Da Vinci Code mini review: Someone emailed me requesting that I explain why I think the film adaptation of Da Vinci Code stinks (however, they didn’t dispute my theory that references to the Fifth Ave. Apple Store are buried in it). Here’s what I mean: The movie is boring. Say what you want about the book, but it was a page-turner that was filled with suspense and intriguing historical theories and who-dunnit twists and sexual tension and one of the creepiest villains ever. I found myself dozing off during the movie — bored by the long explanations some poor character was having to make to explain what the heck was going on in the scene. The movie does succeed in one thing: the villain is still creepy, perhaps even moreso. But the sexual tension is removed and all of the religious and historical theories are talked to death in such a way as to make them seem more whacky than plausable. Heck, the Opus Dei people should be inviting people to this movie rather than boycotting it as no-one would confuse the movie with reality in the way too many readers confused fiction with fact in the book.

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Summer travel outlook: (From the New York Times) “Planes are expected to be packed fuller than at anytime since World War II, when the airlines helped transport troops. Fares are rising. Service frills are disappearing. Logjams at airport security checkpoints loom as the federal government strains to keep screener jobs filled. The usual violent summer storms are expected to send the air traffic control system into chaos at times, with flight delays and cancellations cascading across the country.

I’ve found that one key to coping with air travel is to have the lowest possible expectation of anything going according to plans. Then, whenever something actually works out, it’s a pleasant surprise. The other key to coping with air travel is to have a private jet. Or, at least that’s the rumor I’ve heard.

iLove: Jason Kottke points to the time-lapse movie recording the first 24 hours of the 5th Avenue Apple Store to show how one Apple cultist used the 5 a.m. lag in backed-up customers to send a proposal to his girlfriend by holding up signs in front of the camera. According to Kottke, this was the second marriage proposal at the opening, as the eighth person in line proposed to his girlfriend right before the store opened and she said yes. (I won’t comment on the “unique” places people get engaged or married as I can recall a wedding of an employee a few years ago that took place at an NHL hockey game.)

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