Odds Bodkins and Ends

After much thought and discussion with my husband, I fully agree with this review.

Just as the impact is settling in on the audience -- Quick! On to the next scene. Director Mike Newell and screenwriter Steven Kloves move the story along in the spirit of a Blackberry-addicted thirtysomething, leaving little time for depth or nuance.

Which is truly a shame, this is a beautiful film. But characters get relegated to a two-dimensionality that they weren't even treated to on paper. But I'll save the biting words for the review.

An issue that I see around the conference center often is companies (stock market, medical, lawyer, etc.) and their presentations/spreadsheet data. Business is sensitive to current data like rising bread dough is to temperature. If it gets old your bread isn't as soft and high as it normally would be. So often I see confidential reports and numbers on the PowerPoints and PDFs that I print out. The files can be large, and the assistants don't always have enough time to run the first print job themselves. I get left with a USB drive and instructions.

It's fine to spend millions of dollars protecting a network from hackers — but what about all that data that goes walking out the door every night? What about those laptops left in taxis, or the whiz-bang cell phones left on airplanes?

I have to say, I have executives run in here and be more likely to leave their crap behind than the senior members of the club. Glasses, cell phones, and yes, even the thumb drives if I didn't remind them. Seriously, besides integrating all information to one universal device to keep track of- the only solution I see to keeping the data in the barnyard is to have a meltdown circuit that can be triggered by IT personnel once the device is registered lost.

I'm privately seething, Memoirs of a Geisha has been moved to December 23rd while Narnia still holds on to December 9th. *pouts* But the Ain't It Cool people are so cool they have already seen LW&W and given it a shortie review.

In closing, the discussion I mentioned at the top led to talk about maybe another Batman movie. Rumor mill has Mark Hamill pinned for the Joker role.
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My husband gave me the eyebrow to ask if I knew why HE would be in the running for it. I stiffly replied that Mark was my Boy since I was about six. As a kid I know I must've watched Return of the Jedi every day for two months when I got it on VHS (black cover edition)... I don't know how mom didn't say a word to me for my obsession. But Hallmark finally ponied up the slave outfit Princess Leia ornament. I can't wait to catch this half-price.

Speaking of casts- I'm impressed with this Narnia reproduction of Peter on a rearing unicorn.

While I was also browsing AIC (which I haven't been to in MONTHS), I saw the dreaded Bloodrayne siren. I've denounced it since I saw the lead actress's photo. Such a shame. But this note got me cracked up.

He actually hired real Romanian Mafia owned “whores” for this decadent scene involving Meatloaf’s character. “They were better than actors. We looked for local Romanian actresses, but there they are all from the theater and act very broadly. For 150 euros a piece the whores would be naked and do as they were told. It was better.”