Tag Archives: Films

Yippee-kay-ay

Here’s a great video inspired by the Die Hard movies. I think this quote sums up the entire movies (Alan is the big-boned copper from the first two movies): And we know what the basic gist is. There ain’t no Alan, and it’s not Christmas. We don’t know but we’re pretty sure that John McClane [...]

My Favourite Movie

I’m sure you’re all just dying to know, so in the interests of a good night’s sleep for all it’s The Matrix. I know, it’s not something worthy like The Killing Fields, arty like Lost In Translation, or even traditionally great like Citizen Kane. Good films all, but when I’m sat at home and have [...]

Random Trivia

Just watching ’12 Monkeys’, during which Bruce Willis says “All I see are dead people”.

Wash

I tend to avoid these things, but hey, it’s Firefly/Serenity. I am Wash (Ship Pilot) Wash (Ship Pilot) 80% Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) 70% Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) 65% Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) 65% Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) 30% Derrial Book (Shepherd) 30% Alliance 25% Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) 20% River (Stowaway) 20% Inara Serra (Companion) 15% [...]

I’ll see your bacon number and raise you…

..an Erdős–Bacon number. Paul Erdős was a mathematician who published some 1,500 papers with 509 different collaborators, in some way paralleling the prolific career of Kevin Bacon. As with the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game that gives actors a Bacon number according to the number of co-stars required to link them to Mr Bacon, [...]