false economies

depressed, bored, tired, that's me at the moment...

Annoyed also because I'm working on this project where they got in work experience / 15 year old kids related to people here to 'help out'. All very cuddly and nice...

I'm now having to go through the work and sort out all the shit they left in the Flash files and bad job they both did.

Sometimes I do think the classic project management panic mantra of 'more people = better' is the biggest piece of puerile bullshit ever - many projects I've worked on would've been better promising a more realistic deadline and have less people tripping over each other and having to cover for other people's (usually well meaning but) shit work. 1-2 people full-time on this project would've been better than the crap I'm now having to clean up...

False economy? Oh yeah. Also sparkly lights, fireworks and smoke and mirrors to look like action is happening and purely make the project manager and/or client feel that 'something is being done! progress is being made!'...Sometimes it just takes longer, especially to do a good job? No amount of extra people or resource or fretting stress puppy project managers in a row praying to the god of Project Management with worry beads and/or commiting hari-kiri can assuage that.

false economies

depressed, bored, tired, that's me at the moment...

Annoyed also because I'm working on this project where they got in work experience / 15 year old kids related to people here to 'help out'. All very cuddly and nice...

I'm now having to go through the work and sort out all the shit they left in the Flash files and bad job they both did.

Sometimes I do think the classic project management panic mantra of 'more people = better' is the biggest piece of puerile bullshit ever - many projects I've worked on would've been better promising a more realistic deadline and have less people tripping over each other and having to cover for other people's (usually well meaning but) shit work. 1-2 people full-time on this project would've been better than the crap I'm now having to clean up...

False economy? Oh yeah. Also sparkly lights, fireworks and smoke and mirrors to look like action is happening and purely make the project manager and/or client feel that 'something is being done! progress is being made!'...Sometimes it just takes longer, especially to do a good job? No amount of extra people or resource or fretting stress puppy project managers in a row praying to the god of Project Management with worry beads and/or commiting hari-kiri can assuage that.

false economies

depressed, bored, tired, that's me at the moment...

Annoyed also because I'm working on this project where they got in work experience / 15 year old kids related to people here to 'help out'. All very cuddly and nice...

I'm now having to go through the work and sort out all the shit they left in the Flash files and bad job they both did.

Sometimes I do think the classic project management panic mantra of 'more people = better' is the biggest piece of puerile bullshit ever - many projects I've worked on would've been better promising a more realistic deadline and have less people tripping over each other and having to cover for other people's (usually well meaning but) shit work. 1-2 people full-time on this project would've been better than the crap I'm now having to clean up...

False economy? Oh yeah. Also sparkly lights, fireworks and smoke and mirrors to look like action is happening and purely make the project manager and/or client feel that 'something is being done! progress is being made!'...Sometimes it just takes longer, especially to do a good job? No amount of extra people or resource or fretting stress puppy project managers in a row praying to the god of Project Management with worry beads and/or commiting hari-kiri can assuage that.

false economies

depressed, bored, tired, that's me at the moment...

Annoyed also because I'm working on this project where they got in work experience / 15 year old kids related to people here to 'help out'. All very cuddly and nice...

I'm now having to go through the work and sort out all the shit they left in the Flash files and bad job they both did.

Sometimes I do think the classic project management panic mantra of 'more people = better' is the biggest piece of puerile bullshit ever - many projects I've worked on would've been better promising a more realistic deadline and have less people tripping over each other and having to cover for other people's (usually well meaning but) shit work. 1-2 people full-time on this project would've been better than the crap I'm now having to clean up...

False economy? Oh yeah. Also sparkly lights, fireworks and smoke and mirrors to look like action is happening and purely make the project manager and/or client feel that 'something is being done! progress is being made!'...Sometimes it just takes longer, especially to do a good job? No amount of extra people or resource or fretting stress puppy project managers in a row praying to the god of Project Management with worry beads and/or commiting hari-kiri can assuage that.

Beautiful Thing / A Scanner Darkly

Saw Beautiful Thing at the Sound Theatre on Wednesday with Kirk - the film was a formative experience for both of us when we were coming out it was one of the first gay films we saw.

