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I saw IMDB:Memento (2000) yesterday on the bigscreen TV in our basement here at [Skejbygård][] — I think it was Martin Justensen who had rented it on VHS. It was a really strange movie because the timeline went backwards. You saw a clip and then a couple of minutes later you would see action that lead up to the clip you had just seen. So everytime you saw something you had to guess on what could have coursed it: you knew the ending but not the beginning.

The film was about a guy who had lost his short-term memory and who could now only remember what had happened for the last few minutes. So, just like us, he constantly had to try and figure out what he was doing. For example: He wakes up in a bed besides a woman, but he doesn’t recognize her — and neither do we because we haven’t seen her before. This is what makes this movie so different, different in a positive way.

Tonight I’m going to see IMDB:Minority Report (2002) with Tom Cuise. I’ve seen some very good reviews of it, so I’m really excited. Steven Spielberg has made some fantastic movies in the past so I hope that this will be another movie on that list.

(A little later…) I’ve now seen IMDB:Minority Report (2002) and I like it. The story was great and unpredictable, the theme about how you’re going to react if you know your future was very interesting. The question is: if you know your future, do you then do things as to make the prophecy come true? Can you know about the future without letting it affect your actions? Interesting stuff!

Playing with the WikiWikiWeb

I’m starting to learn how to use my new WikiWikiWeb - it gives me a nice dynamic website with a minimum of effort.

I’ve been watching a lot of movies lately, let me just give you a quick run down of them:

• Vanilla Sky was a little strange at first, but turned out to be a really fascinating movie.

• Kiss of the Dragon was fairly good. Lot of karate but a weak story.

• Men in Black II was good, but nothing spectacular. It continues the line from the first movie as expected.

• Eye of the Beholder was strange and didn’t make much sense.

• The Believer was good and provocative. I feared that it would be a film just about violence, but it turned out to be much more than that.

• Rules of Engagement was great but the ending was a little weak.

I plan to see Minority Report soon — it sounds like a really interesting movie. I also think that Goldmember would be a good laugh.

Sorry about the lack of updates here at gimpster.com — I’ve been on vacation for the last 14 days. I started with a week home in Aalborg, and after that we traveled to Cyprus. My Grandma was also with us on the trip.

The first thing I noticed when we had landed in Pafos was the heat. The temperatures in Denmark had been around 20° C (about 68° F) whereas the temperature in Pafos was around 35° C (almost 100° F) — way to much for my taste. Because the humidity was high, the heat felt much more annoying, it really sucked all energy away from the body when you went from an airconditioned room to the outside. We stayed in a holiday apartment at the Pagona Hotel — the only room with aircondition was the bedroom, which meant that I spend quite some time there reading…

But we didn’t stay at the hotel all the time — we went on a bustrip to the Troodos mountains where we saw the Kykko Monastery. That was a really nice trip: the temperature dropped about 10° C when we got up in the mountains. It was also on interesting trip because our guide used the time on the bus to talk about the history of Cyprus, the economic and social conditions and so on. So we could sit there and enjoy the beautiful landscape while being educated at the same time :-)

Another nice trip was the Catamaran Cruise. We started in Pafos which lies in the south-west corner of Cyprus. We then sailed north along the cost to Coral Bay where we could swim. They had snorkel gear on the boat that we could borrow — it was great fun to swim with extra fins on the feet. We also had a great lunch on the ship. Throughout the trip, our guide would sneak up on us and shoot us with a water-pistol loaded with ice-water! Some of the children soon began to fight back with water from their water bottles… The ice-water came from three large boxes that were full of icecubes when we started in the morning, but now that most of the cubes had thawed, the water was perfect for a little water fight. In the end Thomas (our guide) took one of the boxes and poured the water onto some of the girls that were sunbathing at the front of the ship! Great entertainment :-)

Now that I’m back in Denmark, I’ll look at the emails that I’ve received while I was gone — it might take a while, but I will answer them over the next couple of days, so be patient.