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In the schools the children of the WormCam made academic studies of the era in which their parents and grandparents had grown up: an incomprehensible taboo-ridden pre-WormCam age only a few decades in the past in which liars and cheats had prospered, and crime was out of control, and people killed each other over lies and myths, and in which the world had been systematically thrashed though willful carelessness, gred and utter lack of sympathy for other or foresight regarding the future.
And meanwhile, to the old, the young were a bunch of incomprehensible savages with a private language and about as much modesty as a tribe of chimpanzees…

Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, The Light of Other Days

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11/09/13

Ben Bova’s Venus disappoints. Lots of good elements but the revelation was telegraphed from miles away and some of the characters were cartoonish. At least there was some good exploration

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Ataraxia

Freedom from disturbance. must be nice

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9/13/13

The Polo Red Commercial of “Man driving dramatically” - in rain - and later sailing with booty girl is unintentionally hilarious.

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Don’t listen to your mind. It’s all wrapped up in your ego and the story you tell yourself, and it just wants to be right. And better not to spend too much time dwelling on being right.

Don Johnson

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9/12/13

…I’m prejudiced against anyone who names their kid “Dirk.” (oh I hope he named his character for his kid and not the other way around)

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Total Recall (Original)

8/24/13

Thing’s I’m noticing during TNT’s broadcast of Total Recall (Ed. why would I watch an edited version of Total Recall? no choice)

1) Man how did we think that “Portable” tech would be so boxy?

2) Are Americans so prurient that they can’t take the word “ass” on Late Night Basic Cable???

3)Violence edits I half expected but cutting out Establishing VFX Shots like MARS?!

4) So…no bulletproof glass on Marsdome eeh? just checking

I stopped watching around there. It hurt my purist heart

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Reading List Chunk 2 (Aug ‘13 to Jan '14)

Here’s the second part of the reading list (don’t bother finding the first one, it’s not up and won’t be for a while). I had no real options for part of it. Others I did. I think you can figure out which (but I can hint that I hate the James Patterson book mill with a passion and Clive Cussler is a hack but Koontz is better than I gave him credit for). This list should contain 52 books. I might have some quick reviews for some of them. Nothing will be as long as this effing list (except chunk 1’s list whenever I get around to getting it.)

Ratings

B = Bad

D = Decent

G = Good

GR = Great

UNF = Unfinished

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