There’s a difference between releasing three films in a series and releasing a film in three parts. Unfortunately, it appears “The Hunger Games” is in the latter category. A surprisingly depressing movie. It was well produced; it could have had a great ending. Instead it had… basically nothing. It’s worse than a “bad” ending because… Read more
It should be a trivial task. It’s certainly an obvious goal, and I was quite perturbed to find no clear instructions, very little discussion of it at all, and a few awkward speed-bumps on the way. But I did figure it out. So here it is, for those lucky enough to find this before they… Read more
Easter was spent with Marisa’s parents, and her brother whom flew in from Hawaii for the weekend. Though he wasn’t around much, being very busy catching up with friends and running errands and whooshing off to South Lake Tahoe to go snowboarding. It’s a hard life. :P I realised this Easter – why only after… Read more
It’s like driving a beach-ball that fights back. So says Marisa on driving a (2003) Prius. Apparently the 2010 ones are “better” insofar as they’ve had the will to fight back beaten out of them.
Did I stutter? But incidentally, this reveals that – shock horror – I use Bing. I actually use it by default on all my own devices. Why is this so, when I work at Google? Well, first, I don’t work on Search, so I have no particular vested interest in it. Second, after I joined… Read more
On Saturday night Marisa & I went to dinner with her parents at Cafe Bistro (at the top of Nordstroms on Market Street, in San Francisco). Afterwards we went to the Shelton Theatre to see “Secret Improv Society”. It was rather entertaining. I’d definitely like to go back, hopefully with Game Night, as it’s right… Read more
Last night Marisa and I went to a performance by Lady Antebellum, with Thompson Square and Darius Rucker opening. At the HP Pavillion. I had forgotten how awful the acoustics are there. Massive reverb, and a closed roof contributing to the cheap-speakers-way-over-driven effect. Which was very unfortunate. But nonetheless the show was entertaining. It just… Read more