• 1:55 AM
  VIEW MATRIX HEHE

I saw the Matrix Revolutions today. I won't discuss the plot here, but I walked in primed by the bad reviews, my expectations so low that I could not be disappointed. It was fine. Something wasn't right with the theater's climate control, and maybe a combination of that and the continuous action gave me a slight headache, but I wasn't otherwise annoyed.

I like the universe of The Matrix. I like the way the first movie played out and looked, and the characters were interesting. Afterwards, I wanted to know more about what went on in that world. I still wanted to see the characters doing stuff and having adventures or whatever you'd call them. Because of that, I liked seeing the subsequent The Matrices, like reading books in a series. They weren't as gripping or appealing as the first, of course. It was kind of like the difference between Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow/Shadow of the Hegemon. Also, I like robots, and there are more robots in there than pretty much anything else.

Pam said it was the worst movie she's ever seen. Guess she missed "Daredevil".

In the fabulous Other News, I saw a website today called mylastemail.com. They charge you a fee and will deliver 5 email upon your death. You can update your email from any terminal (ha ha) as long as you have web access and a special access code (which is the last 8 characters of a purportedly 48 character encryption string which they just store 40 characters of for some reason). You won't bereave their prices! Just $9.99 for 3 years! How do they know when you die? Well, someone has to mail them a copy of your death certificate and a form you are given to print out and sign.

I didn't see this answered anywhere on their site, so I emailed them the second question that came to mind: "At the time this service would come into play for me and the millions in my generation who have many email correspondents, email as a useful technology, and in fact the internet as a whole, may be entirely obsolete. What are mylastemail.com's thoughts on this contingency?" I do intend to live for quite some time (though I still fill out the benefactor on my life insurance from workplaces), so it's an honest question. Email's about 5 years older than me, I'm not middle-aged, and technologies age in, like, dog years times cat years.

My first, less nice, question was, "why would anyone believe your dot-company will live longer than they do?"

Let's see, what can I say about the top of one of my cheap bookshelves. Well, there's dad's hat, dad's pocketwatch, the first commercial mp3 player (which dad got me), a book of my geneology which Denyeses email me about from time to time, a dead hard drive (I think the inside of a hard drive is pretty), and then a bunch of books.
This top shelf is the shelf for paperback and little books. Some of those books are the boy scout handbook, The Fermata, the Cub Scout Handbook (!), "Be an Interplanetary Spy #2" (I bet nobody knows I'm an interplanetary spy), Little Black Sambo (dad's), The Duct Tape Book (Abha gave it to me), Wide Sargasso Sea (Michelle's), Flatland (good!)/ Sphereland (less good!), A Treasury of Peter Rabbit (dad's), Television - Technology and Cultural Form (J's), Hi Fidelity (Ed's), Soul of a New Machine (Ed got it for me), Dreamscapes (I think Caroline got it for me?) oh yeah -

MY SISTER CAROLINE IS MARRIED TODAY HOLY CRAP I HAVE A BROTHER IN LAW!!! I wish her many years of togetherness and funky family raising, if that is what she desires. I hear the guy is a gem, and he's having this wedding (which I wasn't prepared to go to) for the benefit of his family in L.A. I will be attending the "big" version wedding in Hawaii, next year (which I had planned on going to a while back). I figured she'd be busy today, but tomorrow I'm gonna call her and say some stuff.