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Oct. 25th, 2022 09:44 pmI decided to read my correspondence list on DW, and kept nodding off or dosing off during it - resulting in a somewhat hallucinatory experience and indicating to me that I should go to bed early tonight.
Takeaways..
1. House of Dragon apparently decided to throw caution to the winds and basically jump through 30-50 some years in the space of 10 episodes with recasts and time jumps. I knew they did this already from co-workers who have been debating it in the cubicals behind me during lunch. Not the characters - they are debating whether the time jumps and recasting works or is too jarring.
2. Androids should stop worrying about being human, it's okay to be an android. This I agree with. Being human is highly overrated. Also foresee either a BSG rewatch or Westworld or EX Deus Machina watch in our not too distant future.
This makes me want to list off the things that have done androids well.
* AI - I was rather impressed by it. This was the Kubrick/Spielberg film.
* I Robot
* Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
* Westworld
* Buffybot
* Data on Star Trek Next Generation
* BSG
* Ex Deus Machina
Also the Murderbot series.
3. James Gunn is taking over the DC Franchise along with Paul Safrain. Mixed feelings regarding it. On the one hand, Zack Snyder and Nolan's DC verse was very dark and ahem, a touch more fascist than noir, and not necessarily in a satirical manner? On the other, Gunn's films make me think of a video gamer fan boy finding a video camera and going nuts with it - at times. I didn't like Suicide Squad. Did however like Guardians of the Galaxy. So who knows? Am somewhat ambivalent - since I'm not exactly fannish about DC.
Wish they'd hire a woman to oversee the franchise, but that ain't happening in my lifetime.
The comic verse like it or not remains very...male centric.
4. The difficulty with Peeing in Public.
I saw someone pee in public on my commute last week. It was an old man with a walker. He was about 10 feet of a bathroom - in Atlantic Avenue Train Station - but it would have required taking the elevator to the lobby, and finding the handicapped restroom, and when you got to go, you got to go.
It took me a minute to realize what he was doing. I did when I walked past him. I walked behind him and gave him a very wide birth. This was on the same day that NY1 aka Spectrum News was talking about the need for more public restrooms across the city. Note - it was on a public sidewalk, right behind BAM and right before the church, not far from the entrance to the Children's School of Music. Underneath scaffolding, and directly between two parallel parked cars. In broad daylight, at 4:30pm on a weekday. A woman in heels and nice clothes passed him before I did.
So, if you've seen this too? You are not alone.
5. Sleeping with Dogs or Cats - or how sleeping with dogs promotes healthy sleep (unless you happen to be allergic, then not so much)
While cuddly, it does not promote healthy sleep if you are allergic. I know this - because I am allergic. And as a kid I slept with my cat either under the covers or next to my head. (We didn't know I was allergic to cats back then - but I was suffering from allergies.) Years later I slept with my Aunts dogs - and ended up with bronchitis. It happened twice, and right after I visited her and her dogs.
Me: So what are my allergies?
Allergist: Dust, mold, tree pollan, cats...you shouldn't adopt a cat.
Several years later
Me: Am I allergic to dogs?
Allergist: Yup. Also cats. A touch more allergic to cats than dogs. But don't own either. And dust, mold, tree pollan, feathers, and cockroaches.
Me: This is insane.
Allergist: Want shots?
Me: Really not.
Sigh, the world is trying to kill me or drive me mad - one or the other.
Robots have it great - no allergies.
6. Prime Minister of Britain resigned after 49 days, and now they have a newly appointed one - not quite sure by whom. It appears to be by either the party or the Cabinet, but they weren't duly elected. Once again, the Brits have managed to outdo the US in regards to political craziness.
Apparently - Boris Johnson (I keep wanting to call him Yeltsin - they look alike) tried to throw his hat back in - only to have it thrown back in his face, so he recused himself or something along those lines. (I don't know - I'm getting this from various posts on my correspondence list. Even scans daily was discussing it. I have a lot of Brits on my correspondence list.)
