My name is Frank Showalter. I’m a 30-something software developer, writer, and movie guy living and working in Northern Virginia. Welcome to my schizophrenic web presence.

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Movie Log

I watch a lot of movies. One day I had trouble remembering whether I’d seen a certain film (it was one of John Wayne’s Lone Star westerns –so not very memorable) and the movie log was born. Here, I catalog every film I watch with a small review and letter grade. Some of the latest posts:

• Easy Rider (1969) on 7.23
• Raging Bull (1980) on 7.23
• Sex and the City (2008) on 7.23
• Stalag 17 (1953) on 7.22
• Scarface (1932) on 7.22
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Links

Via del.icio.us and google reader. I love the internets and soon you will too. Here are some of the latest reasons why:

• horror filmmakers bringing comedy to xbox live on 7.23
• dr. horrible’s sing-along blog, available online for a short time only on 7.18
• 20 everyday items if they were designed for batman | cracked.com on 7.17
• flesh and blood on 7.15
• meanwhile, in the fortress of solitude… on 7.15
• 7 insane conspiracies that actually happened | cracked.com on 7.15
• microsoft brings netflix streaming to the xbox 360 for live gold members - engadget on 7.14
• michael bay's rejected "the dark knight" script - the spill.com movie community on 7.8
• interfacelift: high-resolution widescreen wallpaper (by ratings) on 7.8
• the personality behind online gaming site bodog | fast company on 7.8
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Bad Words

My night job. Here I struggle to put the necessary words in the correct sequence in order to convey whatever point I happen to be trying to get across. I often fail. See for yourself in some of the latest posts:

• Threesome on 7.21
• Untitled Hunting Story on 7.14
• link → 9 words that don't mean what you think | cracked.com on 7.8
• link → making castoff « india, ink. on 7.7
• link → man throws a log at a bear, killing it - new york times on 7.7
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Dev

Links and posts about HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, .NET, and software development in general. Welcome to my day job and behold my nerdness:

• link → how i built a working online poker bot, part 7: extracting text from 3rd-party applications on 7.17
• link → how i built a working online poker bot, part 6: guerilla-style file monitoring on windows with c# and c++ on 7.17
• If You Can’t Login After a Wordpress Upgrade on 7.15
• The Redesign: Part 1 on 7.15
• link → betanews | google releases its data encoding format to compete with xml on 7.8
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