You hear that, Mr Andersen?

Random pic, Hudsucker, Batman, Laptop

I don't have anything much to say about the image to the right, apart from noting that it's kinda cool. :) I've no information about it's provenance or history - I just stumbled across the image while looking for something else. Click on it for a full-sized version.

However - it does remind me of the fake dragon embryo that they have at the Oxford University Museum. I should try and find a copy of the book that was written about it - they had sold out of it while i was there.

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Rewatched The Hudsucker Proxy with C a little while ago - C made the very astute observation that the Polly Perkins character from Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow would have been much cooler if she'd been closer to the reporter character in Hudsucker - having just watched Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday, it made a lot of sense... huh, according to IMDB, Hudsucker references HGF. [follows link] Whoa, weird, Jennifer Jason Leigh was given the female character of that film as a reference. That's kind of spooky...

Oh, while I'm talking about films - I enjoyed Batman Begins a lot, though it's got nothing in common with the other Batman movies. Which is probably just as well, since the first one, while fun, was more a Burton film with characters that share names with ones in Batman than a canonical representation... but then again, is "canon" the comics, the animated series, or the 70s cult TV show? Uh, anyway, cool film - not perfect, but cool. :)

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Hire-a-Hubby have a sister company, Mobile Mums. I think there's something interesting going on here - specificially, the fact that it's not "Dial-A-Dad" or... something catchy with "Wife" in the name that I'm not currently feeling creative enough to come up with at the moment.

Yeah, I'm not going to expand on that though, sorry. Look at the freaky cat-bird thing above, instead. :)

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I bought a laptop. I didn't mean to, and now is pretty much the worst time for me to have done so (with a tax bill and the Film Festival coming up), but it was only $1300 for a really nice machine. (I realized how nice when someone inside the company called me up two hours after I bought it, offering to buy it off me for $1500.) It's a two year-old Dell, and Mum has already claimed use of it when she needs it... so now I guess I should learn a bit about Windows administration, file sharing, and so on.

But it's a really cool laptop! And it'll give me a lot more options for running games, hurrah! And it reads the DVDs that Lee burns me, and I suspect it's a much more modern box than my current desktop. And it has built-in wireless, though the reception in the living-room is not great. But - laptop! Hurrah!

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As readers may have guessed (or noticed, or in one instance been told by their mothers), C and I are going out again, and have been for a little while - though we weren't back when she "forced" me to buy the Penguin NZ History book, or even when her character tried to distract the Grand Vizier by swinging a cat by its tail. ;) Anyway, while I am experiencing a little thrill of superstitious dread, I figure that I'll end up mentioning it by accident at some point anyway, so I may as well do it now. :)

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This article rings very true for me, as an I.T. person working for a special effects company. Hey, there's a great idea - a special affects company, that creates novel emotions for use in the entertainment industry! ;)

Okay, I'm going to post this now, otherwise I'll never do so. :)

Posted by svend at June 23, 2005 4:59 PM