I was duped too. Turns out the whole story about Disney recently saying it won’t distribute Moore’s new film, Fahrenheit 9/11, is nothing more than a publicity stunt. He knew all along that they weren’t interested.
“[I]n the CNN interview he said: “Almost a year ago, after we’d started making the film, the chairman of Disney, Michael Eisner, told my agent he was upset Miramax had made the film and he will not distribute it.”
Anna’s mom gave her some sparklers a long time ago but we never ended up using them. She came into the computer room today and asked if it would be ok to light one in the house. I was surprised that she asked me, but she must have doubted something about the idea anyway I told her to go ahead. I said if something bad happens she could always run out the back door and throw it in the dog’s water. Um, about 6 seconds into the burning of the sparkler I suggested she write her name and burn it into her retina. Well the flinging motion of the sparkler caused a bit of hot burning metal to fall onto a piece of paper hanging on the bulletin board and then burned through onto the floor. All Anna could say in surprise was, “Oh no! Something bad DID happen.” We now have a little black mark on the hard wood floor to remind us of the dangers of sparklers.
Since I am such a vidiot when it comes to Tribes 2, I had to point out that Tribes 1 and 2 are now available for download. See Slashdot Games for more details.
I went for a job interview at the University this morning. I applied to be a Movie Making Camp Instructor, which will last from June 30th to July 31st. The interview went really well, so I’m pretty sure I have the job – they said they would let me know either way.
In other “Jeff Milner news”, my Iranian roommate is leaving Canada for Iran today. Anna-Maria and I have decided to drive him to the airport in Calgary and to spend the afternoon there hanging out. When I get back I will need to find a new roommate or two. I love aNNA. LOTS. i ALSO LOVE GETTING STUCK IN CAPS BY ACCIDENT. AND PIZZA.
The Walt Disney Company is blocking its Miramax division from distributing a new documentary by Michael Moore that harshly criticizes President Bush, tracing the links between the Bush family and Saudis like Osama bin Laden.
Mr. Moore’s agent, Ari Emanuel, said Michael D. Eisner, Disney’s chief executive, asked him last spring to pull out of the deal with Miramax. Mr. Emanuel said Mr. Eisner expressed particular concern that it would endanger tax breaks Disney receives for its theme park, hotels and other ventures in Florida, where Mr. Bush’s brother, Jeb, is governor.
While Emanuel admits that Michael Eisner asked him not to sell this movie to Harvey Weinstein, he defiantly states, “that doesn’t mean I listened to him.”
According to news sources Miramax and Disney spokespeople had no comment, but Moore on the other hand did.
“Some people may be afraid of this movie because of what it will show,” Moore wrote. “But there’s nothing they can do about it now because it’s done, it’s awesome, and if I have anything to say about it, you’ll see it this summer — because, after all, it is a free country.”
Fahrenheit 9/11 is one of the films in competition at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.
For those of you that don’t know, Kevin Mitnick is the famous hacker that was all over the news way back when for being a hacker. They also based the movie Hackers on his story.
Via Plastic QL:
Kevin Mitnick has been labelled a hero in the small town of River Rouge, Michigan where he helped capture a 15-year old student who was phoning in bomb threats into the local high school. How did he do it? “I gave them the same techniques that [Tsutomu] Shimomura used to track me.”
Here’s a version of the story in by Kevin Poulsen in The Register.
I haven’t watched much hockey in my life, but I did watch the Calgary Flames beat the Detroit Redwings last night, 1 – 0. It was a very intense game with the only goal being scored late in the first over time period. I think it might be the only time I’ve watched an NHL game from start to finish. The only other time I’ve ever even really followed the playoffs at all was in 1989 and that was the year the Flames won the Stanley Cup. This past few weeks the Redwings were speculated to be “the team to beat” so hopefully it’ll be all downhill from here for the Flames.
My friend Jason Brackman posted a sweet resume / new media portfolio site. He’s been getting advice and feedback from a bunch of us in New Media and I think you’ll really like his finished page. My favorite is the demo reel.
To the elderly man whom always uses the far stall:
Please understand that if you’re going to use a whole roll of toilet paper every time you take a dump that you are going to need to make a couple of pre-emptive flushes or the toilet is going to continue to flood everytime you use it.
It’s not that I have anything against you or your wasteful habbit of using a lot of toilet paper, it’s just that they don’t pay us enough even if we didn’t have to clean up your corny stool every couple of weeks.
Signed your friendly lifeguard,
Jeff
Cleaning toilets = by far the worst part of my job as a lifeguard.