Posts Tagged ‘Tv’
D-Day
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Uncategorized
Last night I have finished watching the TV mini-series Band of Brothers, and I highly recommend it to everyone, whether you like war related movies or not.
The series is produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg and it keeps the same desaturated color scheme and realistic representation of combat sequences as in Saving Private Ryan.
I was visiting the shores of Omaha Beach in March this year and while I was staring at the calm, open sea, a cold chill passed through my spine as I tried to imagine the scenario that I would have seen there on June 6, 1944.
My respect and gratitude go to those who fought and lost their lives to give us a better world to live in, true heroes that I hope will never be forgotten.
Best toy *EVER*
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Uncategorized
“Tim: He’s got huge, sharp… er… He can leap about. Look at the bones!”
For all of you fans of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the best toy you could ever hope to receive for christmas:
ThinkGeek’s Monty Python Killer Rabbit Plush!
In Jack Bauer we trust
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Uncategorized
I have almost finished watching season 5 of american tv series “24″ (3 episodes left) and I have to admit that overall, it is a great show.
A perfect mix of good action, adrenaline, violence, and story twists that can keep anyone hooked on the screen for hours.
HOWEVER, I would beg the director to *please* invest some more cash and pay a good technical supervisor to review the huge amount of IT and technology bulls**t that happens there every 12 minutes or so.
I remember once a friend of mine studying medicine and surgery doing the same remarks for the tv series “E.R.”: nice show overall but full of technical crap.
I explained him at the time that I thought that was not so important because at the end of the day it was just fiction, but now I think I understand better what he meant.
And for the record:
- Government computers do not use proprietary operating systems featuring huge login screen with font “Arial 72 bold” to input username and password.
- You can’t decode a 128bit encrypted file in 12 minutes. “Chloe, can you decrypt it?” “Yes, will take me a few minutes” … lol, sure.
- Working in an IT tech department and shouting statements such as: “I think I can track him down, I can use his IP address!!!!!” only makes you look retarded. (it would have the same effect of someone working in a pizza shop and shouting “I think I can make it more tasty, I will use mozzarella!!!!!”)
- You can’t recover *any* data from an hard drive that is partially melted and burned down for being caught in an explosion.
and last, but not least:
- You can’t interface your palm computer to ANY terrorist laptop, cell phone, missile tracking machine, microwave oven, fruit blender, mp3 stereo player and expect it to work.
At least, not unless it is made by Apple ;)
How to rent a movie and not watch it in the end
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Uncategorized
So, I rent this movie, “Omen” from the local Blockbusters and I pop it into my dvd player to watch it.
To my surprise, after the usual promotional videos, I don’t get the dvd menu: all I have is a screen with two options: “Omen” and “Prison Break”.
After thinking “What the hell?” for five seconds or so, out of pure curiosity I select option two: Prison Break.
The next screen explains that they included the “pilot” episode of this new show in the dvd and that the full season one is on sale in all video stores.
I expected to get bored after the first 10 minutes of movie so I clicked “play”…
… and fifty minutes later, here goes me addicted again to yet another tv series, after Lost, 24 it is now the turn of “Prison Break“.
Side note: I didn’t watch “Omen” in the end. Nice marketing strategy from the 20th Century Fox guys. :)
