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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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26 May 2002 - 3:47 pm
Those of you who know me in "real life" already know this, but I don't use bookmarks. Instead, I have a rather elaborate homepage with links to all the sites I like and some forms with a bunch of hidden tags so that I can log into a bunch of websites without having to type in a username or password. This whole homepage idea came from michael, so if you like the idea, give him all the props. Anyway, it has recently come to my attention that a number of the links on my page are out-of-date, and there are a number of sites that I visit that I don't have links to. The reason things are so messed up is because it takes a bit of work to modify this page (I edit it by hand), and I am too lazy to work on it very often. So now that I am faced with reworking this page, I've begun to wonder if I should rework it's appearance, making it a bit easier to update in the future.
But who cares about that. I saw Star Wars this afternoon. I wasn't impressed when I saw the bootleg of it, and I think even less of it now. I have a theory about special effects that I had earlier only applied to things like the Final Fantasy movie: the better we get at special effects, the worse things look. For example, we can watch cartoons without really thinking about the accuracy of the images we're seeing, because the people and object we're seeing are all very clearly unrealistic. But when we watch something like Final Fantasy, where they were striving for reality, the inaccuracies seem, at least to me, almost like they're being highlighted. Anyway, if that makes any sense to, that's kind of what I feel about the special effects in Episode II. They're very good, but not good enough to disappear into the background, which is where they belong.
Posted by on 26 May 2002 at 3:38 PM
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