Leaving a company on good terms is much like a funeral wake.
People keep coming by and giving their sincerest regrets that you are leaving the company.
It kind of makes me laugh.
I had a friend take some photos.
It’s been a while since an update and this is the only thing worthy of saying at this point.
Starting around 9 am Pacific and peaking at 1:30 pm yesterday, many ISPs noticed an unusual increase in traffic. At first, a few security engineers worried they were under some type of new DDoS attack. But the flood of traffic did not appear directed at any individual customer — the gigabits of anomaly traffic surged to almost all customers from multi-national banks to the bakery down the street and home DSL / Cable users. For several ISPs, traffic into their network grew by 15-25%. In one provider, inbound traffic nearly doubled.
It turns out that the U.S. Open played at Torrey Pines yesterday generated one of the larger Internet-wide flash crowds this year. Traffic dipped and peaked corresponding to Tiger’s initial misses and subsequent spectacular comeback as millions of office bound fans tuned in to the live NBC and ESPN coverage.
The Tiger Effect · Security to the Core | Arbor Networks SecurityStarting a book on typography.
It’s a little rough going because I haven’t read a technical book in a while. Those are the things classes are made of. I figured since I didn’t have the time or money to go full fledged into some kind of program I will continute to do what I’ve always done and teach myself. Thank you Amazon.com for providing some great books at good prices
Current Read:
The Elements of Typographic Style
v3.1
by: Robert Bringhurs
Current Listen:
Coldplay :Viva la Vida
Current Watch:
The Incredible Hulk
Current Favorite Email:
Phone interview possibility!
To be completely honest I wasn’t expect much when I walked into the theatre.
I got exactly what I expected. Now M. Night has produced a few notable movies, Sixth Sense, Unbreakable - those movies were different. Then he tried to be to different and repeat the success with Signs (boring), The Village (Predictable), and Lady In The Water (Fairytale, frankly I liked the over characterization of the players, but once he stepped in as himself to save the day it was over).
My Happening circumstance started with a preview for the movie inter-cut with Mr. Shyamalan talking about the movie from his perspective and how this is the scariest one yet. Well that blows it for me…any time a director has to be put in his own preview and tell the audience to see his most mind blowing film ever you know there is something up. Fast Forward A couple days.
Enter theatre.
Opening credits roll…cheesy cloud loop with equally cheese ball text
Great…when did I get to the Sundance Film Festival?
Cut to Central Park, NY
Everybody stops in their tracks, girl stabs herself in the throat while her friend stares horrified.
Next up…skyscraper being built and all of the sudden bodies start the falling and bouncing thing…It made me chuckle.
In steps Mark Whalburg actor and underwear model extraordinaire. Sweet…he knows about bees.
More people die.
I’ll save the blow by blow to Nights career.
Basically there comes some extremely distasteful stuff, like showing a little girl a video on an iphone (marketing anybody?) of a man offering himself to be mauled by a big lion. Then these two boys…instead of committing suicide they get shot with shot guns for no real reason by some people ‘protecting their house’. I was done by this point.
But no it keeps going.
Drag it out, more people die…then BOOM it’s over and we don’t really know why except the annoying ‘scientist’ on TV is visibly shaking with…passion? over the whole issue saying plants evolved the ability to kill humans for doing what ever it is their doing to the planet.
Cue LARGE eye roll here.
no no no let’s not give a scientific reason…(as if there would actually be one) lets throw in the word evolution and make it cover all of science.
All in all there were a lot of detached scenes, that either didn’t make sense with the whole or didn’t play in to the rest of it. The characters really weren’t lovable…heck…I was wishing they would have all died by the end. Way to much humor to be a serious scary movie (COMMIT TO A DIRECTION AND GO WITH IT). Oh and it wasn’t scary…I think i counted one real *jump* moment.
Positive moment…M. Night Shyamalan didn’t make a large cameo. SURPRISE!
It was semi entertaining from the aspect, I sat and picked at it the whole way through. So if you’re looking for a good way to beat the heat and pick apart a production then hack away!
