Kick-Ass

It is quite funny and quite violent movie. I find it amusing that they censured the name on the movie tickets to "Kick-A**"! It is also strange that some people are more roiled by the fact that 11 year old is swearing on screen than her act slicing and dicing bunch of baddies and being exploited by her father and etc.

How to Train Your Dragon

How to Train Your Dragon is quite delightful animated movie. It is quite classical story for how people fear the things that they don't know and how with the knowledge come understanding. Pretty much all vikings in the village are too pre-occupied with killing dragons; their explanation is that we do it because we did it before. One of them has time to think about it and figure the things out. Finds a dragon helps it and studies it also discovers that trust goes both ways.

Stross' Merchant Prince Series

Finished "Hidden Family" and "Clan Corporate". The story is definitely picking-up. I was thinking about more then one worlds; voila second locket. Then about actually transferring inventions and manufacturing those locally; checked. It is actually quite amazing how much time and effort those simple everyday things took to invent. The now ubiquitous zipper; it took 20 years from the initial clumsy idea to perfection. Or the paper clip; or electricity and light bulbs and etc, etc.

Also there were plenty of surprises and nice plot twists. It is pleasure to read.