Pablo Fernandez

Month: December 2010

  • What's the most exciting project you worked on?

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    Seth Godin writes:

    If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer?

    in his post What are you working on? saying that you should be excited, even if it’s just your weekend project. I’m not that demanding, but I open all my interviews asking the candidate: “What’s the most exciting project you ever worked on?”. It can be years ago, I understand that sometimes we get stuck in shitty projects, but if you never managed to work in an exciting project I really worried.

    How exciting? You should start talking, moving your hands around and forget you are in an interview. That exciting should be. Bonus points if I have to stop you because you just keep talking about the project and I have to do an interview.

  • Tron: Legacy: how it should have ended

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    Did you watch Tron: Legacy? If not, stop reading now, this post has spoilers, go watch it, and then come back. I’ll wait.

    No, really, I’ll wait, I’m not going anywhere.

    Still here? Ok. Visually, Tron: Legacy is amazing. I’m not going to do an in-depth review, I’m just going to say how I think it should have ended.

    When Kevin, Sam and Quorra are fleeing, Tron and Clu should get close to their airplane, side by side, ready for the final blow. Clu’s airplane is on the left, next to Quorra, Tron’s airplane is on the right, next to Kevin. The end is near and Kevin mutters “Tron”. Tron then opens his helmet revealing a young Bruce Boxleitner that sais in his wonderful voice: “I’m Tron, I fight for the users”. Tron then does a barrel roll as his suit and airplane turn blue and crashes hard on Clu’s airplane.

    Maybe my ending is more Hollywoodish, but with it they could then make Tron: return to the grid.

  • Idea to help Hugh Laurie (House) with his leg

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    I’ve heard or read that Hugh Laurie is having some problems in his leg by having to fake a gimp all the time by acting as House. I think I’ve got a solution, it’s not cheap but it’s cheaper than having the actor not being able to perform anymore:

    Build a set that is a mirror of the current sets down to the text in the doors, then have Hugh Laurie gimp with the other leg, film everything like than and then mirror the result, so that Hugh Laurie can balance out which side he’s straining.

    I bet that it would also be a very interesting acting challenge.

  • Never assume

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    Picture by Horia Varlan

    I was studying impro with a great teacher, the lessons ended late at night and at that time I was still driving and had a car, so I would take everyone who wanted to go in the same direction as me after the lesson. It was lot of fun.

    One day, one of the women that rode in my car left a bottle. I mean a water bottle of those that you throw away to pollute the environment once you are done drinking the contents… or spilling it. I’ve found it on the car the next day.

    I decided to use it as a well intentioned joke and tell her that she forgot the bottle in my car. I was expecting her to just throw it away, but that isn’t what happened. Instead she hugged me and thanked me deeply about returning the bottle.

    Obviously I was surprised about her reaction, so she explained:

    Whenever I travel, I buy local bottles of water and I keep them, I collect them. This one you’ve returned it’s from Chile, see, it’s not a brand you can get here.

    What I assumed was garbage was actually something very valuable for her. I’m so glad that I didn’t act on my assumption and I was able to return the collection item. The moral of the story is: never assume.