Enough about Emacs 21#

Tue, 04 Dec 2001 09:51:31 +0000

Enough about Emacs 21. I think it's staying.

Last Saturday I rented Soylent Green on video, and didn't actually get as far as watching it becuase it turned out that Monty Python and the Holy Grail was on, then when that finished that Brazil was following it.

Brazil is seriously excellent, by the way.

Having failed to return the video on time anyway, I decided I might as well watch it. Not altogether impressed; it all seems a little implausible. If there are 40m people in New York, they can't all be remarkably well-nourished and living in apartments the size of the one that Charlton Heston got - that's bigger than my flat in London was.

It's hard to be significantly immersed in net "culture"(sic) without learning how this film ends even if you never see it, so I can't say if it would have been surprising. The friend I was watching it with (hi, Judith) guessed the ending correctly ahead of time, so I expect it probably wasn't.

And if scientists can't invent a convincing artificial strawberry jam in the next forty years, what good are they?

Oh, wait. I don't like strawberry jam anyway.