I learned two interesting things today:

1. Samuel Clemens’ pen name, Mark Twain, is actually a bit of steamboat terminology — it’s something deckhands might shout out if the river’s depth measured two (”twain”) fathoms on the lead line (a rope with a weight on the end).
2. De Loreans aren’t painted silver. Their exterior panels are actually just bare stainless steel.

These random facts brought to you by Modern Marvels and an old claymation movie I got off Amazon a few weeks ago.

Anywho. A few days ago I watched Primer and π. Primer was really good, though very confusing (this page and the Wikipedia entry help). π, OTOH, was terrible. It’s been a long time since I’ve hated a film this much. It’s ugly (grainy, high-contrast black and white) and has absolutely no payoff. (π’s writer/director, BTW, went on to make Requiem for a Dream two years later. Had I known this earlier, I would have avoided the movie.)

My favorite song this week is Queen — Don’t Stop Me Now. Supergrass — Mary is a distant second.

Some unrelated pictures:

Kay, I’m gonna feed the dog, take my antibiotics, watch an episode of Code Monkeys, and go to bed.

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