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Stoker is the new movie from director Chan-wook Park, the man that brought us Oldboy, Lady Vengeance and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. As the three main characters we've got Mia Wasikowska as the main characters the young daughter India Stoker, Nicole Kidman is her mom Evelyn Stoker and Matthew Goode is the Uncle Charles. India's father dies and Uncle Charles appears from pretty much nowhere and that is pretty much the setting for the movie. The whole time something seems off but you can't quite figure out what it is. Between India having a very Lydia from Beetlejuice personality and Charles having a Norman Bates vibe going on you're not quite sure where the source of this uneasiness is coming from. It's later revealed eventually (I won't spoil it) but that doesn't really help to settle things, you just get a whole new set of problems. The movie goes very slowly, I wouldn't say it's greatly done but I didn't mind it too much and there are a few Hitchcock elements sew-in. One thing I've heard people complain about is that the movie just seems to be hyper stylized, I do see what these people mean but I don't really agree, a few shots you get that feeling from but it's nothing close to the whole movie being that way, there are also some scenes that given a different soundtrack could seem like something Wes Anderson would film. Overall though I really enjoyed this movie, it was a type of movie that I haven't seen for a good while and Chan-wook Park pulled the whole thing off pretty well. People that like slow burn mystery thrillers will probably dig this, but again I remind you if you don't like slow movies watch out because that's what you're in for here.
REVIEW: Stoker
March 18, 2013
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REVIEW: Holy Batmania!
February 12, 2009
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Batman (1943, serial):
This was a collection of serial shorts made in '43. They're definitely dated but a lot of fun, especially if your a Batman fan. Some of the stuff is really ridiculous, but much less then the campy series with Adam West. These serials seem a lot like serial versions of the comics from that time period, pretty wacky but fun. I'd recommend these for a Batman fan but probably not the casual fan.
Batman (1966):
Adam West (Batman), Burt Ward (Robin), Lee Meriwether (Catwoman), Cesar Romero (The Joker), Burgess Meredith (The Penguin), Frank Gorshin (The Riddler)…With this cast it can only be the campy Batman series from the 60's. But this is so much more because this is the movie version of that gem. The villains team up to destroy all the worlds leaders from a peace summit. And on top of this Batman and Robin have to fight a fucking exploding shark! Luckly Batman has his handy Shark Repellent Batspray. I highly recommend this for anyone that liked the old Batman series or anyone that likes fun.
Batman (1989):
Now this is one of my favorite comic movies ever made, and still my favorite Batman movie ever made. It's got Michael Keaton and Tim Burton on top of their game, and the always great Jack Nicolson in an amazing job as the Joker. There's the telling of both origin stories (a little inconsistency in both stories but close enough) then goes into one of the Joker's crazy plots, to basically be the Joker and do what he does – be crazy. This also has one of my favorite movie quotes "Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?" – that has nothing to do with the actual review, it just rules. Some people bitch about Jack just playing 'himself' or the movie not being violent enough. But you know what? Fuck them. There's a reason Jack Nicholson was chosen to play the Joker and it still stands as the best choice ever, and as for the violence even the great Tim Burton (who wasn't mr. bigwig back then) had to adhere to standards and practices of big budget movies of the late 80's. (Late 80's being the key because they got anal about the rough stuff for a while there which is when this was made). But you've got to work with what you can and this turned out quite excellent. I highly recommend this for everyone especially comic and Batman fans.
Batman Returns:
The Penguin gets screwed by the mayor and vows revenge, meanwhile else were in Gotham a secretary knows too much and is thrown out a window. Once again Tim Burton is back directing, Michael Keaton is still Batman, but we've added some awesomeness to the cast. Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman back when she was still sexy, the great Danny DeVito as Penguin and there's even some of everyone's favorite strange/creepy/great guy Christopher Walken as the mayor in this one. While not a bad movie, it does have it moments overall I didn't really enjoy it. I remember I was even disappointed as a kid when I saw this. I'm not sure why, caught somewhere between rushed/forced and possibly half-hearted its not even close to the worst Batman movie made, its certainly not one of the best. There is however a massive penguin army which gets this movie some awesome points.
