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| Thursday, December 31st, 2009 | | 12:55 am |
New years stuff
So what do we want to marathon for our new years get together? I know people want to play some rock band but I figure that's not an all-day activity. So here are some ideas that popped into my head: 1) Original Star Wars trilogy. 2) 1st season of Avatar. 3) Dr Who first season (we have the discs on loan from Mike) 4) Torchwood 1st season (likewise) 5) Terminator + Terminator 2 6) The Matrix + Speed Racer 7) Iron Man + The Iron Giant 8) Blade + Blade 2 9) Casino Royale + Quantum of Solace 10)Uh....Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas + The Amazing Adventures of the Baron Munchausen? Or something? I'm running out of ideas. | | Thursday, June 19th, 2008 | | 12:12 am |
| | Friday, October 26th, 2007 | | 2:32 pm |
| | Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 | | 12:38 pm |
| | Monday, February 19th, 2007 | | 2:08 pm |
This is why Transhumanism is kind of cool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q&eurlThe Braveheart music is way overblown...but still a terrifying and exciting thing. The "singularity" may be kind of silly, but that doesn't mean there isn't some really wierd stuff going on today...and some of it may be unprecidented, and some of it may be fundamentally changing the way human society works. Give us enough time, and maybe we will turn into something.....different. (Mind, though, that some of their statistics are misleading. For instance, they imply that a $1000 computer will be able to match the computational capability of the human brain by 2010, and the human race by 2050. But this means less then it appears, since it seems pretty clear that raw computation and what the human brain does are not the same thing. A modern computer can already out-math the greatest savants we have, but it can't even understand basic human idioms without being expressily preprogrammed to do so by a human--and then it does it badly. Dogs are better at that. Without the structure that allows "thought"--and we haven't even begun to understand how the hell that works--a computer with more computational power then a human brain is simply a very fast computer. A computer with the computational power of the human race, though--honestly, I don't think anyone even has the faintest idea yet what you could do with that. Probably things we have never imagined. Which is the point.) | | Friday, December 1st, 2006 | | 10:42 pm |
| | Monday, August 21st, 2006 | | 12:15 pm |
| | Tuesday, July 11th, 2006 | | 3:35 pm |
The East India Company Strikes Back!
Andee insists I post my theory that Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest is loosly based on The Empire Strikes Back. Avast there! I be jawin' o spoilers here, ye scurvey dogs! Will = Luke Jack = Han Elizibeth = Leah Davey Jones + Boostrap Bill together = Darth Vader Norrington = Lando Calrisian Voodoo Girl = Yoda Now lets examine plot similarities: --Elizibeth, deeply in love with Young Heroic Guy, finds herself drawn to Rougish Scoundrel despite herself while she's on a ship with him attempting to evade the bad guys. --"Will, I'm your father!" --Jack gets frozen in carbonite. Well, actually, he gets eaten by the Kraken, but that's basically the same thing, right? And anyway, our heroes have lost him at the end of this movie and will have to go rescue him in the next one. With a former bad guy, no less! It's not a perfect fit. Still, the similarities are striking. | | Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 | | 1:30 am |
Yeah, I did the silly 100 question survey Andee posted. Because some of my answers would be kind of funny. ( Read more... ) | | Wednesday, January 18th, 2006 | | 7:51 am |
- Twenty-eight percent of Microsoft's employees are anzovin.
- Anzovin is often used in place of milk in food photography, because milk goes soggy more quickly than anzovin.
- In his entire life, anzovin will produce only a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey.
- All of the roles in Shakespeare's plays - including the female roles - were originally played by anzovin.
- An average beaver can cut down anzovin every year.
- Anzovin can squeeze his entire body through a hole the size of his beak!
- Anzovin is actually a mammal, not a fish!
- Research indicates that anzovin will be attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas!
- Wearing headphones for an hour will increase the amount of anzovin in your ear 700 times!
- Astronauts get taller when they are in anzovin!
