I hope next year there will be less of this...
25 Dec 2009
The funny thing about Christmas
...is how everybody that doesn't give a sh** about you during the whole year, feel the obligation to text you or call you wishing a Merry Christmas.
23 Dec 2009
Quote of day #4
This seems appropriate in the aftermath of the Copenhagen climate talks.
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.
Agent Smith "The Matrix"
Quote of the day #3
Mi-do: [looking around the inside of Dae-su's "cell"] You stayed in a place like this for fifteen years?Dae-su Oh: Yeah, but after the first eleven it felt like home.
Old Boy
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Quote of the day #2
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
Hannibal Lecter "The Silence of the Lambs"
21 Dec 2009
Quote of the day
I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question, Neo. It's the question that drives us. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did.
Trinity "The Matrix"
20 Dec 2009
Avatar
I went to see this movie last Friday. Despite all the hype, I didn't have great expectations, because I've read in the internet that the plot was nothing special. Anyway I was curious about the 3D aspect of it. So curious that I bought a ticket for a 2D session, by mistake, and then exchanged it for a 3D session (with an extra cost of 2€), which started only two hours later.
What I like in the sci-fi genre is the possibility of using different worlds and futuristic technology to explore certian metaphysical concepts. For me the driver is the plot. This is not one of those films (for those interested, see Moon, the first film by Duncan Jones). Avatar is an adventure movie that happens to take place in the future and in another planet.
The plot is straightforward. Humans want to explore a very valuable mineral that exists in the planet Pandora. The problem is that the greatest concentration of the mineral is right underneath one of the places where the Na'vi live. The company that wants the mineral has a cientific side project (the Avatar) in which humans link to a Na'vi lab created body. The goal is to gain the Na'vi's trust and convince them to move. A strategy that has been unsucessfully. Then a crippled marine enters the programme and...
As I said before, the plot is not complex, it is essentially a love story, that makes the main male character to question his loyalty. It is impossible not to like the Na'vi, and the way they live in perfect harmony with their planet. The planet Pandora has a Gaia concept and the way it was designed delivers the most spectacular landscapes I've seen.
Bottom line, I really enjoyed it.
Now, about the 3D. I guess that the best thing I can say is that after a while I forgot I was wearing glasses. However, for countries where foreign language movies have lettering, it looks like the lettering is very close to one's eyes. If we focus on it, we will not see the film very well. It is the same kind of difficulty you have when you get one of those front row seats.
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13 Dec 2009
Paul Samuelson dies at 94
"I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws — or crafts its advanced treatises — if I can write its economics textbooks."
Paul Samuelson
NYT11 Dec 2009
10 Dec 2009
Yikes
I seems really cool and I think it has more comercial potential than the Segway, which in cities like Lisbon, with several hills, hasn't been much used, although it is widely used at shopping malls by the security guys, and by some police officers.
Heard yesterday in a sitcom
Husband: Of course I am, the problem is when I wake up.
7 Dec 2009
35 x Clint Eastwood
6 Dec 2009
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4 Dec 2009
Bad to the bone
On the day I was born, the nurses all gathered 'roundAnd they gazed in wide wonder, at the joy they had foundThe head nurse spoke up, and she said leave this one aloneShe could tell right away, that I was bad to the bone
George Thorogood & the Destroyers - Bad to the Bone Lyrics
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3 Dec 2009
Obama's speech inviting proposals for job creation
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26 Nov 2009
25 Nov 2009
Visualizing empires decline
Visualizing empires decline from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo.
Via The Big Picture. Barry Ritholtz asks: "Where is the spinoff of the US from Britain?"
20 Nov 2009
19 Nov 2009
Las Vegas growth
Via Blog do Leonardo Monasteriomm, can't make the figure change. Click the above link to see the changes from 1984 to 2004.
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13 Nov 2009
Mac Tonnies died
I was wondering why I wasn't seeing any new posts from the Posthuman Blues blog. I just found out that the author, Mac Tonnies, 34 years old, died on the 22nd October. He leaves a site with excellent sci-fi book reviews.
RIP Mac
Jon Stewart impersonates Glenn Beck
Really deserved.
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Quote of the day
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
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