Jürgen Müller's Movies of the 50s

A ver si este finde tengo un rato para un recopilatorio sobre la colección. Estoy encantado.

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1951

• The Thing from Another World
• The Subject
• Quo Vadis?
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• The African Queen
• An American in Paris

1952

• High Noon
• Singin' in the Rain
• Ivanhoe
• The Little World of Don Camillo
• Limelight
• Forbidden Games
• The Crimson Pirate
• Fanfan the Tulip

1953

• Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
• Tales of Ugetsu
• The Naked Spur
• Tokyo Story
• Vitelloni
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• Journey to Italy
• Roman Holiday
• The Wages of Fear
• From Here to Eternity
• The Caddy

1954

• A Star is Born
• Rear Window
• Creature from the Black Lagoon
• Diabolique
• The Seven Samurai
• Johny Guitar
• Godzilla
• La Strada
• On the Waterfront
• Bad Day at Black Rock
• The Caine Mutiny

1955

• The Seven Year Itch
• Rebel without a Cause
• The Man with the Golden Arm
• Smiles of a Summer Night
• Marty
• Los Montes
• The Night of the Hunter
• Kiss Me Deadly
• All That Heaven Allows
• Rififi
• East of Eden

1956

• Forbidden Planet
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Moby Dick
• Giant
• The Seventh Seal
• The Searchers
• The Ten Commandments

1957

• Funny Face
• Elevator to the Scaffold
• 12 Angry Men
• The Bridge over the River Kwai
• Jailhouse Rock
• The Incredible Shrinking Man
• Wild Strawberries
• Paths of Glory
• Witness for the Prosecution

1958

• Ashes and Diamonds
• The Defiant Ones
• Touch of Evil
• The Indian Tomb
• Vertigo
• Dracula
• It Happened in Broad Daylight

1959

• The Four Hundred Blows
• Hiroshima, mon amour
• Breathless
• Odds Against Tomorrow
• Some Like it Hot
• Ben-Hur
• Look Back in Anger

1960

• The Misfits
• Zazzie
• La Dolce Vita
• L'Avventura
• Psycho
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
• Rocco and His Brothers
• Spartacus
• Shoot the Piano Player
• The Night Watch
• The Apartment
• Peeping Tom
• Purple Noon
• Eyes Without a Face

Jürgen Müller's Movies of the 40s

Me han llegado los libros de los 40 y los 50

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1941

• The Maltese Falcon
• The Lady Eve
• Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
• The Wolf Man
• How Green was my Valley
• Sullivan's Travels
• The Outlaw
• Citizen Kane
• Woman of the Year

1942

• To Be or Not to Be
• Bambi
• Casablanca
• Mrs Miniver
• The Magnificient Ambersons
• The Black Swan
• Cat People
• Shadow of Doubt

1943

• Ossessione
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen
• The Ox-Bow Incident
• I Walked with a Zombie
• Heaven can Wait
• The Raven

1944

• Double Indenmnity
• Bathing Beauty
• The Woman in the Window
• Arsenic and Old Lace
• Great Freedom n7
• Gaslight
• To Have and Have not
• Cover Girl
• Ladies of the Park
• Henry V
• Laura
• Ivan the Terrible I, II
• Meet Me in St Louis
• The Fire Tongue Bowl

1945

• Children of Paradise
• The Lost Weekend
• The Spiral Staircase
• Mildred Pierce
• Under the Bridges
• Rome: Open City
• Brief Encounter

1946

• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Duel in the Sun
• The Big Sleep
• A Night in Casablanca
• Beauty and the Beast
• It's a Wonderful Life
• My Darling Clementine
• Gilda
• The Killers
• Notorious
• The Murders are Among Us

1947

• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• Monsieur Verdoux
• Out of the Past
• The Ghost and Mrs Muir
• Body and Soul
• The Lady from Shangai
• Call Northside 777

1948

• Red River
• The Red Cross
• Bicycle Thieves
• Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein
• A Foreign Affair
• The Earth Tramples
• Letter from an Unknown Woman
• Fort Apache

1949

• Jour de Fete
• White Heat
• The Third Man
• On the Town
• Kind Hearts and Coronets
• Adam's Rib
• Orphee

1950

• Winchester 73
• All About Eve
• Rashomon
• Cindirella
• The Young and the Damned
• The Gunfighter
• La Ronde
• Broken Arrow
• Sunset Boulevard

Se acerca el ciclo de evaluaciones

Por si necesitais ayuda escribiendo reviews. No me acuerdo de donde salen estas, suenan a Dilbert...

• "Since my last report, this employee has reached rock bottom and has started to dig."
  
• "I would not allow this employee to breed."
• "This associate is really not so much of a has-been, but more of a definitely won't be."
• "This young lady has delusions of adequacy."
• "Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap."
• "When she opens her mouth, it seems that this is only to change whichever foot was previously in there."
• "He sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them."
• "This employee is depriving a village of an idiot."
  
• "This employee should go far and the sooner he starts, the better."
• "Got into the gene pool while the lifeguard wasn't watching."
• "A room temperature IQ."
• "Got a full 6-pack, but lacks the plastic thingy to hold it all together."
• "A gross ignoramus -- 144 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus."
• "A photographic memory but with the lens cover glued on."
• "Bright as Alaska in December."
• "Gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn't coming."
• "He's so dense, light bends around him."
• "If he were any more stupid, he'd have to be watered twice a week."
• "It's hard to believe that he beat out 1,000,000 other sperm."

