I Like Movies

Watch a movie and relax! There are movies that are worth watching over and over again. I've an avid fan of movies since I was a child and I prefer watching horror-slasher movies and any movie that has something to do with the undead. Here are some  films that I have watched a dozen times on cable or my PC, you may have watched some of the movies, if you have other movies to recommend, feel free to comment. I just narrowed down my list to ten movies. Somewhere In Time is the only love story in my list.

My favorite movies of all time:

Jaws (1975)

When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it. 

Director: Steven Spielberg

Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

 

It is the fourth film in the Friday the 13th film series. Though it was billed as "The Final Chapter," there have been many further sequels in the franchise.

 

Director: Joseph Zito

Stars: Erich Anderson, Judie Aronson and Kimberly Beck

Mad Max (1979)

An Australian dystopian action film. A vicious biker gang murder a cop's family and make his fight with them personal.

Director: George Miller

Stars: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel and Hugh Keays-Byrne 

The Warriors (1979) 

Based on the novel by Sol Yurick of the same name. A gang called the Warriors framed for killing Cyrus, leader of the Gramercy Riffs. Cyrus was trying to unite all the gangs of New York in order to control the city when he was shot by Luther from the Rogues gang. After the shooting Luther shouts that the Warrior were responsible for the shooting.     

                                                                              

Director: Walter Hill 

Stars: Michael Beck, James Remar and Dorsey Wright

       

Somewhere in Time (1980)

It is a film adaptation of the 1975 novel Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson. A romantic science fiction tragedy where A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to find the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.

 

Director: Jeannot Szwarc 

Stars: Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer

 

Day of the Dead (1985)

Director George A. Romero describes the film as a "tragedy about how a lack of human communication causes chaos and collapse even in this small little pie slice of society".

Director: George A. Romero

Stars: Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander and Joseph Pilato

Night of the Living Dead (1990)

The unburied dead return to life and seek human victims. 

Director: Tom Savini
Stars: Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman and Tom Towles















Cujo (1983)

A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

Director: Lewis Teague
Stars: Dee Wallace, Daniel Hugh Kelly and Danny Pintauro














Pet Sematary (1989)

Director: Mary Lambert

Stars: Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby and Fred Gwynne

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

A nurse,  a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman, and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.

Director: Zack Snyder
Stars: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames and Mekhi Phifer

My list goes on....hope to update this post in the near future.

*More movie info at imdb.com & Wikipedia

PAL (Philippine Airlines)

PAL - Dumaguete City Airport

Philippines very first commercial airline. I had fond memories flying PAL way back in the late 70's and 80's though I can't remember most of it because I was still a toddler during that time. We usually took PAL when were going to have our summer vacation in Manila. It takes about an hour from Dumaguete to Manila. No other airlines was flying the Dgte-Manila route during that time. It has been years that I haven't been on the airline and I will always remember PAL every time I see that logo with the red, blue and yellow sun rays. And I still have the stainless bread knife that I took from the airline. And I'm still using that knife until today, it's a classic memorabilia from PAL.

History:

The airline was founded on February 26, 1941 by a group of businessmen led by Andres Soriano, hailed as one of the Philippines' leading industrialists at the time, who served as its general manager, and former Senator Ramon Fernandez, who served as its chairman and president.

The airline’s first flight took place on March 15, 1941 with a single Beechcraft Model 18 NPC-54 on daily services between Manila (from Nielson Field) and Baguio. On July 22, the airline acquired the franchise of the Philippine Aerial Taxi Company. Government investment in September paved the way for its nationalization.

PAL services were interrupted during World War II, which lasted in the Philippines from late 1941 to 1945. Upon the outbreak of the Pacific War on December 8, 1941, the two Model 18s and their pilots were pressed into military service. They were used to evacuate American fighter pilots to Australia until one was shot down over Mindanao and the other was destroyed on the ground in an air raid in Surabaya, Indonesia.

Source: wikipedia

BOSS MT-2 Metal Zone

I've used this compact pedal since 1997 and it still deliver the goods until today. Of all the BOSS distortion pedals I have used and abused I prefer Metal Zone. Why? It's durable and reliable. It gives my electric guitar the crunch it needs when playing extreme music. If you prefer loud and crushing gain out of your guitar I recommend BOSS MT-2 Metal Zone. Just like its brother, the BOSS ML-2 Metal Core takes a step higher than Metal Zone with its extreme gain preferably for guitarists who are into Nu Metal, Grind Core, Industrial, Hard Core, or any genre that requires crushing sound.

The only thing that sets them both apart are the equalizer knobs. Metal Zone has high/low and middle/mid freq while Metal Core has only low EQ knob for controlling heavy, low-frequency sound and high EQ knob for controlling screaming, metallic tone.

Metal Core

Metal Zone

JAVASCRIPT EXAMPLES

Previously I posted the definition of javascript. Now I'm giving an example on how to put javascript to the html document.

The HTML <script> tag is used to insert a JavaScript into an HTML page.

The example below writes a <p> element with current date information to the HTML document:

<html>
<body>

<h1>My First Web Page</h1>

<script type="text/javascript">
document.write("<p>" + Date() + "</p>");
</script>

</body>
</html>

Output:

Note: Try to avoid using document.write() in real life JavaScript code. The entire HTML page will be overwritten if document.write() is used inside a function, or after the page is loaded. However, document.write() is an easy way to demonstrate JavaScript output in a tutorial.

