Technology is really great when it works. The other day I managed to update my Mac OS without a hitch, transfer service from my old TiVo to my new Series2, and get it happily talking over the previously opened USB 1.1 ethernet adaptor I found in the very back of the shelf at Best Buy. Woo.
This means, of course, that I am cancelling the land line today.
Last night I went and saw Daredevil and at midnight The Big Lebowski. The former… not so good. I knew it was ominous when, in a 96 minute film they spend the first 30 excessively setting up the character. Dave put it well when he said it was like an old Nintendo game: first you have the easy villan, then the hard villan, and then the Boss. If not for the weak attempt at flashback, the plot would have been totally linear and boring.
… but I’m not complaining. I had fun at it, and Jennifer Garner is just so darn cute.
The Big Lebowski, on the other hand, is perhaps the most amazing piece of art ever applied to film. There is no word in the English language which describes its wonder. It is truly scrumtralescent. Jacob and I laughed at all the funny parts… the parts that are truly funny after watching it dozens of times. Everyone else laughed at the predictable parts. We are the true fans. Worship us.
WALTER Hell, you just tell him--well, you tell him, uh, we made the handoff, everything went, uh, you know according to-- DONNIE Oh yeah, how'd it go? WALTER Went alright. Dude's car got a little dinged up--
Anyway, here are a couple pictures. Neither of them came out all that well, but I like them just the same.
Shaver’s entry for today reminds me of some of the terrifying evil we have to do to get at some RPMlib functions which disappeared from the symbol table but at which we can get by doing some pointer arithmetic in an exported vtable. The rest of that file ain’t pretty either. And only 233 revisions to date.