Rami has lived on three continents, can get by in three languages, and got a great deal on a three-for-one university degree. In his free time, he can generally be found fiddling with open-source software and websites, in which he is joined by his stuffed toy penguin Aristophanes.
articles
- A for Effort (and Explosions) Rami worries Hollywood will ruin a fond childhood memory
- Meaninglessness at 35000 Feet Rami gets to the party too late to be blinded by Oscar buzz
- Defending Avatar Rami takes a deliberately unpopular position.
- More Zombies Done Right Rami is pleasantly surprised by the latest zombie film
- Eight Plus One Equals...? Rami goes to see the new Tim Burton film. Ambivalence ensues.
- Seeds of Doubt Rami is initially dubious about Michael Cobley's Seeds of Earth.
playpen posts
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at 10:36 on 26-07-2010
I'm amused by the reviews on Triumff's Amazon page:
“a brilliant occult-comedy-historical-adventure that's true to the best traditions of the genres”
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at 00:56 on 22-07-2010
Are you advocating metapedantry?
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at 17:42 on 20-07-2010
If you look at what we did with the tool when we got hold of it, we basically played around with names we already knew and picked up on the errors.
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at 00:21 on 20-07-2010
The immediate impression made by looking at a Regendered site, though, is still quite striking -- and I think that's a sufficiently useful point in itself. Perhaps I'm inclined to gi...
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at 23:46 on 19-07-2010
There are a few clbuttic errors, sure. It's probably jus...
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at 00:36 on 05-07-2010
I'm not sure what the right word for it is, actually -- denied racism, perhaps? Ignored racism? "Hilarious" white-boy-ism?
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comments
- 20:10, 26-07-2010 on How Many Bites Until It Starts to Suck?:
I haven't yet seen it, but Toy Story 3 has supposedly bucked the trend.
Oh yes. Toy Story 3 was great :-... permalink - 10:25, 26-07-2010 on How Many Bites Until It Starts to Suck?:
It also established the tradition that the third film in any Marvel-inspired series would be dreadful.
<... permalink - 07:19, 19-07-2010 on A for Effort (and Explosions):
Hah. Someone should develop a board game about the Internet -- with similar penalties, like loss of sanity points for visiting c...
permalink - 23:45, 18-07-2010 on A for Effort (and Explosions):
seen anyone whining that they shouldn't have made her a woman except for seriously hardcore misogynists
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@Will: I think that's a perfectly plausible justification for it, yes... but then they changed so many little things from the sh...
permalink - 20:23, 16-07-2010 on Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Episode Ten – Dead Baby Allergy:
Just a note on your inviting-authors-to-tea thing: I believe Arundhati Roy lives in New Delhi, so she wouldn't be much cheaper t...
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