First, let me explain what is the problem they are trying to solve, how they are trying to solve and how this will make the life of OSS developers harder.

How things work today?

Today, applications can use the Basic Auth, which send your username and password to Twitter, which checks and, on success, returns your messages, direct messages, post your update and so on. The flaw in this is that someone could be “listening” to your communication and easily guess your username and password. Or you computer could get hacked, attackers could just retrieve the file with your password. And then, one day, you wake up and see some of your updates saying, for example “Buy viagra” or “I liek cocks”; not good.

Solving the password stolen problem with OAuth

To solve the problem of someone stealing your password, Twitter decided to embrace OAuth for two reasons: First, you store an authorization token on your side and not your password, so if you your computer gets hacked, they still don’t have your password. Second, if one application misbehaves, you can remove its permission to post and you should be all good.

On top of that, for applications that are very very naughty, they can completely revoke your application access. Why? The logic behind it is that spammers don’t really care if their spammy applications are misbehaving, as long as they post spam all the day. It also makes the spammers life harder by forcing them to create accounts manually (which they do already) and applications manually, or a group of fake accounts could suddenly stop working ’cause one single application was revoked.

And where is the problem?

Basically, to avoid someone to listen to your communication and use your authorization token, the application must have an identification and a secret token, which is used to encrypt the authentication token and message signature. So, even if your computer is hacked and their stole your authorization token, they still can’t use it ’cause they don’t have the application secret and, that way, can’t sign the messages as being that application.

So Twitter said to all developers today: “Never share your keys! I”

And here lies the problem for open source developers: We were forced to chose amongst two options:

• First, we could follow Twitters idea and not share the application keys with the application itself. For a user to be able to use the application, then, they would have to register they application themselves, with another name. For an experienced user, it may be ok, but for users that simply want to read new messages, going all the way of registering an application, knowing if it is a desktop or a browser app, provide some URL and so on it’s too damn complicated. Most users would simply forget about, and think that their friend’s application, which is closed source, is way better.
• Second, we ignore Twitter’s recommendation and distribute our application with our keys. In this case, we can either suffer from someone taking those keys and spamming Twitter, thus revoking the application secret and letting our users without any access till we provide a new secret; greately reducing our users protection ’cause their authorization tokens can be easily exploited in case their computers get hacked; or, simply, Twitter decides that since we are providing our keys publicly, and that’s bad for the ecosystem (because of the two previous maybes) and revokes the application anyway.

In summary: Either we give applications with a terrible user experience or we have to bite the bullet and give our users an application with incredible reduced security for them (or that, one day, will simply stop working even if the community of users around it behaves nicely, just because someone took the keys and abused the system.)

Twitter came with a solution for open source applications that, basically, mimics the application registration thing: The application is marked by them as open source, so we would have access to another URL, which basically registers a new application with your application as template, gets a new application secret and identification, returns to you and then you keep using that from now on. So, in case the secret is hacked, only one application is compromised and only one application is blocked. But that won’t be available on the day they will kill the basic authorization. So there will be a gap where open source applications and their users will be completely vulnerable to attacks.

Personally, I hate this instance from them. With Mitter, I always aimed for a simple application that would be easy to use and secure, whenever possible. Their current position forces me to chose one in favour of the other.

Infelizmente, não levou muito tempo para que eu achasse um exemplo real do meu medo.

Na Zero Hora de hoje, bem na capa, há a seguinte manchete:

“Um goleiro enredado”

É, obviamente, uma alusão à prisão do goleiro Bruno do Flamengo, acusado de ter sequestrado a amante, força-la a abortar e, como a criança chegou a nascer, acabou por planejar a morte da mesma. Ou, pelo menos, é a linha que está sendo seguida pelas investigações da polícia e cujos fatos estão surgindo para confirmar a hipótese.

E, com um caso bárbado destes, a Zero Hora, que deveria ser um jornal sério (em contra-partida com o já não sério Diário Gaúcho), coloca um trocadilho destes. Se jornal tivesse som, a manchete seria seguida por algum imitador do Sílvio Santos rindo.

Um homem abusa da posição de sucesso na mídia para participar de orgias, engravida uma garota de programa, força-a a abortar e depois planeja sua morte e a executa com a ajuda de traficantes. E vira trocadilho de um dos maiores veículos de notícias do estado.