| | Saturday, December 10th, 2005 | | 11:08 pm |
When I was young, I thought of the creative world as a simple morality play between "good guys" and "bad guys." "Good guys" were inspired and had deft and accurate creative judgment, and the things they produced were wonderful and eminently useful. "Bad guys" were incompetent and tasteless, and the things they produced were cliched and awkward, or didn't work (though they could produce something good once in a while, by accident). Akira Kurosawa and Jim Henson were good guys. Michael Bay and Bill Gates were bad guys. It wasn't hard to tell them apart, and while good guys were worthy of respect, bad guys were worthy of utter contempt; I took creative achievement for a direct measure of personal worth. I always intended to be a good guy, of course. Now I'm older, and I've seen that things are quite a bit more complicated. But I haven't been able to let go of my simple dualistic worldview--I seem to cling to it against all reason, even though I know it's ridiculous. Unfortunately, if you take that view as axiomatic, it's logical conclusion is inescapable: I turned out to be a bad guy after all. Try as I might, my rational mind can't dislodge a belief as deep seated as this wierd creative heaven and hell (far more deep-seated then any belief I ever had in God). It's a weirdly Calvinistic (or perhaps Litvak) belief when you get right down to it, and it takes every creative mistake I make and inflates it, Hulk-like, into something with the soul-crushing weight of sin. And yet, it sort of still appeals to me, too: after all, what kind of person would I be if I changed my view of the world simply because I could not live up to it? It satisfies some twisted sense of honor within me that if I ever judged other people harshly, to judge myself with the same standards. If I didn't, I guess I'd be a hypocrite, which is even worse then being a "bad guy." That, at least, I'm pretty sure I'm not. Man, down on paper, that sounds really pompous. I mean, I just used the term "honor" in a sentence with total seriousness. It's totally the kind of stiff-backed attitude that you might have seen exhibited by The Sandman. And then Death would throw a bread at him. It really does explain quite a lot about why my head works the way it does, though. This moment of late-night self-knowledge was brough to you by the letter Q. | | Thursday, September 29th, 2005 | | 4:50 pm |
Sleep is for the weak
It strikes me that the rest of the Amoeba has perhaps been wondering where the hell I've been. Some explanation seems to be warrented: I, normally, have a work schedule that goes from 10am to 6pm, more or less. Morgan normally has a work schedule that goes from 3pm to 11pm, more or less. And we are now working on this very critical project together. Now, unfortunately, I can't work 3 to 11, because the rest of my employees work 10 to 6, and I have discovered that they require by presence. However, if I just cut out at 6, me and Morgan never get anything done. Morgan can't shift her sleeping schedule because she has real problems with insomnia that prevent her from doing so. So, this week and last week, I've basically been working 10am to 11pm most of the time. The time I am not working a therefor largely spend sleeping. Hopefully this will end today. I'll still be doing that sporadically throughout the next month though. And now you know. | | Saturday, September 24th, 2005 | | 11:24 am |
| | Friday, September 16th, 2005 | | 4:41 pm |
| | Friday, August 19th, 2005 | | 6:54 pm |
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THAT's funny
Well, I figured I'd try this despite the very small number of people on my friends list. The result....well, you just have to see it for yourself.... 1. Go here. 2. Pass it on. ( my answers ) | | Sunday, July 3rd, 2005 | | 10:58 pm |
| | Tuesday, June 28th, 2005 | | 9:11 pm |
Pinball wizard in a miracle cure?
So, my guts have been going "sproing" for a few weeks now. I couldn't understand it. This is probably the least stressfull time in my life since before I left for White Plains. And even when I was under a lot more stress a few weeks ago, I had it all under control. Guts were feelng OK. So, what the hell were they doing now? Not even something I'd ever seen before! And today I had a strange thought. I've been taking six tablets of Citrucel every day for a year and a half. One tablet is a normal daily dose of fiber. I needed six. Soluble fiber draws water into your intestines. What do you suppose would happen if a guy had IBS, and it suddenly STOPPED? And he was still taking six tablets of Citrucel a day? (This is not without precedent....sometimes IBS goes away by itself). What would that sudden massive overdose of soluble fiber do? I stopped taking it this morning. I feel fine. My God....do I dare hope? | | Thursday, May 19th, 2005 | | 9:21 pm |
Sound and fury, signifying nothing
I saw Revenge of the Sith and I spent the entire time thinking about the effects and the cinematography. And that's all I have to say about that. I liked General Grevious though. I wanted to see a General Grevious movie instead of this one. I think he should team up with Obi-Wan's iguana and take over the universe. They'd rock. | | Tuesday, April 5th, 2005 | | 2:27 pm |
Rock operas
David Bowie wants to make a rock opera out of The Watchmen? That's just weird. Nearly as weird as the time I found out that the Iron Giant was originally supposed to be an animated rock opera by Pete Townshend. Now, I love the Iron Giant to death, but there's always been a little voice in the back of my head that goes, "An animated rock opera by Pete Townshend about a giant robot.....jeeze, that would have been cool." It's too bad the Beatles never did their version of The Lord of the Rings either. I bet it would have been better then the version we have. John was gonna play Gollum. Now, what would really have been cool, is if they could have convinced Leonard Nemoy to play Elrond. It would have been about the right time period for that, right? Current Music: "Bilbo Baggins" by Leonard Nemoy |
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