More media responses
Jan. 9th, 2006 05:13 pmBridget Jones I saw all of the movie, and liked it a lot. I take back disparaging comments -- though I still think the book is laugh out loud funny like few other things and should be read. Before I only saw the second half, and didn't get a lot of the changes. A fistfight? Really?
A friend was asking if it wasn't non-feminist. I'm not sure any more. She is rather hopeless. But then I identify with her as me, as anyone, though some of her hopelessness is expressed in relationships in a different way to I do, perhaps due to gender[1]. And she is hopeless the way half the population is, but is reasonably successful. And she does do some pro-active things, if less so in the field of relationships. Though she certainly tries.
Timecop I was all prepared to yell at the time travel. IIRC it wasn't especially worse than many, though I was puzzled by some what determines who isn't changed by a timeline change issues as normal. In fact, I lost it in the first minute, before time travel was even mentioned. What was special about the gold? They carbon dated it and it came from 17xx.
Is it just me, or is that odd? Firstly, gold doesn't normally have much carbon in, especially organic carbon, does it? OK, suppose they measure the decay of an isotope of gold. Why would it change when the gold is, um, stamped into bullion? OK, suppose the radiation is slightly greater on the surface than in the mine, and they can measure that change. What isotope are they looking at? The second-most-stable has a half-life of six months. Doh. I give up.
It did teach me what metastable isotopes are. That was interesting.
Stargate Daniel Jackson/Claudia Black OTP Squee!
Deal or no deal For anyone else lucky enough not to follow TV, the idea is you have 20 shuffled boxes with amounts in from 1¢ to £0.25M. You choose a few, discard them, then accept an offer related to the average of the amounts remaining, or continue -- if there's one box left, you get what's in it. It is *really annoying*
[1] I know that should be sex. But at least gender is non-ambiguous, as one amusing conversation underlined.
A friend was asking if it wasn't non-feminist. I'm not sure any more. She is rather hopeless. But then I identify with her as me, as anyone, though some of her hopelessness is expressed in relationships in a different way to I do, perhaps due to gender[1]. And she is hopeless the way half the population is, but is reasonably successful. And she does do some pro-active things, if less so in the field of relationships. Though she certainly tries.
Timecop I was all prepared to yell at the time travel. IIRC it wasn't especially worse than many, though I was puzzled by some what determines who isn't changed by a timeline change issues as normal. In fact, I lost it in the first minute, before time travel was even mentioned. What was special about the gold? They carbon dated it and it came from 17xx.
Is it just me, or is that odd? Firstly, gold doesn't normally have much carbon in, especially organic carbon, does it? OK, suppose they measure the decay of an isotope of gold. Why would it change when the gold is, um, stamped into bullion? OK, suppose the radiation is slightly greater on the surface than in the mine, and they can measure that change. What isotope are they looking at? The second-most-stable has a half-life of six months. Doh. I give up.
It did teach me what metastable isotopes are. That was interesting.
Stargate Daniel Jackson/Claudia Black OTP Squee!
Deal or no deal For anyone else lucky enough not to follow TV, the idea is you have 20 shuffled boxes with amounts in from 1¢ to £0.25M. You choose a few, discard them, then accept an offer related to the average of the amounts remaining, or continue -- if there's one box left, you get what's in it. It is *really annoying*
[1] I know that should be sex. But at least gender is non-ambiguous, as one amusing conversation underlined.