Realmente, “jornalismo” é uma atividade rara no país, sendo gradualmente substituido pela comédia.

“A reportagem é um conteúdo jornalístico, escrito ou falado, baseado no testemunho direto dos fatos e situações explicadas em palavras e, numa perspectiva atual, em histórias vividas por pessoas, relacionadas com o seu contexto. A reportagem televisiva, testemunho de acções espontâneas, relata histórias em palavras, imagens e sons.’ — Wikipedia

Quando se ligou do que estava acontecendo, a Globo resolveu botar o Tadeu Schmidt e o jornalista envolvido na questão na geladeira. Ambos sumiram da telinha por uma semana e depois voltaram aos poucos à programação, com notícias e comentários curtos. O que eu vejo, é que o Tadeu Schmidt tem que calar a boca definitivamente.

“Jornalismo é a atividade profissional que consiste em lidar com notícias, dados factuais e divulgação de informações. Também define-se o Jornalismo como a prática de coletar, redigir, editar e publicar informações sobre eventos atuais.” — Wikipedia

Meu problema todo com o Tadeu Schmidt é o que ele representa.

Para ilustrar a questão, deixem-me utilizar uma parábola:

Quando o PlayStation 2 foi lançado, a Sony disse que poucas empresas conseguiriam tirar o proveito máximo de todas as capacidades do aparelho. 2 anos depois de lançado, o jogo “Shadow of the Colossus” foi aclamando pela mídia e, segundo a Sony, era (e ainda é) o jogo que consegue explorar melhor tudo que o aparelho oferece. “Colossus” é o ápice dos jogos para PlayStation 2.

E isso é o que é o Tadeu Schmidt: ele é o “Shadow of the Colossus” da “comédia esportiva”, o ápice da falta de jornalismo esportivo. Ele é a consagração máxima do “comediante esportivo.”

Eu sou do tempo que se ouvia jogos de futebol com comentários do Ruy Carlos Ostermann, que conhece o jogo, conhece a história do jogo e relacionava fatos novos com os antigos para demonstrar a visão geral do que estava acontecendo.

Outro exemplo de “jornalista esportivo”, embora em outra área, é o Reginaldo Leme. Quem nunca se surpreendeu com a capacidade que ele tem de buscar fatos na história da Fórmula 1 para explicar acontecimentos da corrida atual? Ou buscar as informações necess´rias para explicar porque o novo desenho de asa da equipe X dá à equipe um melhor coeficiênte de arrasto e que isso daria uma maior velocidade nas retas mas não nas curvas?

Mas, a tempos, essa visão do “jornalista esportivo” começou a mudar. Eu acredito que o primeiro passo (ou o primeiro largo passo) dado foi o Sílvio Luís e seus rebuscados jargões, numa época que o Galvão Bueno era bem comportado neste aspecto até. Como o narrador estrapolava, os jornalistas começaram a estrapolar também, e começaram a colocar pequenos comentários humorísticos nas suas reportagens. Até chegarmos no Tadeu Schmidt, onde “reportagem” é o que menos existe e piadas cobrem tudo o que ele fala. De novo, ele é o ápice do “humorista esportivo”, a profissão que atirou o jornalismo na lixeira e mandou reciclar em outro campo, mas não foi o primeiro.

Colocar palavras na boca dos jogadores, fazer “interpretação” corporal, falar com o replay em câmera lenta, tudo isso é o que Tadeu Schmidt faz. A preocupação com a informação fica num distante segundo lugar. A piada vem sempre primeiro. A falta de “reportagem” é tão grande que, num sketch sobre a copa (ou seja, não dá pra chamar de “reportagem”), Tadeu parou na frente de um fosso próximo do campo e falou:

“Este fosso deve ter… hm… hm… uns 2 metros.”

“Uns 2 metros”. Depois de parar para olhar. Numa “reportagem” pré-gravada, não ao vivo. Com funcionários arrumando o campo. Logo, haviam várias oportunidades para pesquisar, perguntar, verificar a altura correta. Mas, como a piada é mais importante, o fato real não importa.

Meu maior medo é que esta tendência de adicionar piadas e acabar se tornando mais importante que o fato central da “reportagem” acabe se espalhando por outras áreas. Se funciona no esporte, porque não iria funcionar com, digamos, as reportagens policiais?

Tadeu Schmidt é o primeiro passo para que a Idiocracia se torne realidade.

