Spoiler.
We went out to "Pirates of the Carribean" finally last night.
You know what I'm thinking?
Will Turner's dad has been rotting away as a living skeleton at the bottom of the ocean for years now, and suddenly he's just been crushed to death.
--The pirates sent him to the bottom of Davy Jones's locker with a weight attached to his bootstraps.
--He had to have taken one of the gold pieces, in order to pass it to his son.
--His blood was necessary to release the curse.
--Thus he was one of the undead.
Ewwww.
10.10.2003
Harlan Ellison on Schwartzenegger's Election:
To all the other 49 states — with the exception of Minnesota, whose election of a mountebank transcends even ours — the coronation of Ahnuld seems phantasmagoric. But not to us. We've done it at least twice before: George Murphy to the Senate, and Reagan to the White House. So, been there, seen that, done that. I thought, early on, that it was a great slate with Gary Coleman and Schwarzenegger both running: remember in MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME, the behemoth called "Master Blaster" — this seven-foot-tall brain-damaged, muscle-bound giant, with the midget strapped to his shoulders? Wow, what a terrific Governor we'd have if we just cranked Gary Coleman down onto Ahnuld's shoulders!! As long as nobody blew a high-pitched dog whistle, we'd be in sweet milk an' honey. So what do I actually think about all this foofaraw? To quote Thomas Jefferson, who was rewording le Comte de Maistre: "People get pretty much the kind of government they deserve."
(via ***Dave)
See what I mean?
To all the other 49 states — with the exception of Minnesota, whose election of a mountebank transcends even ours — the coronation of Ahnuld seems phantasmagoric. But not to us. We've done it at least twice before: George Murphy to the Senate, and Reagan to the White House. So, been there, seen that, done that. I thought, early on, that it was a great slate with Gary Coleman and Schwarzenegger both running: remember in MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME, the behemoth called "Master Blaster" — this seven-foot-tall brain-damaged, muscle-bound giant, with the midget strapped to his shoulders? Wow, what a terrific Governor we'd have if we just cranked Gary Coleman down onto Ahnuld's shoulders!! As long as nobody blew a high-pitched dog whistle, we'd be in sweet milk an' honey. So what do I actually think about all this foofaraw? To quote Thomas Jefferson, who was rewording le Comte de Maistre: "People get pretty much the kind of government they deserve."
(via ***Dave)
See what I mean?
10.09.2003
Must have said something amiss.
From "Bob Marley":
[The following concludes an email of 250 words or so.]
"For the most part, I'm usually against this sort of thing, going with a
"well, whatever suits you" approach, but for some reason your utter crap has
rubbed me the wrong way and I just had to share my dissatisfaction of you,
with you. I don't suppose that any of this really matters, though, since
I'll never be reading any of this shit you post again, but maybe you'll do
others a favor and stop writing altogether. I know you would have saved me a
lot of time if you had never started at all."
He also states that the stuff of mine he's read is annoying, seemingly "tripe-ish" and that I insist that "whatever you say must simply be so, just becuase *you* say it is."
Admittedly, I'm a pompous ass at times, both in person and on paper, but I wonder what it was that made him bother with writing to me at all if he didn't care for it. Or spending any amount of time reading anything I'd written, for that matter!
Eh.
Since this guy won't be reading anything I have to post, I'll just leave a comment for future reference: specific examples of my tripe, shit, crap, etc., are requested. This is called "constructive criticism," although it isn't necessary to give suggestions for improvement.
Update:
Aha. I've figured out the professional way to handle this unless you're Harlan Ellison:
"Your comments have been received and noted. I'm sorry you didn't enjoy what you read. Better luck next time." If you're Harlan Ellison, people will pay you to rip into the guy, so have fun.
From "Bob Marley"
[The following concludes an email of 250 words or so.]
"For the most part, I'm usually against this sort of thing, going with a
"well, whatever suits you" approach, but for some reason your utter crap has
rubbed me the wrong way and I just had to share my dissatisfaction of you,
with you. I don't suppose that any of this really matters, though, since
I'll never be reading any of this shit you post again, but maybe you'll do
others a favor and stop writing altogether. I know you would have saved me a
lot of time if you had never started at all."
He also states that the stuff of mine he's read is annoying, seemingly "tripe-ish" and that I insist that "whatever you say must simply be so, just becuase *you* say it is."
Admittedly, I'm a pompous ass at times, both in person and on paper, but I wonder what it was that made him bother with writing to me at all if he didn't care for it. Or spending any amount of time reading anything I'd written, for that matter!
Eh.
Since this guy won't be reading anything I have to post, I'll just leave a comment for future reference: specific examples of my tripe, shit, crap, etc., are requested. This is called "constructive criticism," although it isn't necessary to give suggestions for improvement.
Update:
Aha. I've figured out the professional way to handle this unless you're Harlan Ellison:
"Your comments have been received and noted. I'm sorry you didn't enjoy what you read. Better luck next time." If you're Harlan Ellison, people will pay you to rip into the guy, so have fun.
10.08.2003
Laywoman's Physics. Here's me rambling. Don't expect a) math or b) accuracy. Just jazzing around.
Question: If the second law of thermodynamics means that entropy (not chaos) will increase, balancing an ordered state against an entropic state, what is life?
Growing a cell is not a purely ordered process. We can't guarantee what we're going to get when a cell grows. All sorts of things can happen in between DNA and expression. DNA can be ordered, but it's influenced by chaos (non-linear order) as well as entropy. On a larger scale, we can't predict, given sexual reproduction, which gametes will develop. Will baby have grandma's eyes? Or uncle's temper?
So. It's not pure order. And life, since it's able to make order, isn't pure entropy.
Just reading A Brief History of Time, and I'm wondering about this because Stephen Hawking notes that if you remember all the information in the book, you've increased the order in the universe by about two millions units of information, but you would have consumed about twenty million million million million units of energy while doing it. But what about all the other order that's created when we live?
Heh. And if you write a book, and enough people read it to pay off your energy-debt, are you ahead of the game?
Question: If the second law of thermodynamics means that entropy (not chaos) will increase, balancing an ordered state against an entropic state, what is life?
Growing a cell is not a purely ordered process. We can't guarantee what we're going to get when a cell grows. All sorts of things can happen in between DNA and expression. DNA can be ordered, but it's influenced by chaos (non-linear order) as well as entropy. On a larger scale, we can't predict, given sexual reproduction, which gametes will develop. Will baby have grandma's eyes? Or uncle's temper?
So. It's not pure order. And life, since it's able to make order, isn't pure entropy.
Just reading A Brief History of Time, and I'm wondering about this because Stephen Hawking notes that if you remember all the information in the book, you've increased the order in the universe by about two millions units of information, but you would have consumed about twenty million million million million units of energy while doing it. But what about all the other order that's created when we live?
Heh. And if you write a book, and enough people read it to pay off your energy-debt, are you ahead of the game?
10.06.2003
10.04.2003
Aha.
I realized that as complicated as the setup of the novel is, someone else has pulled something like it off before: The Neverending Story.
The Empress is dying, and unless something is done, existence will stop.
--That's not the focus of the story, but I think it'll help me feeling so lost when it comes to thinking, "How the hell am I going to explain this so it makes sense?"
I realized that as complicated as the setup of the novel is, someone else has pulled something like it off before: The Neverending Story.
The Empress is dying, and unless something is done, existence will stop.
--That's not the focus of the story, but I think it'll help me feeling so lost when it comes to thinking, "How the hell am I going to explain this so it makes sense?"
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