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Today

4:43am JST Thursday 29 September 2005

Pretty much have been online all day today. I have been adding images to my journal, and am between 1/3 and 1/2 finished. Awesome!

I got to talk with Niveen today for about 40 minutes usink Skype, which I now officially love more than when I first loved it.

Due to a weird non-sorting issue with iPhoto, I (thought I) needed a list of 3 digit numbers from 000 to 159. I have wanted this type of list before, and have written code in emacs to create such lists. I looked for that code today, but couldn't find it.

So today I wrote (different) emacs code that creates a list from 000 to 999.

star wars iii was good

##01:58 Wednesday 28 September 2005

Star Wars III

Nice movie. I loved the monsters and lava and the final fight scenes. The classic scene of heros (fighting anti-heros) on a raft about to go over the waterfall piqued my senses when that water was a river of lava. How incredible.

The transition of Anakin's body into a burned mess was quite believable. I can see why he would have risked attacking from the low position, and how he fucked up doing it. Lava burning off the suit and not actually burning the entire body was definitely believable. Very Jedi for Obi-wan to leave instead of kill his previous prey.

The transition from Darth Vader as burned mess to wearing a black suit seemed a bit too fast. But I enjoyed wearing the mask for a second. Red tints his vision forever after. No wonder he is so angry!

And man, when Darth Vader first breathed... Woah. I remember that noise.

Not quite as amazing when he first spoke. Not.... a believable transition, I guess. Too abrupt, maybe.

I (being a great movie director) would have had the newly costumed Darth Vader say something like, "shit, I can't feel Padme's presence anywhere," to explain why he might agree she was dead. She could have just died and he just come alive and it woulda been perfect.

Also, I was surprised at how quickly Anakin broke his allegiance when Mace Windu was killed. I don't remember the scene exactly, but the switcharoo seemed pretty quick.

How did Darth Sidious plant a code 66 in all his fighters? Were they his army? That set of scenes was fuckin' scary. I was glad to have some pre-knowledge of who must live.

I liked the explanation for why storm troopers are used in episode IV. Not that they didn't have the CGI technology in the 70s, er, the future, but that Darth Sidious had all droids shut down. But I don't otherwise why he would do that.

If C-3P0's memory gets wiped, I don't get how he will recognize R2D2 when they are reunited on Tatooine. And why do they end up there? I may have missed that.

I liked the fight between Yoda and Darth Sidious. It wasn't as surprising as the one with Count Dooku (sp) in the previous movie, but still cool. I like how they didn't try to make it More Than the previous fight. They made it just the right amount of cool. Oh, and when Yoda walked into the room and those red cats tried to stop him but just crumpled... that was money.

In the final scene, good job on the image of Uncle Owen watching two suns set. Just like the first movie. Uh, I mean the next one.

Oh, and Leia really looked like Leia and Uncle Owen did too. Great casting. Not as difficult to find non-speaking actors, I guess, but still cool.