Romina’s Blog

Apple Inc, has filed a patent to place solar panels on portable devices. This is big news. Considering that the iPhone battery is losing it’s reputation of being good, I would say this is a good time for Apple to start working on this. It’s a brilliant idea, which in my opinion should have been done a long time ago.

The commenters on this article (only two) say that their calculators have been solar powered for roughly more than 14 years now. Both complain that Apple shouldn’t have the right to patent this idea considering the calculator has been doing it for such a long time. But really, I say this to the commenters. I highly doubt that anyone considers a calculator as a “portable device” since it technically has been portable since the day it was invented. A telephone… we used to depend on telephone lines, now we have cell phones. MP3 players… we had juke boxes, now we have iPods. These are what I consider modern day portable devices, which is what Apple patented for.

So, any opinions about having a solar powered iPod? Anybody scared? Anxious? So excited you can’t stop shaking? It’s okay, I’ll understand…

So… I made a cake modeled after Martin Scorsese’s face. It’s a double chocolate fudge cake with chocolate chips thrown in. Fudge icing on top, sprinkles, and strawberries.

It was delicious. I hope you enjoy looking at it as much as I enjoyed eating it! For a bigger picture visit my flickr.

I have often wondered if the eyes really are the window to one’s soul. I have heard about the experiments that many have carried out trying to prove this. I am still unsure about it.

It’s simple enough to see if someone is sad, angry, or happy just by looking at their eyes. Is it possible to see who they really are? Can we figure out what their goals are, what their past was like, who are they really, and what they dream about at night?

It seems that getting to know a person is the best way to know anything about them. Going out, talking to that person, maybe just watching a movie together. But sometimes you can really get to know a person once you sit in silence with them.

The eyes are full of expression and I think that it’s important to take the time to look people in the eyes when you’re talking to them and even when you’re not.

So, I wanted to try it out. I have made a video where I look straight at the camera. I cut out the blinks so as not to distract you and I did nothing with the sound. I didn’t want to add music because I didn’t want that to affect your judgement of me.

I would like for you to watch the video and tell me… who am I? And maybe if you want to participate as well, post a video response of you doing the same thing, and I’ll try to figure out who you are.

You can find the video at myyoutube page here.

Also… just for kicks:
A staring contest!

On Yahoo!’s front page today, there is a collection of “the good, the bad, and the creepiest monsters in film.” Being a fan of extraterrestrials, ghouls, and monsters myself I decided to take a look.

Click here to see it yourself.

On this list of 20 iconic movie creatures in no particular order is included:
1. Asterious the Minotaur (The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian)
2. Kreacher (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)
3. Smeagol/Gollum (Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
4. Godzilla (the original ‘Tokyo-trashing’ one)
5. “an extremely foul-tempered extraterrestrial” (Alien)
6. Jabba the Hutt (Return of the Jedi)
7. Pale Man, the one with the eyes (Pan’s Labyrinth)
8. Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest)
9. “the last two gelfings in existence” (The Dark Crystal)
10. King Kong (the original giant ape)
11. [baby] Loch Ness monster (The Waterhorse: Legend of the Deep)
12. “Angry skeleton hordes” (Jason and the Argonauts)
13. Creature in Han River (The Host)
14. Abe Sapien (Hellboy)
15. E. T. (E.T. the Extra Terrestrial)
16. Hogsqueal (The Spiderwick Chronicles)
17. Medusa (Clash of the Titans)
18. Lord of Darkness (Legend)
19. Saphria (Eragon)
20. Flying Monkeys (The Wizard of Oz)

Now that you’ve had a chance to skim over that list… is anyone else disappointed? Mostly all of the creatures on that list are very cool looking, but iconic? Okay… E.T. and Jabba are givens. Don’t get me wrong, I do agree with some of these… but the Loch Ness monster from the Waterhorse? I mean… he is a cute little creature, but I didn’t even get to see the movie in theatres! How on earth did he become iconic? Some of these other creatures are iconic from the stories that they come from, their books. But I have to disagree with them being iconic in the films. For example, Asterious the Minotaur… I fail to see how he was iconic in any way.

These are the creatures from Yahoo!’s list that I find iconic:
King kong, E.T., Jabba, Pan’s Labyrinth man, Gollum, Godzilla, Davy Jones, and the flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz. And I’m going 50/50 with Kreacher being iconic, as much as I love him in the books… I don’t think he’s cut out for the list, we’ll see as the HP franchise continues to roll in.

Basically, I want to know what creatures YOU find iconic. And when I say iconic I really mean it…

Hello everyone! I realize that I haven’t exactly posted in a while (okay, a long time). I suppose that I haven’t really been up for it… haven’t been in the mood… not really feeling it… etc.

But I feel that it’s time to return to my trustworthy blog and keep you up to date!

Where to begin… okay, well in case you didn’t know there is a new episode of SpinozaArt posted on youtube where we talk about elephants that paint and people that float and everything in between.

Or here it is, because I know that my readers are lazy:

Last night was a great one. I got to watch the season finale of the Office with Rainn Wilson. And when I say with Rainn… I mean actually with him. I got into this little event where he talked and talked and talked, and he decided to bring the Office season finale since we were all at the event and were going to miss it at home. He’s a great guy and everyone should like him.

And to finish off the night, I went to see the Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian at midnight. Yes, it was awesome.

I will try to post more often, that’s if I have something interesting to say. :)