Batman Forever:
This movie I have almost a love/hate relationship with. Basically what we've got here is more origin stories which seem to be the norm with this series of movies. Once again the origins aren't spot on but good enough that I can overlook that for now. Two-Face ice's Tim Drake's parents, which causes Tim Drake to become Robin. Meanwhile Bruce Wayne fires Edward Nygma which leads him to become the Riddler in a revenge plot. During this plot Riddler finds out Batman's identity. Gone is Tim Burton and the new guy in is (ugh) Joel Schumacher, this could be a big part of the problem. Also out is Michael Keaton, instead we get the bootleg version Val Kilmer, he did an ok job but he's no Michael Keaton. In pulling sidekick duty is this Chris O'Donnell jerk, whom I hate to this day because of his poor job in this role. There's even Nicole Kidman and Drew Barrymore throw in for some eye candy. However the only real redeeming part of this movie is the villains. This time around we've got my second favorite Batman villain, Two-Face, played by one of my favorite actors, Tommy Lee Jones. This was stellar. I know a lot of people hated how this was done but I thought it was great. Granted it was a way over the top, super charged version of Two-Face, but it was fun, he killed some people and it was fucking Tommy Lee Jones. One of my favorite Jones roles (most people's least favorite). Second on the map is the Riddler played by Jim Carrey who was bigger than comedy Jesus at this point in time. Once again this is a over the top version of said character, but then again it is Jim Carrey. I though it fit pretty well, not the best Riddler known to man but it was a quality performance. So basically if they could somehow cut all the fat in this movie and just have Two-Face and Riddler owning Gotham, this movie would rule, as it stands…its ok.
Batman & Robin:
Ok here's the stinker movie of this series and basically what killed the Batman franchise for 10 years (give or take). Not that this movie is without its moments but its really just not good. I tried to defend it for years but I've finally come to terms with its shittyness. The story is pretty generic and still doesn't make a lot of sense. You've got Poison Ivy (Played by Uma Thurman somehow looking not sexy), who's basically being a pissy crazy woman all about the plants. We've got Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger) being pissed off about being Mr. Freeze. There's even Bane in here for about 10 seconds…Yeah sounds pretty shitty doesn't it? But wait, there's more! We've got a new Batman once again, George Clooney trying to climb up the ladder to get someone to notice him as Mr. Wayne. Once again not a bad job by him, but not that great either. He played a much better Bruce Wayne than a Batman but the movie's not called 'Bruce Wayne & Robin'. That dick stain Chris O'Donnell is crapping up the role of Robin again. However there is a bit of light here we're introduced to Batgirl is this movie brought to us by Alicia Silverstone. Not a stellar performance, but it was good and she looks good in a skintight Batgirl suit. No surprised on this sorry excuse for a comic movie There's Joel Schumacher at the wheel directing this train wreck again, that explains a lot. I think this movie pretty much proves that a movie can't get by on just a few big names, there's got to be a decent movie to start with. Oh and as I recall there's some sort of sky surfing scene in here somewhere too…
Batman Begins:
Eight years after 'Batman & Robin' Christopher Nolan comes out of almost nowhere with a reboot of the Batman films breathing life into them again. It's not too much of a surprise seeing as how so far all of his movies have been pretty awesome, but a Batman movie was pretty unexpected. Reboot of the series however means another retelling of the origin story, which leads to one of my only gripes with the movie. Although cool, I had no idea what was going on the first 10 minutes of the movie. I walk into a Batman movie and I see mud-wrestling, luckily it all worked out. Everyone's favorite American Psycho, Christian Bale is in the batsuit this time. Unforchinatly not wielding a chainsaw and talking about music. Bale does a damn good job in this movie, good choice here. We've also got the awesome Michael Caine as Alfred, and the also awesome Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox a Wayne employee who basically becomes Batman's gadget dealer. Villains come in as Ra's Al Ghul in a couple forms and Cillian Murphy appearing as the Sandman. Excellent movie to kick off the new Batman series, definitely in the top group as far as Bat flicks go.
