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catscradle May. 27th, 2003 02:07 pm)
catscradle May. 27th, 2003 02:07 pm)Weekend news:
Chase changed my credit card number and - get this - didn't bother notifying me of the change. So, internet was completely cut over the weekend because my access is paid through that credit card. Not no more, says I.
Saw Les Miserables at the Denver Arts Center this weekend - loved it =) Great music. Fun was had! Though if you've read the book, it takes a 1000 page melodramatic French book and converts into a 1 1/2 hour melodramatic English musical. Interesting things happen. Like the romance of Marius and Cosette is turned into Emmett Hunnicut's 45 minute whirlwind courtship and break up and somewhere in between there's a revolt and everyone but the loving couple - who have been in love long enough only to share a song - gets massacred. Still, if you're gonna write a melodrama in any language, why not add a musical score and be done with it?
Funniest line is from the lady in from of me in the seating line: "So, is Victor Hugo, like, French or something?"
Also saw The Matrix. I liked it. Though I could have done without about 50% of the fight scenes. They were. . . long. The longest fight scenes ever. Though the actually story got a little more indepth than the first one in explaining the matrix and the different programes and choice and whatnot. And. . . and. . .I . . .didnthatekeanu. There. I said it. There was some nice chemistry with Keanu and Carrie-Anne Moss. I didn't think Keanu had chemistry with anything - so it must have been Carrie's effort.
All and all, I liked the first movie more - but this one was a good mid point. Hopefully the third one sends it all home.
And I finally rented Signs. I liked everything but the ending. The filming, the suspense, the acting, the directing, the writing - all done well. What I liked most is that you have to rely on the character's interpretations, insecurities and fears to figure out what's going on. They make you just as nervous as they are. When Mel is going through his son's book on aliens, you're right there with him on half-believing and half wondering why you're giving that crap the time of day. He feels silly - but he's scared and it makes about as much sense as anything else. What's real and what's not? Beyond What the characters know, we're never quite sure of all the details, and that works beautifully. I guess that's why I didn't like the ending - we're shown too much. I think I would have prefered the ambiguity.
And now, yet another survey. . .
1. When did you first connect ("go online"), and how?
1994 through the university mainframe at school.
2. What was your first communications program?
Unix - elm and pine for e-mail and tin for the bulletin boards.
3. When did you first chat over the Internet, and how?
First chat was probably in 1995 using ytalk. Shortly after I started using IRC on a unix system.
4. What chat type program(s) do you use now?
ICQ and very occasionally mIRC.
5. Who was your first service provider?
My university.
6. Did you ever use AOL?
No.
7. Do you admit using AOL in public?
Never used it.
8. Who is your current ISP?
Prodigy. Got a discount on the laptop for signing up with them.
9. What was the first computer that you used to access the 'net?
A mainframe computer at the university - now completely obsolete. My first home computer was something like a 286 PC.
10. What computer do you use to access the 'net today?
A Toshiba satelite 1555 laptop.
11. What was your first 'net handle?
Stephanie.
12. Did you use any other handles for any length of time? If so, what were they?
catscradle
13. What 'net handle do you normally use now?
Stephanie or catscradle.
Other things on the weekend - had kabobs on the grill for the Memorial Day weekend. I've decided that salmon is my favorite meat.
Chase changed my credit card number and - get this - didn't bother notifying me of the change. So, internet was completely cut over the weekend because my access is paid through that credit card. Not no more, says I.
Saw Les Miserables at the Denver Arts Center this weekend - loved it =) Great music. Fun was had! Though if you've read the book, it takes a 1000 page melodramatic French book and converts into a 1 1/2 hour melodramatic English musical. Interesting things happen. Like the romance of Marius and Cosette is turned into Emmett Hunnicut's 45 minute whirlwind courtship and break up and somewhere in between there's a revolt and everyone but the loving couple - who have been in love long enough only to share a song - gets massacred. Still, if you're gonna write a melodrama in any language, why not add a musical score and be done with it?
Funniest line is from the lady in from of me in the seating line: "So, is Victor Hugo, like, French or something?"
Also saw The Matrix. I liked it. Though I could have done without about 50% of the fight scenes. They were. . . long. The longest fight scenes ever. Though the actually story got a little more indepth than the first one in explaining the matrix and the different programes and choice and whatnot. And. . . and. . .I . . .didnthatekeanu. There. I said it. There was some nice chemistry with Keanu and Carrie-Anne Moss. I didn't think Keanu had chemistry with anything - so it must have been Carrie's effort.
All and all, I liked the first movie more - but this one was a good mid point. Hopefully the third one sends it all home.
And I finally rented Signs. I liked everything but the ending. The filming, the suspense, the acting, the directing, the writing - all done well. What I liked most is that you have to rely on the character's interpretations, insecurities and fears to figure out what's going on. They make you just as nervous as they are. When Mel is going through his son's book on aliens, you're right there with him on half-believing and half wondering why you're giving that crap the time of day. He feels silly - but he's scared and it makes about as much sense as anything else. What's real and what's not? Beyond What the characters know, we're never quite sure of all the details, and that works beautifully. I guess that's why I didn't like the ending - we're shown too much. I think I would have prefered the ambiguity.
And now, yet another survey. . .
1. When did you first connect ("go online"), and how?
1994 through the university mainframe at school.
2. What was your first communications program?
Unix - elm and pine for e-mail and tin for the bulletin boards.
3. When did you first chat over the Internet, and how?
First chat was probably in 1995 using ytalk. Shortly after I started using IRC on a unix system.
4. What chat type program(s) do you use now?
ICQ and very occasionally mIRC.
5. Who was your first service provider?
My university.
6. Did you ever use AOL?
No.
7. Do you admit using AOL in public?
Never used it.
8. Who is your current ISP?
Prodigy. Got a discount on the laptop for signing up with them.
9. What was the first computer that you used to access the 'net?
A mainframe computer at the university - now completely obsolete. My first home computer was something like a 286 PC.
10. What computer do you use to access the 'net today?
A Toshiba satelite 1555 laptop.
11. What was your first 'net handle?
Stephanie.
12. Did you use any other handles for any length of time? If so, what were they?
catscradle
13. What 'net handle do you normally use now?
Stephanie or catscradle.
Other things on the weekend - had kabobs on the grill for the Memorial Day weekend. I've decided that salmon is my favorite meat.
