Review: The Station Agent

Sweet, quirky film. Takes place in rural New Jersey (so it gets an extra +1 point from me). A dwarf that prefers to be alone inherits an abandoned train station and finds friends he didn’t expect.

If you like quirky indie film with subtle humor (i.e. it is slow but if you don’t change the channel you’ll laugh out loud) I recommend it.

Oh, the town and location is real. Check out the wikipedia photo of the train station!

Review: The Andromeda Strain (2008)

Meh. Pretty exciting but not the greatest. The science had enough errors to make it “ok for made-for-TV, but wouldn’t have cut it in the theaters”. Then again, it was made-for-TV. It was shown in two 2-hour episodes (4 hours total).

Minor spoiler rant: ( cut 2 sentences )

A decent way to end the weekend (watching all 4 hours on Tivo). Exciting, but not so scary it would keep me up all night trying to get some rest before the long work week.

Working at Google's Brazil office

Do all my co-workers in Brazil look like E.T.? Yoda? Well, this video will give you a clue:

I plan on going to an open source conference near there in 2009. My first South American trip!