Well it’s another brutal, non-air-conditioned night here at the ole computer. Just got back from the Imax presentation of The Dark Knight. Which rocked. Awesomely. It’s actually been a pretty damned good summer for movies in my opinion, and the only one I’ve been disappointed with has been Indy IV. I loved the new Batman, and the Imax cameras were -really- a nice touch. We seriously need to use those cameras for *all* films. The other summer winner for awesome cinematic experience was Wall-E. I saw that one twice. If you *haven’t* seen it. I heavily recommend that you go forth and empty your wallet this instant!
In other news, there’s a new SMC at Threedy, and so I’ve participated. Here, you can see my wonderful Wine Thermometer. I nerded it up a little with a Houdini related label on the bottle. Mantra is the Houdini rendering engine. Word on the street is, Mark Elendt was first working on Mantra on his Amiga 1000 back in 1988. While the Centigrade (Celsius) temperature of this bottle is clearly 9.5 degrees (how precise!) I also went with that number because yesterday Houdini 9.5 went gold.