10,000 workunits
Apr. 2nd, 2004 02:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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It's how many SETI@Home data blocks I've processed. 10,057. I'm in 17,962nd place out of just under 4 million users.
I must persuade a few more clients to run it as their default screensaver. I've been at 11th place in the CIX SETI team forever but at least I'm still ahead of that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
etriganuk bugger, who as of tonight is on exactly 10,000 units. :¬þ
'Twas the Tun tonight, and jolly pleasant it was, too. Lots of LJers there, plus Camilla, but nosinnymaker who's trying to save money. I'm still not hugely taken with the new landlord at the Flo', but the move back seems popular.
Last night was Kitano "Beat" Takeshi's Zatōichi at the Curzon Shatfesbury Avenue, with Barbara, Marcus & Huw, who are all NOTLJ. And jolly good it was, too; gory samurai revenge story with intertwined timelines, crossdressing, slapstick comedy and multiple twists in the tail - and indeed tale. Most impressive. Mental note: watch more Takeshi movies. Mental note 2: take up japanese studies again. Watashi wa nihongo no gakusei desu. Sukoshi arimasu.
Followed nicely on from last week's pretentious arthouse movie at the Curzon, 21 Seconds. Ignore all the trailers and publicity for this film: they're utterly non-representative and portray it as some crap pseudohorror flick. It's not. It's an involving story of death, loss, guilt and redemption, made by a Spanish or Mexican production team but with an Anglo-american cast. Very good. Irritating sliced-up timeline. à lá¹ Memento, of which it's strongly reminiscent, but this worked and lent it added depth. Impressive and moving, if hard work at times.
Compared to the last movie before that, Starsky and Hutch in Dublin with Caitríona, it could hardly be more different, but hey, I'm a man of contrasts. Or something. S&H is excellent fun - totally and intentionally over-the-top seventiestastic extravaganza with excellent leads by Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and Snoop Dogg, who makes a very fine Huggy Bear and with a surprisingly understated performance steals several scenes, if not the whole movie. All this and bonus cameos by Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul. Great fun and vastly amusing.
Most of the TV I've seen so far this year is The Blue Planet, thanks to Colleen's DVDs. Intrusive music and some trick photography and SFX which really are bot necessary given the strength of the subject matter, but damned fine for all that. But with so much fine film around, who needs the accursèd idiot-box anyway?
¹ Or do I mean á là? Je ne peut pas épele en français, seulement en anglais. M'excusez, suis désolé.
It's how many SETI@Home data blocks I've processed. 10,057. I'm in 17,962nd place out of just under 4 million users.
I must persuade a few more clients to run it as their default screensaver. I've been at 11th place in the CIX SETI team forever but at least I'm still ahead of that
etriganuk bugger, who as of tonight is on exactly 10,000 units. :¬þ'Twas the Tun tonight, and jolly pleasant it was, too. Lots of LJers there, plus Camilla, but no
sinnymaker who's trying to save money. I'm still not hugely taken with the new landlord at the Flo', but the move back seems popular.Last night was Kitano "Beat" Takeshi's Zatōichi at the Curzon Shatfesbury Avenue, with Barbara, Marcus & Huw, who are all NOTLJ. And jolly good it was, too; gory samurai revenge story with intertwined timelines, crossdressing, slapstick comedy and multiple twists in the tail - and indeed tale. Most impressive. Mental note: watch more Takeshi movies. Mental note 2: take up japanese studies again. Watashi wa nihongo no gakusei desu. Sukoshi arimasu.
Followed nicely on from last week's pretentious arthouse movie at the Curzon, 21 Seconds. Ignore all the trailers and publicity for this film: they're utterly non-representative and portray it as some crap pseudohorror flick. It's not. It's an involving story of death, loss, guilt and redemption, made by a Spanish or Mexican production team but with an Anglo-american cast. Very good. Irritating sliced-up timeline. à lá¹ Memento, of which it's strongly reminiscent, but this worked and lent it added depth. Impressive and moving, if hard work at times.
Compared to the last movie before that, Starsky and Hutch in Dublin with Caitríona, it could hardly be more different, but hey, I'm a man of contrasts. Or something. S&H is excellent fun - totally and intentionally over-the-top seventiestastic extravaganza with excellent leads by Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and Snoop Dogg, who makes a very fine Huggy Bear and with a surprisingly understated performance steals several scenes, if not the whole movie. All this and bonus cameos by Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul. Great fun and vastly amusing.
Most of the TV I've seen so far this year is The Blue Planet, thanks to Colleen's DVDs. Intrusive music and some trick photography and SFX which really are bot necessary given the strength of the subject matter, but damned fine for all that. But with so much fine film around, who needs the accursèd idiot-box anyway?
¹ Or do I mean á là? Je ne peut pas épele en français, seulement en anglais. M'excusez, suis désolé.
