Thursday, July 31, 2003

The other night I was flipping through the channels and decided to check out this sit com starring Jim Belushi.  I guess that Apple and what looked like Compaq either couldn’t afford or didn’t want to pay the price for product placement.  Both of these machines seemed to have all the logos covered up.  The laptop looked very much like an Apple had a sticker of a strawberry place over the usual Apple.  I find this funny because in almost every other TV show or movie they go to great lengths to make sure everyone knows that an Apple computer was used.  It makes me wonder just what the conversations were concerning this cover up.  Was it something like prop guy places a laptop on the table in the scene and the director yells out that Apple Suck’s get that thing off my set, followed by the prop guy pulling out the strawberry sticker he had got out of a gum machine to bribe his kid not to embarrass him at the grocery store?  Or was it in conflict with some advertiser that was paying for commercial spots during the show.  I did not see even one Apple ad.  Shouldn’t computers be allowed to come out and be who and what they are without someone wanting to cover them up and hide the truth?    FREE THE MACHINE!!! 2:36:43 PM    comment []

	Thursday, July 10, 2003

My friend Wes reminded me today that the movie SIMONE has major flaws in how and what makes a computer work in the first place.  The main character play by Al Pacino (Who is a brilliant actor despite the incompetent prop department) receives a hard drive from a currier and proceeds to drop it into a PC via a slide out drawer resembling a CD ROM drive.  I do realize that it is possible to have a removable hard drive I have never seen one like this.  The thing is that he simply drops it in and it auto plays like it is some DVD.  The program contained on the drive was very high tech.   Later in the move his daughter saves him from prison by inserting a virus contained on a 5 ¼ inch floppy.  Can you even buy those any more?  Why would a 12 year old be able to restore so much information from one floppy?  Someday the prop department will get a clue.  I hope. 12:05:34 AM    comment []

	Thursday, June 19, 2003

I went to see the new Pixar movie Finding Nemo.  I sat through all of the credits at the end expecting the usual outtakes.  At the end to my surprise was a credit given to Sun Microsystems for handling the rendering.  It is obvious to me that Pixar knows what they are doing.  Two thumbs up for a job well done. 3:38:36 PM    comment []

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