Dark Knight:
Christopher Nolan is back with a sequel, and one hell of a sequel. I've got a little resentment towards this movie but I still like it a lot. So far this is my second favorite Batman flick to date. There's kind of a lot going on here. You've got the Joker introcuded played by Heath Ledger (I'll come back to this), being the Joker, just fucking crazy. Meanwhile you've got Harvey Dent (played excellently by Aaron Eckhart) trying to clean up Gotham until his woman gets killed and he gets charged, then Two-Face comes out (with goddamn fucking awesome stellar effects). Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman are all back doing bang up jobs in their previous roles. (with the exception of Batman's ridiculously low voice, this was literally laughable) We even get a cameo of Cillian Murphy back as the Scarecrow for a minute (or less). Now my big beef with this movie isn't even with the movie, this is totally an editorial rant. Heath Ledger. The man was a good Joker (no Jack Nicholson, but who is) But most of the popularity of this movie came from Ledger committing suicide before the flick came out. Not only that it got a bunch of bandwagon fans jumping on and every goth kid within a two billion mile radius suddenly thinking he's Heath Ledger's Joker. This was not the comic Joker in the movie, the performance was good but the makeup was god awful, had nothing to do with the Joker really, just made him look like a jack-off. So because he OD'd you've suddenly got everyone who wouldn't give a fuck about the movie before suddenly loving it, everyone praising his performance as the best thing ever, and a bunch of jerk-offs dressing up like this poor excuse for a Joker. I'm done here before I anger more, go see the movie but chill the fuck out.
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Rich lister Mark Creasy hits paydirt with Sirius deal
PUBLISHED: 18 Feb 2014 11:31:51 | UPDATED: 19 Feb 2014 12:48:51PRINT EDITION: 18 Feb 2014Millionaire prospector Mark Creasy.
John Stensholt
Only days after a deal that's made him a cool $210 million, veteran prospector Mark Creasy says mining shares are on the way back after a dreadful 2013.
"I've been through six market crashes in my career and last year was up there with 1987 as the worst," says the man who has been a "rock-kicker" since 1968.
"But this year I think is going to be a whole lot better. Last year, the market was basically pricing gold stocks as if gold was never going to come back again. Ever.
"It was getting to be that way with nickel as well. I don't think that is going to happen, of course. Are we going to run into more stormy weather?
"I'm going to cautiously say things are on the improve."
That optimism could be well founded after the events of last Friday, when the listed nickel junior Sirius Resources announced it was buying Creasy's share in the Nova and Bollinger deposits in Western Australia, previously owned in a joint venture between Sirius and Creasy.
It was the latest in a string of deals for the man who personally funds the biggest private prospecting business in Australia.
The deal, comprising $28 million cash and 70.6 million Sirius shares values the deal at about $210 million in total based on the company's share price on Monday.
Creasy already owned about 45.5 million shares prior to the deal, with his total stake in Sirius rising by about $25 million since the beginning of trading on Friday to now be worth more than $300 million.
It is also a huge increase in value for Creasy and other shareholders in less than two years, given Sirius shares were trading at the 5¢ mark as recently as July 2012.
The spike in Sirius's share price has had a dramatic affect on Creasy's wealth, which was valued at $640 million on last year's BRW Rich List, compared with $250 million in 2012.
Even at 68, however, Creasy isn't content to sit around on his Sirius shareholdings. In fact, he's trying harder than ever to hit paydirt.
Fraser Ranges
He says it should emerge this year whether the Sirius tenement in the Fraser Ranges represents a one-off for the area or if other companies also exploring in the area will strike similar success.
Just in case it's the latter and as is his habit, Creasy also has shares in explorers with nearby holdings, such as Winward Resources and Orion Gold.
He has stakes in about 40 to 50 other listed companies, most of which are junior developers with miniscule share prices. But he usually takes big stakes, which pay off when shares start rising.
Creasy also employs 10 geologists who "wander around the countryside chipping away at rocks", a big job given he is understood to control about 54,140 square kilometres of tenements through at least 30 different holding companies.
There have been plenty of ups and downs for Creasy on the way to amassing his fortune and tenements.
After working at a Queensland coal mine, Creasy went off "looking for opal with a pick and shovel" in 1968.
Decades of driving an increasingly battered four-wheel drive Land Rover around uninhabited deserts followed, including finding large pieces of the Skylab satellite in 1979, which had showered the WA outback with debris after re-entering the earth's atmosphere.
His biggest previous pay-day was in 1990 when he sold the Bronzewing goldmine for a tax-free $127 million payment.
He's continued the seemingly endless searching ever since, saying on Monday: "Retirement? What's that? I don' t think so."


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Obama said he looks forward to congratulating Carroll and the team at the White House later this year.
