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I've known that this was coming but they didn't announce it on their website. Is the MATRIX online already? I thought they were still doing recon..

That's certainly what they did when they needed a freeeway. Whole cities are probably harder to build cheaply.

(By the way, who the heck is this? She's cute.)

That's certainly what they did when they needed a freeeway. Whole cities are probably harder to build cheaply.

(By the way, who the heck is this? She's cute.)

thematrixonline reports that rumored replacements include Stacey Dash (from Clueless) and Brandy Norwood (singer, star of Moesha).

My question is, why were these guys always in the city hanging out? Did they ever get any filming done?

I worked as an extra during some of the filming of the sequels. A lot of of the stuff they were filming around here didn't involve Keanu's character, so he was "around" but not actively involved in most of it.

As for the other actors, sometimes you need them, other times a stand-in or stunt double is sufficent. During some of the stunt-heavy sequences the real Carrie-Anne Moss was only on our set once or twice a week at most; ditto for The Fish. But their stunt doubles were around constantly. It depends on what you're filming.

For ongoing info on the sequels, try www.thematrixonline.com .

http://upcomingmovies.com/matrix2.html
http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/details/matrix2.html
http://www2.thematrixonline.com/

Regarding companies folding: It's really bad out there now, but it's been particularly bad in the PDA field, which has been my specialty until recently. The last four major companies I worked for (the Newton Group of Apple, the DataRover group of General Magic, PocketScience, and Red Jade) are all dead or on life support today. Generally I left a company because I could see the crash coming despite my best efforts to prevent it. Although in one case -- the Newton group at apple -- I left because I was actually optimistic about the product and wanted to have a bigger stake in its success than I could get as a low-level Apple employee. (So I became employee #4 of LandWare, a company which narrowly managed to survive the Newton crash by diversifying into Palm and Windows CE).

My logical next move would be Palm or Handspring, but they've both got hiring freezes on and Palm just had a couple rounds of layoffs. Had I gone the Windows route it wouldn't have been any better; none of the major players in the early days are still thriving today. The only player that has been somewhat stable throughout is Microsoft itself. I've thought about that too, but on the other hand, "once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny." :-)

i'm no expert at resume writing but yours could use some work...[suggestions]

Thanks for the comments. I've changed some of it. I usually save the "what I want to bring to YOUR company" for the cover letter and just let the objective say what general area I'm interested in. But what I bring is the ability to spot and solve problems the company doesn't know it has. Problems with the product, problems with the process for producing it. I am really enthusiastic about producing a high quality user experience and have the tech background that lets me understand and figure out how to help the engineers fix the problems that might prevent that.

Something will turn up. And if not, there's always acting! (In the last couple months I worked as an extra on the two Matrix movies currently being filmed. I left that off the resume since I couldn't figure out how to make driving on a fake freeway relevant enough to a real job to be worth the distraction factor.)