“Well think of it this way Mulder, by the time there’s another invasion of artificially intelligent dung eating robotic probes from outer space maybe their uber-children will have devised a way to save our planet.”
Dana Scully (x-files season 3, episode 12)
“Smart is sexy”
– Dana Scully
I was totally excited to see this movie but wasn’t all that impressed when I did see it. It’s just not the kind of thing that gives you nightmares. And nightmares is what I expect from a good horror flick. But this isn’t really a horror movie, it’s a suspense flick. And it does ok as a suspense movie. I don’t know. The photography and sets and all of that aren’t very inspired. The special effects are meager and, honestly, rather plain. The movie just wasn’t scary enough for me. I mean come on, this is October. What’s the deal?
Got this image from my sister this morning. Classic.
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To repeat what others have said, requires education; to
challenge it, requires brains.
- Mary Pettibone Poole
I don’t want to lose myself in my work. Not tonight. This feeling is here for a reason. A legitimate and solid reason that should not be ignored. But I have to work. I am obligated to work. The weight of financial responsibility hangs over my head like a palette of bricks. There is nothing but my own self respect and integrity holding things together. I need to work so that I can change things for the better. Because if I were to let those slide, even for a moment, I would have literally nothing left. And that’s not going to happen. So I’ll have to set this feeling aside once again and cross my fingers. I never thought I would be falling back on faith. I thought I walked away from faith when I lost a few people I loved to cancer and divorce. But faith, faith is what I’ve got tonight.
Drove up Highway 58 today in search of a few photos. Hideous weather. Rain and then snow as my vw climbed higher and higher up the mountain highway. By 3000 ft it was that wet half rain, half snow. By 4000 ft it was already accumulating on the ground. And by 5000 ft I was worried a bit about getting back down without putting my chains on. I stopped at Salt Creek Falls and shot a few frames of the waterfall. Didn’t really get anything. It was windy and nearly impossible to keep water off the front optics on my lenses. I got this shot of the falls around about the time I decided to head back to the car. It was just too wet to shoot without destroying my gear, but I like this shot. You can see how heavily it was snowing. Looks like grain in the photo, but it’s not. It’s snow.
So I was trying to improve the security on one of my servers today… I was making really good progress, cranking through docs, trying out different possible ways to make the technology work for all of my users when it happened. I squeaked. I actually squeaked audibly when I realized that I had, in fact, found a way to get something stronger, safer and easier to use working on windows xp and mac os x and on this server with almost no effort. How sad is that? I squeaked. I’m so ashamed. 
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
-Alvin Toffler
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
-Alvin Toffler
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