Fato 1: “Vergonha Alheia”

No matinal da Rádio Gaúcha (cujo nome eu sou incapaz de lembrar e me recuso a chamar aquilo de “jornal”), Túlio Milman, que escreve a segunda página da Zero Hora, comentou o seguinte numa das entrevistas (aproximadamente, não consigo lembrar exatamente as palavras usadas):

Me sento envergonhado como jornalista quando vejo as entrevistas coletivas em que um jornalista, que deveria perguntar sobre a seleção, vem com um conjunto de opiniões próprias e termina com ‘O que você acha?’. Isso não é jornalismo.

Fato 2: “Memoria de Elefante”

Em uma das coletivas, o técnico respondeu para um jornalista que tinha “memória de elefante” sobre o mesmo jornalista ter perguntando se o Robinho deveria realmente ir para a copa e agora estar perguntando porque o Robinho não entrou no lugar do Kaká. Ao que tudo indica, o jornalista no caso
Dunga falou para jornalista sobre sua memoria de elefante (aparentemente, Robinho) era o mesmo jornalista que teve que ouvir de Dunga.

Fato 3: “Jornalista nao deve misturar pessoal com profissional”

Ontem (23 de junho), ao retornar para casa, fiquei ouvindo o programa “Pretinho Básico” no rádio. Como a Atlântida é parte do grupo RBS, assim como a rádio Gaúcha, houve uma brincadeira entre os apresentadores e o apresentador Sílvio Benfica (acredito eu, sou terrível com nomes) e foi perguntando, em tom de leve brincadeira: “E então Sílvio, o que os teus colegas da SporTV estão achando do comentário do Dunga?”. A resposta veio (de novo, não exatamente com estas palavras):

Olha… Eu realmente não quero comentar sobre isso, eu não quero atiçar essa fogueira mas, na minha opinião, jornalista não deveria misturar questões pessoais com profissionais.”

Perceba que, na opinião de alguém que está perto do evento real, quem não deveria misturar o pessoal é o jornalista.

Fato 4: “Dossie UOL”

Em vários lugares da internet, estão colando um link para uma notícia do UOL que afirma que a Globo tem sido vetada sem parar pelo técnico, mesmo com ordens da CBF. Há, ainda, alguns dizendo que o jornalista fez o comentário de propósito, justamente para provocar Dunga e, assim, fazer com que o mesmo baixasse a cabeça e cedesse.

Fato 5: “Nem tava olhando pra ti”

As informações da entrevista em questão contam que a conversa entre o técnico brasileiro e o jornalista foram algo do tipo:

Dunga: “Hein?”
Jornalista: “Nada. Eu nem tava falando contigo.”
Dunga: “Ah…”

Bom, eu não se mais alguém vai concordar comigo, mas se, por algum motivo, tu interropme alguém, é costumeiro pelo menos pedir desculpas. Como pode ser visto, não foi o ocorrido.

Não espere respeito de quem não te respeita.

Fato 6: A Camêra

Alguém me apontou que o Dunga deveria pelo menos lembrar que as caméras estariam viradas para ele e que alguém poderia “ler” o que ele falou. Neste caso, meu problema é que, justamente, não temos como ver o que o jornalista estava fazendo (rosto, postura corporal.) De novo, fica a pergunta se realmente o que foi feito não foi uma provocação pra cima do técnico.

“Efeito Coreia do Norte”

A grande questão que sobra é não temos como perceber exatamente o que aconteceu porque o “prejudicado” nesta história, segunda a imprensa, é quem tem todos os direitos de transmissão e pode, a seu bel prazer, simplesmente não transmitir coisas que poderiam explicar o evento inteiro.

Today, reading WoW.Com (which is not run by Blizzard, I must say), I read this article about Prot Paladins outhealing Holy Paladins in PvP. As a protection paladin that does the healing job in PvP, I thought it would be worth the read. But the problem show up right in the first paragraph: The author’s solution is remove the Spell Power plate from the game. Wait, WHAT?

For those that don’t know WoW or don’t know how paladins work, here is a brief explanation:

Paladins can fill the three roles in a group, depending on the abilities (or talents) they chose: A healer paladin would take talents from the “Holy” tree; a tanking paladin would take talents from the “Protection” tree; and a damaging (DPS) paladin would take talents from the “Retribution” tree. Of course, there is always some mixing of talents from different trees (e.g., for PvP, a retribution paladin would pick some talents in the protection tree, to improve his survivability), but most points would go to the proper tree.

