I learned a little something new this morning that got me to thinking on an interesting, tangential rabbit trail.
The origins of the lost city of Atlantis mythos can be traced back to the philosopher Plato. He was teaching a lesson on the topic of the ideal society and concocted a discussion between Timaeus and Critias, two [...]
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The Rise of Advanced Cultures
More Than a Rote Greeting
Source: Halo ArticulatedAnd one more with a graphical aid.
Am I strange in thinking that if someone asks you how you are doing, the least you can do is give them an honest answer back? Or in thinking that if you ask someone else how they are doing, you anticipate a genuine answer and listen to it [...]
“Yay, first post!”
Here’s one I don’t really get. I mean, I ‘get’ it, but I don’t ‘get’ it.
I keep my ear to the ground for Halo-related videos – machinima, montage, etc. A lot of these videos get posted up on public forums – i.e. a discussion thread with the link to the video download. It’s a pretty streamlined way of doing [...]
Change of Political Campaign Tactics
Is it just me or does it get increasingly more difficult to vote each election cycle? I don’t know how it used to be 20, 30, even 100 years ago, but in the last 9 years, since I became eligible to vote, it seems like the political demagoguery has become even more juvenile. Rather than [...]
Ick Factor
Boing Boing: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence trike drag (queen) race, SF
I’m linking to this particular article for only one reason. I’ve considered writing about this for a little while now, but this quote was the catalyst:
Scenes like this make me proud to be American.
Popular sentiment, this one. And I suppose that’s ok. America is, after all, a nation [...]
Just the Way You Are
I’d rather laugh than cry: he loves me anyway
It’s a common ideal in American culture that our women must have a certain look in order to be considered attractive. They must all be slim and curvacious and positively dead-sexy. Supermodels are the ideal, the standard by which all women must measure their own beauty.
I think that Christine’s [...]
Self-myth
I found this over at Mark’s blog the other day:
p. 118: “Americans will go to almost any lengths to avoid sounding negative, pessimistic, or defeatist, even if it means being somewhat less than honest or candid. They try to stay away from topics they refer to as ‘downers’ and to stay out of conversations that [...]More from the Driver’s Seat of a Horse-Drawn Carriage
GenCon weekend in Indy is always an amusing and interesting time to drive carriages. The things that you see downtown:
Apparently the years have not been good to Darth Vader. He’s both shorter and rounder than his last appearance. Spending too much time in the Los Eisley Cantina, perhaps?
This one is not related to GenCon attendees – a grandma leading [...]
Observations from the Driver’s Seat of a Horse-Drawn Carriage, Redux
For several Saturdays running now, I’ve been back driving carriages in downtown Indy, and as usual you see all kinds of interesting things during the hours spent circling the streets. Here’s a few of the things I saw last night:
Inevitably, there are always a handful of bums and homeless people on the streets. And, also inevitably, [...]
Give Me Simplicity
There are many times during the course of my immersion into the realms of science fiction and fantasy, whether it be reading books, watching shows or movies, etc., when I wish that I could experience aspects of those cultures first-hand. For instance, in the short-lived show Firefly, two cultures merged into one when humanity abandoned [...]