Call me a pessimist

I know Doug Liman Confirmed to Direct 'All You Need is Kill' is not necessarilty bad news (although it is old news) but the fact that he directed Jumper is worrisome and

Described as a Groundhog Day/Starship Troopers mash-up,

is probably an indication that this will almost certainly not end well (remember that they're talking SST the terrible movie, not SST the terrible book).

[added later: should have googled just a tad more. This is also old]

tCS: I think "All You Need is Kill" is one of the ones you've been eyeing next, which is interesting because it's based on a Japanese book, so are you going to go for Japanese lead actors?
Liman: No, it's totally American.

I should have looked here first but really, it is an American film so it goes without saying it will be caucasiformed (even ignoring the sort of romance between Rita and Kiriya; when was the last time an Asian male lead in a US movie got to have a non-tragic romance with a white female lead?).

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Lots of time before the elections, I know

Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, Ontario, and Newfoundland and Labrador (in that order) will be having their provincial elections between October 3 and October 11. Saskatchewan will be having theirs on November 7.

A poll

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A poll

[Poll #1740889]

World spared David E. Kelley's Wonder Woman

EW has learned that NBC passed on the much buzzed-about Wonder Woman pilot from David E. Kelley and Warner Bros. TV.

Rudyard Kipling's An Interview with Mark Twain

Nicked from matociquala

You are a contemptible lot, over yonder. Some of you are Commissioners, and some Lieutenant-Governors, and some have the V. C., and a few are privileged to walk about the Mall arm in arm with the Viceroy; but I have seen Mark Twain this golden morning, have shaken his hand, and smoked a cigar—no, two cigars—with him, and talked with him for more than two hours! Understand clearly that I do not despise you; indeed, I don’t. I am only very sorry for you, from the Viceroy downward. To soothe your envy and to prove that I still regard you as my equals, I will tell you all about it.

IS there

an obvious way to optimise the settings on a new monitor, a method presumably everyone but me knows about?