Miscellaneous Musings

I'm writing this from my wife's laptop. It was already downstairs by the couch where I'm sitting. Mine is upstairs with peripherals attached to it; I couldn't be bothered. I'm thinking, if I had an iPad, it would be by the couch too. It would not have a big screen that stands up in front of my face, getting in the way of wherever I happen to be and whatever else I happen to be doing there.

I'm eating my dinner. Has this ever happened to you? You have leftovers in your fridge for three weeks. You find them there, unexpected. You open them -- they're still good! You eat some and close up the container. Like, the next day you open the container again to finish them off and find them absolutely, God-forsakenly rancid. The question is: was the food rotting from the inside the whole time in some undetectable way, so that the first day when you ate it, you were eating filth without knowing it? Or is the entrance of bacteria into the container a probabilistic thing, so that you might keep food fresh indefinitely, if only you got lucky enough?

I am watching "Defiance." I don't know much about it. I expect it to be something like what "The Diary of Anne Frank" would have been if Anne were 007 and had her own private militia. But militia or no, I expect it to end badly for little Anne all the same.

Update, 10:18pm
I was wrong! I hope this isn't too much of a spoiler, but it's uncanny how many important characters were still alive at the end of the film. And the tone is not what I expected -- for one thing, I've never seen a Daniel Craig picture in which he killed so few people. (Yes, of course he did kill people, but they were all bad.)

Flippant tone aside, an excellent film; I recommend it.

In a Hole in the Ground

...there lived a Hobbit movie, trapped in bankruptcy negotiations. Will it ever emerge? I am bereft.

Help me, Rhonda! I shall have to seek comfort in the arms of another film. But whatever I watch, I fear it can never be anything to me but a transitional movie.