Terminator is Stupid

Not Arnold, he’s cool, but the concept of the terminator movie is silly. The major beef is simple, if robots take over, and can flash back into the past, all they need to do is send a few computers back to the time of early man and snuff them out. Bam, no people. Then the robots create their world fresh without people. Man, I hope cybernetic droids don’t read this and use my idea.

Same thing with the Matrix, awesome movie, ridiculous premise. Machines use people as fuel. Why bother? And why can’t the matrix machines flash back thru time? The terminator guys can do it…don’t tell me Smith hasn’t thought of that already. That agent is seriously sharp. Agent. is that a play on computer words? Those wachowski brothers are worldfully witty, but can they riddle me this…

Isn’t all of life meaningless? We live for a time and then die. And it doesn’t matter. Name every person you can possibly think of and then consider all the people you will never know or care about. Then wrap your head around all the people who will never know or care about you. Why should oceans have any care for the individual drops? we are a sea of people that rise and fall like rain and for what?

Many people will say there is life after death. But same thing then. For what? And who cares? Now you are a particle of dust in a universe expanding infinitely thru time and space. What difference do you make? What possible trail could you leave that would matter measured against infinite existence.

Yah.

Watching Movies

There are dozens of mediums thru which movie watching is possible. For example, I have regular cable, premium channels, and HD channels. I have movies on demand available 24/7. I have access to movies online via Vongo and Itunes. I download movies and watch them on my PSP. I can also watch shows and movies on my nano ipod or my iphone. I receive dvd’s from netflix pretty much every other day. I even connect my laptop to my big screen HD TV and watch movies from the internet on my laptop on my tv. There are so many opportunities to watch movies, so many ways and means to watch movies, that I find myself grateful and bereft of complaint. Now they just need to make better movies.

Strategy Diplomacy

Millions of people, thousands of games.  Have you ever played diplomacy?  I did, at work.  A guy basically created the game by hand and we played and it was pretty cool.  Except that the premise of diplomacy in the game almost prerequisites backstabbing.  Fun for some, not so much for others.  I think it’s better to have superior numbers and us ethe threat of annihilation to keep peace

So it turns out this game diplomacy is old and famous.  And the original version is annoying.  Odd map, slow growth, stodgy game I think.   That being said, I’ve learned some real life lessons in my first real game of diplomacy.   Be friendly, don’t say too much, say hello to everyone.   In my first game, I broke all 3 rules.  I don’t think I’m going to make it very long in the game, but I appreciate the reminders of real life diplomacy.  Smile, shake hands, be patient, ask questions.

Starting with Nothing in Mind

Second Life.  I read about the first person to make a million dollars in a virtual world.  And the million was actual real american dollars.  In conversation a friend asked me some esoteric existential blah blah about maybe second life is real and this is a made up life.  While I could see people getting fully engrossed in a  virtual world some day in the future, I still think there is a real world line people are unable to cross.  Ironically, it’s the things that hold us back in real life, that would stand in the way of a second life. A real second life.  It’s true that some people live as very different creatures in their make believe worlds.  Some are famous or rich or talented where in the real world they see themselves as unfairly limited perhaps.  But this is an illusion, both the success and the failure are just constructs of the person’s own self view perception of reality. Until otherwise disproved, it is always what you are committed to that shows up in your general life.  This of course does not refer to the constant variables outside your sphere of influence, but it could be argued by some that everything in your life is a result of your will.

Personally I’m not willing to go that far.  I would hope there is some universal checks and balances otherwise we would all soon be isolated into oblivion. One day when everything we want is within mind’s reach, we will be, encased in our own personal paradise.   Until then, our fears on either side of this life will dictate our results.  That lady made her first million in Second Life, and now she is working on her first million in real life. I’m going to bed to 3rd life to dream about my million.