The president had avoided picking sides in Sunday's matchup, saying he didn't want to offend either city.
Obama predicted a final score of 24-21, but the Seahawks dominated the championship game from the opening kickoff and went on to crush Denver 43-8.
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- 1 medium jicama (1 1/2-2 pounds), peeled and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 3/4 teaspoon chipotle chile powder (or 1 1/2 teaspoons ancho chile powder)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 25 fresh mint leaves, cut into thin strips
- 2 tablespoons queso añejo (or feta or goat cheese)
Combine jicama and oil in a bowl and toss well. Add lime juice, chile powder, and salt. Toss to coat. Divide salad among 4 small bowls, then sprinkle each with 1/4 of the mint and cheese right before serving.
Per serving: 111 calories, 5 g fat (1.5 g saturated), 16.2 g carbs, 8.5 g fiber, 3.4 g protein
Nutritional analysis provided by Self
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type: Vegetable
main ingredients: Vegetable, Lime Juice, Mint, Jícama, Fruit Juice, Herb
dietary considerations: Vegetarian, Low Cal, High Fiber, Healthy
holiday/celebration: Father's Day, Grilling, Cinco de Mayo, Picnic, Party, Fourth of July, Potluck


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On I drive. At Chunkanán, where several mini-gauge railroad lines converge, I am greeted at a store called Tres Cenotes by a man named Silvario. With a warm smile he asks if I'd like to see the cenotes. "Si!" I reply. "And to swim!" He spreads a horse blanket on a four-by-five-foot flatbed railcar called a truk and offers me a clean New York Yankees cap for shade. After hooking up Bolas, his chestnut pony, to the truk, he shakes the reins and we're off on a clanky glide along the rails that still serve this hacienda town.
As Bolas picks up speed, we pass a healthy patch of pineapple-y henequen plants. Related to the prickly agave, which is the source of tequila, henequen was used by the Maya to make twine for hammocks, sandals, and other objects. It's the raison d'être for the rails, the smokestacks scattered across the landscape, and the prosperity of the haciendas themselves. In fact, it was the demand for wheat-sheaving twine in the United States that started shipments from the nearby port of Sisal, sparking a boom in the late 1800's. Five hundred haciendas converted from Mayan settlements to growing "green gold," and until the revolution in 1910, Mérida had more millionaires than any other city its size in the world.
As thunderheads build in the afternoon heat, Silvario assures me that the prettiest, más bonito of the three cenotes is also el ú ltimo, the farthest one. I decide to bypass the first two and head straight to the best, Bolon Chohol. Brilliant blue birds with cuckoo-clock tails flash out of the small porthole entrance as I begin to descend the long ladder made of rail sections. I have no idea what I'll find. Reaching the bottom, I dive into the warm tarn, come to the surface, and hear the clop of horse's hooves and the zing of rails: two more flatcars pull up, carrying a dozen swimmers from Mérida. My dream of swimming solo with the underworld gods may be a silly gringo fantasy, but I now have a rule of thumb: Avoid cenotes in towns, on major roads, and on functioning rail lines. They draw crowds.
The next day, at the southwestern extreme of the Anillo de Cenotes, I check into the 11-room Hacienda Santa Rosa de Lima, the former estate of a Spanish nobleman. This place is less grand than the other haciendas I've visited, more intimate. And while I haven't yet found my postcard cenote, the pool is a welcome substitute in the midday heat. Small and elegant, it recedes through four arches into an artificial grotto topped by a breezy dovecote—a room where you can roost in a hammock for an after-swim nap. Margarita in hand, balancing effortlessly in the rope-slung net, I make a plan: tomorrow, I will drive directly to Hacienda Temozón, in the very heart of the Anillo de Cenotes. And I will get a guide.
Twenty-four hours later, the palatial, stately Hacienda Temozón—which even has its own church on the 15-acre estate—makes the heat infinitely more bearable. My guide is Temozón's groundskeeper, Fidel Cocum, a descendant of the last ruling pre-Conquest clan in the Yucatán. When he appears with a basket of fluffy rolled towels, bottled water, and flowers, I get the feeling this cenote safari is off to a good start. And with four cenotes within a 20-minute drive on serviceable sacbés, I have plenty of choices.
