personal and professional notes from a naive chemistry professor
May 21st 2005General
Saw the new “Star Wars” movie today. It seems that there are two things that George Lucas does well — exotic/futuristic settings, and assorted aliens/robots. And battles and fight scenes. (OK, that’s three things.) These were all well done. Fortunately, the sorry excuse for characterization (and motives, and dialogue) were really just there to link [...]
Saw the Narnia trailer yesterday (download from AOL). It’s hard to tell in a few seconds, of course, but it did look pretty good. (At least they didn’t make Aslan female, or give one of the four siblings an inexplicably diverse skin color, for the sake of being “correct”.) I heard someone complaining that the [...]
Dec 7th 2004General
CNN reports that someone has stolen my idea. I’d try to sue, but 1. Given the time required to get a book —
Jan 30th 2004General
That’d be the big list of all the differences between the books and the movies. (“Which books? What
Jan 22nd 2004nerd alert
Newsflash: Looks like Spirit’s not talking to NASA any more. Speculation in the lab is that Spirit and NASA are