So smart it smarts

[flexagon]

Ah, this sounds like heaven. I have very few experiences with smart drugs, but I have taken Ritalin twice this year (experimentally) and I sure did have good productive days each time. Provigil sounds even better. Once a week, for studying programming, perhaps? I suppose this is your cue to remind me that All Drugs Have Risks.

We just got back from seeing Inception, and speaking of smart -- that movie is deliciously smart. An action movie that has a well-defined reason to be action-packed, with at least one rather one-dimensional character who has a good reason to be one-dimensional, and how many dream levels? I thought four, but the faq on imdb.com has pretty much convinced me there were five. It doesn't hurt that I love Ellen Page, and now that Leonardo diCaprio has grown up and looks worried all the time, I think he's generally a plus as well.

I wish I could have 50 years with heisenbug in a world we create with our minds.

Comments

[flexagon]

If you liked Memento at all, even in concept, you should see Inception. (Actually, Inception is a lot lower on the gut-wrenching scenes scale, which makes it less haunting while still being at least as interesting.) It won't change your life but I'm sure you'd at least like it.

[(Anonymous)]

I like Memento in concept. Maybe some day I'll watch it and see if I like it in execution. :-)

I guess I just missed the part of the Inception marketing where it was billed as a thinking person's movie. I had assumed it was thin substance wrapped in layers of visual effects (and after the Avatar disaster, I have little interest in those). Good to know that there's more to it. I'll keep it in mind for watching.