October 11, 2009
Britain's Central Planning Death Panels
October 11, 2009
Free Market M.D.
October 11, 2009
Economies of Scale in Compliance
October 11, 2009
Balan's Challenge
October 10, 2009
The Pleasure of Telling Others What to Do
October 10, 2009
Gonick the Great - and How He Could Have Been Greater
October 9, 2009
More Scott Sumner
October 9, 2009
Not From The Onion
October 9, 2009
Thoughts on a Second Stimulus
Great flick. I saw it a few months ago and I was impressed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt's adoption of the role. Before I saw it, I thought it would be a cheap rip-off of Memento, but I found myself impressed by a degree of originality in the script and some good acting.
Still, Memento was better. Then again, that's like saying Yojimbo was better than A Fistful of Dollars.
... well, sort of.
And Seven Samurai was better than The Magnificent Seven. Never apologize for liking a Kurosawa movie!
This technique (as I understand it) is useful in chess. First think of the position you'd like to see, and then work backwards from there. The trouble is getting your opponent to play along...
The Lookout may be an example of backwards induction, but it was a snoozer that was both completely predictable and full of one-dimensional characters (or no dimensional, in the case of Isla Fisher's character). Not unwatchable, but severely overrated by independent movie fans.
Well, Netflix says I'll like it, so I guess I'll give it a try.