Also, there is the difference of gear. Since damage is what retribution paladins are going after, they would chose gear with more “Strength” and “Attack Power”; tanking would go with more “Stamina” and “Defense rating” and some “Strength” and “Agility” (I’ll not dwell on how those two attributes help survivability at this point); healing would go after “Intellect” and “Spell Power” (just to know, the more spell power a healing paladin have, the more powerful their healing abilities will be.)

At it’s core, the paladin is a caster. This means that most of it’s abilities are not normal attacks, but magic spells and since everything paladin related is magic, the “Spell Power” can help the class a lot. As the holy paladin is the only one that have gear with “spell power”, talents exist in the other trees to help them: The retribution tree have a talent called Sheath of Light, which increases the “spell power” based on “attack power” (which makes sense, since the retribution paladin would go after “attack power”), holy paladins have Holy Guidance, which increases the “spell power” based on total “intelect” (which helps them to have better heals) and the protection tree have Touched by the Light, which increases the “spell power” based on the total “stamina” (again, makes sense since “stamina” is the base survivability stat tanks go after.) Those talents help retribution paladins to make more damage, the holy paladins to have better healing and the protection to keep the enemy they should prevent running around and killing everyone else attacking just them.

Now that we put the basics down, comes the part that “don’t read”: The Blizzard forums point the problem of Protection Paladins using Holy Paladins PvP (Player versus Player) gear. The author’s solution is to remove the “spell power” plate from the game since holy paladins are the only class that have a use for it. First of all, removing won’t solve a thing, since PvP gear is “bought” with honor and, thus, doesn’t affect any other class. Every class is capable of getting honor no matter what (some may have some difficulties, but it’s not impossible.) But he seems to confuse the PvE part of the game with the PvP part. In a PvE (player versus environment), you go into what it’s called an instance (which is put as a cave, house, cathedral, building), kill some monster till you get to the big monster and, when he’s killed, you get your rewards in the form of new gear. Since holy paladins are the only ones interested in plate with “spell power” (the other plate wearers have no use for it, not even non-paladins) if there isn’t a holy paladin in the group, the gear is lost — it can still be sold, but it’s basically lost ’cause it comes to “it could be some gear that other class could use”. That’s the life of playing a game with random number generators: You can’t just say “I’ll go there and get that gear” ’cause you don’t have any control over the gear that will appear.

And the part that “don’t know how to do math”: As I pointed, holy paladins are interested in gear with “intellect” and “spell power”. But with holy guidance, if maxed to all available points, increases spell power by 20% of the total intellect or 10 intellect increases your spell power in 2. Since your gear also have spell power already, that’s a good trade off.

Stamina, for protection paladins, just turn into health and no other stat. But you may remember that talent that helps Protection paladins to have spell power based on stamina. If you put 3 points in that talent (which is the maximum), you get 30%, which basically makes 10 points in stamina give you 3 more spell power points. Things are starting to look clear, don’t they?

So take a look at this: Let’s take a piece of the PvP gear for holy paladins: the chest. It have 115 stamina, 50 intellect and 98 spell power. For a holy paladin, that means the total spell power of that chest is 118 spell power. For a protection paladin, that means around 132 spell power. And no, you can’t have both talents due the amount of points required to enable those abilities.

Also, just to add insult to the injury, you may notice that there are two “slots”, available for gems. The most powerful intellect gem gives you +20 intellect and the most powerful stamina gem gives you +30 stamina (the gem color is not important, in this case.)

So, removing the spell power plate from the game would help? OF COURSE NOT! If paladins where changed to use mail to have spell power, it would still gave protection paladins more spell power than holy paladins and the overheal would still be there.

The proper solution isn’t so easy, though. Reducing the stamina from the PvP holy gear would damage holy paladins survivability; reducing the spell power from the talent in the protection tree would hurt their ability to keep an enemy attacking everyone in the raid; increasing the Spell Power returned in “Holy Guidance” would make holy paladins in PvE too power to be compared to any other healers.

But there is one insightful comment in the article: Make the amount of spell power increased by stamina based on the total “defense rating”. That stat is only used in PvE by protection paladins and it’s not so helpful in PvP. Since the holy paladins have no use for that, the PvP gear have none and, thus, can be used as base to not hurt protection paladins (since their have large amounts of defense rating anyway) and not overpower holy paladins.

