Nature does things for a reason...I wonder why this creature uses fibre optic to anchor itself to the ocean floor.
I doubt it is using the fibre optic to communicate...Perhaps it is using it because it happens to also be very flexible and strong at the same time, the fact that it could also be used for transporting light is a co-incidence.
In mid 2002 Harry Shearer was on a television show in Australia called The Panel.
He was asked (and did) many of the voices he does including Mr Burns and Smithers.
One of the things he did was record and answering machine message for one of the hosts that went like this (slightly paraphrased):
"Hello, you've reached Glenn's house. Unfortunately he is busy at the plant right now, but he'll call you back soon"
I don't know if this was because he was on Australian televison and not in America, but he used the voices and said a lot of different stuff. He didn't endorse anything, just used them in jokes and stuff.
It would be great to be the voice of a Simpsons' cast member, as you could get jokes every time by doing their voice.
Marge: Where are you going, Bart? Bart: Mom, you won't believe this, but something you said the other day really got through to me. Marge: Mmm! Bart: And now, I am going to teach some kids a lesson. Marge: I choose to take that literally. Bart: [outside] Death to Shelbyville! Homer:Yes, Bart's a tutor now. Tute on, son! Tute on.
Later in that episode
Marge: It's almost lunch time. Do you know where your brother is tutoring? Lisa: Pfft. Tutoring? The only thing Bart's teaching is guerilla combat in Shelbyville. Marge: Well, do you have a number where we can reach him? Lisa: No, Mom, Bart and some kids ran off to wage war on Shelbyville! Marge: [gasps] Homer! Come quick! Bart's quit his tutoring job and joined a violence gang!
Anyone remember LORD2, it was a game in ANSI colour, and you controlled a little smilie face character, and you could walk around the different maps, talk to people, etc.
Then you had all the Adult Games, Bordello, Studs, Studdettes (I think that was the female version). Funny as hell those games now that I think about it.
A friend of mine who ran a BBS also wrote his own games, including a LORD style game called War Of The Sysops (WOTS). You had to get money (going out and fighting monsters), upgrading your PC (and BBS), upgrading your modem, selling registrations on your BBS, etc. Then you could organise a hack on one of the other Sysops BBS and bring it down. Quite fun.
That was Anno's idea when he made Evangelion. He was sick of the same type of anime series being released with the same type of ending that you could work out after watching 1 episode.
So he made Evangelion end the way he did, partly because the real story in Eva was about Anno and his battle with depression (expressed mostly in Shinji, but part of his pesonna is in Rei and Asuka too), and the other part is Anno wanting everyone to make their own conclusions and not be told what to think.
If, like Anno, you can analyse yourself and identify flaws in yourself (like at the end when all the characters are being interrogated), perhaps you can make changes and maybe become a better person because of it.
End of Evangelion was, when it comes down to it, nothing more than a more visual representation (easier to follow) of episodes 25 and 26.
It can take a number of viewings of the final episodes to make any sense of them, but understanding that it was never about a boy and his robot saving the world (hence the illuminated stage, which is Anno saying that the story leading up to this was nothing more than a show, a facade), it was the story of a man who's mother died, who became a recluse and was neither living or dead for 4 years, but this man was able to face himself, and with the saying, I musn't run away, he was able to accept himself for who he was (a coward, just like Shinji) and he was able to, in his mind, make the changes necessary to become a better person.
In the end, isn't accepting yourself for who you are half the battle, rather than trying to be something you're not?
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All these damn celebrities,
All they do is watch TV,
On a 58" Plasma screen.
I can't go back to SDTV,
It hurts my eyes, you see,
This is how hard life can be.
I'd like to see them spend a week,
Posting as a slashdot geek,
I don't think they would survive.
If they could spend a day or two,
Posting in a slashdotter's shoes,
I think they'd be flamed and they'd fall,
They would faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal.
There are several Anime series that are either based on or have raised this very issue.
The most prominent is one called Serial Experiments Lain. It is based on a girl who commits suicide to live in the "wired" world. She then sends e-mail to her friends, saying that she isn't dead, she simply left her body behind as she didn't need it to live on the wired world.
She then tells her friends to hurry up and join her in the wired world. One of these friends, Lain, then connects to the wired world (or the Internet) and she begins to explore this world and who she really is. Eventually she finds out the truth (along the lines of Neo in The Matrix).
Anyway it is an excellent series that has a lot of abstract thought and raises questions that make the viewer think about this very topic. This series was made in 1997 I believe, and just having watched it again recently, I can say that it must have been a big inspiration for the Wolchowski (sp) brothers for The Matrix (which also has similar themes to it but doesn't really raise these questions or challenge the users in the way Serial Experiments Lain does.
Another series called Neon Genesis Evangelion, while not directly related to this topic, does raise issues based on this, and it even has attempts at digitising a human mind and soul, as well as one character who is based on the dna remains of one individual who died earlier, as well as a digital copy of her mind, and in the finale it even has this "clone" questioning who she really is, whether she is nothing more than a false body with a fake soul, or whether she is a real person.
However Neon Genesis' main theme is based on finding out each person's truth, who they really are, what their value in life is, etc, etc, but it does raise this theme to an extent.
You can see one person (or production groups) thoughts on this very topic in Serial Experiments Lain, so if anyone is interested in this (or, if they enjoyed the Matrix), then this series is something I would recommend seeing. It wont answer the questions we don't have answers to, but at the very least you can come away with an interesting perspective on it.
