2 first, go back to the beginning of the exercise and start fresh.)
  3. For each experience in list #2, consider how that’s a gift that could enable you to experience more of what’s on list #1. What’s the challenge for you in that? If you were to give up 100% of your resistance to having the unpleasant experience, if you were 100% willing to have that experience again in order to learn something from it that makes you stronger, more comfortable with what-is, more adaptable to all people and circumstances, how would that change your experience?

    (Hint: It’s a contemplation and an experiment in courage and self-responsibility, not just a mental exercise.)




      The Daily Show with John Stewart
      The Colbert Report
      Geek Wisdom by Technology Entrepreneur Paul Graham

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