Spook Country

Another book that I read recently was "Spook Country" by William Gibson. It is loosely tied sequel of "Pattern Recognition". Hollis Henry (former member of a cult band called The Curfew, now journalist) is hired by Blue Ant of Hubertus Bigend to find a mysterious container. The story is composed of several a bit disjointed stories that are brought together at the end.

Zoe's Story

"Zoe's Tale" is quite interesting done retelling of the events from a previous Scalzi book the "The Last Colony". It is done quite intelligently without introducing too much overlap between the stories. I liked the exploration of the connection between Obin and Zoe.

The Hangover

"The Hangover" is riotous fun. It is one over the top gig after another. The guy that invented the story premise is genius :)

Moon

Saw "Moon" it was interesting movie, reminded me of Solaris and Sunshine. It is interesting plot and it keeps you guessing what is happening. BTW without spoiling the movie, in my opinion Lunar Industries is exploiting slaves.

Angels & Demons

Saw "Angels & Demons" yesterday. It was better then the previous one and containing more historical and factological inaccuracies :)

For instance annihilation of a electron and positron (anti-electron) creates two gamma quants, which means that anybody in close proximity will get a healthy radiation dose. The 250mg antimatter yields about 2*10^23 gamma quants and the proton/anti-proton annihilation would yield probably bunch of exotic particles. The famous e=mc^2 shows about 22.4*10^12 J. In short this helicopter has to be damn high to prevent the radiation killing off everybody on the ground or the air is actually dense as a lead!

But I suppose in this age of forgiveness and tolerance Dan Brown can be spared and avoid to being burnt on stake for performing so many scientific heresies :P

Star Trek

Watched Star Trek. It is good reset of the franchise. Everything was tackled in much more naturalistic fashion then usual for a "Star Trek" movie. I am very pleased that they didn't invent several new elementary particles as a plot device. In every other way the movie was a definite fan service :)

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Watched "X-Men Origins: Wolverine". Something was kinda missing from this movie. I mean it had nice special effects the actors were playing well, but it kinda missed the sweet spot. I think that I just prefer the more older-rugged Wolverine. Otherwise it was ok.