Month: July 2007

Best pizza base ever

Base

This was such a damn good pizza base, I felt that I should photograph it for posterity.

More photos of the pizza after the “jump”.

Tags pizza

A few weeks ago, I discovered a mobile phone round the back of my house, baking in the hot sun. I took it home, and after figuring out the UI, managed to place a call to “HOME”. I told them that I had found their phone, and they came round and picked it up, and everyone was reunited with everyone that they ever wanted to be reunited with ever.

Today, I discovered a phone in almost the same spot, shivering in the damp cold. I took it home, and after figuring out that it was turned off, turned it on. It asked me to enter the PIN.

I gave 1234 a stab.

Incorrect. 2 tries remaining.

It’s a bit sad, really. The person who PIN-protected this phone probably thought that they were being really clever. What they forgot to take into account is that in this world, there are actually a surprising number of nice, helpful people, who want to return this phone, but need access to the phone book to do so. Sigh.

I’m stumped now. I’d hand it in to the local police station, but I’m not sure that such a thing even exists these days.

Bernard, meanwhile, is stacking blocks. His tallest tower was five blocks high. This is most impressive.

We don’t stop here

On a few occasions in my life, and I can count the number of such occasions on one hand, I have reached the end of a film and wanted to immediately watch it again from the beginning. Notable examples are *Memento* and *Donnie Darko*. Films that are designed to pay off on the second viewing, assuming that you weren’t sleeping through it the first time round. *Mulholland Drive*, you may have gathered, is such a film. One day, I anticipate that this movie will be one of my all-time favourites.

The secret to enjoying this film is to pay attention. Imagine that you are a detective, presented with a series of seemingly unrelated clues. They may not make sense now, but commit them to memory, for you will need to be able to recall them all later in order to piece the puzzle together.

It’s stimulating, and somewhat challenging, but definitely not directionless. Yes, it’s not all spelled out for you. Yes, events are not portrayed in strict chronological order. But isn’t that realistic? Real life isn’t spelled out in detail. In real life, information never comes to you as and when it happens – it comes after the event, in the form of gossip from friends and headlines on the news websites. You have to take the information, put it in order, and fill in the gaps. That’s what your brain is for. And that is why this film is so engaging. It’s brain exercise, and without your input, it is worth nothing.