» Saturday, 28 June A.D. 2008
anniversary night
Tricia and I enjoyed a dinner date, complete with movie, this evening for our fifth anniversary. We gave the girls dinner and held off eating until I was able to got out and pick up pizza after the girls were in bed. Indulging in pizza and garlic breadsticks on the porch while watching the sun set...what a life, eh?
After that, we sat down to watch National Treasure 2 together. (Hey, we're married with children...we get things on Netflix first, rather the theatres, so we have to wait a while.) We enjoyed it and I have two things to comment on, one good and one bad.
The good first: the president was portrayed as a strong character in this movie, unlike other recent movies. Nicholas Cage had a particularly nice emphasis on this: he ended most sentences when speaking to the president with “sir,” and there was always this slight discernable pause before he said it. The pause really upped the respect factor.
The bad: the unbreakable Playfair cipher? Give me a break. Especially if you know the key is only five letters long...you don't sit Riley down in front of a computer to have him type in every five-letter word that pops into his mind. You have him write a computer program to try every five-letter word and report back on what appears to be the most likely candidate(s). Sigh.
posted by Nate @ 11:35PM