Movie Moment

A wonderful thing happened last night.

First, you need to know that we leave the living room lamp on a timer - it comes on at 5:00, and goes off at 10:00, whether we're home or away. (note to burglars: the weapons room is down in the basement).

We were watching Jurassic Park for the 2,447th time last night. We've come to the scene where John Hammond passionately orders Mr. Arnold to "shut down the system," because none of these people can figure out how to find the on/off switch on the CPU, or even how to trace the power strip to the wall to unplug it, or even how to find an external subroutine called "white rabbit" with a simple line command that would search for a text string, or possibly even just display the list of filenames. (I'm assuming Nedry coded out the escape key). Anyway...

So Mr. Arnold flips the switches, one by one as we see terminals stop displaying, and we hear CPU's whirring down (which means the problem is already solved, but that's another story). We pause, and the camera pans in for a close up as he prepares to flip the very last switch, the one that tragically sets the raptors free.

And at the EXACT SAME MOMENT THAT HE FLIPS THAT SWITCH and the lights in the control room go out, our living room lamp goes out. 

It. Was. Awesome. #CoincidencesFor500Alex