Old news, I know, but I really dig this picture of the X-Men by Canadian indie comicist Seth. If you haven’t read his graphic novel It’s a Good Life if You Don’t Weaken, you’re missing out on one of the best bits of Can-lit I’ve read lately.
Monthly Archives: May 2006
Marimba Ponies
Thursday, May 25, 2006
So I’ve been pretty focused and Interweb-less the past couple of weeks. I have some deadlines looming, a couple of recently-scrapped projects behind me, and various other demands of my time. Yesterday, after a morning full of meetings, I spent about ten hours straight trying unsuccessfully to implement an optimization algorithm. I walked home, tired and frustrated, in full-on zombie mode. And Ty, Gill and I watched this video of bouncing Japanese kids playing the Saber Dance.
About three times in a row.
It was sublime.
buy cenforce 100mg uk Donnie Darko: Thursday, May 11, 7 PM
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
People who have been in the department for a while might remember my occasional movie night notices, but it’s been a while now. But I thought I’d restart the tradition on a semi-regular basis.
The way it works is this: I pick a movie that I like a lot, but that might not be as well-known as I think it should be. I then pick an evening to show it in the LCI lounge. You, being a cool, movie-loving person with good taste, come. You maybe even bring snacks for yourself. Yum. Everybody spends a couple minutes helping set up the projector and furniture before the movie, and a couple minutes putting things away after, and we have ourselves a show. I may set aside some time to gush about the movie and convince you that the black-and-white all-little-person German film we are watching is indeed a masterpiece, despite your misgivings. This is not because you are lacking in taste, but because you are unrefined, and need to be set gently on the right track. Good times are had by all.
This week’s movie will be in the LCI lounge Thursday night at 7 PM, and it is… Donnie Darko, the director’s cut.
I know, I know, I’ve shown Donnie Darko before. More than once, even. But I really, really like this movie, and it makes me sad that there are so many people out there who haven’t seen it, and if you have seen it, you know it bears watching multiple times, and this is the director’s cut, anyway, which you might not have seen.
28 days… six hours… 42 minutes… 12 seconds. That… is when the world… will end.
— Frank the Rabbit
Link (To more info on Donnie Darko –don’t read the spoilers if you want to come in “fresh”. Which you do.)