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Nature does things for a reason...I wonder why this creature uses fibre optic to anchor itself to the ocean floor. I doubt it is using the fibre optic to communicate...Perhaps it is using it because it happens to also be very flexible and strong at the same time, the fact that it could also be used for transporting light is a co-incidence.
In mid 2002 Harry Shearer was on a television show in Australia called The Panel.
He was asked (and did) many of the voices he does including Mr Burns and Smithers.
One of the things he did was record and answering machine message for one of the hosts that went like this (slightly paraphrased):
"Hello, you've reached Glenn's house. Unfortunately he is busy at the plant right now, but he'll call you back soon"
I don't know if this was because he was on Australian televison and not in America, but he used the voices and said a lot of different stuff. He didn't endorse anything, just used them in jokes and stuff.
It would be great to be the voice of a Simpsons' cast member, as you could get jokes every time by doing their voice.
Marge: Where are you going, Bart?
Bart: Mom, you won't believe this, but something you said the other day really got through to me.
Marge: Mmm!
Bart: And now, I am going to teach some kids a lesson.
Marge: I choose to take that literally.
Bart: [outside] Death to Shelbyville!
Homer:Yes, Bart's a tutor now. Tute on, son! Tute on.
Later in that episode
Marge: It's almost lunch time. Do you know where your brother is tutoring?
Lisa: Pfft. Tutoring? The only thing Bart's teaching is guerilla combat in Shelbyville.
Marge: Well, do you have a number where we can reach him?
Lisa: No, Mom, Bart and some kids ran off to wage war on Shelbyville!
Marge: [gasps] Homer! Come quick! Bart's quit his tutoring job and joined a violence gang!
BRE was also another good game.
Anyone remember LORD2, it was a game in ANSI colour, and you controlled a little smilie face character, and you could walk around the different maps, talk to people, etc.
Then you had all the Adult Games, Bordello, Studs, Studdettes (I think that was the female version). Funny as hell those games now that I think about it.
A friend of mine who ran a BBS also wrote his own games, including a LORD style game called War Of The Sysops (WOTS). You had to get money (going out and fighting monsters), upgrading your PC (and BBS), upgrading your modem, selling registrations on your BBS, etc. Then you could organise a hack on one of the other Sysops BBS and bring it down. Quite fun.
But you didn't get anywhere with her.
So VCDs may get chicks to your house, but if you don't make a move on them, you end up getting nothing.
That was Anno's idea when he made Evangelion. He was sick of the same type of anime series being released with the same type of ending that you could work out after watching 1 episode.
So he made Evangelion end the way he did, partly because the real story in Eva was about Anno and his battle with depression (expressed mostly in Shinji, but part of his pesonna is in Rei and Asuka too), and the other part is Anno wanting everyone to make their own conclusions and not be told what to think.
If, like Anno, you can analyse yourself and identify flaws in yourself (like at the end when all the characters are being interrogated), perhaps you can make changes and maybe become a better person because of it.
End of Evangelion was, when it comes down to it, nothing more than a more visual representation (easier to follow) of episodes 25 and 26.
It can take a number of viewings of the final episodes to make any sense of them, but understanding that it was never about a boy and his robot saving the world (hence the illuminated stage, which is Anno saying that the story leading up to this was nothing more than a show, a facade), it was the story of a man who's mother died, who became a recluse and was neither living or dead for 4 years, but this man was able to face himself, and with the saying, I musn't run away, he was able to accept himself for who he was (a coward, just like Shinji) and he was able to, in his mind, make the changes necessary to become a better person.
In the end, isn't accepting yourself for who you are half the battle, rather than trying to be something you're not?
All these damn celebrities, All they do is watch TV, On a 58" Plasma screen. I can't go back to SDTV, It hurts my eyes, you see, This is how hard life can be. I'd like to see them spend a week, Posting as a slashdot geek, I don't think they would survive. If they could spend a day or two, Posting in a slashdotter's shoes, I think they'd be flamed and they'd fall, They would faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal.
There are several Anime series that are either based on or have raised this very issue.
The most prominent is one called Serial Experiments Lain. It is based on a girl who commits suicide to live in the "wired" world. She then sends e-mail to her friends, saying that she isn't dead, she simply left her body behind as she didn't need it to live on the wired world.
She then tells her friends to hurry up and join her in the wired world. One of these friends, Lain, then connects to the wired world (or the Internet) and she begins to explore this world and who she really is. Eventually she finds out the truth (along the lines of Neo in The Matrix).
Anyway it is an excellent series that has a lot of abstract thought and raises questions that make the viewer think about this very topic. This series was made in 1997 I believe, and just having watched it again recently, I can say that it must have been a big inspiration for the Wolchowski (sp) brothers for The Matrix (which also has similar themes to it but doesn't really raise these questions or challenge the users in the way Serial Experiments Lain does.
Another series called Neon Genesis Evangelion, while not directly related to this topic, does raise issues based on this, and it even has attempts at digitising a human mind and soul, as well as one character who is based on the dna remains of one individual who died earlier, as well as a digital copy of her mind, and in the finale it even has this "clone" questioning who she really is, whether she is nothing more than a false body with a fake soul, or whether she is a real person.
However Neon Genesis' main theme is based on finding out each person's truth, who they really are, what their value in life is, etc, etc, but it does raise this theme to an extent.
You can see one person (or production groups) thoughts on this very topic in Serial Experiments Lain, so if anyone is interested in this (or, if they enjoyed the Matrix), then this series is something I would recommend seeing. It wont answer the questions we don't have answers to, but at the very least you can come away with an interesting perspective on it.