At any rate - it makes me feel slightly better about the US's horrible political environment, which I'm attempting to ignore. We do at work. Our workplace is insanely politicized so by mutual agreement - no one discusses politics at work.
Takeaways..
1. House of Dragon apparently decided to throw caution to the winds and basically jump through 30-50 some years in the space of 10 episodes with recasts and time jumps. I knew they did this already from co-workers who have been debating it in the cubicals behind me during lunch. Not the characters - they are debating whether the time jumps and recasting works or is too jarring.
2. Androids should stop worrying about being human, it's okay to be an android. This I agree with. Being human is highly overrated. Also foresee either a BSG rewatch or Westworld or EX Deus Machina watch in our not too distant future.
This makes me want to list off the things that have done androids well.
* AI - I was rather impressed by it. This was the Kubrick/Spielberg film.
* I Robot
* Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
* Westworld
* Buffybot
* Data on Star Trek Next Generation
* BSG
* Ex Deus Machina
Also the Murderbot series.
3. James Gunn is taking over the DC Franchise along with Paul Safrain. Mixed feelings regarding it. On the one hand, Zack Snyder and Nolan's DC verse was very dark and ahem, a touch more fascist than noir, and not necessarily in a satirical manner? On the other, Gunn's films make me think of a video gamer fan boy finding a video camera and going nuts with it - at times. I didn't like Suicide Squad. Did however like Guardians of the Galaxy. So who knows? Am somewhat ambivalent - since I'm not exactly fannish about DC.
Wish they'd hire a woman to oversee the franchise, but that ain't happening in my lifetime.
The comic verse like it or not remains very...male centric.
4. The difficulty with Peeing in Public.
I saw someone pee in public on my commute last week. It was an old man with a walker. He was about 10 feet of a bathroom - in Atlantic Avenue Train Station - but it would have required taking the elevator to the lobby, and finding the handicapped restroom, and when you got to go, you got to go.
It took me a minute to realize what he was doing. I did when I walked past him. I walked behind him and gave him a very wide birth. This was on the same day that NY1 aka Spectrum News was talking about the need for more public restrooms across the city. Note - it was on a public sidewalk, right behind BAM and right before the church, not far from the entrance to the Children's School of Music. Underneath scaffolding, and directly between two parallel parked cars. In broad daylight, at 4:30pm on a weekday. A woman in heels and nice clothes passed him before I did.
So, if you've seen this too? You are not alone.
5. Sleeping with Dogs or Cats - or how sleeping with dogs promotes healthy sleep (unless you happen to be allergic, then not so much)
While cuddly, it does not promote healthy sleep if you are allergic. I know this - because I am allergic. And as a kid I slept with my cat either under the covers or next to my head. (We didn't know I was allergic to cats back then - but I was suffering from allergies.) Years later I slept with my Aunts dogs - and ended up with bronchitis. It happened twice, and right after I visited her and her dogs.
Me: So what are my allergies?
Allergist: Dust, mold, tree pollan, cats...you shouldn't adopt a cat.
Several years later
Me: Am I allergic to dogs?
Allergist: Yup. Also cats. A touch more allergic to cats than dogs. But don't own either. And dust, mold, tree pollan, feathers, and cockroaches.
Me: This is insane.
Allergist: Want shots?
Me: Really not.
Sigh, the world is trying to kill me or drive me mad - one or the other.
Robots have it great - no allergies.
6. Prime Minister of Britain resigned after 49 days, and now they have a newly appointed one - not quite sure by whom. It appears to be by either the party or the Cabinet, but they weren't duly elected. Once again, the Brits have managed to outdo the US in regards to political craziness.
Apparently - Boris Johnson (I keep wanting to call him Yeltsin - they look alike) tried to throw his hat back in - only to have it thrown back in his face, so he recused himself or something along those lines. (I don't know - I'm getting this from various posts on my correspondence list. Even scans daily was discussing it. I have a lot of Brits on my correspondence list.)
At any rate - it makes me feel slightly better about the US's horrible political environment, which I'm attempting to ignore. We do at work. Our workplace is insanely politicized so by mutual agreement - no one discusses politics at work.