So when Kirk mentioned there was a revival of the play that the film is based on, I jumped at the chance to see this, and with the 10 years since coming out anniverary it seemed really appropriate.

The play is set in Thamesmead on an estate - the Sound Theatre is small, REALLY small - we had reserved seat at the front but were so close that at one point I got splashed by the hose they were using on stage, and both of us could literally reach out and touch the actors - so you were right in with the action. The set was the balcony in front of the flats, like in the film, with a bed set in the centre so sometimes you had dual action going on...a lively production.

Jamie and Ste's characters were good - especially Ste (originally played in the film by the guy who went onto The Bill) and Jason was camper than the film but all in all it was very sweetly done, the music (Mama Cass) and sound effects handled really well, and was really funny and moving in places. Leah wasn't initially sure about, for really shallow reasons - in the film was played a short black girl who incongrously was into Mama Cass - that strange combination provided a lot of the humour and surrealism - whereas this production was a tall white girl, which initially I thought wouldn't work, but at the end she really won me over. It's only on to the 9th September, so if you're in London go see it now...I think they are closing the theatre, it's the last production there until they turn it into flats!

Last night we saw A Scanner Darkly - a weird but good film. Almost walked out during the long dragging 'Mama Weer All So Crazeee Now' drug sections, and because of the rotoscoping it was difficult to hear them, as you couldn't lip read and frankly both Woody Harrelson and Robert Downey Jnr mumbled throughout the film. But as long as you paid attention and didn't lose the thread it turned out to be a good film, with allegories to the current state of Afghanistan, war on drugs, and the LSD casualties that inspired Philip K Dick to write it.

Keanu was OK in it, some really good bits, and a very thoughtful film...shame Robert Downey and co's 'drug mugging' on camera and the rotoscoping effect nearly spoils it...although some parts would obviously have been impossible to do otherwise.

Beautiful Thing / A Scanner Darkly

Saw Beautiful Thing at the Sound Theatre on Wednesday with Kirk - the film was a formative experience for both of us when we were coming out it was one of the first gay films we saw.

So when Kirk mentioned there was a revival of the play that the film is based on, I jumped at the chance to see this, and with the 10 years since coming out anniverary it seemed really appropriate.

The play is set in Thamesmead on an estate - the Sound Theatre is small, REALLY small - we had reserved seat at the front but were so close that at one point I got splashed by the hose they were using on stage, and both of us could literally reach out and touch the actors - so you were right in with the action. The set was the balcony in front of the flats, like in the film, with a bed set in the centre so sometimes you had dual action going on...a lively production.

Jamie and Ste's characters were good - especially Ste (originally played in the film by the guy who went onto The Bill) and Jason was camper than the film but all in all it was very sweetly done, the music (Mama Cass) and sound effects handled really well, and was really funny and moving in places. Leah wasn't initially sure about, for really shallow reasons - in the film was played a short black girl who incongrously was into Mama Cass - that strange combination provided a lot of the humour and surrealism - whereas this production was a tall white girl, which initially I thought wouldn't work, but at the end she really won me over. It's only on to the 9th September, so if you're in London go see it now...I think they are closing the theatre, it's the last production there until they turn it into flats!

Last night we saw A Scanner Darkly - a weird but good film. Almost walked out during the long dragging 'Mama Weer All So Crazeee Now' drug sections, and because of the rotoscoping it was difficult to hear them, as you couldn't lip read and frankly both Woody Harrelson and Robert Downey Jnr mumbled throughout the film. But as long as you paid attention and didn't lose the thread it turned out to be a good film, with allegories to the current state of Afghanistan, war on drugs, and the LSD casualties that inspired Philip K Dick to write it.

Keanu was OK in it, some really good bits, and a very thoughtful film...shame Robert Downey and co's 'drug mugging' on camera and the rotoscoping effect nearly spoils it...although some parts would obviously have been impossible to do otherwise.

