Science Fiction Fights Triple
A trio of video clips from science fiction movies featuring fight sequences. Equilibrium Christian Bale in a role where he expresses very few emotions – a bit of a stretch for him – and featuring some wonderful fight sequences, this being the last one in the movie. Forbidden Planet A classic movie notable for its iconic robot, its lovely female lead, its thought-provoking story, and its impressive special effects, the lattermost of which is highlighted in this scene where the creature from the id attacks the ship. Star Trek II – The Wrath of Khan Often regarded as the best Star Trek movie and this is my favourite scene from it where Khan – in charge of the Reliant – attacks Kirk’s Enterprise. The music score from James Horner during this sequence is absolutely perfect...
Product Dimensions
“So, can we go through the file format for the products list now?” “Absolutely. This is the one you’ll want us to send you every night, right?” “Yes. A full refresh file too; not transactional.” “Got it. We can sort out the timing nearer the completion date. I’m guessing it’s all pretty self-explanatory, yes?” “Yes, I think so. Let’s just quickly run down the fields… product ID first…” “And from the size of that field that’s got to be the auto-generated ID rather than the supplier’s code, yes? Of course yes. The supplier’s code won’t be of any use to you. Carry on.” “Yes. Short description next, then full description… unit barcode… quantity in sales unit, sales price in sales unit, VAT… then the shipping information comes up so first off is the product dimensions; height, length, width, depth… packing barcode, …” “Wait a second! Can you go back a bit?” “Sure.” “That bit about product dimensions; can you run through that again?” “Yeah, no problem. Er… product dimensions… So these are all in millimetres and, in order, height, length, width, and depth. Then it’s the packing…” “No, stop again. Height, length, width. And depth?” “Yes.” “That’s four dimensions.” “Height, length, width, and depth. Yes, four. Why?” “Aren’t width and depth the same thing?” “Er… no, I don’t think so. Some products will have a width but some others will have a depth.” “Ri-i-i-ght. But… a product can’t have both though.” “Yes, we want to allow for it.” “You want to allow for the packing of four-dimensional products.” “We don’t really want to have to revisit this design later. This will save us in the long run.” “But you can’t have four-dimensional products.” “We want to allow for it in the future though. We’re hoping this will really take off.” “And that someone invents a method of shipping products in hypercubes?” “Sorry?” “Never mind. Why don’t we carry on for now and we can send through any concerns via email after the meeting? After we’ve all had a think through to see if anything’s missing. Or shouldn’t be there.” “Okay. Where were we? Packing barcode?” Based on an actual meeting with...
Street Photography of Marius Vieth
Another discovery through Google+, this time being the street photography of Düsseldorf-based Marius Vieth. It’s great to find a photographer like Marius whose work has such a high percentage of “just the right moment” shots. Marius also demonstrates a great awareness of light and shadow and has a fantastic eye for composition. Post-processing also follows the “just right” mantra. Great work. More of the street photography shots by Marius can be found on his Google+ page: Marius...
Filtered Fjord
I know, I know… I haven't posted anything in ages. I have an excuse. I took just under one billion photos on my recent Norwegian cruise and you know how it is when you have just under one billion photos to look through and say to yourself: "That's okay… exposure tweak… that's okay… sharpen that a smidge… that's not that great but I'll keep it… that's a variation on the previous three shots but I don't want to delete it… that's okay… that's bloody awful… that's okay…" Yeah, so it's all taking a while. Anyway, this morning I've been going through the last of my shots around the Geirangerfjorden and it was on this part of the trip that I started playing around with a set of filters that I'd bought especially. As someone who typically shoots street-style the need to work with graduated ND and coloured filters is pretty rare (and in my case completely new) so there were quite a few "oh dear, that's just horrendous" moments. Still, there were some that I thought worked pretty funkily and here's one from late evening leaving Geiranger, shot from our cabin balcony on board the Crown Princess. Google+: View post on...
Crown Princess – Norwegian Fjords Cruise – Southampton and Bergen
Many, many moons ago I went on a cruise for my honeymoon – I took my wife with me as it seemed appropriate to do so – and followed that up with a post on this site giving out cruise tips for first-timers: Your First Princess Cruise. This proved to be a popular post for those people looking for hints about cruising the seas. More importantly, it gave me and my wife a bit of a taste for holidaying aboard large ships. So much so, in fact, that we decided we’d do it again some day. We just did. In the first week of September we took our second cruise, again on board one of the ships run by Princess – the Crown Princess – and this time taking a short little vacation to the Norwegian Fjords. This post forms the first of five posts describing the trip; the posts will be spaced out according to just how long it takes me to go through the photos I took on each of the days (I might have taken quite a few). Southampton The cruise started and ended at Southampton. This was due to Princess’s UK policy of surrounding a lovely holiday with something truly terrible just to make it seem even better. No, of course it isn’t! However, I am from Portsmouth and am obligated by law to mock the city down the coast at every opportunity under penalty of mutilation. Anyway, the cruise started at Southampton and thanks to a wonderful piece of luck with regards to timing not only was our cruise ship leaving that day but so were three others, and preparations were underway for the Southampton boat show too; the result of all this a long delay getting from the car park to the ship. Somewhere in the order of three hours to be precise. Still, we were calm and relaxed because we’d arrived early. Some other people weren’t so calm and relaxed and we can only wonder what the fellow passengers of the woman due to depart on the Ventura had to deal with when she finally got on board her ship. When we boarded the Crown Princess, however, we had a very pleasant surprise almost immediately. We’d paid for an inside cabin – it’s because we’re not millionaires in case you’re wondering – but the reason we went on this cruise was due to an email deal where we could get a free upgrade to ocean view (i.e. a window). I’d actually had a very nice email discussion with one of Princess’s cruise specialists – Rachel Vane – in order to confirm this...
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