Anthology of Interest

Nerd's rope. LOL!

I decided to ride to school on Wednesday. It looked cloudy and overcast just before I left. I got out the door and it started drizzling. I made it to school without getting too wet, since a) it didn't rain very hard and b) I have fenders, which do in fact help, and don't just look dorky.

Once on campus, I took a turn a little too fast and the tires slipped out from under me, and I slid along the sidewalk for a while. "That was fun." After hopping up and riding the rest of the way to the lab, I assessed the damage. Very dirty pants and jacket. A rather large hole in the pants near the knee. I needed some new pants anyway. Bleeding scrapes below the knee, and on my right arm down from the elbow.

Nothing like a little crash to make you feel alive. No head trauma or joint soreness. It was a pretty slow crash.

I think that the RSI caused by Emacs key shortcuts and my workspace switching combos (ctrl-alt-{a,s,z,x}) is much worse than the crash injuries.

Tamara and I went to the Roxy Cinegog (hey, I didn't name it) on Wednesday night. For $5 each, we saw Kung Fu Hustle and Sin City. Kung Fu Hustle had been recommended by various astronomers and physicists, and it was pretty good. It's super-slapstick; no nods to realism at all. People run road-runner fast, make hand prints in metal by hitting it, and so on. There are some really funny bits, but I wasn't that into it.

Sin City is comic book all the way. Someone said somewhere that comic books had always felt unfinished, like a project that only got to the storyboarding stage, and that this movie was what the final result was actually supposed to be. If you like American comic books, you'll probably like this movie. It's black and white, except for hints of color where appropriate. Blood is white or black or yellow. It's got comic book gore and comic book dialog, which is unbearably silly sometimes, but that's the comics for you.

We rented Oceans 12 last night. Oceans 11 is much, much better. While the premise for more jobs in Europe was fine, the heists themselves barely made any sense. Half the time I couldn't figure out what they were up to. And the thing at the end is just silly. And it's all out of order. Ugg.