here I am again... to suggest you another blog to check out: Aetiology, by Tara Smith. it's part of SEED's scienceblogs constellation, and extremely interesting: it talks about bacteria, diseases, and such... from both a medical, and biological / evolutionary perspective... well, see you soon... you know I'm going to post again, right?
the previous movie-related post started something in my mind... which book/comic would you like to see (decently) translated in celluloid by next year? if I were to pick one right now, I'd probably say The Reality Disfunction. there's enough material to shoot three movies, there's plenty of charismatic charachters (Al Capone, for God's sake), plenty of Hollywood-style action, spaceships, whole fleets of them, anti-matter weaponry, culture clashes (between Adamists and Edenists), and then more: Nanotech, Aliens, there's even Zombies!!! it's a free-for-all extravaganza. and it also works out pretty well. There's a princess in a high castle, although the blue prince is a bit on the cheap side, and at the end he goes with another girl - good old fashioned english upper class girl... did hamilton manage to leave anything out? it's "The importance of being Earnest" meets "Gone with the Wind" meets "Battlestar Galactica"... Uhm, I better go to work now... but if you want to jot down your favorite conversion, please do so. and good afternoon ;-)
yesterday I went to see a movie... any movie, "she" said... of course in belgium movies are either in french (dutch subtitles) or english (dutch and french subtitles - essentially, half of the screen is wasted)... that does not make me particularly enthusiastic about going to movies, I have to say, coupled with the exceptionally belgian attitude that, after paying the ticket to enter the cinema. they expect you to pay if you go to pee, too. crazy people... I just hate that.
anyway, due to my languages restrictions, only movies in english were in the rose of candidates... and I already saw CARS (good!), and Ice Age 2 (not so fresh anymore)... not that my sweet half would compromise on going to see cartoons, of course they're for children... yeah right. have a look at Barefoot Gen... Oh God I lost my thread... Oh yeah I remember, ok long story short, I went for 'The Da Vinci Code'. I know it was stupid of me, but could not resist... I mean, ok Yom Hanks is in it, and that's a big minus, but Sir Ian "Magneto" McKelln, and most important of all Audrey Tatou!!! Oh yeah and that frenchman, what's his name? Leon... Uhm no... not really...
Anyway, went in very much convinced that i was going to be bored to death... and I was not!!! I thought I was going to laugh at the risible plot, after a dear friend told me that in Agels and demons CERN is depicted like a double-face organisation kind of the X-Men academy, sporting a mach 15 jet... well I was expecting to see crazy things like the pope slaugghtering people with a light saber jumping up and down inside san pietro. kind of Yoda in SW ep III. well may be not that crazy... None of all this instead. a very measured and well paced plot, even if too long... Martin Mystere would have managed to fit it within 140 pages, I'm sure... it actually did...
never mind however, it's a movie that you can relax in the armchair and enjoy. but I have not read the book, so please don't come and say "It was soo different"... Hunt for red october was incredibly different from the book, but it still is a good movie. as it is V4Vendetta, despite its dissimilarity form the comic book...
Ok, have a nice day you all (two o three person I presume) who are reading this blog...
Gufo a.k.a. Luca a.k.a. The Menace (by janssenn's girls apparently- someone has been spreading rumors, damn him)
Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't have gone to biology, rather than chemistry, during my studies. It certainly seems so from my interests... just have a look at the previous posts in this blog... and the books I read, and those of you who knows me in person
know how much time spend wondering about dinosaurs and such stuff... a lot...
well, I wanted to do biology or physics but the first one wasn't very promising at my place, and the second one was out of discussion - no physics degree at my place, and not enough money to go anywhere else. So I did chemistry, good compromise in between the two and with good employment perspectives... and after the Comp Chem specialisation I've been slowly transitioning to biological sciences... with a computational twist all the way around...
who knows what the future holds for me?
Here's an interesting piece from Tara Smith at Aetiology. A Plague outbreak in Republic of Congo... She already told us about a woman in california who got plague some time ago... Check out her blog 'cause it's incredibly interesting... (and she's pretty and has tattoos too) :-)
And if you want to help out with the outbreak, I guess you can do your part sending money to Medecins sans Frontieres...
