Binary Bonsai

Hey, everybody bitching and whining about your iPhone plans out there in the world (yeah Canadians, I’m looking at you, whiners); I think it’s official now. Denmark has one of the worst iPhone plan in the world (though it looks like Norway beats us).

Not to mention Telia, which doesn’t have the best reputation in the country either…

So, you know, the next time you’re a Canadian whining about Rogers and their iPhone plan, consider that ours is not only more expensive, but worse in every conceivable way. In fact, you can’t get a plan for your iPhone in Canada that’s as bad as the ones we have here in the Northern countries.

Think about that for a moment.

Let it be known that I am very unimpressed with the Beowulf trailer. Even if Gaiman feels its 2D presentation doesn’t do it justice, that hardly makes up for the dodgy facial animation, PS2-quality ocean and weird stilted horses.

Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s very very well done, even the ‘dodgy animation’, but it is instantly recognizable as sub-reality, and thus lands itself square in uncanny valley.

I just don’t believe we have the technology to do this properly. Not yet.

And while I have a lot of faith in Zemeckis, he is one of my favorite directors in fact, this stab at the new 3D cinema that’s on the rise (thanks to Cameron, Lucas and Jackson I suppose), is so far not getting much hype in the Heilemann/Andersen household.

PS: Not to mention the horrible compression on, at least, the 720p trailer!

PPS: My opinion is more important than yours, since Beowulf takes place partly in Denmark, so there!

PPPS: I would love to see the Beowulf opera Elliot Goldenthal composed the music for; alas I only have a horrible bootleg of just the music, and I doubt it will be touring to Denmark any time soon; and if it does, I doubt I’ll be able to get tickets. Oh voe.

PPPPS: Crispin Glover being in this must mean the Back to the Future II rift has mellowed over the years… Glover is an odd fish…

But Christiania sits on prime real estate in Copenhagen’s upmarket Christenhaven neighbourhood, and Denmark’s conservative government wants to reclaim the territory for an ambitious housing project. #

Yep, and while I certainly don’t concur with the methods taken into use by the anti-authoritarian youths as of late, our government definitely needs to ease up its normalization plan and lay off Christiania. Ungdomshuset was one thing; a big stupid mistake, but this is just petty, and is probably mainly fueled by their desire to be reelected by the — paradoxically — conservative part of the population.

It’s good to see that these things make waves out in the world; I just hope they don’t attract more ‘violence is the solution to eeeeverythiiiing’-kind of people.

But the clashes with the authorities changes in the attitudes of a traditionally tolerant Danish society. The current conservative government, for example, rules in coalition with the openly anti-immigrant Danish People’s Party.

Yes; I am sorry. No, I didn’t vote for them. Either of them.

Finally.