{"id":223,"date":"2003-08-22T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-22T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=223"},"modified":"2003-08-22T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-22T14:38:00","slug":"tron-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Tron (1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>ron. For some kind of reasons I keep thinking of BASIC (the language) commands ‘tron’ and ‘troff’, effectively meaning something like (respectively) ‘trace on’ and ‘trace off’. I think it showed the line numbers of execution, but I can’t remember exactly. I’ll have to test that in the MSX emulator one day. Anyways, we’re also talking  about the movie called Tron<\/a>, starring Bruce Boxleitner, Jeff Bridges and Cindy Morgan (official website)<\/a> . <\/p>\n

The last time I saw the movie must have been when I was in my late teens. Or early twenties. And although the story nowadays would be ranked ‘mediocre’ (the same for the acting), the animation and the special effects are making this movie interesting and worthwhile watching. Not to mention the sexy neon suits. <\/p>\n

If you were an Eighties nerd, this film is a must see, if only for the graphics and effects alone. And watch Cindy change helmets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tron. For some kind of reasons I keep thinking of BASIC (the language) commands ‘tron’ and ‘troff’, effectively meaning something like (respectively) ‘trace on’ and ‘trace off’. I think it showed the line numbers of execution, but I can’t remember … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}