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Thursday, April 24 2008
A car is a complicated thing, and though I've been spending hours a day disassembling the hatchback, there are still lots of things that can be removed. I only got around to removing the driver's side door and rear hatch today. I'm particularly excited by the large steel hinges used on the door. These could be used as hinged supports for a solar panel, or to hang a gate. They're incredibly robust. They have to be; a car door is heavier than you think.
Since we only have one car between us, the few errands I have to run must be carefully superimposed into Gretchen's far more complicated driving schedule. A hole in that schedule opened up today and I could drive to an appointment at Bard College, where I met with a guy who plays some role in the Prison Initiative. Together we looked at the content on a webserver that will be used to provide a population of prisoners with a one-server web (as opposed to, say, a World Wide Web) on which they can do their research.

Back at the house Gretchen was watching a goofy high-production shoot-'em-up movie called Hot Fuzz. Normally Gretchen fast forwards through car chase and fight scenes, but not in this movie. Its gunfight scenes were endless and meticulously edited, with some cuts lasting only a tenth of a second. It had the staccato rhythm of a kung fu movie, but more than that it seemed to be a send up of gunfight clichés. In order to fit all the clichés and their mocking into a two hour movie with a limited cast, virtually none of the bullets were shown to hit anybody, although they often hit inanimate objects that would then fall non-lethally on people or cause things like beer kegs to roll out of trucks and onto bad guys, temporarily incapacitating them.


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