The Top Sixteen Lies of CEOs

Curioso post de Guy Kawasaki que completa su post anterior sobre sus más socialmente correctas

1. “Working together, we’ve established our goals.” In other words, these are the goals that the CEO decided will make him look good. Few managers believe that these goals are doable, and yet they are the ones who are going to have to accomplish them. But that’s what working together means: the CEO decides and the workers do.

2. “It’s like a startup around here.” This could mean that the place lacks adult supervision; capital is running out; the product is behind schedule; investors have given up, and employees are paid below market rates. Sure, it could alternatively mean that the company is energized, entrepreneurial, making meaning, and kicking butt, but just be sure to double check.

3. “Your project will be a skunkworks reporting directly to me.” This means that no one else at the management level buys into the idea. The CEO might protect you—as this lie implies. Or, you may be fighting for your life against the naysayers when the CEO moves on to the next brilliant idea du jour.

4. “I wanted to do this, but the board wouldn’t let me.” This is a cop out. A good CEO tells the board what she wants to do. She doesn’t seek permission—forgiveness maybe, but never permission. So this statement means one of two things: the CEO didn’t really try her best to get something approved or the board is losing confidence in the CEO.

5. “I expect you to figure this out.” This is a loaded, supposed backhanded compliment. It’s supposed to mean, ”I have such confidence in you that I know you can do this.” Sometimes it does means this. Most times, though, it means that the CEO has no clue and is praying that you can save his butt.

6. “Our sales pipeline looks good.” This means that the vice president of sales leaned on the regional sales manager who leaned on the regional sales rep to pump up the forecast because the CEO doesn’t want to look bad to the board of directors.

7. “We will be profitable soon.” After leaning on the sales organization and it “came through with a great pipeline,” the CEO could then ”reliably“ predict profitability. He never did check with the CFO, though. If the company isn’t profitable, then it’s the fault of the vice president of sales or CFO anyway.

8. “The stock price is not important; what’s important is building a great company.” There are handful of visionary CEOs who mean this when they say it. However, you don’t work for one of them. If one could get an honest answer out of CEOs, most would tell you that they’d rather have a rising stock price than a great company. Very few have the courage to build a great company and trust that a rising stock price is a natural outcome of this accomplishment.

9. “I’ve never worked with a better group of people.” The career limiting comeback to this is, “Well, I have—starting at the top.” This can be a legitimate morale boosting statement when it is infrequently made. However, if a CEO spouts this off more than once every five to ten years, and you know there are clearly bozos on the team (often protected by the CEO), then you know that he’s playing you.

10. “I’m open to new ideas.” The CEO must have recently read a book by a management guru. She’s certainly open to his own new ideas. She’s probably open to new ideas from the consultants that she hired at $10,000/day. Maybe she read a new idea in a blog, God help us. The relevant question is whether she’s open to new ideas from the rank-and-file employees who really know how to fix the company.

11. “I want to hear the truth; I don’t want yes-men around me.” Maybe this is the truth: he doesn’t want yes men around—he wants yes women. But I doubt it. It could be that he’s so arrogant that he believes that he’s always right so there’s nothing to disagree with. But I doubt that too. The most likely situation is that he’s just lying, and he wants people to always agree with him.

12. “I will gladly step aside when the time comes.” Sure, with a $10 million severance package, who wouldn’t be glad to step aside?

13. “This is how we did it at (name of previous company he was fired from), and it worked.” And that’s why the company let him go. And that’s why the employees at the previous company rejoiced when the news spread. And, unfortunately, that’s why the directors of this company hired him: because he was a senior-level packaged goods guy who was available, and the board thought that your tech products should be sold like laundry detergent.

14. “I don’t need to understand all that whiz-bang stuff to be a good CEO.” Absolutely. Your customers aren’t that smart. Neither are your employees, vendors, and partners. The CEO just needs to stand there: tall, white, and gray haired, and let everyone kiss his ring.

15. “I don’t need to rehearse my speech.” This is because he’s not to going to gauge audience reaction since his limo is waiting to whisk him away. He’ll simply ask his handlers, Trixie and Biff, how they think he did. And they will tell him that the emperor has very fine clothes indeed.

16. “We are a customer-focused company.” If only the CEO had appended two additional words: "this quarter." Because next quarter the company will be an innovation-driven company. And the quarter after that a Six Sigma driven company. And the quarter after that the company will be producing purple cows. And the quarter after that it will be evangelistic (depending on whether the CEO reads my book or Seth's first).

Bonus: “I can telecommute and still keep my house on the golf course in Carmel.” The CEO should be living and dying with the company. If anything, he should be there more than anyone.

Rather than these lies, here are four things you’d like your CEO to say:

1. “I don’t know.”

2. “Thank you.”

3. “Do what’s right.”

4. “It’s my fault.”

Un Aston Martin volador (2)

Actualizo con el video, que ya han localizado en Motorpasion

Un marroquí de un top manta dijo una vez...

...que puso un disco de Ramoncín y lo tuvo que quitar porque en las tiendas estaba más barato

Llego a traves del blog de David Bravo a un video de Sabina que sigue dandole duro a Ramoncín

Video en web de Telecinco

El blog no se ve bien con Internet Explorer

Algo he debido romper en la plantilla, si alguien sabe como arreglarlo que me lo cuente.

En cualquier caso con Firefox va bien, y dado que la mayoría utilizais agregadores (los que no ya tardais) no pienso perder mucho tiempo en el tema

Un Aston Martin volador

Por lo visto ha superado el record del primer vuelo de los hermanos Wright. Espero alguien nos consiga el video

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Día del orgullo friki

Manifiesto friki

Han organizado una partida de PcMan en vivo mañana en Callao...

La Tecnología iguala (2)

El ordenador de 100$ que comentaba en uno de los primeros posts parece que ya tiene prototipo



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