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I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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Archive for May 10th, 2002

Warning:

May 10th, 2002

Warning: spoilers in this review of Attack of the Clones. The interesting part, which isn’t spoilage, is below:

Lucas is also an old school filmmaker who likes to focus on the basics in terms of storytelling. Here’s a little exercise for you — go back and watch all the films from the original trilogy and note the direction on screen that particular characters move. This is very important. You see the ‘good guys’ can always be seen moving from left-to-right. The ‘bad guys’ can be seen moving right-to-left. As this chart illustrates:

Good Guys like Luke Skywalker move left-to-right —->
<—- Bad Guys like Darth Vader move right-to-left

[09:14] <todd> re:

May 10th, 2002

[09:14] <todd> re:
[moby and the hubble pictures]:
I’ve thought about this from time to time, and I find myself wondering
if, since the scale of these objects is so vast, we’d be able appreciate
them at all if we were “there”.
[09:18] <dsandler> Probably not. We have good seats. :)
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