We spend the afternoon checking them all. I descend the long, steep metal ladder that leads directly into the dark, mysterious water of Kankirixche, where I share the stillness with no one. I follow the cement steps of Chihuohol past a rubble pile, once a small pyramid, and into an empty amphitheater-shaped cenote overhung with the mud nests of chittering swallows. At Sambula, I head down square Mayan temple stones, the kind that haciendados once pilfered to pave their courtyards.
Near the village of Cacao, past a tumbledown hacienda at the end of a secluded but car-friendly sacbé, we stop in a quiet, shade-spattered spot. Here, Fidel tells me, is Yáx Ha (Green Water). "Careful," he warns in Spanish, pointing to a rickety ladder that leads into the 30-foot-wide chamber. Startled, I gasp aloud when I see the shaft of laser-blue light penetrating the gin-clear water in the pool's center, frozen in space and time like a titanic sapphire crystal. I have no doubt this is it, my fantasy plunge. When I slide into the 82-degree water, powder blue and soft as velvet from traces of calcium carbonate, the vibrant beam oscillates at my presence. The bottom, 60 feet below, is so clearly defined that I'm sure I can reach down and touch it. And it is quiet. So quiet that when I close my eyes I can hear meteors hurtling through the vacuum of space, the wings of a thousand yellow butterflies, and whispers I'm sure are in Mayan.
I wait, but other swimmers never come.
Then I lie back and float, fairly certain I am close to the gods.
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75 Soi Rambutri, Kwang Chanasongkram
Pranakorn, Banglampoo (Khao San Road) Bangkok 10200
(66) 0-2629-5861-2
(66) 0-2629-5864
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Lamphu House off of Soi Rambutri Road (just after 7-eleven) to the left of the Wat offers great accommodation. Enjoy resting with style at our resort style guesthouse and take pleasure in the peace and tranquility of our hospitality and accommodation. Lamphu House is very clean and nicely furnished guesthouse/hotel with super friendly staff. A great place to stay if you are tired of staying in regular guest houses with cold showers but aren't quite ready to spend $100 US a night or leave the Khao San area. This is an ideal sanctuary for those who want a little peace and tranquility away from the busy hectic streets of amazing Bangkok.
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170 Baht
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Double room with fan:
300 Baht
Twin room with fan:
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Posted By : brcollette
Posted Date : 06 November 2006 16:45:34
I would highly recommentd this guest house. It its only a few minutes away form the action of Khao san, yet a little out of the way to give you some breathing room. Me and my girlfriend absolutely loved it a few reasons, but the main reason was how clean the place was. The rooms were very nice, with new furniture and did not have that dumpy, run down look and feel that some of the guesthouses have. The price is actually quite good for the quality of the rooms. Very, very clean and the staff was very nice. When I return to Thailand it will absolutely be the place that I go to again. I highly recommend this place to first timers just arriving in Bangkok...very calm, casual atmosphere for you to get adjusted to the maddness of Bangkok and recover from the jet-lag. Dont worry about it being not acutally on Khao san Road...this is a good thing, as Khao San gets quite wild...this place is 2 minute walk and so much calmer. Stay here!
Posted By : linjun
Posted Date : 14 December 2006 22:03:06
Hello,I'm Linjun.I 'll book a room of Triple.I'll adrive in 28-12-2006, night 23:00 with my Prarents.Please help me,thanks! the room inclu breakfrit? I need a beatuful room for I and my parants,If I live afew days,Can you give me discunts?Thanks a lot!!
Posted By : sabrinac1
Posted Date : 24 June 2009 02:47:13
I am arriving in Bangkok at 0530 hrs. on 1st July. If I book into your guesthouse in the Single Room AC, will I also get breakfast with it? What discounts can you afford me if I stay for 2 nights?
Posted By : koolnino
Posted Date : 13 July 2009 09:11:58
Hello,I'm Linjun.I 'll book a room of Triple.I'll check-in , 13pm, 10-Feb,2010 and check-out, 13-Feb-2010 with me friends.Please help me,thanks! the room include breakfast? I need a beatuful room for I and my friends,If I live afew days,Can you give me informations for book a room ?Thanks a lot!!
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I don't know what to write here. I was hoping the last 120 pages of the book would offer me a better direction for my comments but I'm even more troubled now that I finished the book. I also read a few things online about some suspects I had and, finding them true, I blame myself for having doubted of their relevance. So I have this whole new point of view and interpretation that should have been there from the beginning.
