Solo: A Star Wars Story

I buzzed on down to the cheapie theater on the board the other day to see the 12:25 showing of “Solo: A Star Wars Story”. I had just finished playing tennis for 2 hours and decided to take it easy in the early afternoon. I haven’t been playing tennis much lately so don’t think this is a regular pattern or anything. Well, it turned out to be OK. I was very skeptical. I looked it up before I went and caught the fact that Ron Howard did it. This helped my expectations to be positive. I have always considered him to be an interesting film director and I have watched him since I was knee-high to a grasshopper.

I know that there needed to be some continuity between the actors appearances and this was done ok. It was a tall order for the filmmaker to do this accurately to make all the fans happy. The film did OK financially but it did not make a massive amount like some of the other Star Wars movies. I had negative expectations for it being under the Disney umbrella now. But, all in all, I would say that it was Star Warsy enough for me to appreciate it. The story was interesting in that it spotlighted the foundation of the rebellion with Solo’s relation to it.

I spent a lot of attention on the girlfriend of Solo and how she changed in the 3 years she was away from him. It was purposely not revealed what her “forced” training was and what her commitment became to the Crimson Dawn organization. I was not surprised to see Darth Maul(oops spoiler) as her new boss. He said very little in Phantom Menace so everyone that remembers that film would have liked a little more depth from him. She may be the first lady of the dark side that has ever shown up in film so far. I expect her role to cross over like a Marvel character into just about any film Star Wars related in the future. I feel my will ebbing away and I may purchase a future movie ticket as I am unable to resist her beckons and charms.

Qi’ra (wikipedia)

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personal information repositories

Call them what you will: personal information repositories, personal databases, advanced digital profiles, smart assistant hoard piles. No matter what you choose or what you allow Google, Microsoft or Apple to label them, they are coming and in a big way. I have been into this stuff for a very long time and I have been saving screenshots of what I look at online since the mid 90s and there are many reasons why I have done this. I have to tip my hat to Apple in the early days because they put the snapshot sound into the Command-Shift-3 keyboard shortcut but Windows ran alongside them with the practical functionality built into most keyboards with Print Screen.

Why would someone want to even bother with screenshots now after she spent 20 years not using them? Because personal digital assistants are going to want this information to create more advanced recommendations. Of course they don’t need this information but why would you want to starve your digital assistant(s)? You want them healthy and happy just like you want your kids, right?

https://screenrant.com/ghost-in-the-shell-villain-explained/

Keystroke loggers have been around for centuries and videogame walkthroughs have been around for about 10 years or so in their more detailed form. It is just a matter of time before people leave the digital logging switch set to “ON” continuously. There are a lot of reasons why this will eventually be a good idea. I would love to explore these in detail sometime but for now I will just drop ref to the changes I just found with Firefox and Pocket. I really like what they are doing but I don’t think that it will go viral with mainstream adoption. It could if they do insanely simple things like put dates next to the items saved in Pocket. As things usually go, Microsoft and Google are already in this space and are doing things like automatic OCR of images. Even if Pocket-Firefox were to create a cute, little personal API for personal digital data, you would have to link it back to Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive for handy search functionality..

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/13/17446660/mozilla-firefox-pocket-recommendations-ceo-nate-weiner-interview-converge-podcast

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