Now, for something familiarly different — Star Wars snowflakes!
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Which image is most like the other?
In this month’s copy of a children’s magazine, Highlights, we ask you to identify which image of a person in the first photo is most like an image of a person in the second photo:
HINT: there is no version of the girl with long black hair in the first photo.
Credits:
Save you the trouble…
For those of you who weren’t sure if you wanted to shell out a lot of clams for the pearl of a film about James Bond, here’s the short version.
Ticks and Tufts
To act the part of one who is insane, one can get to know the insane.
But what is insanity?
Have you ever visited an insane asylum?
What is the absence or opposite of insanity?
Two recent events have bummed me out — the loss of the political party of my parents in national elections and the recent spy movie called “Skyfall.”
Both imply that the generation which raised me has passed the torch to a generation that has been labeled the “Me” Generation and the Baby Boomers, allegedly including myself.
The next generation, as exemplified by a recent restaurant server of ours who reminded us of the character Mr. Humphries in “Are You Being Served?” and knows neither Benny Hill nor “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” will have to decide for itself what of my generation is worth perpetuating.
For them, a “war” on foreign soil must seem normal, having experienced sensational news headlines about the continuing war on terror in countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, etc.
For some of them, the phrase “7/7” or “9/11” will seem as old-fashioned as “Remember the Alamo,” or “December 7th, 1941…a date which will live in infamy.”
The old wars of military might have not completely faded away but new wars — cyber, financial, cultural — pick up the pace.
With Stephen Covey dead and gone, will anyone in the new generation know what a win-win situation is?
What about insanity?
How much of any one generation (generation being a label, of course, that generalises, not always accurately) is insane and is carried on by the next one?
250
250 films in 2.5 minutes — is that a record?
Nuttin, honey
Overheard: “That guy is the stray nut left in the bottom of the bowl at the end of a party.”
Here’s the stop-action video for this week, honouring those who have given their time, talent and lives for victims of disasters, including the latest in the United States — Hurricane Sandy.
Reminds me of a joke.
Q: What do you call a werewolf elf on the beach at Christmas?
A: Sandy Claws!
“The laser’s red glare/The bombs bursting in air…”
In this post-nationalist, one-global-economy world, we still talk about the brand effects of nations.
We expect that powerful lasers will protect our ships and our borders, slicing bullets in half and cutting planes/drones/UAVs to pieces.
“Look out for the hazardous debris falling from the sky!” cried Chicken Little presciently, paraphrasing.
Speaking of borders, our crackpot scheming pseudoscientists devised a method to protect borders from tunnels — causing pinpoint earthquakes that unsettle the ground several hundred metres in any direction, shifting the soil around reinforced smuggling tunnels, hopefully collapsing them without knowing they’re there.
Are we ever in as much danger as we hear security companies try to sell us that we are?
What is the percentage chance that your home will be broken into?
Have you or anyone you know ever been robbed or mugged?
Has anything been stolen from you?
Have you stolen anything (including office material and work hours from your employer)?
As we create the next generation of our species, we take these questions into consideration.
Can we genetically encompass a moral compass?
What about a lack of fear of others?
It’s easy to create a new species of spider which has no moral compass.
Like we’ve discussed, “eat and/or be eaten” rules Earth, a moral compass unnecessary.
How much of a civil society do we need when our DNA is significantly modified to handle new offworld environments?
How does one carve a niche when one’s genetic code designates one’s predilected destiny?
How much education can we cram into our genes?
What is the ideal citizen in 2037, 25 years from now, not far from an imaginary moment in Unix history?
Adaptable, of course.
What else…?
Who is Felicia Day and why have I never heard of her before today?
The Yellow Leaves of Autumn
Looking through the dusty bedroom window in the late morning sunlight, I saw yellow, lots of yellow…
Dirt and dust from Plains’ states, a plain state of dirt and dust, plane wood, plane wings, stated simply, plainly, mainly.
A hunter’s paradise, a Halloween scene, a setting for a Sorcerer soundtrack, a story tinged with subplots from “Special/RX.”
What about Collins by Samuel Johnson?
Kick it!
The producers of the film, “Kick-Ass,” expressed their wishes to dedicate their movie to the girl, Malala Yousafzai, for her courageous stand for girls’ education and survivor of an attack by the Taliban.
The graphic novel creators have not confirmed they are writing a fourth book in the series of the story expressly turning Malala into a Pakistani superhero.
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