Ixus75, Chuck Norris and Satellites

- Halright. Picture this, an action movie. Starring, your stereotypical anti-hero. Bitter, disgraced and always on the run. The government ('The Man', the 'Big Brother') stormed into his apartment, prompting Seagal to make a quick getaway. In a cab. Always in a cab. Turns out the cab driver is an undercover FBI agent. Dun dum dum.

Cut to: shots of a recon satelitte in space. Cue camera clicking sound. Click-click: A photo of the cab's license plate. And another photo showing how scared the main-hero-guy is. Then you'll see a scene with computer screens showing a map of the city (usually either New York or LA), and where the cab is at the moment.. complete with the 'beep-beep' sound every 2 seconds.

I have a problem with movies that shows this kind of stuff. The whole satellite-tracking-you kind of thing. For one thing, it's impossible to get a shot of a car's license plate, because observation satellites could only see from one perspective only; that is, from top-down. To get shots like that, you gotta mount the camera in either a helicopter, a (very) low fying plane, another car or a person. Since the cab is moving at a speed of 90 km/h through the city's most crowded street, chasing it wouldn't be such a good idea. This is because the bad guys are giving the impression that John McClane is perfectly safe. Also, you know how hard it is to track a moving object using a satellite? Especially when the car is moving at a ridiculously fast speed amongst hundreds of other objects. Identifying stuff from aerial photography is a bitch.

Then there's the movement of the satelitte. You see, a satellite doesn't just move, swivel or wobble around its orbit to track an object. It follows something called an ORBIT. Meaning, it will only take a photo of that one place in the orbit's track over and over again. And as I explained it before, telling the satellite to actually track an object is actually quite a very hard thing to do. Mainly because you gotta do the tracking yourself.

Ok fine, the movie is set in 2056, and technology have advanced by then. Whatever. But I'm sure you can't do those fancy stuff using a single satellite. Using multiple satellites and a low-flying helicopter. Yes, maybe you can. But then Chuck Norris would know that he's being followed. Chuck doesn't like being followed. Aughrr.

- I bought a camera, an Ixus75. It's pretty cool. Slick design, too. I'm planning to go to some random Zone 3 suburb and just go nuts with the Ixus. And probably the Yarra at sunset and night time. But the bulit-in flash is shite. Not powerful enough. So probably no low light photograph for me. Until I buy one that I can attach to the Ixus. It's either the 8800 GTS or the flash apparatus. I'm still saving up though. Arr.

As usual, videos from youtube:

- After watching 300, one of the things that came to my mind was how gay-friendly the movie is. Kalo lu udh baca review 300 gw, lu bakal inget kalo gw bilang tuh film isinya cowok2 yg berotot dan sangat2 macho. Dan mereka juga ganteng2. (...) Anyway, homoeroticism aside, here's a clever video from Youtube. Scenes from the movie with "It's Raining Men" as the music.

- Ini kocak abis. Ada cowok, cuman pake celana doang (bilangnya sih nude) di depan komputer, complain2 betapa panasnya ruangan dia. It's basically a guy ranting about the most randomest of things: emo people, the heat, and other.. stuff.

- Dari Conan The Barbarian. Pedangnya Conan diganti jadi glowstick yg dipake buat nge-rave. Cukup aneh.

I gotta go pickup my laundry.
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