15th
May
2013
Used to be, a movie came on, and you watched it. Done. If the movie happened to be in foreign language, there might be subtitles. Again, done. But in a world with short attention spans and so much more information, they’re starting to “study note” certain of the better efforts.
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6th
April
2013
I love the support Google offers when I watch a movie. I’m not content to see a handsome house any more; I have to know the where, and when and anything else that others have added to the pool of data we now assume as ours. Watching an oldie (Lethal Weapon 2), and that house that gets pulled downhill… it exists. No, it didn’t go anywhere, because I can “see” it. In satellite pics, and Street View, and in photos taken by others. I can even get the relative value in their local real estate market (and no, I can’t afford it.) But at least the information was available.
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24th
March
2013
I should really get more. Other than for groceries or work, I mean. Spent the afternoon baking a pair of fowl, and blipping between three different movies on cable. The common factor: all had Jason Statham in a title role, and none differed greatly in content. Hey, dude; your agent has you working in a niche market (Sunday afternoon TV movies). Can’t be good for a long and varied career.
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16th
March
2013
Starting to hit my stride with this online course workload. Up early, on a weekend. Fed the dog (no choice in that matter) and then settled down to this week’s set of video lectures and multiple choice quiz opportunities. The content is interesting, properly presented and I’d really like to do something practical with my new knowledge. Soon.
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6th
March
2013
For the record (almost a record, but I may have got there earlier, once before), I was early to the office. One bus caught another, due to the downturn in clientele from the schools being “on break”, and I arrived more than a half hour early. Did anyone notice? Or applaud? Not even.
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2nd
March
2013
Thanks to cable TV and low budget weekends, the occasion rises to watch some truly odd cinema. The kids say I don’t have to give in, but sometimes the moment is “too good to miss”. This afternoon, I watched a recent “straight to cable” movie, Battleship.
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13th
February
2013
The online course I’ve been following deals with sound synthesis. As the material is presented, I keep discovering that this isn’t new content for me. Some of it, I’ve been playing around with for years, albeit without the vocabulary to describe it to others. This evening, we’ve had an overview of bandwidth filters. Low pass, high pass, band pass, notch; although this is a course about sound, the analogies to radio are constant (and a valuable review of my electronic fundamentals).
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13th
January
2013
When parents go out to buy cookies for their kids, how do they pick the flavour? When I was a kid, exotic meant those round ones with red jam inside. Nowadays, the flavour of the week is more apt to be “Irish cream”. Which one is (or should be) an acquired taste for the four year old in the house? And don’t give me the line that these are adult cookies…
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11th
January
2013
When I was younger, I didn’t even know where the Rock was. Now I watch their weather stories. And boy, ob boy, do they get weather! Summer, fall, winter with a vengeance. Blizzard today with half a metre of snow moving at speeds not legal on the highway. I’m glad we dodged that bullet, although the freezing rain warning we’ve received as a compromise gives pause.
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9th
January
2013
I have an idea for a great movie. A blockbuster. The CBC is reporting that a pod of killer whales is trapped in the ice of Hudson’s Bay. Imagine going up there with chainsaws and cutting a series of holes in the ice, leading the whales toward open water. For a climax, we could get an icebreaker…
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