I've been working a lot these past several weeks, so it was a nice change to take the weekend to spend with my lovely wife. Over the weekend we finally managed to catch up on a lot of movies we'd been wanting to watch.
First there's Napoleon Dynamite. I know a lot of people really liked this movie, but man I thought it was horrible. I went in with pretty low expectations based on the previews and the friends that I knew who really enjoyed the movie (we generally have incompatible movie-humor), but even my low expectations were trumped by how bad I thought the movie was. I know I'm probably in the minority, but wow...
Then there's Bourne Supremacy. I had heard that the shaky camera effect was overdone in the movie so I went in with a pretty high annoyance-level expectation, but I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't too bad - except for in the fight scenes. I liked the movie itself, although I can't figure out if I liked it more or less than the original. The plot was a bit too conclusive for me but overall, enjoyable.
Finally we watched Garden State - which I also liked. Everyone seemed to think this movie was incredible, and while I wouldn't classify it as one of the greats, I thought it was pretty good - reminded me a lot of how I felt when I first came to meet Vinney :)
I managed to get some work done over the weekend and I just had a meeting with Intel's Justin Rattner to talk about Cell a bit and get some of his input into the architecture. At this point I don't think there's much more outside perspective I need for the article, although I am waiting to talk to a few more people (especially those in the movie biz) about their thoughts on Cell vs. general purpose architectures for their needs. There is another paper on Cell's architecture being presented tomorrow, hopefully we'll get some more insight into the architecture - more specifically, everyone is very curious about the programming model for Cell - myself included.
I am gearing up for IDF, which should definitely prove to be interesting this year - as I'd say it's the year of multicore for Intel from servers to notebooks. I'm fully expecting to get some details on Yonah/Jonah among other things.
That's all for now, this week I'm just going to be working on Cell pretty much exclusively. On the Mac side of things the Mac HTPC article is done and next up is my Mac memory roundup. It looks like we'll have to push the NUMA article back a bit because of all of the NDAs coming up these next couple of weeks, but I'll get you a better idea of when that's happening soon. And Wesley is working on a SLI roundup as well, so keep your eyes peeled for that.
First there's Napoleon Dynamite. I know a lot of people really liked this movie, but man I thought it was horrible. I went in with pretty low expectations based on the previews and the friends that I knew who really enjoyed the movie (we generally have incompatible movie-humor), but even my low expectations were trumped by how bad I thought the movie was. I know I'm probably in the minority, but wow...
Then there's Bourne Supremacy. I had heard that the shaky camera effect was overdone in the movie so I went in with a pretty high annoyance-level expectation, but I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't too bad - except for in the fight scenes. I liked the movie itself, although I can't figure out if I liked it more or less than the original. The plot was a bit too conclusive for me but overall, enjoyable.
Finally we watched Garden State - which I also liked. Everyone seemed to think this movie was incredible, and while I wouldn't classify it as one of the greats, I thought it was pretty good - reminded me a lot of how I felt when I first came to meet Vinney :)
I managed to get some work done over the weekend and I just had a meeting with Intel's Justin Rattner to talk about Cell a bit and get some of his input into the architecture. At this point I don't think there's much more outside perspective I need for the article, although I am waiting to talk to a few more people (especially those in the movie biz) about their thoughts on Cell vs. general purpose architectures for their needs. There is another paper on Cell's architecture being presented tomorrow, hopefully we'll get some more insight into the architecture - more specifically, everyone is very curious about the programming model for Cell - myself included.
I am gearing up for IDF, which should definitely prove to be interesting this year - as I'd say it's the year of multicore for Intel from servers to notebooks. I'm fully expecting to get some details on Yonah/Jonah among other things.
That's all for now, this week I'm just going to be working on Cell pretty much exclusively. On the Mac side of things the Mac HTPC article is done and next up is my Mac memory roundup. It looks like we'll have to push the NUMA article back a bit because of all of the NDAs coming up these next couple of weeks, but I'll get you a better idea of when that's happening soon. And Wesley is working on a SLI roundup as well, so keep your eyes peeled for that.
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Anonymous - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
saved casablanca for that night?Evan - Sunday, February 20, 2005 - link
I have a question off topic, when will the non-micro-atx form factor mobos, of the ati bullhead aka xpress-200 come out, and how much will they cost???Kiran Venkatesh - Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - link
Glad you liked Garden State, it's a good flickNick L - Tuesday, February 15, 2005 - link
Off topic, but does the new 533 Mhz bus for dothan and the addition of DDR 2 make the CPU significantly faster(10% or more)?Derek Wilson - Tuesday, February 15, 2005 - link
heh ... napoleon dynamite dug a nice little niche in my heart -- I both love and loath it.I knew people exactly like that in high school (hi tom). And (dare I say it) I identified with the characters on a level I don't usually admit. Of course, I'm different cause I've always had skillz :-P
Though I'll definitely grant that the sheer annoyance factor is huge. I couldn't supress the eternal feeling of "oh god, please don't do that."
I liked Bourne, but I agree on the camera work. I think the first was better though.
glennpratt - Tuesday, February 15, 2005 - link
I'd have to say Napoleon is much funnier with a group of friends. I didn't like it at all the first time I saw it (way back at some indie theatre). Now I own it.Garden State is awesome, in that it's small and very similar to real life and real relationships. It is a little over the top near the end with the boat and what not, but it definately makes me look forward to more movies from Zach Braff. Also, I'm a sucker for happy endings, I hate movies that have sad endings for no real reason, maybe only to please grumpy critics.
As for Bourne Supremecy, I hated the shaky cam almost as much as the plot...
Kensei - Tuesday, February 15, 2005 - link
What? No details on your first Valentine's Day as a married person?Also, ND was great! Admittedly, it started out very slow, for me, but then it picked up steam quickly as I got into its very quirky form of humor.
GhandiInstinct - Monday, February 14, 2005 - link
From a director/writer's POV I can tell you ND's humor was made so you either love it or hate it. So you fall under one of the intended groups. And I think it's spectacular considering the premise was so simple and boring and it turned into something hillarious.Just matters on the sense of humor of the person.
Jim - Monday, February 14, 2005 - link
Hey Anand,The problem with Napoleon Dynamite is that it is a sucky movie. If you're judging by plot and what not.
As I was watching I was just like "What the hell is going on? Is there a point?"
I suggest you watch it with 10 of your good friends who love to laugh, maybe then you might enjoy it a bit more.
LiekOMG - Monday, February 14, 2005 - link
I'd have to agree with Anand on this one - Napoleon Dynamite was one of the worst "comedies" i've ever seen. I could feel my brain cells dying off while watching.By the way, whatever happened to that Mac forum which was supposed to debut back in like, October?