1 Jul 2002 tromey   » (Master)

Saw some movies recently:

  • On Friday, Kissing Jessica Stein. It had some funny moments but really isn't recommendable.

  • On Saturday, Minority Report. I liked it, and I don't really like Tom Cruise. Parts of it don't make sense logically (the set-up is self-supporting from the wrong end), but that's ok. It provides some nice insights (the various impacts of ubiquitous recognition technology, the casual benefits of being a precog) in an offhand, understated way.

  • Tonight, Some Like It Hot at IFS. I hadn't seen it on the big screen. I laughed just as hard as I do every time; great movie.

Haven't done much non-work hacking lately. Automake mostly flies under Alexandre Duret-Lutz these days.

I finally checked in my direct-threading patch for the libgcj bytecode interpreter. This speeds things up quite a bit in most cases. But really haven't done anything more recently.

Lately I've been interested in multimedia and gstreamer, but since I got back from my various trips I haven't had time to really work on it. Plus, Red Hat Linux 7.3 doesn't like my video card too much; playing mpegs hangs the X server. And, anyway, with summer comes a more crowded social calendar.

Lately I've been thinking a lot about the many problems with how organizations, particularly corporations are structured and run. I'd prefer something flatter and more democratic, without the sorts of autocratic, demoralizing changes we ordinarily see. Books read: Peopleware (a classic, must-read book for computer professionals) and No Contest (still reading that one).

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