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!no moviecritic.com!

12:01am Saturday 04 August 2001

Ohmygosh!! I just went to www.moviecritic.com, and it's gone!!!

Due to resource constraints, The MovieCritic site is being shut down permanently. We would like to thank our loyal members for your support and participation over the years. We hope you've enjoyed The MovieCritic as much as we've enjoyed bringing it to you.

Woah!!

I was about to rate Rush Hour 2... :-( Bye, Movie Critic Dot Com!

Maggie, I looked up that actor we couldn't place. Don Cheadle is his name. Ironically, he was in Swordfish, but I didn't remember that until I saw it on IMDB.

Bicycle

9:01 Saturday 4 August 2001

I woke up what I believe is too late to ride to Maggie's today, and meet my dad, Karen, Elisé at noon at Willowbrook. So I'm just going to install the Slime Liner and maybe ride around downtown.

"I like to ride around,
cause my ride is fly"

- Beastie Boys

future identities

2:49 pm 4 August 2001

I just suddenly thought of a cultural shift type thing that I think will happen as technolgy encroaches on lots of parts of our lives. The question comes from seeing the following: People signing up for cards at grocery stores, the exxon fast pay card, credit card, movie watching cards, library cards. Normal stuff, right?

Right. But then what happens as the databases in the back end are all merged? The library, the movies, the grocery store everyone has an awareness of peoples of indiiduals living habits. What faborite moies we have what books, what foods. etc etc etc.

So the point is that 'computers' will know lots of aspects of indiiduals identities.. then if people want to hide part of their identity or create two identities like in The Matrix, won't that be way way harder?

zz movies

11:55pm Saturday 4 August 2001

Today Wende and I scoped out The Princess Diaries with my dad, Karen and Elisé. Movie was cute; I cried a bit - just at the magnitude of what it might be like for a 15 year old to suddenly learn s/he was royalty. That could be one of my YRUU youth.

On the way home from the movie, we stopped at Maggie and John's and had great spaghetti and watched Southpark, Bigger, Longer, Uncut on DVD. After we watched it, I started watching the French version and was quite impressed with how well the audio matched up with the animation. Not that the animation is good, but I was still impressed.

I'm super tired; going to bed.