www.overthehillequine.com

I’ve been working on a few websites lately, and the first of them is getting close to done. It isn’t entirely finished yet, but it’s most of the way there and has gone live.

http://www.overthehillequine.com

This is a website which was made for Over The Hill Equine, LLC, and it’s owner, John Myers. Mr. Myers has created a product which he is calling The Stall Butler. The Stall Butler, as you’ll see if you visit the website, is a machine which separates manure from clean horse stall bedding. It really seems to speed up the process of cleaning the stalls, and apparently also saves quite a bit of money in new bedding over the course of a year.

Any way, I still have some work to do on the website yet… sprucing it up, finishing the ordering page, and making sure everything is entirely W3C Standards Compliant, but I’m pretty happy with what I’ve done. I even went out and took photos of the machine, made a video of the machine in action, etc. It’s been an interesting project. I’ll actually have to create my portfolio page soon, now that I have something live to put in it!

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, so I thought I would mention my thoughts on the new movie Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. This movie is very difficult for me to rate, as I really enjoyed the novel. Unfortunately, it seems that someone along the way decided that the novel wasn’t good enough to make a great movie, and decided to do some major tweaking in the screenplay adaptation.

I find this very unfortunate. The novel was great, I give it 4 out of 5 stars. While I realize that it isn’t easy to translate the written word to the big screen, I feel they cut out some very important parts of the novel, and changed the basic premise. With the premise of the novel being changed, I don’t see how they can continue to make the rest of the series into movies without straying farther and farther from the author’s original intent.

My final rating comes in at about 2 out of 5 stars. The movie was at least enjoyable, but it should have been so much more. If you haven’t read The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, I highly recommend you check it out.

Matt’s Rating: (the movie)

Matt’s Rating: (the book)

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