For the past month at work we've been having security reviews. Many days we spend 4 to 6 hours a day in tedious meetings. It’s starting to get to the team. For the past couple of days, about an hour into a meeting, everyone starts to break out in giggles.

C3 I went and saw Amelie. C3 has seen it once and wanted to see it again. When we got to the theater, he asked me to sit near the front. He wanted to see it all close up.

Amelie is a great movie. It’s about a shy Paris girl who concocts elaborate schemes to make other people happy. For example—an old man mopes around, mourning his long deceased wife and tending to a garden shrine he built for her. He rarely goes out or talks to people, or travels. Amelie steals a lawn gnome from the shrine and gives it to an airline stewardess. As the stewardess travels, she takes photos of the gnome in famous places, Moscow, Thailand, New York, and mails the photos to the old man. As the old man receives the photos, he gets more frustrated and amused that his lawn gnome is traveling around the world while he stays at home. Then, one morning he wakes up and the gnome is back on the shrine. The old man packs his bags and heads for the airport.

That scheme is a very small part of Amelie. There are half a dozen more, plus one played on Amelie herself.