Sunday, November 18, 2012
Blessing
Blessing: A nice town just down the Vever from Holy Flame City. Enjoy all the amenities of the big city without the usual hassle, even if you are a wanted man. An addition to the scorched earth material post, in German.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Sam Mendes: Skyfall
Spoilers, so many spoilers.
This is the movie you have been waiting for. Go see it, even if you are not into Bond - this is a great action movie on its own merits, while it ticks away at a lot of Bond-boxes.
Wonder slackjawed at the amazing pictures, the amazing, amazing pictures. Javier Bardem plays the Joker filtered via Bobby Peru: This alone brought tears of joy to my eyes. Learn important stuff about small island ecologies. See Moneypenny shoot Bond off a train. Marvel at our crocodile pit. Dame Judi Dench becomes the best Bond girl of them all. See the Joker pull off one jokeresque plan after another, including the mandatory "I wanted to be caught" scheme and the all-new subway train to the face. The Aston Martin comes out of the garage, only to be blown to bits by the chopper from Apocalypse Now. Voldemort now is the chief of the double-0 section. I wasn't kidding about those spoilers, it's the kind of state of mind this movie inducts in reprobates like me. Sorry. But the movie is still great after a second viewing, so nothing of value was lost.
Hacking in movies still has to take place in a haze of technobabble, but now everyone uses a PC, so it's no longer represented by flashing the word "HACKING" on the screen, but by convulsing nets and numbers, while someone blathers on about "self-obfuscating code". The IT security thug to my left couldn't hide his merriment at all the beautiful nonsense on display. But it's still nice to look at.
Monday, I'm buying two VAIO notebooks.
Five of five rats in a barrel
This is the movie you have been waiting for. Go see it, even if you are not into Bond - this is a great action movie on its own merits, while it ticks away at a lot of Bond-boxes.
Wonder slackjawed at the amazing pictures, the amazing, amazing pictures. Javier Bardem plays the Joker filtered via Bobby Peru: This alone brought tears of joy to my eyes. Learn important stuff about small island ecologies. See Moneypenny shoot Bond off a train. Marvel at our crocodile pit. Dame Judi Dench becomes the best Bond girl of them all. See the Joker pull off one jokeresque plan after another, including the mandatory "I wanted to be caught" scheme and the all-new subway train to the face. The Aston Martin comes out of the garage, only to be blown to bits by the chopper from Apocalypse Now. Voldemort now is the chief of the double-0 section. I wasn't kidding about those spoilers, it's the kind of state of mind this movie inducts in reprobates like me. Sorry. But the movie is still great after a second viewing, so nothing of value was lost.
Hacking in movies still has to take place in a haze of technobabble, but now everyone uses a PC, so it's no longer represented by flashing the word "HACKING" on the screen, but by convulsing nets and numbers, while someone blathers on about "self-obfuscating code". The IT security thug to my left couldn't hide his merriment at all the beautiful nonsense on display. But it's still nice to look at.
Monday, I'm buying two VAIO notebooks.
Five of five rats in a barrel
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