Krellion’s Geek Journal – 9/11/2009
Welcome to this week’s post of my Geek Journal!
I’m sure most people realize that today is the 8th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. It’s hard to believe that it’s been eight years since that happened and I still remember where I was when I first found out about the attacks. I would like to take a moment to think about all the lives that were lost and all the great work done by everyone (police, firefighters, EMS, military, and civilians alike) before continuing.
Thank you.
Over this week, I managed to take in two great movies and part of a third:
Inglourious Basterds – Spell-checkers have a field day with that title. Quentin Tarantino’s latest film is his take on World War II, but done in a “spaghetti western” style. The movie itself, while slow in a few parts, is a lot of fun to watch. I found myself laughing at several points. The only part that didn’t really sit with me (or the friends I saw it with) was the scene with Mike Myers‘ cameo; it was strange to see him there but not acting like his usual characters. This made him stand out more than he really should have.
Gamer – Another fun movie to watch, especially if you’re familiar with MMO and FPS game genres. The Society game in the film borrows mostly from Second Life, while Slayer borrows from almost any FPS you can think of. The main difference is that both games use real people as avatars instead of computer graphics, thus the main idea of the story. It was funny to see some of the usual things seen in multi-player games, especially the part that had someone constantly running into a wall. I kind of look forward to technology that connects to the mind directly to computers, but I’d prefer to stay away from the stuff that would let someone control me (not that we don’t already have enough of that without the tech).
9 – Not to be confused with District 9 or Plan 9, I linked to the short film this is based on in an earlier post. I only got to see part of this movie; due to technical issues with the theater I was watching it in, I ended up walking out and getting a refund with plans to go back and see it at a later date (possibly tomorrow).
Earlier this week, Apple announced the addition of new models it its iPod lineup: a 64GB Touch (using the same components as the iPhone 3GS and finally having enough space that I might think about picking it up), a 160GB Classic (the difference from the previous 160GB Classic is the usage of a 5mm single-platter drive instead of an 8mm double-platter one, so it’s still thin), a new Nano (with a larger screen, a VGA camera, and an FM tuner (about time they made it internal, too bad it’s not HD, and why not the new Classic as well?)), and a new Shuffle. At the same time, the iPod Nano Linux project released a new loader for the 2G Nano, getting a step closer to me being able to run Rockbox on the newer Classics.
That’s it for this week!
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