I discovered that I hadn’t set up my blog to allow registrations. I thought that I had. So almost immediately after enabling registrations, I have had multiple registrations over a short period. It is a nice feeling when someone values what you do.
I am watching a Star Trek episode called “The Disease”. Harry Kim is breaking rules because he falls in love with an alien. I wonder what I would do in that situation. I think happiness is more important than duty.
I found it on Netflix and because I like Science Fiction I watched it. The first season was pretty good, but then it quickly got worse. This is not a rant about the show, but more of a question of why?
Why do shows like this get made? With all the great fiction that has been written, why is so little produced as movies? I understand that people don’t want to mess with classics, but some just is crying out to be made. How can people not appreciate some of the fine fiction classic that are available? Does this mean that the people who make movies don’t believe that best-selling books will be popular movies?
Why are the worst movies made from classics? Is our collective IQ going to grow with more Rambo movies?
I always wondered why 47 appeared so often in Star Trek. You can find out why that number happened and more in this article.
via The 13 most famous Numbers and their stories.
I wonder what about science fiction it is that is addictive? I like the idea that anything is possible and that our reality is more about our choices than the real world. We are so loaded with beliefs, ideas, feelings and influences that it is hard to say that we really experience reality.
Doesn’t it seem sometimes that we feel constricted by our sense of reality? I think that’s part of why scifi is so attractive. You see characters who suffer from their sense of reality is the only one. I am not sure that having an open-mind is always the answer. I think it’s a way to start to examine if what you believe is helping your enjoyment of life or not.
As always interesting content from his blogroll partners. Of course I might be biased a bit since I am on this list.
via What’s On My PC
I loved reading this mans books growing up. I thought Foundation series was really engaging.
via H I T – Hokanson’s Instructional Technology
The evening before flying to SF, the SSD in my Mac fails cata… on Twitpic. This is what a failed HD looks like. I wonder what kind of SSD it was that failed?
