Movies...

Harry returned from the West Coast a coupla days ago, and we decided to renew our tradition of watching near-B movies. In this case we chose to watch a movie with two famous African-born actresses - Theron and Okenedo - who have hopefully got themselves new agents by now. The director of Aeon Flux made them act in a manner that displayed a large variety of emotions, such as oak, balsa, pine, and teak. The underlying plot, well, the less said the better. This kind of movie gives scifi a bad name. Even if the costume designer's taste in underwear is revealing. Make that Especially, not Even...

I had a good time. I'm so stressed right now that I needed a break.

And that was Sunday night. Monday night, we went out again, this time with a couple of friends. One was AH - we introduced ourselves to each other before figuring out that we had already done so three months ago. Oh well, memory is short... we picked up another ex-Cambridgite (although this one spoke Akkadian instead of signal processing) and went to watch a delightful film by Peter Jackson.

And afterwards, having enjoyed ourselves greatly, we compared notes on which parts of it were the most over-the-top. The swinging allosauri + giant gorilla + Ms Watts scene scored high marks, followed by the brontosaurus pileup. Next came the giant worms - AH provided a thought provoking analysis of how invertebrate breathing systems couldnt scale, while R provided another thought provoking comment about how you could have giant insects if the atmospheric oxygen level was higher - as it had been millions of years ago.

In both cases, the thought provoked was "Man it's cold out here!" (AH & R, if you read this, I'm just kidding...)

Some interesting developments happening on the "What will I do after graduating" front.