Category Archives: amaths-wars

Batman Begins

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Blogger Mark Fisher states that Bruce’s search for justice requires him to learn from a proper father figure, with Thomas Wayne and Ra’s al Ghul being the two counterpoints. Alfred provides a maternal figure of unconditional love, despite the overall lack of focus on a mother figure in Bruce’s life.

Impact

Shawn Adler of MTV stated after Batman Begins, a trend of darker genre films, that either retold back-stories or rebooted them altogether, began. Examples he cited were Casino Royale, as well as the in-development RoboCop, Red Sonja, and He-Man. Filmmakers, screenwriters and producers who have mentioned the film to describe their projects include: Jon Favreau and Iron Man, Edward Norton and The Incredible Hulk, McG and Terminator Salvation (which also stars Bale), Damon Lindelof and Star Trek, Robert Downey, Jr. and Sherlock Holmes, Lorenzo di Bonaventura and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and even Hugh Jackman and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

— Wikipedia on Batman Begins

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2010.03.28 Sunday ACHK

浮水 2

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真姐也講過，當你遇到一個難講的題目時，唯有對考官承認：「我個人的經歷尚淺，所以不能完全掌握此題目。若果真的要我講的話，我會 … 」有如遇溺時，越爭扎  只會浸得越快。唯有放鬆，等水浮起你。

– Diary, Me@2000.04.28

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2010.03.27 Saturday copyright ACHK

Be rewritten

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Another group was worried when they realized they had to rewrite their software from scratch. I told them it would be a bad sign if they didn’t. The main function of your initial version is to be rewritten.

— Paul Graham

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2010.03.26 Friday ACHK

University-academic

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The way to get an academic position is to write great books, proving your academic competence. But you may not want an university-academic life.

— Me@around 2007

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The way to get an academic position is not to get a PhD first, but to write great books, proving your academic competence. But you may not want an university-academic life.

2010.03.25 Thursday copyright ACHK

Grigori Perelman

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Known for

Riemannian geometry and geometric topology

Notable awards

Fields Medal (2006), declined
Millennium Prize (2010), declined

Sir John Ball, president of the International Mathematical Union, approached Perelman in Saint Petersburg in June 2006 to persuade him to accept the prize. After 10 hours of persuasion over two days, he gave up. Two weeks later, Perelman summed up the conversation as: “He proposed to me three alternatives: accept and come; accept and don’t come, and we will send you the medal later; third, I don’t accept the prize. From the very beginning, I told him I have chosen the third one… [the prize] was completely irrelevant for me. Everybody understood that if the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed.”

— Wikipedia on Grigori Perelman

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2010.03.24 Wednesday ACHK

Live forever!

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He attributes his lifelong habit of writing every day to an incident in 1932 when a carnival entertainer, Mr. Electrico, touched him on the nose with an electrified sword, made his hair stand on end, and shouted, “Live forever!” It was from then that Bradbury wanted to live forever and decided his career as an author in order to do what he was told: live forever. It was at that age that Bradbury first started to do magic. Magic was his first great love. If he had not discovered writing, he would have become a magician.

— Wikipedia on Ray Bradbury

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2010.03.23 Tuesday ACHK

Memento

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Memento is a 2000 psychological thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, adapted from his younger brother Jonathan’s short story “Memento Mori”. It stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby, a man with anterograde amnesia which renders his brain unable to store new memories.

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This film is often used to show the distinction between plot and story. The film’s events unfold in two separate, alternating narratives—one in color, and the other in black and white. The black and white sections are told in chronological order, showing Leonard conversing with an anonymous phone caller in a motel room. Leonard’s investigation is depicted in color sequences that are in reverse chronological order. As each sequence begins, the spectator is unaware of the preceding events, just like Leonard, thereby giving the viewer a sense of his confusion. By the film’s end when the two narratives converge we understand the investigation and the events that lead up to the death of Teddy.

— Wikipedia on Memento (film)

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2010.03.20 Saturday ACHK

Harvey Dent 3

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Sequel

On March 10, 2010, Nolan confirmed his involvement with a sequel and gave some information regarding the story. The next Batman film will be Nolan’s last and a conclusion to the story. Nolan says, “Without getting into specifics, the key thing that makes the third film a great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story. And in viewing it as the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story . . . I’m very excited about the end of the film, the conclusion, and what we’ve done with the characters. My brother has come up with some pretty exciting stuff. Unlike the comics, these things don’t go on forever in film and viewing it as a story with an end is useful. Viewing it as an ending, that sets you very much on the right track about the appropriate conclusion and the essence of what tale we’re telling. And it hearkens back to that priority of trying to find the reality in these fantastic stories. That’s what we do.” Nolan has also confirmed that Jonathan Nolan is writing the script and that the villain of the film “won’t be Mr. Freeze.”

— Wikipedia on The Dark Knight (film)

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2010.03.19 Friday ACHK

浮水

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學游水的第一件事是學浮水：要相信當你放鬆時，水會承托起自己。

— 1998.09.29 水運會，馮定華神父

— Diary, Me@2000.05.03

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2010.03.18 Thursday copyright ACHK

四兩撥千斤

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你能不能發掘學生的優點,  透過那一個最大的優點來培養他的信心, 令他能在其他各方面都成功?

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After leaving your school, the student should be able to say

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“I feel good about myself.”

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— A presentation by the Ying Wah primary school principal: Ms. Lam Woon Sum

— Me@29 Jun 2007, 10:09AM

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2010.03.16  Tuesday ACHK

Transcender

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One of the most useful mental habits I know I learned from Michael Rabin: that the best way to solve a problem is often to redefine it.

The way to kill it is to redefine the problem as a superset of the current one. The problem is not, what operating system should people use on desktop computers? but how should people use applications? There are answers to that question that don’t even involve desktop computers.

Everyone thinks Google is going to solve this problem, but it is a very subtle one, so subtle that a company as big as Google might well get it wrong. I think the odds are better than 50-50 that the Windows killer– or more accurately, Windows transcender— will come from some little startup.

— Paul Graham

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2010.03.15 Monday ACHK

Demand transparency

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The problem here is not wealth, but corruption. So why not go after corruption?

We don’t need to prevent people from being rich if we can prevent wealth from translating into power.

How do you break the connection between wealth and power? Demand transparency. Watch closely how power is exercised, and demand an account of how decisions are made.

— Paul Graham

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2010.03.14 Sunday ACHK

Good runners

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Good runners still get tired; they just get tired at higher speeds.

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If you feel exhausted, it’s not necessarily because there’s something wrong with you. Maybe you’re just running fast.

— Paul Graham

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2010.03.13 Saturday ACHK