"Puppet wrangler? There weren't any puppets in this movie!" – Crow T. Robot
If you’ve been looking for a reason to switch from Verizon, this might be it: they apparently lack even simple math skills. They seem convinced that .002 dollars and .002 cents are exactly the same thing.
There’s more at his blog. Original link via Return of the Reluctant.
Maybe Verizon should team up with that professor who recently claimed to have discovered a new way of dividing by zero…
In two recent films about professional magicians, “The Illusionist” and “The Prestige,” bodies disappear, apparitions take form onstage, and so on. Simple enough — even a bit glib. A real magician depends on the unity of time and space to make his tricks convincing; a movie disposes of such unities with a cut. In brief, I felt cheated by these clever, narrative-disrupting films. They seem to miss the point. After all, every fiction film is magical — an artifice devoted to “What if?” Movies exist in two dimensions, with a third only implied; they jump all over the place, eliding the tedium of days and hours. A story that successfully combines character, the infinite surfaces of the world, and the values that we live by into a coherent whole is a miracle — and harder to bring off than any of these well-made but slyly irresponsible movies.
Gawker outlines the seven worst types of editorial assistants. I don’t think I work with anybody like this. More to the point, I hope none of these describe me.