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Tropic Thunder “Lance?”

Sep 24 2008

I don’t read the script. The script reads me. 

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Juno, I have lost my fangs

Feb 19 2008

I loved this film — it has that indie aura surroun­ding it with the shtick and the spiel, but through its lack of weird­ness it has astoun­dingly bro­ken into the mains­tream and become a great hit. Kimya Daw­son, The Moldy Peaches and Antsy Pants also make for a ste­llar sound­track. A must see.

Juno - Ellen Page

Juno - Ellen Page

Juno Poster Art

Now for the academics — My marks

Jul 18 2007
1st Year (83.4% ave­rage) Cre­dit
(CATS)
Mark
(%)
ES155   Design and Com­pu­ter Techniques 15 80
ES156   Pro­fes­sio­nal Studies 15 79
ES157   Mathe­ma­tics for Engineers 15 82
ES160   Mate­rials and Production 15 82
ES161   Engi­nee­ring Mechanics 15 81
ES162   Mode­lling and Sys­tem Dynamics 15 85
ES163   Elec­tri­cal and Elec­tro­nic Systems 15 92
ES164   Fluids and Energy 15 86

2nd Year ( 81.4% ave­rage, 20% of degree) Cre­dit
(CATS)
Mark
(%)
CG203   Sys­tems and Control 15 85
CG204   Sig­nal Pro­ces­sing and Communications 15 94
ES21J   Ana­lo­gue Design 15 81
ES21L   Applied Linear Algebra 7.5 92
ES21Q   Design of Mea­su­re­ment Systems 7.5 70
ES21R   Digi­tal Design 15 80
ES21T   Elec­tro­nic Systems 7.5 79
ES22E   Soft­ware Development 15 92
IB229   Star­ting a Busi­ness for Engineers 7.5 58
PX258   ULSI MOS Devi­ces and Technologies 15 70

3rd Year (85% ave­rage inc­lu­ding 7.5 over CATS, 40% of degree) Cre­dit
(CATS)
Mark
(%)
CG351   Digi­tal Sig­nal Processing 15 75
ES316   Ana­lo­gue and Digi­tal Sys­tem Design 1 15 91
ES327   Pro­ject 30 78
ES335   Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Systems 15 86
ES372   Auto­ma­tion and Robotics 15 86
ES379   Finance and Accounting 15 88
ES390   VLSI Design 1 15 83
PX317   New Con­cepts in Electronics 7.5 74

4th Year (89.3% ave­rage inc­lu­ding 30 over CATS, 40% of degree) Cre­dit
(CATS)
Mark
(%)
ES312   Sys­tems Mode­lling and Simulation 15 85
ES330   Con­trol 1 15 92
ES410   Group Pro­ject 30 75
ES425   Engi­nee­ring Busi­ness Mana­ge­ment 1 15 76
ES436   Direc­ted Rea­ding for Electronics 15 78
ES462   High Inte­grity Systems 15 87
LL130   Lear­ning Chi­nese 1 30 82
PX400   Future Elec­tro­nics 15 72


Ove­rall Degree cal­cu­la­ted as: 86%
First Class Honours

Oceans Thirteen

Jun 17 2007


A far supe­rior film to the abho­rrent Ocean’s twelve, far far bet­ter, and actually enjo­ya­ble. By no means per­fect, but enjo­ya­ble, which is more than I can say for that torrid affair in Europe. The ave­rage scene length is lon­ger than 30 seconds, there is a story­line, each per­son actually has a role in the team, there’s no Julia Roberts or Cathe­rine Zeta Jones, there’s much less impos­si­ble tech­no­logy and as an added bonus, we get Al Pacino and a big-nosed Matt Damon. 

This is England

May 16 2007

Inc­re­di­ble, inc­re­di­ble film with a stun­ning score by the ever-great Einaudi. I highly recom­mend this.

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