Just Another Lemon Tree

Ignore the dog and focus on the lemon tree.

Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down! 

– Cave Johnson, Portal 2

Don’t get turned off by the fact that this quote comes from a fictional character and from a PC game nonetheless. This quote actually has a lot of meaning to it.

The old adage we’ve heard or been taught by our parents was that when life gives you lemons, make lemonade (this is usually follwed by an exclamation mark to show the enthusiasm!). In layman terms, this means:  take what life gives you and make the best out of it.

Could This Be The Future of Books?

With eBooks sales skyrocketing every year thanks to Amazon's Kindle and the Tablet craze, one can only ask, what's next?

I've written about this before: how print books will fade away and the majority will adopt the eBook format. Especially since you can get an eReader for $79 or a tablet for $199, both from Amazon. It's inevitable, just like how DVD made the VHS tape extinct, CD's made cassettes extinct and how smartphones are making standard cellphones extinct.

Films: Why This Year Will Be One of The Best Years and Why 2011 Was Forgettable.

Yes, I'm glad 2011 is over. Not  because I could put Charlie Sheen's rants behind me, not because there was no iPhone 5 and not because the Yankees didn't win a World Series. I’m glad it’s over because 2012 will be better than 2011, for films at least.

This year is already shaping up to be one of the biggest years for films in quite a while. Here’s why.

Obama Vs. The Crazy Ones, or, How An Obama Campaign Ad Has Me Thinking Twice Before Voting For Him

For those of you that have been keeping track of the GOP primary should know by now that none of the clowns trying to get a nomination to represent the Republican party should be voted as President of the United States of America.

You can complain about Obama all you want, but if you don't know about about the so-called candidates ready to run against him, then here is a brief rundown on The Crazy Ones, the ones who don't see things differently.

Leaving Out The Parts That People Skip

Murakami's 1Q84: Finished. And by finished I don't only mean that I finally finished the 900+ paged book, but also, that I'm through with reading any novel that touches the millennial page mark.

At the time, having never read any of Murakami's novels, such as Norwegian Wood or Kafka on the Shore, I thought it was best to read his latest novel to get a sense of the guy and his work, After hearing positive reviews for the book, I decided to dive right in.

And This is Why eBooks Will Never Replace Real Books

By now, everyone knows that eBooks are the future when it comes to reading. eBook sales have been tripling in the last couple of years and printed book sales have been dropping fast. This has to do with reading tablets such as the Kindle and iPad that allows us to carry around an entire library in our hands. The convenience factor is great considering that anyone would rather lug around their slim tablet with Game of Thrones in it, as opposed to carrying all 800+ pages of Game of Thrones.

Daniel Day-Lewis Should Play Steve Jobs

A few days after Steve Jobs passed away, Sony Pictures purchased the rights to his, then, unreleased biography by Walter Isaacson. Since then, there has been all sorts of rumors about who would play Steve Jobs, ranging from Noah Wyle -- who played Steve in the TV film Pirates of Silicon Valley -- to George Clooney.

Today, the first picture emerged from Daniel Day-Lewis on the set of Lincoln, the Steven Spielberg directed biopic, and it goes without saying that he looks a lot like America's 16th President

via Richmond.com

So why should Daniel-Day Lewis play Steve Jobs? 

For starters, anyone who has seen Daniel-Day Lewis act in such films as My Left Foot, which he won a Best Actor Oscar, In the Name of the Father, Gangs of New York or There Will be Blood, which he won his second Best Actor Oscar, goes without saying that he is one of the greatest actors of all time. He clearly has no problem losing himself in each role he plays and not to mention the research he does for them.

The man built the house his character in The Crucible, John Proctor, lived in just because he's that dedicated to his characters!

Now, I'm not a Photoshop expert by any means, but I took the same Abe Lincoln picture of Daniel Day-Lewis and blurred out the hair and goatee, to make him look like Steve Jobs and this is the end result:

Yes, I see it happening, he's even dressed like him. Now let's hope Hollywood sees it the same way...