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Cloudy with a chance of flying mountains

Von and I saw “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” and “Avatar” on the weekend, for a 3D overload. They were both excellent. Here, let me do a comparison:

More spectacular: Avatar
More touching: Cloudy
More thrilling: Avatar
More funny: Cloudy
More beautiful: Avatar
More enjoyable: Cloudy

But really, I can thoroughly recommend both of them. Thanks to Iain for the recommendation of “Cloudy” – a real surprise hit!

Filming

We had a wonderful long weekend with Evan, in which we shot Cars footage, played tennis, played board games, took him to my work’s christmas party, and hung around and chatted. It was over too quickly. I reckon we shot at least half of the remaining necessary footage for the clip. A few more hours of filming with the guys at work, and I should be all set.

Also directed and shot another Star Wars Uncut segment on Friday night, in the garage:

Scene 307.

Finally, the A/C is working very well, hooray. Oh, and we had ducks in the swimming pool on Saturday: a mother and seven ducklings. Charming! And we saw “Nine”, which was OK, and Zombieland, which was good fun.

Air conditioning

I was having an interesting chat with one of the guys at work the other day, in which he was expositing the possible virtues of running an air-conditioner off DC power. He went into quite a bit of detail. Solar power provides DC, which normally goes through an inverter but wouldn’t need to do so for things that work with DC power anyway. And Air Conditioner units can work from DC power.
Now I’m not sure whether he was pulling a huge, elaborate prank with his A/C DC.

Anyway, we’re getting air conditioning installed at home on Thursday. And not a moment too soon.