Briefly What I thought of Star Wars: The Last Jedi

This will not have spoilers. However it will tell you what I feel about the movie. You have been cautioned.

The Last Jedi is a fun movie. It has epic moments.

It also has some weird things. But overall the weird is outweighed by the awesome.

It is well-paced. There is a lot more that is new than there was in Force Awakens and yet it has well-executed nods to the previous story.

Is it the best Star Wars yet? Arguably not. Depending on who you are you can make solid arguments that Empire or Even Force Awakens are better for various reasons. But this is a solid entry in the top 3 if not at the top of all the Star Wars movies made to date.

I had a great time. My expectations were often subverted. Characters were put in impossible situations and yet prevailed (very much like A New Hope in that way). And in the end I felt bonded more to the characters old and new.

If there is a criticism it might be too light-hearted at times. I’m also critical of the answers to some big questions we did and did not get. But that’s for a spoilery conversation.

Overall I enjoyed it thoroughly and felt it was: Amazing.

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 13, 2017

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Today in Tech History – December 13, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1962 – NASA “Relay 1” launched, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1962-068A

1977 – Young Bill Gates was arrested for a traffic violation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, leading to one of the most famous mugshots ever.

http://archive.boston.com/business/technology/gallery/MicrosoftTheEndofTheBillGatesEra?pg=3

1977 – Robert Metcalfe et. al were awarded a patent for “Multipoint data communication system with collision detection” also known as ethernet.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=Szg6AAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 12, 2017

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Today in Tech History – December 12, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1896 – Guglielmo Marconi amazed a group at Toynbee Hall in East London with a demonstration of wireless communication across a room. Every time Marconi hit a key a bell would ring from a box across the room being carried by William Henry Preece.

http://www.wired.com/2011/12/1212marconi-radio-demo-transatlantic/

1973 – Founder of LinkExchange, CEO of Zappos, and promoter of customer-centric business, Tony Hsieh was born.

http://www.eduinreview.com/blog/tag/tony-hsieh/

1980 – Apple’s stock was initially offered for sale. Regulators in Massachusetts prohibited individual investors in the state from buying the stock, as it was deemed too risky.

http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4403276/Apple-IPO-makes-instant-millionaires–December-12–1980

1991 – Paul Kunz set up the first website in North America. It searched particle physics literature at Stanford.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2001/december12/webturns10-1212.html

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