Just rewatched the oldschool cult-classic of mid-nineties of Hackers (1995), one of those cult underrates like Human Traffic and stuff :) Well, I'll write about the latter one sure, this post is about the former :)

I guess Hackers is one of -those- movies. Well, nitpickers like to brag about the inferior detail of coder-related movies done wrong, whether the parameters to nmap were right enough and stuff, ye know that - but that's another story. Maybe just because it just laughs over itself enough to get us that suspension of disbelief drug to make it real. It's just a movie at that those nitpickers fail, and fail miserably. They either get the fun - like the fans, or don't get the point - like the critics and other braindeads.

And it's real enough. Even though modems are slow, and surely ain't able transmit at that speed, and they get all that fancy graphics instead of a root shell - but they get us the social engineering and other great stuff. And they get us an awesome soundtrack - the soundtrack is so awesome that it's no way to tell about it here - that really gets the feel of the nineties - it's -the- nineties. Despite being in the childhood I clearly remember my 14,400 USRobotics and those wanderings through usenet over the provider's Unix shell from an Intel 80286 laptop :) And they even mentioned the Red Dragon Book of compiler design - well that's the point :)

Well, Hackers is one of my favorites of all-time, and they even get some -deep thoughts- to me, like to get my ass off the nonstop Japanese studies and get back to code, heh. Well, there's still some time till next ICFPC, and as I guess I'll skip Tokyo at least this July, it would be too bad not to pay it a visit. Well, recently, it seems to me, that if a movie really gets me into this mood deep enough, the movie just, well, -has- to be good :)

The study of Japanese is some kind of a plague, you know. When you just start, you think that you'll just offer it some free time, and nothing changes, and sure you can break it up at will. Well, hell nay. It will devour -all- your time and you'll just -never- stop. Well, you just think, if you already study for about a year, who the fuck would you be to just leave? And what the shit for you just end up devoting all that time of yours? Nay, you'll not gonna do it. Or will ye? ;-)

Well thanks guys and gals, for taking you time to read all this shit at your leisure :) It was all just mid-night rant of an old geezer, reminiscent of green grass - nay, neon lights of the nineties. I hope you get the point. And yeah, go watch Hackers, they're just pure fun :)