Beautiful Thing / A Scanner Darkly

Saw Beautiful Thing at the Sound Theatre on Wednesday with Kirk - the film was a formative experience for both of us when we were coming out it was one of the first gay films we saw.

So when Kirk mentioned there was a revival of the play that the film is based on, I jumped at the chance to see this, and with the 10 years since coming out anniverary it seemed really appropriate.

The play is set in Thamesmead on an estate - the Sound Theatre is small, REALLY small - we had reserved seat at the front but were so close that at one point I got splashed by the hose they were using on stage, and both of us could literally reach out and touch the actors - so you were right in with the action. The set was the balcony in front of the flats, like in the film, with a bed set in the centre so sometimes you had dual action going on...a lively production.

Jamie and Ste's characters were good - especially Ste (originally played in the film by the guy who went onto The Bill) and Jason was camper than the film but all in all it was very sweetly done, the music (Mama Cass) and sound effects handled really well, and was really funny and moving in places. Leah wasn't initially sure about, for really shallow reasons - in the film was played a short black girl who incongrously was into Mama Cass - that strange combination provided a lot of the humour and surrealism - whereas this production was a tall white girl, which initially I thought wouldn't work, but at the end she really won me over. It's only on to the 9th September, so if you're in London go see it now...I think they are closing the theatre, it's the last production there until they turn it into flats!

Last night we saw A Scanner Darkly - a weird but good film. Almost walked out during the long dragging 'Mama Weer All So Crazeee Now' drug sections, and because of the rotoscoping it was difficult to hear them, as you couldn't lip read and frankly both Woody Harrelson and Robert Downey Jnr mumbled throughout the film. But as long as you paid attention and didn't lose the thread it turned out to be a good film, with allegories to the current state of Afghanistan, war on drugs, and the LSD casualties that inspired Philip K Dick to write it.

Keanu was OK in it, some really good bits, and a very thoughtful film...shame Robert Downey and co's 'drug mugging' on camera and the rotoscoping effect nearly spoils it...although some parts would obviously have been impossible to do otherwise.

Beautiful Thing / A Scanner Darkly

Saw Beautiful Thing at the Sound Theatre on Wednesday with Kirk - the film was a formative experience for both of us when we were coming out it was one of the first gay films we saw.

So when Kirk mentioned there was a revival of the play that the film is based on, I jumped at the chance to see this, and with the 10 years since coming out anniverary it seemed really appropriate.

The play is set in Thamesmead on an estate - the Sound Theatre is small, REALLY small - we had reserved seat at the front but were so close that at one point I got splashed by the hose they were using on stage, and both of us could literally reach out and touch the actors - so you were right in with the action. The set was the balcony in front of the flats, like in the film, with a bed set in the centre so sometimes you had dual action going on...a lively production.

Jamie and Ste's characters were good - especially Ste (originally played in the film by the guy who went onto The Bill) and Jason was camper than the film but all in all it was very sweetly done, the music (Mama Cass) and sound effects handled really well, and was really funny and moving in places. Leah wasn't initially sure about, for really shallow reasons - in the film was played a short black girl who incongrously was into Mama Cass - that strange combination provided a lot of the humour and surrealism - whereas this production was a tall white girl, which initially I thought wouldn't work, but at the end she really won me over. It's only on to the 9th September, so if you're in London go see it now...I think they are closing the theatre, it's the last production there until they turn it into flats!

Last night we saw A Scanner Darkly - a weird but good film. Almost walked out during the long dragging 'Mama Weer All So Crazeee Now' drug sections, and because of the rotoscoping it was difficult to hear them, as you couldn't lip read and frankly both Woody Harrelson and Robert Downey Jnr mumbled throughout the film. But as long as you paid attention and didn't lose the thread it turned out to be a good film, with allegories to the current state of Afghanistan, war on drugs, and the LSD casualties that inspired Philip K Dick to write it.

Keanu was OK in it, some really good bits, and a very thoughtful film...shame Robert Downey and co's 'drug mugging' on camera and the rotoscoping effect nearly spoils it...although some parts would obviously have been impossible to do otherwise.