First, let’s take a look at the list of main Star Trek characters in the series:

• The Original Series: James T. Kirk, Spock, Dr Leonard “Bones” McCoy, Montgomery Scott, Hikaru Sulu, Pavel Checkov, Uhura (and let’s throw Christopher Pike just for the sake of it.)
• The Next Generation: Jean-Luc Picard, William Riker, Geordi La Forge, Worf, Beverly Crusher, Wesley Crusher, Deanna Troi, Data.
• Deep Space Nine: Benjamin Sisko, Kira Nerys, Odo, Julian Bashir, Jadzia Dax, Quark, Miles O’Brien, Jake Sisko, Worf (yes, again), Ezi Dax.
• Voyager: Kathryn Janeway, Chakotay, Tuvok, B’Elanna Torres, Tom Paris, Harry Kim, The Doctor, Neelix, Kes, Seven of Nine
• Enterprise: Jonathan Archer, T’Pol, Charles Tucker III, Malcolm Reed, Hoshi Sato, Travis Mayweather, Phlox.

  Go on. Go clicky-clicky and try to find the two that doesn’t fit. I’ll wait.

  Did you spot the two?

  Ok, the answer is: Wesley Crusher and Jake Sisko (although I made it hard for you to noticed why Jake doesn’t belong there.) They are the only teenagers in the whole list of series that were main characters (there we some kids in “Voyager”, but they would appear in only one or two episodes.) All the others look like they are in the late twentys or early thirties (with a few exceptions that look more like they are getting into their fourtys.) And that also includes non-human, ageless forms, like Odo, Data and the Doctor, and the ones with longer lifes, like the Vulcans. Even the youngest crew of all series, the Voyager (they were going into final training before going officially into service when they were transported to the Delta Quadrant) looks like they were in the later twentys.

  And that’s why the new Star Trek bothers me. All the actors (with the exception of McCoy) look like they are in their early twentys and in full operational status already. Even in the original series, when the Enterprise goes into its official mission of “explore strange, new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations”, Kirk looks like he’s in the late thirties. And now you have a Kirk that looks like he just out of puberty.

  Yes, there were boobs in the TOS. But they belonged to mature females, not some out of puberty, hormone full chick.

  To me, it looks like the tone of Star Trek changed from “When you get out of your studies and do some real life training, you may be a member of the most important ship of the human race” to “jump into the most important ship of the human race! All you need to do is be able to talk!”. Sign of the times, maybe, when you’re supposed to finish college and be a full experienced whatever-they-call-you-in-the-field. But, still, Star Trek looks a little bit tainted with an “easy way to get there” view.

  But, then again, I’m an old trekkie (although I never remember if the proper way is trekker or trekkie…)

  ]]> http://juliobiason.net/2008/11/23/why-the-new-star-trek-bothers-me/feed/ 1 http://juliobiason.net/2008/03/30/mac-os-applications-are-not-very-friendly/ http://juliobiason.net/2008/03/30/mac-os-applications-are-not-very-friendly/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:24:57 +0000 Julio Biason http://juliobiason.net/?p=1644 Continue reading →]]> Long before having a Mac, I learnt about it interface and the Application/Window relationship on Mac OS.

  You see, there is a fundamental difference between Linux/Windows application and Mac OS application. While in the first two the window is the application (and closing the windows, closes the application), on Mac OS it is not quite like that: you can have an application running without any windows (it would still show on the task list and it would have a menu on the top, but you may have no windows at all.) It makes sense for some applications to don’t have any windows, as it makes sense for some applications to simply disappear if there are no windows open.

  Examples: if you are using some text editor, when you close your window/document, it really means you are done? Maybe not, maybe you just want to close that document before starting a new one. In this case, it makes sense to have the application still running. The same goes when you have more than one document open: displaying it as two separate windows make them independent of each other and you can choose how to work with them (that’s something it took years to Microsoft to realize and dump the MDI [multi-document interface] Word was using since it was called Word.)

  So, basically, what you have on Mac OS is that every document should be a window and closing all documents don’t close the application.

