I give that preface to say that the one movie I went to see multiple times in a theater (that I bought tickets for and brought more people with me the second time) in several years was Sinners.
Made by local hero Ryan Coogler, I saw it at his local joint, Grand Lake here in Oakland near Lake Merritt.
I’m glad they got so many nominations, pleased they won a bunch of great ones liking writing and cinematography.
Anyway, if you haven’t seen it, give it a go.
Looking forward to owning a copy.
I love movies, I loved working on them, I own many on the highest quality media I can get my hands on over the years.
I do try and see them in the theater, but working at a movie studio for more than 2 decades, sometimes it’s easier, if i couldn’t see it at a studio screening, to just wait it out and watch at home on my Dolby Atmos 9.2 setup with choice of 70”+ OLED & 120” projector.
1/
How do I know this?
I was the project lead, although the best parts of it were written by my smarter collaborator Michael O’Brien (eventually SVP of R&D at Technicolor).
This story is *not* the 32 to 64 bit transition.
This is just us trying to get another GB of address space, where we leveraged the ongoing Linux port work w/alot of our own.
Now that I think about it, all the impactful work I’ve done in my career happened in 32 bits of address space.
4GB always seemed like a lot to me.
During production of Finding Nemo, we started using Linux boxes in addition to SGIs.
Why?
3D painting software we wrote for laying out coral was written in C++ using templates, and the debug info was too large for IRIX, but was debuggable on Linux.
Was this a 32 bit vs. 64 bit issue?
No.
IRIX reserved half the address space for the kernel, while Linux only did a quarter.
So on Linux, we had 3GB, and the symbols fit.
It was a 32 bit show, both machines had 4GB max.
Plenty for Finding Nemo.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@merlinwisdom/116232604933013907
Excellent advice. I have done this for probably 8 books over the years. Hmm. Maybe more…
One of the great joys of our property in Oakland is that we have a lot of lizards.
When I was a boy, I caught lots of spiders, snakes and lizards and was not, shall we say, “an ally”.
So it has given me great pleasure to do what I can to make these generations of lizards (we’ve been here 24 yrs) have a chill experience.
Here’s one:
Back home, was delighted to get my #favoriteseat on a variety of aircraft recently.
That said, I do so hate connecting flights, which is where jet lag TZ plans go to die…
⚙️ Roy Phillips