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caffeinatedTopic: General
Had a bit of an out-of-state adventure this past week, accounting for a complete dearth of updates. I'm sure everyone noticed and was extremely concerned...
right?...
*Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp*... ...ouch.
Anyway, to make up for it I'm craming the subjectmatter of a few day's worth of posts into this Friday edition (...and even an update on TYPERS, to whom it may concern)
SUBJECT TEH ONE:
"Peace" in the Valley...
So much for that 'Religion of Peace' facade that the global Islamic community so cowers behind, eh? They want a woman dead for letting her class of MUSLIM tots name a teddy bear!
Now, the only question is this: did EVERY parent of EVERY child in that class also murder their child as soon as they came home from school? It was the kiddies' idea, after all, so they should also be brutally executed as well...
...don't put it past them.
Now, yes: in perspective this is happening in Sudan, possibly the most vile and horrible place to live of any place on the planet (Sudan: come for the religious hatred, stay because you've died!)
...I stole that joke from The Onion... hopefully no one will notice...
In the third world (and in most of the rest of the civilized world as well) the Muslim faith has not kept up with the rest of the planet: compared to Christianity, most (READ: MOST) branches of the Muslim faith are mired in the analogous 'Crusades' period- the most reprehensible and morally repugnant episode of the Christian faith... t'wern't our brightest hour, admittedly...
Years down the road, Muslims will regard THIS point in their faith as their nadir as well. And if not, then they'll instead be regarding it as the end of their controversial little religion, because if worldwide Muslims cannot turn away from the path of jihad and the imposition of muderous Sharia law on the world at large, they cannot co-exist with the rest of the modern world.
I root for them, to be honest, but one does wonder...
SUBJECT TEH TWO:
Futurama is back, to whom it may concern: this time in DVD format...
My opinion's mixed: the thing runs very long (about 88 minutes) and crams each and every bit character and main character into the mix. It's got a touching central storyline between Fry and Leela, but lacks the storytelling brilliance seen in such pivotal episodes as The Sting (my favorite episode, next to Jurassic Bark...) and The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings.
The ultimate plot twists are exceedlingly predictable, and though there's a montage of separate storylines going on beneath the main action the story lacks the tightness and direction of such a multifaceted storyline as seen in, say, 300 Big Boys.
Ultimately this is a return from long hiatus, though, and the world shouldn't be expected from such a thing (Family Guy's first few post-resurrection episodes weren't too great, either...)
The beast with a billion backs follows directly upon these events, so hopefully the crew'll get down to business with a more well-rounded and focused scope of narration...
...I can't believe that I'M criticizing someone on that point...
SUBJECT TEH THREE:
SUBJECT TEH FOUR:
Another step towards TYPERS' Pragma-Class Sensation Link?
Not quite, but it is kinda cool. Seriously: brain-computer interface is certainly no longer the realm of science-fiction. The brain is, after all, a giant, NOISY, predictable computer system (albeit biochemically run and operated) that gives off tons of 'sparks' all along one's body. This story explains that the big breakthrough in B-C-I (dig the acronyms, damnit!) won't be so much the power to harness thought input (we can damn well do that half-decently as it is, now) but rather a computer system with the raw processing power to keep up with and predict those thought processes...
In TYPERS, that setup happens to be the 'Pragma'-class computer server system, although eventually (within, probably, the first part of the third book) that system's gonna get replaced with the Storge-Class Sensations Link (I won't link that word with Wikipedia: do it yourself if you want, but I'm almost ashamed of the predictable and obvious connotations therein...)
..however, for THAT system to work at 100-percent, one needs to get a hard metal implant called a coccygeal extension drilled into their... well... you know...
SUBJECT TEH FIVE:
...speaking of pains in the ass: Legend of the Novanjo WILL be ready relatively soon. I'm still polishing up the draft...
And now: I'm gonna warm myself by the fire.