Let's put down the framework first. "The Red Tree" is a kind of supernatural, horror, psychological journey that borrows heavily from the long and solid tradition and that recovers and updates what made Lovecraft "work". Not an homage or imitation, but the revelation that what built those genres is still well alive and relatively uncompromised. It's the first book I read of Caitlín R. Kiernan but I soon discovered I had also read some comics written by her so many years ago that I don't remember anymore anything specific about them (The Dreaming). The book is structured in a way somewhat similar to Danielewski's House of Leaves, probably far less convoluted and pretentious, but the aspect I think is more relevant is the game of mirrors. Trivializing a lot: a lesbian writer writes about a lesbian writer who writes a diary about herself. (and I should mention that I have a particular love for meta-narratives) Then at some point the mirror shatters and we have her discovering a short story about herself that she doesn't remember to have written at all. As well more mirrors of herself and her dead lover coming from the past, and maybe the future.
But that's misleading as the story is the one of this alter-ego fictional writer, Sarah Crowe, who flees from her former life and rents an house in the countryside. She begins to write her diary when she discovers in the basement of the big house the incomplete draft of a research written by the previous tenant (now dead), about a nearby oak on which converged a number of legends. The framework and execution, at this level, is made of the solid tradition I mentioned above. Soon the bits of legends Sarah reads seep into her reality and slowly build an estrangement from the "real" world. The researcher's obsession becomes the Sarah's own, and one doesn't even have to speculate the woman will share the previous tenant's fatal destiny as that is already spoiled right in the introduction. It's a descent into madness when the solid reality under one's feet starts to crack and give way. The "abscess" that opens and swallows, and that one's too frightened to look into. The ideal spook story would then end with a plausible rationalization that explains everything, but with the supernatural element still very possible and not completely fended off, and the reader left wondering if it was all true or not, and so the resulting haunting ambiguity.
All this stays true to this book. While I was reading I kept waiting for some reversal of canons that would bring novelty and would justify the great praises the book received, but that didn't come. It didn't come from the way I was expecting it. The story stays well within the canons, it's not a "modern" interpretation. It doesn't drop some classic conceits: it appropriates the canons. And that is where it hits, but also the part that gave me some problems and so I'm not too confident to wrap up and be done with it. The problem being that I'm not sure I have interpreted it in the right way, or in a way that can be reasonably considered complete or accurate. Too many aspects that I can't place correctly in the frame, and also the feeling I don't have any hope to eventually figure it out. A bit frustrating.
The whole context is of the kind that puts me off balance. I prefer much more to have things stated bluntly, so that I can get to the nuanced aspects once I get the perimeter well defined. While I have a really hard time to start from the nuances and relate to a perimeter in-the-making that is never quite set and solid. You know, punching holes into certainty. Rationalization as the antidote to comprehension. These habits and mindsets of mine don't really help here. Now excuse me the following utterly sexist and horrid sweeping generalization. It's like I'm gaping into the mind of a woman, feeling slightly intrigued, slightly amused, then set the thing down and walk away shaking my head, thinking: "What a fucking mess". But then I don't think I'm a sexist and so I come away just feeling I'm missing a whole lot and don't have what it takes to figure it out.
I should say that these "problems" are entirely my own and that I do not recognize in the novel itself. I just have to deal with writing an incomplete "review" and the feeling I can't leave the thing behind in a satisfying way. Yet do not worry, because even if you share my own shortcomings there's still plenty to appreciate. The book is really well written and gripping, a personal journey you will remember, and I think that even if I wasn't able to formulate a final explanation (or one that isn't so simplistic that I dismissed it right away), I was still able to grasp a core of meaning. The same core of meaning that builds the "worth" of this book.
