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November 28, 2005
RailsConf 2006
Great news from the guys who bring us RubyConf. This coming June 22-25 2006 in Chicago is RailsConf. I have not yet been able to make any Ruby conference, well, that's not quite accurate. I was able to drop in on FOSCON in Portland this year since I was nearby for a family reunion. It's great to gather with the fellows that I usually only get to read about.
It is a bit of money to go (at least for a poor college student like myself) so if anyone is going and wants to support someone to carry their bags for them, I've got dibbs.
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November 18, 2005
Pride and Prejudice
Last night I took my wife to the only movie theater showing Pride and Prejudice near us in Utah, Jordon Commons.
I think you have to go into a movie like this, a story line which has been remade, and remade and then remade again, with some different frame of reference. Several times during the movie my wife would lean over and comment how the movie was not like the A&E (BBC) version. It's different. I think this must come down to the fact that she has read the book and I have not. So, she expected the director to play second fiddle to the original work, while I was more open to an interesting re-telling or perspective. She did like the movie, just not as much as I did.
Overall, I quite liked it. Production quality was very high and the acting was clearly top drawer without being too much. It is pretty faithful to the major plot points of the story while showing an appreciated slightly different interpretation. The role of the mother which bothered me to no end in the BBC version was not allowed to dominate, while the role of the father brilliantly played by Donald Sutherland was surprisingly developed. Kiera Knightly did a fantastic job, expressing very much in little time with subtle body language and facial expressions.
****
4 stars
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