Archive for August 6, 2006

I wish I was a history major.

I wish I had taken more history courses because I want to know what came after the period of philosophy. Maybe it’s the crowd, but I hear a lot of talking about social this and social that and the value of being social. I also see a lot of things (software) to help everyone be more social in one form or another, and because of these things "virality" it’s still all voluntary – which is great. I want to start thinking about it further – namely how can we go beyond Peace Corp and start Drafting. How does drafting make everyone feel? Will it succeed, will it be semi-successful like communism, or will it flop and there will be a revolution in the making? How does one paint things pretty while knowingly herding humans into the squeeze-machine to get their shots Temple Grandin? Since there is no magic 8-ball, we can only learn from what we already know about human nature and its response to these stresses.

Maybe I’ll ask Joyce.

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The Descent

First time I heard this movie title I thought, descent of what? With scifi being so obscure to me most of the time, I just couldn’t be sure! Then I saw some more trailers and YTB-ed it and understood that it was  about the characters descending into a cave for exploration.

I don’t need to say much more about since it’s everywhere from the movies, to spoilers, to the actual movie online, but I found it very entertaining, definitely skin-crawl-tastic, and worth going to the big screens for. My dearest describes this as the "cat jumping (out)" effect and he hated it – left me for about an hour alone during the movie.

Aside from the "why did the US water down the ending" controversy, I just want to know where Juno found her eyeliner!?  Dude, every girl needs that black eyeliner, especially us yellow folks! I swear it looks perfect even up to the last scene where she is a ghost! Go Juno, you fine murdering adulterous minority!

++Juno for the makeup
–Juno for sleeping with her friend’s husband
–Juno for not killing her mistake
++Juno as good feed for mutants (this chick works out!)

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