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Did about six hours of presentations today, and things seem to go pretty well. Lots of good questions, and they seemed to be satisfied with my answers. I'm sitting on a flight back home from San Diego, and I should be home by midnight. Unfortunately I have to get up early tomorrow for an all-day training event. Probably going to skip out Friday as I suspect most everyone else in my group will already be on vacation anyhow.

I brought a DVD, Dopamine, to watch on the flight. Good movie. The 'techie' aspect of it was challenged as always--why is it that the only 'software developers' movie people can conceive are 3D artists or what popular culture thinks of as 'hackers'. At least they aren't all working on a 'web browser' like they were in the 90s. And what's up with all the 'C code' having all those damn (void*) casts!

Anyhow, the movie was a romance, and had some very compelling characters, A man whose model of 'true love' in his parents ended in terrible loss and bitterness when mom is turned into a blank slate by Alzheimer's, and he takes his heartbroken father's belief that true love is just a chemical trick a bit too seriously. A woman still aching from the loss of little baby she had to give up a decade ago. It actually has a kind of Electric Dreams vibe to it--assuming anyone who reads my LJ even remembers that movie from the mid-80s. Besides, you gotta love a movie that constantly refers to neurochemicals.

Rand: "No one will ever live up to what you and Samantha had. Their not supposed to."

Sara: "Why?"

Rand: "I think you're judging people on the wrong scale."

Sara: "Why can't it be like that?"

Rand: "You're only born perfect."