Live Free Or Die Hard

Halivood did it again.

I was impressed with the evil speech derived from the conglomerated speeches of all their presidents. It takes effort to map out words from several speeches. Palakpakan.

The hackers here have the most understandable and user friendly interfaces. The thing is, hackers, most probably would not create intricate user interfaces that appeal to a wide audience. They use their programs for their own and are not selling them to anyone. But because it's Halivood, they have to have a nice perky interface so that the people who watch will, hopefully, understand whatever is happening.

Another thing worth noting is that hardware is not very easy to hi-jack. Although it is possible to just plug a consumer electronic gadget to a computer and take control of it, i.e. ssh from a phone. It's not possible to hack into a target within ten seconds.

They were mentioning mutating encryption algorithms. Interesting. It only goes to show that hackers should not be discarded. The things that they make can be very, very useful.

In the movie, when John McClane, the hero, was being held at gunpoint by Thomas Gabriel, the evil guy, the latter pushed his gun into the gunshot wound just at the right shoulder of the former. The hero then does the most noble thing by shooting the gun, piercing himself and knocking the evil guy off. So the question is: How in the hell can you get a guy thrown away from you by shooting yourself and making the bullet pierce your body and hit that guy by using a pistol? That's not all, you have to do it in such a way that that guy you shot at will hit and break a car wind shield about three feet away. The answer is Halivood, of course.

Interesting line from the movie:
"What do you get for being a hero? Nothing." .

Butiki In The Box

Donut. Masarap. Malinamnam. Nakakatakam. Punong-puno ng saturated fats. (barf) Masarap.

So may box ng donuts dito sa bahay. Binili nila mom ito kahapon para may makain habang naghihintay ng eroplano ang ate kong pabalik sa trabaho. Ayun nga lang, hindi nila nakain kaya inuwi nalang dito at ipinatong sa hapag kainan.

Pag-uwi ko kanina, dahil sa slight na pagkagutom na dulot ng mahabang araw sa trabaho, naramdaman ko ang pangangailangang kumain. Naghapunan ako. Nasa hapag pa rin yung mga donut at naisipan kong kumain ng isa o dalawa nito bilang panghimagas.

Sa unang tingin, mukha itong isang masayang kahon ng donut, pero ang totoo, pinagpipiyestahan na ito ng mga langgam.

Kaya ang ginawa ko, pinagpag ko yung kahon dahil lumalayas naman yung mga langgam sa amin kapag ginagawa ito.

Noong maraming langgam na ang lumayas, binuksan ko yung kahon para kumuha ng isa.


So...... Ang lupit naman nung butiki at nakapunta sa loob.

Nawalan talaga ako ng gana kumain.


Ang naisip ko nalang, baka sinundan niya yung mga langgam hanggang napadpad siya sa loob ng kahon, pinagkakain niya ang ilan sa mga ito, at noong nabusog, tumambay nalang sa loob ng kahon.

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Extracurricular Work Week

Counter-Strike Monday.
Niyaya kami nung mga seniors namin ng counter-strike doon sa computer shop na malapit sa opisina. Anak ng juweteng, 35 pesos per hour ang renta sa isang computer na hindi naman ganoon kasaya gamitin. Pero masaya naman, dahil masaya makipaglaro ng patayan sa mga seniors sa tarbaho.

Chat Tuesday.
Halos buong araw na nag-web conference lang kami ng mga work batch mates ko. Parang slack time namin.

Movie night Wednesday.
Nanood kami ng National Treasure.

Basketball Thursday.
Nagyaya ng basketball yung mga seniors sa opisina. Nakisali kami, wala lang, para bonding sa mga "nakatatanda" sa amin.
Nakakatuwa na yung mga managers/seniors ay nakakasalamuha mo in a certain non-work related activity.
Napatunayang kong mababa na ang stamina ko dahil mga seven minutes pa lang ng paglalaro, pagod na ako at pawis kung pawis. Naisipan ko tuloy na gamitin nalang ang hagdanan ng building kapag paakyat.

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

I'm still wondering why the movie week committee did not consider Anak ng Kumander, Katas ng Saudi or, barf, Resiklo. Too bad, part-timers (at best actors pa 'ka mo) pa naman ang mga bida. Funny sana.

• It's too American. Whenever anyone in the movie says the word "national", nasasaktan ako oh baby. Bakit ko nga ulit pinapanood ito? Haha.
• It contains too much Hollywood content. Sabi nga ni Emman, sobrang daming cuts nung movie kasi yung "hacking" scenes, especially yung sa Buckingham Palace, forty-seven hours yung actual take, pero dahil Halivood, five seconds nalang. Iyon yung misteryo sa likod ng page forty-seven. What they did is a sacrilege to the security personnel. It's like saying that it's possible to hack computer systems, in the modern setting, by just running one program.
  
• First time kong makakita ng character na Cryptologist na super spy. Isa pa siya yung tipo ng character na hindi nagkakamali sa panghuhula. Nakakapagpabagabag kaya yung pupunta nalang bigla sa kung saang sulok ng mundo dahil lang sa isang clue na sobrang vague naman. What are the chances na tatama siya sa kanyang hula? 100% dahil Halivood.
• And yes, the disturbing way "Papa Cage" (as my co-workers refer to Nicolas Cage) talks with the breath and murky facial expression. Para siyang parating hinihingal. "Hits the grheathest nhationhal trheasure hof hall time."

Oo nga pala, hindi ako ang nagbayad para mapanood ang pelikula, kaya masaya pa rin.

Genshiken 2

I watched it over a month ago. Wala lang, just for reference.

• Most of the characters have ecchi scenes.
• So there are male cosplaying female characters and other men seem to still buy it.
• The spoofs, especially the Gundam ones, in the opening sequence for the anime are fun to watch.
• Unlike the first season, the episode titles aren't like theses titles anymore. They are more of real descriptions to what will happen in the episode.
• When Tanaka and Oono were beginning to get freaky with each other, the scene was cut and then a sound similar to moaning was presented. It turned out to be Sasahara drinking something.
• What I like about this anime is that it is very open. It has that ... factor whenever there is a sort of scene. It leaves everything up to the viewers imagination.
• I don't get the idea that some otaku will prefer 2D/3D ero over the real thing.
• I really don't like to watch Fujyoshi/male to male (or as my friends call it, M2M) sorts of stuff. It's very disturbing. It gives me the creeps. I'd rather be ignorant about those things than to learn about them by seeing. I had fun watching because it's fictional within their own fiction.

All in all, it's a nice anime that you can watch to cut some slack.