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Hamnet - 2025
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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This was excellent. Without giving too much away; the foreshadowing (the dark hole in the woods), the inexplicable trifles assigned a prophetic quality after the fact, a meditation on how we process grief and how while we may feel so alone seldom we are. A film of dark moods and perfect, perhaps more for a winter's night, but I've been behind in my cultural obligations.
And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks - Jack Kerouac/William S. Burroughs
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Standard "Beat" fare, published in 2006 following the deaths of the authors and all the surviving characters.
Alternate chapters, written by William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, dealing with a murder in their inner circle. While the names have been changed the events (or close enough) actually transpired, and it's an interesting read in that it was before either one of them was famous. William S. Burroughs was not yet a junkie, Jack Kerouac was not famous, and Burroughs' writing style was comparatively lucid.
Fine, but I'm not generally enamoured with the beat authors, I have an appreciation is all - so, a little depth on my understanding but really not a required read.
The Fall (2006)
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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This was interesting. Interesting in that the scenery - locations, were amazing, first rate cinematography. And the costumes, the same, and acting of the little girl, the same.
Where it failed was in substance. Neither an adult nor a kids story, more a self-indulgent look at cinema and Hollywood through Hollywood's own childish eyes. A bit like "Babylon" - a great start that quickly fell off.
That said, if you can ignore the story the visuals are fantastic.
AI - conversations with Gemini in loops...
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I took ChatGPT's suggestions as to how convert my new-and-improved tipping interface into an app.
It was very helpful, broke everything down into steps...
Which, of course, stop working almost right away.
It's like if you asked it to teach you to swim and it would tell you to jump into deep water and flail your arms and your legs and everything, sooner or later, will look after itself.
Which is true, just maybe not in the way that you were hoping.
So I'm talking to Gemini in the Firebase console, this perhaps might help me, and it's asking me questions, and I'm answering them, and it's asking me more questions until an hour has passed and I realize I'm getting nowhere fast, it's all just bleah-bleah-bleah, like those Facebook videos that promise some big reveal and you watch and watch and finally realize there's no reveal, there's no epiphany, it's just wasting your time...
Back to the app; I have to find a way to get this up and running and properly monetized...this could be the ticket...
So, another beautiful day and I'm stuck in the library, no car so I'd be stuck here regardless and it's on to other projects...
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