Rich Juzwiak's glasses. A critique.

So the video is here, the start is set to 1:27.

The following is a list of which glasses I liked the most on Rich Juzwiak, the writer at Gawker.

All in all I counted 19 different pairs.

Disclaimer: I'm gay, too, so all this is meant from my rather reserved (and maybe conservative) perspective of (gay) fashion.

So, if anyone gets to read this, I hope ye won't feel offended, 'cuz I meant to have fun with this :>

And, so, here goes...

1. Light ones. The colours match, but proportions seem wrong;
2. Best light frames;
3. (Black with thickish frames) Best in a dark-lit club or intellectual event;
4. (red ones) Too fabulous;
5. (golden ones) - kinda fabulous, but not in a good way;
6. < This one is the favourite, for some reason, but they're pink, too. Only that the pink colour there is not so in your face. So, if the frame colour were slightly different...
7. Blue - too fabulous, too 1970's;
8. Black ones with white edges - Too Apple. "I want to hide myself."
9. (light frames) Too fabulous and outdated;
10. Black shades. This must have something to do with retrofuturism, but I somehow like it. "I hide myself, but I still want to see you."
11. Police Cruiser shades. The most form-fitting, except that it accentuates the nose the most (sorry, Rich, I like you the most when you're not wearing spectacles (;
12. Dark ones. It's warm and light outside. Yuppie style;
13. Square shades. I like those. 1980's (retro)futurism. Still accentuates the nose.
14. Black shades. Fabulous, 1979 going on 1982. I don't know, which way, though.
15. Red, again. Too fabulous.
    
16. Dark shades. I don't know.


17. Dorky, Gotham style. Maybe if you meet The Dark Knight one day...


18. 1970's, def. Southern states;


19. Big black ones. The Fly. Jeff Goldblum.

Revolution OS

Film review

Ahh, the good times :-)

This film was made during the dot-com boom, and, per release information on IMDb, first screened at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March 2001.

Only in its end titles does the film show the first casualties of the dot.com crash (a second release of the film was in 2002), so this documentary really well reflects the spirit of the times, just as the original series of "Star Trek" was the best science fiction in 1960's.

Despite its shortcomings of appearing propaganda-like (see some of the more balanced IMDb reviews) and not the most stellar music editing, I still kinda like the documentary, as it was filmed during a time when life seemed really nice: The dot com crash had yet to happen, and 9/11 hadn't happened yet... And so the times were quite a bit more hopeful than in the years that followed.

Alas, many of the companies mentioned aren't there anymore: VA Linux, Cygnus, Netscape, and many-many others. Not long after, Corel stopped making Linux. Sun Microsystems was purchased by Oracle. Red Hat is still here, but it's not exactly in the desktop business. Netscape itself was purchased by AOL, and subsumed into it, and then not much is left of it. Netscape's move to open-source its Communicator suite (which included the Navigator browser) was indeed pivotal, as it laid the ground for Mozilla and eventually Firefox.

Nobody at the time saw the emergence of Google. Or that the principles of this freedom would lead to Lawrence Lessing to found the Creative Commons movement, which gave additional impetus to found Wikipedia. Incredible.

I somehow failed to notice at the time how even the modern men's haircuts and hair styles were different back then, short of being less astute. I guess since these styles were ubiquitous, then nobody really noticed S:)

Three Excellent Women

...of comedy and drama —

In no particular order:
• Mindy Sterling (Frau Fabrissina, the cohort of Dr. Evil from Mike Myers' Austin Powers franchise)
• Linda Hunt (Ilsa Grunt in "If Looks Could Kill")
• Fran Lebowitz (not Lei-, so take note of that) — In terms of cutting wit, she's on the same level as Professor Sidney Morgenbesser and physicist Lev Landau)

Common denominators: These women are all short... (ish), witty (on screen or off screen or both), and accomplished. I realized that Lebowitz and Hunt are also lesbians, which makes the mix all the more fabulous :>

Moreover, they all belong to the same generation, and before knowing any better, I'd sometimes mix at least the first two up in my mind as the same person, one or the other.

Another witty woman of the same generation is Carrie Fisher.

(Oh, no men to speak of from the same generation, cuz I don't know of any >:-)

Sometimes it feels as if the three are really the same person, or three sisters of the same family scattered around the country.

The reason I wrote this, is because I somewhat stumbled upon a post written about Lebowitz by Stephen at post apocalyptic bohemian [sic].

So much of that :>