Comments on: Writing – Getting the Details Right

By: Dave Hitt

Dave Hitt — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:56:59 +0000

I was a sysop for the Enable RoundTable on GEnie. Amazing, isn’t it, that people paid $6/hour to hang out there at 1200 baud, and $18/hour for the blazing speed of 2400 baud. The best part of being a sysop was we got to hang out there for free.

You mean when someone hacks an Apache server they don’t do it via 3d Autocad graphics? Shocking!

A few weeks ago I saw Swordfish for the first time. Wow. Just, Wow.

@John – the only reason I keep watching Leverage is I love the characters, especially Sophie and Parker. But their errors keep getting more abundant with each episode, so I don’t know how much longer I can handle the pain.

By: Brian Riley

Brian Riley — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:40:32 +0000

Dave,
Another GEnie-ite! I used to be an assistant sysop on the Unix Round table. I still remember the night we were in the middle of a Real Time Conference when a guy we didn’t know came on and told us how he wrecked his car and then it got flooded by a hurricane that passed by New Jersey and he was “going to let his friends on the Internet help him pay to fix it.” The RTC emptied very fast. As for inaccuracies in TV and Movies, I say “Tell me about it!” I have lamented the lack of accuracy with regards to computers and to a lesser extent Electronics since I first learned to solder. The most inaccurate recently was a movie called “Eagle Eye” which, in the first 5 minutes, played a news report in the back ground that stated that criminals could connect and listen to a cell phone “even when it’s turned off” … After that it got weird! :)

By: John

John — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:07:42 +0000

I tried watching one episode of Leverage, I couldn’t even finish the episode. It was just so internally inconsistent. I can’t watch Fringe for the same reason.

By: johnnyvirgil

johnnyvirgil — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:22:02 +0000

I hate leverage for the exact same reason. I still like Dark Blue though.

If you need to run some gun stuff by someone, let me know. I have a buddy who is career SF.