I thought that I would do something that wouldn’t be awfully boring this weekend. It was a pretty boring weekend - with the exceptions being a short chat with Anna, and a short visit by my brother where we watched Screamers and American Gangster - both excellent movies by the way.
In the latter case (movies) I warmly recommend it, and as a comment to the movie I’m still convinced that all the bad guys in movies should stop employing retards, and suddenly they’d fail alot less. I don’t sympathize with drug in any way, quite the contrary, but I feel sorry for “upstanding” baddies like Frank Lucas that look cool, act cool, is cool, but is pulled down by some drug addict ‘tard that can’t think straight for more than 5 minutes.
Screamers is probably your average movie in itself, but it’s story is pretty awesome, written by the aforementioned Philip K. Dick who’s written Totall Recall, Minority Report, and Blade Runner among others.
Humans create self-sustained blade-robots that cut up the opposition, programmed to kill the enemy, then sustain and build more of itself. As they go the robots become more and more advanced, to the point where they’ve made children built to fool the humans into bringing them home to the safety of the bunkers where the children suddenly turn out to be a screamer that makes mince-meat out of them.
We’re introduced to Screamer Type 1 and 3 pretty soon, a little rodent-like version and the child (we’re left wondering what version 2 is for the whole movie, and since I’m such a nice bugger I won’t spoil it for you (or I’ll make a spoiler-link about the whole movie)). Now, version 2 isn’t what interests me after having seen the movie. The version that was interesting was, to an extent #4, but the really interesting version was #5 - a version that’s given emotions, feeling, sense and intelligence. I won’t spoil that one either, but it’s an interesting insight into “evolution” and progress. Atleast the way Philip K. Dick imagined and portrayed it.
This weekend I even managed to log onto WoW for about 15 minutes, thinking I might as well see if that was an enjoyable past-time. It’s not as fun when you’re not raiding, that’s for sure…
I had some thoughts about going to Bergen for the weekend, but sometime along the way it all derailed, and I decided not to. Probably when I slept too long on saturday, realized I had forgotten about working out, and found that despite an ok amount of sleep I was pretty worn out.
Oh, and last weekend we had Sushi at Sumo in Bergen. It was awesome! Now I want to try the indian restaurant close to where Hallvard lives.
Right now I’m reading “March to the Sea” by David Weber, one of my favourite authors, the sequel to “March Upcountry”. Military sci-fi, and I’m loving every moment of it. I decided that I was thuroughly bored the other day, so I found that I could just as well drop by old favourite authors in search of books. I’m not regretting it.
I’ll mention the books more thuroughly at a later point.
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