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Amsterdam Holiday Image

Nov 9 2003

I took this when in Ams­ter­dam. I though it HAD to be done. 

A Matrix Revolution and Steak

Nov 9 2003

Here’s the time to make a really quick update at mid­night on a sun­day eve­ning after doing 5 hours of solid won­der­ful work all day. Hoo­rah. Today is the start of a busy week… week 7 in which I have mul­ti­ple tests, a trip, pre­sen­ta­tion, lec­tu­res and work to do. Mostly been making sure I can unders­tand how to do all this stuff and not falling behind; I think I am coping well enough. I love the fact I can use the phra­ses “a con­ti­nuous ran­dom varia­ble is dis­tri­bu­ted via a bino­mial or pois­son dis­tri­bu­tion” and “cumu­la­tive expo­nen­tial dis­tri­bu­tion of” or “Methods of mem­bers works when stud­ying a sta­ti­cally deter­mi­nate object” and NOT sound com­ple­tely stu­pid or geek-like. Isn’t it just great? 

More time should be spent upda­ting my sites as I kind of feel they are being left to rot at the moment. Sorry. I am plan­ning to revamp or update some stuff, maybe bring out some new shit to bring in the crowds.

Fri­day I went out for an eve­ning with my spe­cial lady friend, had a suc­cu­lent 10oz rump steak for a juicy £6, bar­gain. Then we went to see Matrix Revo­lu­tions. I am in the mino­rity group that thought this movie was mind-blowingly spec­ta­cu­lar as oppo­sed to the “this is shit, where the fuck is all the kick ass kung fu I want to see?” like most of the peo­ple in the cinema and world. I could review it, but what could I say that no one else already has? The ending was magi­cal. Smith was bri­lliant, espe­cially his dia­lo­gue and the oracle part invol­ving him. Gathe­ring of the smoke in the roof of the dock and gene­ral attack sequen­ces were well thought out and inte­lli­gent, although a ship can not take THAT much damage. Real-world Smith was a disap­point­ment. The Tri­nity death scene was NOT too long (imo). The Seraph-Trinity-Morpheus club intro scene was poorly done. The Neo-girl pro­gram love talk in the matrix side realm was bri­lliant. The links with the ori­gi­nal Matrix (e.g. cat) were spot on. Yes DBZ rip off, yes super­man fight… two superhe­roes… but isn’t that the point? They are both all power­ful within the Matrix, so why not? Too many water blow outs though. I didn’t like the slo mo punch, maybe I just thought it was too gluey and car­toon like. Neo was a little too stu­pid when con­fron­ting real world Smith. The machine send off was nice. Ambi­guity is good. 

Matrix > Revo­lu­tions > Reloaded.

Modu­les not chan­ged. “You may be too late now”.

Fork should be stuck in me when Im done. Thanks.

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