Peter Suderman raves about it:
Director Alfonso Cuaron’s ultra-realistic tale of disaster and survival in near-Earth orbit is easily the best movie about space exploration since “2001: A Space Odyssey.” It’s also the most spectacular and awe-inspiring cinematic experience in recent memory.
That’s pretty high praise.
Also, an interview with Sandra Bullock by Rob Pearlman.
I’d forgotten how awful they were. Lileks reminds us.
He was an early New Space investor, in Rotary Rocket. Stephen Green has some thoughts.
This is pretty funny, particularly when one goes back and looks at the facial hair of Civil War officers on both sides.
The man is amazing:
The tree looks, well, truncated, but unbowed. That’ll end soon, and there will be a brand new hole in the sky where once there were leaves. The Triangle had two old elms; the first fell a few years ago, and a spindly newcomer fills the spot now. It will grow quickly, and the replacement for the old tree will lag behind. The newcomer will be felled forty years hence, the replacement twenty years after that. It’s like a two-stroke engine, pistons rising and falling, the great chug of time pushing the earth around the star.
What a writer.
I’m guessing it will be hard to have #Sex after the finale, unless you’re #Evil.
Yes, this was a post made for #Twitter.
Chicago’s not having a good day. Detroit got off to a slow start, but they’re starting to run away, 30-10 near the end of the first half.
Give Remy the prize.
The definitive interview.
They may pull this out, and remain undefeated, but they’re not looking like a ranked football team. They’re being outplayed by UConn.
[Update in the last couple minutes of the game]
OK, Michigan managed to pull out a squeaker again against a low-ranked team.
This does not bode well for either the Big Ten season, or the season in general. They’re going to have to step it up.