http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/04/11/fedex-still-faster-than-the-internet/
Of course, xkcd has a better way of describing things:
http://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
The Hobbit (2012)
Enjoyable enough. The visuals were good. Did the 3D add a lot? Not really, but it was well executed.
Too long, yes. And too often references to *drumroll* the darkness to come!!
It irked me. This was a wonderful children's story, and yes, it can be seen as the prelude to LoTR, but ugh... am I too much of a purist now? I don't want to be, I don't care about that.
Too long, yes. And too often references to *drumroll* the darkness to come!!
It irked me. This was a wonderful children's story, and yes, it can be seen as the prelude to LoTR, but ugh... am I too much of a purist now? I don't want to be, I don't care about that.
Monday, 4 February 2013
R.E.M. - "Fretless" (OST Until the End of the World)
Not the chorus so much, but everything else about this song is breathtaking, haunting.
Lomax the Songhunter
Dutch documentary about Alan Lomax and his quest to record (poor man's) folk music from all over the world.
Impressive how he simply did all the recording, travelled around the world. Simply did it.
Painful how such a man, described by everybody as larger than life, full of energy, in the final years of his life was unable to answer questions because of a brain tumor. He understood them well enough, but could not phrase his answers. Locked inside his head. Where there any answers? Could he simply not phrase them? Or could he not even think of the answers anyway, only understand the question, the grasping feeling we all know when we "just can't think of the answer", the proverbial tip of the tongue, but eternally, continuously...
"He could get a song out of a stone if only he told it how beautiful it was."
Many of the songs were amazing, but the Sicilian miner's song grabbed my heart and mind.
A version of "All the pretty little horses" that sounds much more Scottish.
Impressive how he simply did all the recording, travelled around the world. Simply did it.
Painful how such a man, described by everybody as larger than life, full of energy, in the final years of his life was unable to answer questions because of a brain tumor. He understood them well enough, but could not phrase his answers. Locked inside his head. Where there any answers? Could he simply not phrase them? Or could he not even think of the answers anyway, only understand the question, the grasping feeling we all know when we "just can't think of the answer", the proverbial tip of the tongue, but eternally, continuously...
"He could get a song out of a stone if only he told it how beautiful it was."
Many of the songs were amazing, but the Sicilian miner's song grabbed my heart and mind.
A version of "All the pretty little horses" that sounds much more Scottish.
Sunday, 3 February 2013
Until the End of the World (1991)
Wim Wenders, I didn't recognize the name...
Trippy, Lynchian trilogy about the near end of the world (Indian nuclear satelite out of control) and how a girl, bend on personal destruction, follows her heart.
I have trouble with the acting. Particularly the main character; she's .. pathetic in her emotions. Not stupid, but doe eyed-hardly-reacting. In the first 5 minutes of the 1st episode, the narrator tells us how he and everybody "loved her for her energy". But she doesn't have any. Every line is delivered with the same (lack of) pathos, of emotion. Whether she is happy or sad, in Sydney, Tokyo, Beijing, San Francisco or Paris. It's the same everywhere. Why? Is she simply a bad actress? Is there a deeper meaning?
Too vague and too slow at times. Though the last 45 minutes of the 3rd part were good again.
Amazing soundtrack.
Trippy, Lynchian trilogy about the near end of the world (Indian nuclear satelite out of control) and how a girl, bend on personal destruction, follows her heart.
I have trouble with the acting. Particularly the main character; she's .. pathetic in her emotions. Not stupid, but doe eyed-hardly-reacting. In the first 5 minutes of the 1st episode, the narrator tells us how he and everybody "loved her for her energy". But she doesn't have any. Every line is delivered with the same (lack of) pathos, of emotion. Whether she is happy or sad, in Sydney, Tokyo, Beijing, San Francisco or Paris. It's the same everywhere. Why? Is she simply a bad actress? Is there a deeper meaning?
Too vague and too slow at times. Though the last 45 minutes of the 3rd part were good again.
Amazing soundtrack.
Crime & the City Solution - "The Adversary" (OST Until the End of the World)
Dark, melancholy music. Sounds amazing. Think Nick Cave. Think Robbie Robertson.
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