The only beacon I had is self-fashioned and about the whole argument of "truthfulness" in literature that i discussed in the past. For most of the book I was trying to "get" it, but already from the first pages I noticed and appreciated the style of writing. I said the book stays well within the canons, but this doesn't apply to the writing style. There's no use of classical language or rhetoric or fancy flourishes. It doesn't read like a dusty old tome. The language is modern and tight, the voice surprisingly authentic. It's the writing to surface and shine instead of the story, and I was captured by the mundane long before I started developing interest in the supernatural aspects. Sarah's character won me before everything else and I was wondering how the book would proceed if I continued to be so weirdly biased toward the mundane. I thought it was my own problem since as a teenager I fed so much on the horror genre that nowadays it hardly has anything to offer, but now I think that this effect was somewhat intended. The supernatural aspect comes up with more strength toward the end of the book, obviously, but it does so in an unexpected way. It's the mundane to become horror, and it's one own feelings to open on the pit no one dares look into. The darkness is the human being. Or, to quote Bakker, the darkness comes before, and AFTER:
It's only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything.
Superstition. Everywhere and in everything, Leweth had confused that which came after with that which came before, confused the effect for the cause. Men came after, so he placed them before and called them "gods" or "demons." Words came after, so he placed them before and called them "scriptures" or "incantations." Confined to the aftermath of events and blind to the causes that preceded him, he merely fastened upon the ruin itself, men and the acts of men, as the model of what came before.
I still clearly haven't reconciled with this, as I am sure that the book reinforces this idea that the darkness comes after (so a man or woman create and shape it), as well its opposite, that the darkness comes before and that what was discovered was indeed out of time and true. Inhuman, absolute. That those hallucinations were real. And I'm even more fucked if I think my whole interpretation (the darkness that comes after) is only due to me reading Bakker, and so completely uprooted from what "The Red Tree" wanted to show. What a mess, indeed. A few hours ago on twitter I sent a comment to Caitlín Kiernan since she tweeted she didn't want her works to be classified as "urban fantasy" so I suggested Mark Charan Newton fancy definition of "Rural Fantasy". She replied directly and seriously to what was intended as just a transitory joke, but after finishing the book this offered, and confirmed, the different perspective. She wants it called "dark fantasy". And that darkness is maybe entirely within, and not outside.
In any case, there are elements of the plot I can't place at all (like the seven paintings and corresponding messages, I couldn't make anything out of them) and so the proof that even if I may have gotten something framed correctly the whole picture is still far away...
I should also mention that the descent into madness is also proportional to clarity and self-awareness. That's maybe the most unconventional and unexpected aspect of the book. The "unreliable narrator" is a device presented in a self-aware way, used to give the text that ambiguity that keeps the disparate interpretations plausible at the same time. But toward the end this unreliable narrator becomes the only authoritative guide. One assumes that madness corresponds to a loss of contact with truth, but here the whole meta-narrative becomes clear in the mind of the character and she even seems to mock herself for it, and maybe it's this to provide a way to escape madness by sacrificing an envelope to it.
I consider it quite an awesome book. In spite of these themes surfacing, I still personally enjoyed the characters so much that I would have loved it even if it removed all the supernatural parts and layers. I mean, I was loving that character with or without the darker side exposed. I was loving the unforgiving way Sarah saw herself, the nihilistic aspects. Her relationship and how painfully truthfully it is written. A kind of desperation that destroys any attempt for embellishment or rhetoric. Even WITHIN fiction:
I am usually at my most brutally forthright when making shit up. That's the paradox of me. And having lied, it doesn't mean that I was necessarily dishonest.
A book whose stronger aspect is, paradoxically, the demystification. And, maybe, literature as a form of therapy. One of the most emotionally involving and authentic novels I've read.


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Greenburgh Nature Center
99 Dromore Road, Scarsdale
Grounds open daily - including hiking trails - from dawn till dusk, free admission. Indoor exhibits: open weekdays (except Friday) 9:30am-4:30pm; weekends 10am-4:30pm. $7, $6 students and seniors, $5 children ages 2-12, free members and children under 2.
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Outdoor Animal Displays: See prairie dogs, rabbits, chickens, ducks, turkeys, and a birds of prey aviary (free).
Indoor Exhibits: The exhibits include an animal museum with more than 100 live specimens, a greenhouse with a variety of plants from all over the world, and a large exhibit room with changing natural history and nature related art exhibits.
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There are two places we pull temperature from - the back of the card directly behind the core and if the card is dual slot and has an exhaust point we also pull a temperate from there, as seen in the picture.
It doesn't come as any real surprise that the little fan doesn't do as good a job when it comes to cooling the card. Compared to the Sapphire version and its Arctic Cooling fan, the numbers don't look great at all. Of course, 56c isn't anything too worrying.
