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Where did you learn / to shake that booty?
2002-03-14 17:31:30
EK: I LUUVER the lead guy's facial expression. Don't change it one bit. The catgirl's also pretty nice. Er, for a catgirl that is.
In another of the Mecha Reads More Deep Literature series, I finished reading Freeman Dyson's "Disturbing The Universe". Dyson's now on my Thoughtful and Witty Scientist/Writer list, along with Richard Feynman(who also gets a lot of attention in Disturbing The Universe).
It's really interesting to see what Dyson spends his time thinking about, and how high a level of common sense he's got. Morover, he spent a lot of time connected to military weapon projects and has a lot of thoughts on the nuclear bomb programs, biological weapons, the failure of nuclear power, and his observations on government burecrats. I encourage anyone who's eyeing GWB nervously to read it thoroughly, and give me a report by next week.
And that's not even anything on his ideas that have been stolen for Sci-Fi(he even notes that he didn't think up the idea for "artificial biospheres", or "Dyson spheres", he jacked it from an earlier writer).
All this from an offhand reference by Bruce Sterling in the beginning of Schismatrix Plus. God, I love it when people show you where SF writers steal a lot of their ideas from..
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Recursion: see recursion
2002-03-06 03:24:07
Bowler: tell me about it. The club that I recently starting going to for laffs is full of high-school and community-college students, who are some of the most stereotypical fans you can find(hate all dubs, make fun of anything serious, rabid Bemani players, hate all animation outside of Japan). I knew I should have slipped a Molly Star-Racer preview clip into the last music video tape I made for them..
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WOOP WOOP
2002-03-05 12:46:47
http://www.wsu.edu/~mechaman/gallery/F1-finalfinal.jpg.
http://www.wsu.edu/~mechaman/F1story.html
All of this for http://www.seesystems.com/f1/. Don't know how much of a chance I stand, especially against entries like #17 or #21, but it was shure fun.
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I hope I will arrive soon.
2002-02-06 02:21:59
I'd like to take time out to note what else I do in the UW undergrad library besides design 3D projects. The WSU library was curiously lacking in some of the titles..
-O'Neill. Oddly enough, the WSU library never had a copy of The High Frontier. I read it for the first time(after wanting to read it after I finished the first translated Gundam novel, almost ten years ago). It's beautiful, how O'Neill illustrates his vision; how the space colonies would work, how they could be built, and where they might go. And all in a tone that still makes you feel like the 50's mood of "we can do ANYTHING if we set our minds to it!". I sometimes wonder if anyone else has bothered to read it lately.
-Philip K. Dick. I always liked how Dick managed to have at least some effect on the movies his stories inspired(but they never go far enough, Dick comments that he likes to make perfect worlds that crumble, and see what the inhabitants do). But the most interesting thing is in his foreword of IHIWAS.
He notes that kids are the most honest entities he's known. You can't lie on the TV and make it stick with a kid, he says. Sure, the burger, gum, and entertainment industries can rack up sales figures like no tomorrow, but the kids aren't hopelessly brainwashed into them forever, because they perceive Truth on an elemental level.
"Bollocks", I say. Then I remember the (not-so)baby cousin that lives near me--when I knew him growing up, he was hyperactive, climbed on everything, destroyed everything, and was totally addicted to the Power Rangers. I said at the time that I didn't want to imagine what his generation would be like when they got older; enslaved to a ridiculous set of media industries.
I look at him now, and while he's still a bit off(thinks Perfect Dark is the greatest game ever, and listens to those horrid "Now That's What I Call Music!" collections), he's a very calm and sensible boy, no different from the kids I remember when growing up.
It makes me remember what my mother said when I made the statement; "You know, if Power Rangers had been on when you were his age, you'd have worshipped it as well." After all, we all had Star Wars sheets, toys, and Transformers, didn't we?
It's just another facet of a truth I've known for a long, long time.
The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same.
There's some parallels here to anime fandom, but I leave it for the clever readers as their own exercise. The clueless readers can accept a swift kick in the ass--go to bed, kids!
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"Oy, Ranma! This is not a SCAN meeting!"
2002-01-31 03:45:25
I love it when I find places to actually drop references to parody fandubs that other people _actually get_.
I had some stuff stored up to write about, such as Lexx(oh, I do love the humor, even if it's not quite up to snuff as other eps), Birdy The Mighty(foolish me, assuming it had been dumped to DVD already. It's capture card-hunting time.), and Full Metal Panic(it's Gasaraki Does High School, from the first episode). All of which just kind of pales to the fact that Puni Puni Poemi #2 is the most concentrated dollop of UTTER WRONG that I've seen in my entire life ever.
Go watch it right now.
And the site Tim mentioned; ah, those wacky French Flash-artists.
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