  One of the things that annoys the hell of me is trying to use Mac OS applications in a Mac OS way. One example is Safari: If you follow the idea behind the window/application Apple introduced, you’d have one Safari window for each site. The thing that annoys me on that is that there is no visual feedback about what it is doing. Firefox have the spinning circle, Safari has nothing. To make it display any feedback, you have to enable tabs, which means you’d start opening tabs for every page, which is not the way you should use this. And, to be honest, have a single, dangling tab just to display a damn spinning circle is quite stupid.

  Mail.app is another application that completely fails on user feedback. I have some 20-something filters and my IMAP server is not that fast. So, when I start the application, it does nothing. Then it beeps. And displays nothing. And then, suddenly, it displays the mail counts. And there is this space in the sidebar which says “Mail activity”. A completely lost space which could be used to display, for example, “Retrieving your email”, “Applying filters”, “Checking new mail on folder X”.

  Other applications simply decide not to follow the window/application metaphor. One example is PhotoBooth. I really like to take a picture of me from time to time and update my 15-something social networks site (well, from “time to time” more likely to be “every year or so”.) The thing about PhotoBooth is that, if you close the window, the application closes too.

  Software Update is ever worst. If it doesn’t find an update, it displays “There are no updates” and, when you click “Ok”, it simply disappears. No window, no application, no nothing. What kinda of user feedback is that? Show the user that the update list is empty and let the user close the window or the application. Like every other Mac OS application.

  And, on top of that, all those applications where produced by Apple itself. And I won’t even comment about iTunes, which doesn’t even follow the default theme you’re using.

  ]]> http://juliobiason.net/2008/03/30/mac-os-applications-are-not-very-friendly/feed/ 15 http://juliobiason.net/2008/02/20/hypocrites/ http://juliobiason.net/2008/02/20/hypocrites/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:52:48 +0000 Julio Biason http://juliobiason.net/2008/02/20/hypocrites/ Continue reading →]]> It seems that Steven Spielberg decided to start a “boycott the Chinese Olympics” campaign. And a lot of people are following him. The whole thing is just to raise the public attention to China not following most of the human rights.

  And that comes from people in a country that invaded two other countries that were not in direct attack and killed several innocents calling them “war causalities”. Not to mention that the government is now the terrorist of its own population.

  Mr. Spielberg, you are an hypocrite. Why don’t you look at your own country instead of messing with other countries problems?

  ]]> http://juliobiason.net/2008/02/20/hypocrites/feed/ 0 http://juliobiason.net/2008/02/07/write-once-run-in-just-one-place/ http://juliobiason.net/2008/02/07/write-once-run-in-just-one-place/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:20:43 +0000 Julio Biason http://juliobiason.net/2008/02/07/write-once-run-in-just-one-place/ Continue reading →]]> Oh, Mono running natively on Mac OS X, thanks to Gtk+ Native widgets. But “MonoDevelop has pretty much the same feature parity than Linux does. There are a few missing features that we hope to resolve in the future, and there is plenty of room to improve.” Because multi-platform languages aren’t.

  Edit 1: And no, this is not a post to prize Mono. All credit goes to the Gtk+ guys who managed to do the hard work of porting Gtk+ to use the native widgets. Actually, I’m pretty disgusted that De Icaza is again trying to sell Mono taking credit of other people’s work.

  ]]> http://juliobiason.net/2008/02/07/write-once-run-in-just-one-place/feed/ 4 http://juliobiason.net/2008/02/06/im-out-of-sync-with-the-movie-critics/ http://juliobiason.net/2008/02/06/im-out-of-sync-with-the-movie-critics/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:58:06 +0000 Julio Biason http://juliobiason.net/2008/02/06/im-out-of-sync-with-the-movie-critics/ Continue reading →]]> I hate George Clooney. Really. Every single movie he does make me like him less and less. His acting is not convincing and he doesn’t have facial expressions. Yet, every single critic says he is an awesome actor and that his latest movie, “Michael Clayton”, is so awesome it should get an Oscar. When I saw it, I wanted to pee on Clooney face and burn the theatre down, just to enjoy a little bit of my lost 2 hours in the cinema.

  When I was in the plane back to Australia, I saw Ratatoule (or whatever, I don’t care if the name is wrong.) I thought it was unimaginative, boring story about “accept who you are” for kids. You know, the same thing they say in kid movies over and over again. I mean, I’m seeing that message since I was a kid. Yet, critics say that the Academy should reconsider its position about the movie, as it was ranked higher than the “best movie” movies.

  Really, critics don’t know movies.

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