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February 11, 2005
Movies
Saw many movies recently:
Heart of Glass - particularly awesome, and a Werner Herzog masterpiece. A weird story of a town who’s master glassmaker dies, taking with him the secret of their ruby red glass, the local prophet herdsman wacko, and the insane red glass obsessive aristocratic glass baron. It took a bend towards apocalyptic when the herdsman got to drinking and started making a lot of prophecy, specifically apocalyptic sounding wars. $5.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - This is my new favorite movie. It rocked, a lot, and I think anyone could enjoy it. I don’t want to say anything more than what you probably saw in a preview. This one gets the $20—and I’m gonna buy it next time I have cash.
And a house movie:
Life as a House - Good albeit sappy movie about a dying man trying to fix his relationship with his son and do something decent before he goes. It was great, the only shortcomings really being the male prostitution thing (I have never heard of teen boys willingly prostituting themselves, but lots of gross things are more common than we want to believe) and the fact that the kid seemed to be kind of two-dimensional with respect to his culture. First he was listening to Marilyn Manson, then Limp Bizkit, then Radiohead, and wearing a Misfits shirt, then a Metallica shirt, then a Che shirt. That seemed a bit incomprehensible to me.
In spite of all this, it’s a pretty good movie. $2.50
Software
I’ve decided to write a literate version of the ACCRETE program. This is going to take some time though, since I’m going to need to comprehend the original program first, and I’ll want to incorporate some stuff from the CS literature about it. This is a fairly long term project.
Baird and I are talking about some sort of RDF project. I don’t know what’s going to come of that yet though.
Manuel and I are collaborating on a todo list application, our goal being to way, way over-design it and have it be as good or better than Basecamp’s todo list tool. I think we can achieve this, but I’m still waiting on a scan of the revised ERD. He actually took our ERD to Mazzy and had him look at it. :) Makes me so proud, to say that.
Work
Michael and I are going beta with Spamfire 2.0 tomorrow. IMAP is still very lame, and we are not yet at 1.0 compatibility with respect to revenge and all that, but we expect we can do it, and we expect to have it done rather quickly. Hopefully Bill will have figured out the transparent proxying shit for us and we can ship the beta with that. If not, suck.
We’re planning one of those lame opt-in email filters, where if a message is not from someone in your address book and they send you mail, they have to respond to an email with some sort of random noise in the subject, and then their original message gets released (but not the verification). Alex says she’s interested in that, I’d like to know if other people are interested in it too. We’d be charging less for it than our regular Spamfire.
More details as they come in.
Posted by FusionGyro at February 11, 2005 12:36 AM
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Comments
Yay! you’re using the buck system! Jeff Hyde would be proud!
Posted by: eparchos at February 13, 2005 03:48 PM