neat stuff maynard!

I just did something cool.

I found a large fanfic I want to read. The author has a MOBI version. So I downloaded it and was going to read in the Kindle-for-PC app (as opposed to having to load every chapter individually into the browser, we've had flaky internet lately) and I realized I could get the cable out and actually send it to my Kindle. When I was looking at the help on how to do this, I saw the username@free.kindle.com mentioned and realized since I set wifi up, I can actually send my Kindle MOBI files for free. So I emailed it to my Kindle and didn't have to find the cord.

This worked perfectly. (I did take the precaution of setting my document transfer maximum to $0.00 to ensure there would be no fees.)

movie: Faster

I don't remember why I put Faster in the Netflix queue. It's got "The Rock" in it, but he's done some stupid things. It's got some guy who looks like the homeless version of Howdy Doody playing a copy who shoots up with heroine on the job.

Throughout the movie the subtitles gave the characters all-caps titles akin to how Leverage does in their intro. It felt like a rip-off.

I enjoyed the "KILLER" character, the British accent assassin guy. He was interesting. I liked his reliance on therapy by phone and his obsession with perfection.

I didn't like the main character at all.

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The title made sense because they spoon fed us the explanation. But I appreciated that.

There is a concept in storytelling that the story should be told by or focus upon the character who changes the most. To me, this movie violates that because the main character doesn't change at all. I kept wondering why we were watching him.

I kind of liked the ending but it was "everyone rides off into the sunset" so it's not really the ending that's there but the one that played out in my imagination afterward.

So, tragic story, tragic plot, tolerable resolution at the end, characters we're not really allowed to involve ourselves in because the main character hogs all the attention and is a stereotype.

DIS-recommended.