One Man's Notes

Because suddenly there is a scene with Jabba himself, and …. nothing. He’s got Boba Fett with him and yet no one tries to kill Han or capture him or anything. There is no urgency. All the plot points that were just conveyed in the cantina are repeated, but without the urgency or high stakes. Han left the cantina with a job that was going to save his neck, and he barely escaped with his life. He thinks he’s got to get out of there quick before he’s captured or killed. He’s so paranoid that he thinks the storm troopers that are after Luke are after him. Yet now there is this scene with Jabba where Han is all in charge and stepping all over Jabba’s tail.

via thepixelpeeps.com

I've always been a little on the fence about the revised editions - many of the additions enhanced the movies enough that I didn't mind some of the clumsy bits. But now I've had this pointed out to me…

I'm no longer on the fence.

Now, the network has passed on the project as a regular series but is looking to do it as a digital one, while airing the already produced pilot on the network as a movie. “Though the vision for “Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome” has evolved over the course of the past year, our enthusiasm for this ambitious project has not waned,” Stern said in a statement today. “We are actively pursuing it as was originally intended: a groundbreaking digital series that will launch to audiences beyond the scope of a television screen. The 90-minute pilot movie will air on Syfy in its entirety at a future date.”

via www.deadline.com

It appears the "trailer" from yesterday was actually just an internal demo reel. There's a little hope in the article for BSG fans, but not much.

But the star of the meeting was the Verismo machine, which was put on display for the first time since its introduction at the beginning of this month. Mr Schultz did not hide his ambition to eat into the $3.8 billion of Nespresso sales last year by delivering the full “Starbucks espresso experience” in the home. It will initially be on sale in America, but a spokesman confirmed that the UK would be among the first overseas markets to get the machines.

via www.thetimes.co.uk [£]

NIce to see more people fighting for the upscale home coffee market. Pity their devices don't let you choose your coffee supplier, though. That's why I won't be buying either.

via remodelista.com

Back in my Estates Gazette days, I used to write about green roofs a fair amount. I still find then unutterably inspiring, a hidden pocket of natural loveliness embedded into an urban landscape.

If only more city dwellers valued these things, maybe I wouldn't have been so keen to leave London.

A study has found that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more “working memory”, giving them the ability to hold a lot of information in their heads and manipulate it mentally.

via www.telegraph.co.uk

I'm not distracted, I'm making connections… ;-)