So, some might not know that the Yavin IV scenes in A New Hope were shot in Tikal, Guatemala. Shot from the top of Templo IV, incidentally. I wonder if that had a hand in naming the moon.
Here are some shots from ANH, with complementary shots we took on our recent trip.
The Millennium Falcon approaching:
A Rebel grunt tracking the Falcon:
“A loud clatter of gunk music flooded through the Heart of Gold cabin as Zaphod searched the sub-etha radio wavebands for news of himself. The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive — you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme.”
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
This is pretty much how I feel about the Magic Mouse after having used it for a few months. As wonderful as the multi-touch is when needed, frustration quickly ramps up when you inadvertently send multi-touch swipes and taps to unintended targets.
Just waiting for the Death of the Mouse.
Techno-puritanism that wars with the body must also resist the weight of paper. I remember that weight. It was the weight of the world, carried by boys.
—
Blissful writing
I, too, remember that weight. As does everyone who ever strapped a canvas bag on their bike or back, and delivered the world to every doorstep on their route.
Today I ditched fuckyeahhelvetica and Slate in Brief in Briefs. I haven’t bothered linking them since I was the only member, and now they’re dissolved.
I just can’t be bothered to participate in the snarkfest. Beyond Twitter, of course.
I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
— Cormac McCarthy (via
gruber)
marco:
Do you really need to subscribe to that collection of RSS feeds that cumulatively publish hundreds of items per day? If you currently do (I’ve been there), do you really need to read every headline? Exercise: Don’t open your feed reader for a week. Did you miss anything?
Finder tells me that I last launched NetNewsWire (judging by the relevant files in ~/Library/Application Support/NetNewsWire/) on the 10th of September. Only two months, but it feels a lot longer. I still get most of what I need through Twitter (and here in Tumbland). Brent Simmons was right: “If it’s cool or interesting, you won’t miss it.”
Heading to Dallas for two weeks for back-to-back work events: FIrst, a sprint to tidy up and standardize the javascript libraries that various Canonical properties use, and then the Ubuntu Developer Summit.
I asked Amber if I could get some cowboy boots and a Stetson. She said no. Might need to put some longhorns on Anna.
