Stardate 20030516.0249

(Captain's log): Sheesh. It seems as if I'm going to have to avoid reading any blogs for the next few days. At least four times tonight I've encountered posts by people who have gone to see the new Matrix film and are eager to ruin it for the rest of us by giving away key plot points.

In another place and time, the convention was to say "What follows includes spoilers" so that anyone who didn't want the whole thing spoiled for them could stop reading at that point before learning that Neo gets a sex-change operation and that the Matrix was actually created by Apple-Pixar as a means of increasing the effectiveness of the Reality Distortion Field. Alas, none of the posts I saw did include such a warning, and I already have learned far more about the plot of the film than I really wanted before walking into the theater.

Bummer.