Christmas Epilepsy

A coworker showed me this. Unless Komar comes up with something really good with his web control, this person definitely has him beat. That's definitely not X10 with the speed and reliability. Probably DMX or something similar. Just the control equipment for that has gotta be a decent investment, and definitely a lot of time programming it. Anyone have any technical info on it?

OK, found more info here.

Second movie of the day was Cellular. It was better than I was expecting, partially because of the bad reviews it got. It actually had a better plot than a lot of action movies, and was something different for a change. And how can a movie possibly go wrong featuring and having a soundtrack by G. Love and Special Sauce? I think the best part of the DVD is one of the extras called "Celling Out". Basically it's a brief overview of phones, basically how cell phones came about and how they've changed. A large part of it is how phones originally started to tie people to their desks, and how cell phones have changed that, but the tradeoff is you can't get away anymore. It's rather interesting to hear the guys who were involved in designing the phones and systems rant about how much of a pain they've become.

Third movie of the day was The Village. The best way to watch this DVD is to put the disc in, wait until the Hitchiker's Guide trailer finishes, and then eject it. Yea, I didn't like the movie much at all. I will admit I knew the ending going into it, but it just didn't seem interesting. It was pretty obvious what was going on since they did a poor job of covering it up. I guess I don't really like any of Shyamalan's stuff. Signs was OK but the ending really sucked and wrecked the story. I never bothered actually finishing The Sixth Sense (although I've started it at least 3 times, I always get bored within the first half hour or so - and given some of the movies I've sat through that should say something). He does seem to put a lot of thought into stuff and make the films well, but the stories just seem to suck. Maybe he should consider directing stories from other people?

Other things in the day include some guy making UML diagrams of The O.C. and posting them on slashdot. The predictable responses (basically what everyone but schdav says about it) ensued. One person remarked that it almost looked fully connected. Somewhat of a great disturbance? And then Crucial now has RAM with bling available. Ground effects and everything. Sounds like something those nuts who put windows in their cases would use.