Moving Today …

The Graphing Calculator Story

The Graphing Calculator Story is one hell of a story. This is the kind of work I want to be doing at my place of work.

Netflix: The Stepford Wives

I saw The Stepford Wives last night. I did’nt quite get it. I understood in the end that this super-woman was trying to undo the technology that had wrecked her marriage through the same technology she was so adept in. What I did’nt get was the part where robot facsimiles and the brain implants come in. At one point, there is a hint that all the women were robots or androids and all the human wives were killed or dissappeared. Then during the third or second last scene, where they show Joanna and her husband go down in the cellar, actors mentions something about the women having a brain implants which programs them to act like “real” women. So which was it? Did they put implants in their brains and use them to control them or did they replace the women with robots that resembled them, or did they use the robots for all the house hold works (which is kind of cool actually, since no one, man or woman, would’nt appreciate the utility of a personal robot) and the real thing for more biological functions, e.g. SEX?

Maybe I should see the original movie…

White Series 100 Spray Kit

White Series 100 Spray Kit. I’ll order this when I move to my new apartment. I’m sick and tired of being asked about the “teapot” in my washroom by my friends who do’nt share my faith.

That’s a lota for you Pakistani puritans.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, Everyone!

Apple – Trailers – Sin City

Apple – Trailers – Sin City YAY!!!!! They are making a movie of one of favorite comics!! From the trailer i think its going to be an awesome movie!

Currently Listening to …

Malena (Main Theme) from the album “Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone” by Yo-Yo Ma, Roma Sinfonietta & Ennio Morricone and the rest of the songs from the album.

Blade Trinity

Blade Trinity: This was a very disappointing movie. Even the action sequences were’nt as good as the first or second one. Instead the super-vampire the vampires had resurrected from the Syrian/Iraq desert, was just some slow moving oaf who mouthed off some seemingly heavy lines as if to show that the burden of his eternal life. The filmmakers threw in the main character from Van Wilder for some comic relief, but after a while even that got unberable. A lot of Macs and iPods were prominently featured. I guess Apple must have paid the producers quite a lot of money for product placement. They should be smarter about their money and not waste their money on dud movies.

Click if you want to have a sense of accomplishment of having seen all the movies of the Blade trilogy in the theater, otherwise wait for the the DVD. Or better yet, don’t do anything at all.

My “New” Old Car

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Netflix: I, Robot

Netflix: I, Robot
This was a good movie. The movie is loosely based on Asimov’s collection of the short stories about robots (or droids in Star Wars parlance or androids if you prefer Star Trek). The three laws are extensively quoted and it turns the logic of the three laws on itself saying that sometimes the created will turn on the creators for their own “percieved” good.

I think the point where the robots go breserk and try to take over the world was inspired from the Zeroth law that Asimov wrote about in his “Foundation and Earth” where explorers final come to meet the 20,000 year old robot Daneel Olivaw (who first appears in “Caves of Steel”). The Zeroth law was something like a robot must preserve humanity under all circumstances. The first, second, and third laws are modified, as a consequence of the Zeroth law, in that as long as they do not conflict with Zeroth law.

Anyway, the point that Asimov and the makers of the movie, that we should be careful of what we create and the way we delegate power to our things that we create. That includes not only computers or machines, but also laws, conventions, and tradition. These creations may take a life of their own. Once something takes a life of their own and then it will find a way of its own. That line is used a lot in movies. It was used in I, Robot and, I seem to recall, in the Jurassic Park movies.