Because it must be shared: Librarians in the Branch Library of Babel, by Shaenon K. Garrity. I’ve never read Moby Dick, but I don’t think it’s strictly required to enjoy the story.
(Because the “Related Posts” plugin didn’t pick it up, let it be known that Miss Garrity rocks my socks. Artie!)
Today work took everyone to the theatre to watch the new version of The Three Musketeers. I really enjoyed it! It wasn’t great — 2D characters, random accents — but I was entertained pretty much the entire way through. Awesome locales (Venis! Paris!), sword fights, crazy steampunk weaponry and gadgets… what else do you need? And it doesn’t help that I’m a sucker for Milla Jovovich…
Also: I think I figured out why 3D generally sucks. Before the film was a trailer for the 3D-converted Star Wars movies. If you think about it, there are two different 3D effects: images that appear in front of the screen, and images that appear deep within the screen. The Star Wars clips did the former, which totally makes sense — because you can’t reveal any additional background (without digitally inserting new background, anyway), popping out is the only way you can go. But the Three Musketeers was filmed in 3D, and most of the elements were deep in the frame. And that’s actually pretty easy to watch, relatively subtle, and it makes long shots look incredibly awesome.
Anyway, 3D is no longer a dirty word. “Upconverted” is. Boo, George Lucas!
This is mostly just a test to verify that I can A) embed youtube videos, and B) they get successfully propagated to other venues, like buzz and reader (pubsubhubbub and rss).
And besides, this is a catchy song.
Today was Car Free Vancouver! Gavin and I (and his dad) went to the big one on Main Street, which stretched from 12th Ave to 29th or 30th. It was a little quiet at first. I think it might’ve been a little too spread out; some stretches were pretty light on booths. But there was lots of stuff to see, and it was pretty fun.
After that I went home… sorta. As a proud West Ender, I had no choice but to pop by Car Free Vancouver on Denman Street. It was considerably smaller than the Main Street version, but considerably funkier.
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