A Serious Man

This film is beginning to bother me in a serious way. It's a very, very good film. But its a film that is getting under my skin. And I am not saying it is a film that is bad for the Jewish people. But I am saying, this film isn't linear - and it's not all that it seems to be. It is more.

That said, it's also a really funny film + definitely worthwhile. My daughter says I have a thing for this film. Perhaps.

I am battling with a new cellphone - it is awkward, and non intutive - with a zero resistance touch surface for dialing that frankly doesn't work very well. In addition normally intuitive call handling features like switch call doesn't seem to work very well. You don't easily get to browse your calls received - this phone is almost designed away from being a phone.

Another thing that bothers me, is the fact that the phone is tethered: open protocols like HTTP are pointed down to semi-locked tiles with site addresses on them - with no way to modify the tileset easily. The options for changing tiles are all pay for play. The GPS transceiver in the phone is locked away to a website.

Actually alot of things are working on me right now. My son had a nightmare last night that the clothes in the laundry room adjacent to his room had risen up to get him. I finally figured out as I was writing this - that I need to put a door on that room.

So I did. But now I'm still plagued by the fact that I've only watched half of this film. And the film is something of a ghost story. I think.

Perhaps it is a ghost story about how we are all ghosts and life is a kind of illusion which can be dispelled with an ice pick. Either way, it's a trip.

It is definitely safe for my little one.