But now it’s fixed? I think? Nobody should ever have to know that MySQL exists, much less have to know what it does and how to fix it when it breaks.
In the interim:
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wyatt mason in nytimes book review
“When I read Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Hours, I admired it as a thoughtful, delicately considered engagement with the literary past and a sensitive articulation of various kinds of loss. Curiously, though, when I sat in a dark theater and watched the movie version, I sobbed and moaned as though I were being viciously beaten. And although my cinematic reaction was physically extreme whereas my literary response was emotionally mild, I would say it is Cunningham’s novel, and not the film it spawned, that is of greater value. I have had any number of interesting conversations about the book, and phrases from it stay with me (‘without her there is no world at all’), but of the movie I can now remember precious little beyond its having left me sobbing.”
(Wyatt Mason, review of Colin McGinn’s The Power of Movies: how screen and mind interact. Why don’t they give him more space?)
lovely greek fonts
At the Greek Font Society – a Didot, a Bodoni, and an italic made to accompany the Didot.
olivo barbieri’s aerial photographs
(from Metropolis, via BLDGBLOG).
haneke on freedom
“Haneke’s obsessions converge in Caché‘s final scene, a chilling long take that’s the most enigmatic conclusion in recent movie memory. ‘Using a fixed shot means there’s one less form of manipulation – the manipulation of time,’ Haneke says. ‘I’ve always wanted to create the freedom one has when reading a book, where one has all the possibilities because you create all the images in your head.’ Resolutely cryptic, he refuses to decode the scene’s meaning: ‘About half the viewers see something and the other half don’t, and it works both ways.’ He adds, invoking his protagonist’s own mental journey, ‘We always fill the screen with our own experiences. Ultimately, what we see comes from inside us.’ ”
(David Ng interview of Michael Haneke)