Thursday
This was about a 80-20 day. Mostly good, with just enough “not-so-good” as to make it noticeable.

I discovered that something that I had thought was well behind me was not as “dead,” as I had thought. It was merely dormant. Coming to this realization was good… however it came about 45 minutes after someone made a comment to me that elicited a rather negative reaction. I went into ::: irritated/leave me alone mode :::. It was lovely. The mood eventually passed and life was good once more.

NPR/PRI Stories
Talk of the Nation: Baseball Strike?
Talk of the Nation: Traffic and Gridlock – Problems and Possible Solutions This segment is pretty good, but is made a MUST-HEAR by the caller comments at 15:00 into it. It starts off a little slow, but hits its stride after a minute or so. Julia, Land and I were laughing aloud throughout the call.
All Things Considered: Identifying Suicide Bombers
All Things Considered: Corruption Perception Index of Countries
All Things Considered: Baseball Fan ‘Union’
All Things Considered: Hillbillies
All Things Considered: The Sights and Sounds of Schizophrenia This segment has a companion piece that goes into some details and presents a slideshow of one of the simulations.

It started off all right…
Adrian and I went to see FearDotCom tonight; it’s the movie for which I won passes (see this morning’s post). How was it? The highpoints were:

  • Getting to the preview 0:10 before it started and finding decent seats.
  • No waiting in line at the concession stand.
  • Spilling a cup of Sobe on the floor.

It was bad. VERY bad. VERY bad. To simply say that “it sucked” doesn’t do it justice.
As I said on IRC:

[01:12] -brooke0918- so that movie fear.com sucked huh
[01:13] -ShadoRunr- Like a stopcock grease-sealed vacuum pump.

What was wrong with it? Many things. Oh, so many things. The cinematography and lighting. The lack of continuity. The apparent lack of common sense of the characters. The inane manner in which they “use” computers and the Internet. Oh, yeah… the OS/interface that ALL of the computers use makes WinDoze look positively sublime!

Bottom line: Skip this one. In fact, blatantly ignore it. If it hadn’t been for the free pass, this would have simply been on the “no interest to see” list. Now, it has firmly ensconced itself on the “Cool World – Long Kiss Goodnight Scale.” Firmly. With grappling hooks and duct tape, even.

And finally…
: Land added two more comments/clarifications to Tuesday’s post. Would you please cross-post them, as well? Thanks!

For : Chem geek

Peace.