It was just a cold. No, but really I have been neglecting the ranting.
I do however have quite a few things I will be updating with in the next week.
A relatively related review of the state of New Jersey.
A couple of new books, I feel the need to tell people about them.
Pictures of my spawn, and just how amazingly cute he is.
Rant about two political issues, and work.
See you soon,
Mongo
I’m sitting in Manalapan New Jersey, this is not the New Jersey you are thinking of. The Boss™, Bon Jovi, Kevin Smith, and Queen Latifa are within 20min of me. No smokestacks, no polluted water sources.
There are however 4 malls within 5mins of the front door.
Wow.
During a rare quiet morning this weekend, with both child and lady still asleep, I gave myself time to watch some science fiction. This kind of event has become rare these last couple years, so I try to keep what I watch to some level of quality. I recently made a decision to watch 2012, and now I have to relearn basic math. Seriously, that movie actually forced part of my brain to leave. I understand it it trying to go back in time to prevent the Mayan people from carving their calendar so there would be no reason to ever make 2012.
Anyway, in an attempt to cleanse my brain of the new lesions afflicted upon it, I watched Moon, created by Duncan Jones, son of David Jones (he goes by David Bowie I hear), and staring Sam Rockwell. I had heard good things about this movie, and someone thought it was a good idea to ruin the big plot point for me. I will attempt to not do the same.
250,000 Miles from home, the hardest thing to face is yourself.
The story opens with Sam Bell (Rockwell) as a sole miner on a Helium 3 mine on the Moon, who for company has the robot GURDY (voice of Kevin Spacy). The H3 is used for clean fusion energy back on earth and in the opening sequence we learn that it has solved all of mankind’s problems. Or something like that, the baby was crying by this point. Oh well for quiet morning.
Anyway, he fell back to sleep, and the movie began again. Its the last two weeks of this lonely miners 3yr contract, and all he wants is his wife and daughter. It appears that his mind is slipping, and he seems to hallucinate in his sterile white bunker.
One of these hallucinations happens while out on a rover to collect H3 from the mining drones, and he crashes. Sam awakes in the infirmary and is told of the accident, however he does not recall it. Things become suspicious and Sam arranges to sneak back out to the site of the crash, only to find himself in the rover, badly injured.
As Roger Ebert put it “The movie is really all about ideas. It only seems to be about emotions. How real are our emotions, anyway? How real are we? Someday I will die. This laptop I’m using is patient and can wait.”.
Moon is a study in what we believe is self, and what self truly matters. Rockwell is brilliant as Sam Bell, twice. He spends the entire film speaking to himself, literally.
I recommend this as a lazy morning film, there is no action, very little real tension, but it will keep your attention and make you think. I like thinking with coffee.
Well there went another Feb.14th, and I am afraid I forgot my dog’s Birthday. I’m sorry Mountain. I will bring you a bone when I come home, and you will love me, unconditionally. It’s that easy with a good dog, be nice, feed them, shelter them, and you get love. Its like some kind of amazing love fruit tree that is constantly in bloom. Ahh, dogs are so easy.
Try not loving this, I dare you.
Then again, maybe there is something a bit easier to love. They take a bit more work, and the way you worry about them is bordering on madness. Its a different kind of love, more dependent, fragile. A kind of love that makes your entire world vibrate. This love is the strongest love one can have for another human. Period. For those that are blessed with this in their life, but cannot or will not except this love into their lives, i pity and fear you. I pity your lacking, and fear the soul that is so twisted that this love cannot get into your life.
I mean seriously, look at this.
This is the cutest thing on earth, prove me wrong.
Then there is my other love, my dear sweetie momma-bear Dana (SMBD). She may be the only woman I have ever truly loved. In such I also have a serious desire to run screaming sometimes. I know that she might read this, but she understands. There is nothing unconditional about it, like the love of the Dog. There is nothing dependent about it like the love of your child. This love is a partnership. You have found a connection, and a desire. There is almost an agreement made, in fact some would say that marriage is the full on incorporation of love, creating a We Love Each Other, Inc.™, a company dedicated to the creation and maintenance of love.
Sometimes corporations fail, like marriage, most don’t make it past the first 3 years. But when they do, they can go on for generations, until they are established into the fabric of their surrounding society.
It take a lot of work to make that kind of love work. Compromise, compassion, effort and anxiety.
There is one more thing I believe that is needed to keep We Love Each Other, Inc. ™.
That thing is chocolate.
Last night SMBD and I went for dessert, and found Pix Patisserie. O.M.G.
Please people, spend the time and money to enjoy this. I cannot say how hard it was to choose just one thing. On average, a single serving dessert was around $6.50. A bit spendy, but so very worth it.
I mean, look.
That thing is chocolate meringue, chocolate mousse, and a chocolate ganache that is hidden by sticks of meringue and a single red ribbon.
Now I feel I must address the religious, for it seems in my life there are always going to be those that will attempt to take my love, and pull it toward Christianity. For it seems they believe that love can only come from their savior. I am wholly offended by this, and for a couple of very serious reasons.
In short, I love love.
Google has entered the network fray, as was speculated years ago when they gobbled up a huge chunk of the “black network” The established fiber optic cable that was laid out by former mega-corp MCI.
The following article describes how Google is getting into the ISP business, and hopes to bring 1GB/s fiber, right to your door.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/10/google_fiber_to_the_home/
Beware DSL, Cable, and even Verizon’s Fiber network. Google loves to compete.
I just hope Portland gets in the test zone.
I changed things a bit, I like the lighter look. Less late nineties angst, more modern curvy nonsense.
I have a couple of things up my sleeve, so keep an eye, for the two or three people who pay attention.
Working without a college degree to back you up in the modern corporate world is like trying to swim with rocks in your pockets. Its hard, and you grow stronger for doing it, but eventually others will pass you, using less energy, and in frustration you let yourself get drug down, cursing the choices you made, or the options you were denied.
Wow, what a depressing first paragraph.
Anyway, heads up, fight the fight, do the work. Maybe a piece of paper is in the future.
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