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Why Dojo?
I had the privilege of facilitating the very first Dojo session for Houstonians. I have participated and facilitated Dojos before, so I had some thoughts what to expect. Some Dojos have gone kind of wild and some of them have been smooth and fluent. We have had long debates about TDD among other. However, a common nominator for all the Dojos has been that every participant has learned a lot. I would not change any second of them and I want more of those seconds.
"It's for testers, scrum masters, product owners or whomever has anything to do with software in their jobs or business."
I will not go through what a Dojo is and where it came from. If you are interested please refer e.g. to Wikipedia. Instead, I will try to answer the question, which almost everyone asks: why? The simplest and shortest answer: participate one and you will know why. Ok, I will give you some of my thoughts.
"How to solve a problem together with other people."
I see Dojos as training sessions for people in software business. It's not just for developers. It's for testers, scrum masters, product owners or whomever has anything to do with software in their jobs or business. All can learn from them. That is the beauty of Dojo. It is not just focused on solving a programming problem. Solving programming problems is just a way to practice other areas of daily work: team work, collaboration, contribution, design, planning, testing, architecture, business etc. Whatever you choose as your Dojo's subject you will always practice one essential thing: how to solve a problem together with other people. If that is not the most essential aspect in software development today what is?
The Houston Coding Dojo #1
So I knew there would be people who have never coded together and who have not participated a Dojo before. We started by having a short introduction session and I described the practices. Ten minutes of design, five minutes of pair programming per pair. After that the other one of the pair changes. The pair narrates their thoughts while coding. The audience may ask questions but they may not interrupt the flow. Time to start: "Strict TDD", I said and presented the problem.
"The first leg resulted in couple of vague lines of code, but to be honest, nothing really sensible."
I chose CheckOut kata – one of Code Katas by Dave Thomas as the basis. We started from scratch with a 10 minute design session. Well, I chose 10 minutes of design to give the participants freedom to discuss before getting into business. Discussion happened, but as I expected, it really did not lead the problem solving anywhere. Ten minutes went fast and it was time for the first brave pair to start coding. The first leg resulted in couple of vague lines of code, but to be honest, nothing really sensible. That was our first lesson. We learned from it and in next leg we just wrote the very first test for the very first sellable item and were able to proceed.
We continued rotating the pairs. The coding went back and forth. We had discusses and questions between switches: Was refactoring the right thing to do at that point? What do you like about the name of this method? How to name this class? Some practical hints as well as an example like: add throwing a runtime exception to you code templates when creating new methods. In between we had a 15 minute break and continued still for an hour or so. At the end we held a retrospective.
End results
Not much of code. Whole problem was not solved. That is pretty typical for first time dojoers. It takes time learn how to cooperate. We also spent a lot of time discussing around the questions presented. I remember a brave participant saying something like this: "At home we could solve this problem very quickly". Exactly – it's not about the skills of individuals, it's about the skills of people working together.
"Exactly – it's not about the skills of individuals, it's about the skills of people working together."
To me the first design session was one of the key takeaways from this Dojo. We did not really benefit from it at all. I personally felt it was more harmful than useful. Discussion in the upfront design tryout was first too abstract then too detailed! When Dojoers wrote the very first test, they were able to continue and get something more concrete. They started to really see how the problem could be solved. Producing value at the same time. When doing the design the Dojoers did not understand the problem they were making the design for.
"When doing the design the Dojoers did not understand the problem they were making the design for."
What did we find out in the retro? People learned a lot and – most importantly – they had fun coding together!
I just wonder how many solved the problem back at home?
Just a peek of our results:
@Test public void shouldCalculateFruitPriceForOrangeAndBananaAndApple() { ShoppingCart cart = new ShoppingCart(); cart.addFruit(Fruit.ORANGE); cart.addFruit(Fruit.BANANA); cart.addFruit(Fruit.APPLE); assertEquals(3.5, cart.getTotal()); }
The next dojo group will solve the same problem – eagerly waiting for the comparison,
Pasi Honkanen
Thanks to: Jouni Kröger, Ari Metso, Kari Helenius, Lauri Illukka, Heikki Leskinen, Ohto Rainio, Tomi Tuominen, Vesa Teikari, Sebastian Vuorinen
Houston Inc. 02/24/2011 #houstonway