Impedance Mismatch over HTTP

 

The Japanese girl band 5,6,7,8’s Jayne Masnfield number is ringing in my head. It is extremely catchy and it grows on you, and man do these women rock!. How did these barefoot asian women in Japanese attire pull it off? I am really surprised. 

I guess I am the last person on this earth who hasn’t watched Kill Bill -1 and that was until Saturday when I sat down and watched the movie in a single sitting. Generally, when I watch movies, I rewind, slow things down and savour it slowly like a delicacy. I do that with Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction as if to recite the dialogues with them. The scripts for these 2 films are simply out of this world.

I guess Tarantino is lost, Kill Bill is not him, the movie has flashes of high exuberance and suddenly it loses momentum, grows cold and commonplace. Granted Tarantino loves Japanese Samurai TV but was there a need to spend 20 minutes on the sword? secondly, all that action with flights to Okinawa and Tokyo were so ordinary and cartoon like. I think he should have tried something interesting there, for example, Guy Ritchie does an amazing job in Snatch where Dennis Farina goes to London from US in a sequence of shots, in 3 seconds flat with a gulp of liquor, the sound effect and some really smart editing. It looked comical but it was catchy.

Tarantino builds up good momentum leading to the showdown in Tokyo but then loses it completely, the Lucy Lu confrontation was so candy-ass. The sequences were also badly done.

However, the movie scores high on some aspects. The killer bride concept is amazing, it seems this was Uma Thurman’s idea, it blends the tenderness and all the niceties of femininity with the viciousness of an avenger. The opening sequence where Uma and her adversary hide knives just when the kid shows up is an amazing spectacle, it might well be the trademark and a demarcation in time where femininity is being redefined.

Finally, Tarantino is trying to someone he is not, he should stick to his Americana, he excels with it, right now he seems to be imitating someone.

Whatever happened to Blogger’s promise of upgrading its interface to allow categories.Considering Typepad’s ability to categorize blog content, I am tempted to move my blog there. Right now, the only way to categorize on Blogger is to create ‘N’ blogs with the same template, so that they look as if they are all part of the same blog and cross link them.

Technically, a blog should display the latest blogs irrespective of the category they belong to. Currently with Blogger, each blog is isolated with its own topics. I need to monkey around to figure out how to grab the permalinks from the remaining (N-1) blogs to mimic categories. Some work this.

Google has released it’s beta 2 version and I am not complaining, call it force of habit if you will but I still cannot bring myself to like browsing newsgroups via a web interface. But I am a sucker for simplicity and I am sure google groups will grow on me over time. My only complaint right now is in regards to their “starred” topics. There needs to be more categorization, considering that these “starred” topics can grow in number over time.

I am disgusted by the use of the word document, so much to the effect that I might turn green one of these days, a la Hulk and tear the whole place down. We need to declare the word document an expletive, and ban it from meetings. To me, a document is an all consuming black hole, almost all meetings end with someone creating some kinda document or other. When you hear the word document more than 5 times in a single minute, you know that the discussion has come to an end and has been officially sucked into the blackhole. The rest of the (n-1) members will look forward for that document in their email. The document takes the next stone/ice age to get drafted and finally when it appears, 50% of the members of the group will have either been relocated elsewhere in the corporate heirarchy or have no fuckin clue about when the meeting took place or what it was about. Everyone places the blame on the guy who setup the meeting on a Friday afternoon after an offsite outing/lunch.

I guess we should reverse this and ask people to document only if one has useful, comprehensible results. People should stop documenting crap. Some morons don’t even bother to take their documents after a meeting and we have people getting their panties in a bunch crying “information theft” from the rooftops. On a tangent, this will literally make the tree-hugging liberals cry in ecstasy over entirely different reasons.