To insert a JavaScript into an HTML page, use the <script> tag. 

Inside the <script> tag use the type attribute to define the scripting language.

The <script> and </script> tells where the JavaScript starts and ends:

 The lines between the <script> and </script> contain the JavaScript and are executed by the browser. 

For more information: w3schools

HMTL/JAVASCRIPT Blogger Gadget

If you are a blogger you will encounter HTML/Javascript gadget on the design page. Below is screenshot of the gadget.

Based on my research on the web I found out there are a lot of definitions about javascript. Among the sites I viewed I find w3schools.com the best.

Source: w3schools.com

JavaScript is the most popular scripting language on the internet, and works in all major browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari.
  
What is JavaScript?

• JavaScript was designed to add interactivity to HTML pages
• JavaScript is a scripting language
• A scripting language is a lightweight programming language
• JavaScript is usually embedded directly into HTML pages
• JavaScript is an interpreted language (means that scripts execute without preliminary compilation)
• Everyone can use JavaScript without purchasing a license

Are Java and JavaScript the same?

NO!

Java and JavaScript are two completely different languages in both concept and design!

Java (developed by Sun Microsystems) is a powerful and much more complex programming language - in the same category as C and C++.

What can a JavaScript do?

• JavaScript gives HTML designers a programming tool - HTML authors are normally not programmers, but JavaScript is a scripting language with a very simple syntax! Almost anyone can put small "snippets" of code into their HTML pages
• JavaScript can put dynamic text into an HTML page - A JavaScript statement like this: document.write("<h1>" + name + "</h1>") can write a variable text into an HTML page
• JavaScript can react to events - A JavaScript can be set to execute when something happens, like when a page has finished loading or when a user clicks on an HTML element
• JavaScript can read and write HTML elements - A JavaScript can read and change the content of an HTML element
• JavaScript can be used to validate data - A JavaScript can be used to validate form data before it is submitted to a server. This saves the server from extra processing
• JavaScript can be used to detect the visitor's browser - A JavaScript can be used to detect the visitor's browser, and - depending on the browser - load another page specifically designed for that browser
• JavaScript can be used to create cookies - A JavaScript can be used to store and retrieve information on the visitor's computer

JavaScript = ECMAScript

JavaScript is an implementation of the ECMAScript language standard. ECMA-262 is the official JavaScript standard.

JavaScript was invented by Brendan Eich at Netscape (with Navigator 2.0), and has appeared in all browsers since 1996.

The official standardization was adopted by the ECMA organization (an industry standardization association) in 1997.

The ECMA standard (called ECMAScript-262) was approved as an international ISO (ISO/IEC 16262) standard in 1998.

The development is still in progress.

HTML

Here are some html basics I would like to share. First of all, HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, it is used to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages. Normally tags comes in pairs the opening  and closing tags. They are enclosed in angle brackets < > . This an example of  an opening tag <html> and closing tag </html> don't forget  to put a slash ( / ) inside the angle bracket right before the word "html".

Type this on notepad:

<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document. It appears on the upper left corner of you browser</title>
</head>

<body>
The content of the document. You put your codes here and write documents.
</body>

</html>

In saving the file:

Click File => Save As => On the window that appears put the name of your file in Filename then put .html on the end of your file name like this "pinoypoy.html". => Go to Save as type choose All Files then Save.

Click Save As...

Put .html after your filename then choose All Files in Save as type.

 

Click the saved file and the result is like this.

HTML is supported in all major browsers.

Blog Hosting Sites

Before you start blogging you have to find a reliable blog hosting site. So far I have only tried using 3 sites. Blogger.com, tumblr.com and wordpress.com and they are dependable and easy to use. There are hundreds of other sites that provides free blog hosting. Just choose wisely. Below are the definitions of blogger, tumblr and wordpress.

Wikipedia says:

Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Up until May 1, 2010 Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via FTP. All such blogs had (or still have) to be moved to Google's own servers, with domains other than blogspot.com allowed via Custom URLs.

Tumblr, sometimes styled as tumblr., is a microblogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog. Users can follow other users, or choose to make their tumblelog private. The service emphasizes ease of use.

 WordPress.com is a weblog hosting provider owned by Automattic which opened to beta testers on August 8, 2005 and opened to the public on November 21, 2005. It is powered by the open source WordPress software. It is financially supported via paid upgrades, "VIP" services and limited Google Adsense advertising.

 

Other blog hosting sites:

Xanga

LiveJournal

Weebly

Blog.com

Free-Blog-It

Vox.com

Blogsome

Blogomonster

Typepad

BLOGSPOT

Blogs... What are they? A combination of web log, a website or part of a website, usually maintained by an individual. They are interactive, allowing visitors to comment on their posts. Many are making money out of blogging by becoming an affiliate to online blog advertisers. I consider blogs as haven for things that you don't expect to find on the web. I visit blogs for music and movie downloads. There are some blogs that are really informative and some are not. Some blogs have specific viewers that cater to their interests. For example, a site that offers tutorial on photoshop are frequently visited by individuals who are into photo editing. You may like movies, mp3s, latest news and other stuffs. Just hit the net or google it you may find the right blogspot for you. I'm new in blogging so bear with me. :-)

More definitions of blog:

merriam-webster.com

wikipedia

webopedia

dictionary.com

marketingterms.com