- I finally got a ScanSnap S300M and I am drunk with direct to PDF double-sided scanning power! Paper, I eschew you. http://tinyurl.com/6snw52 #
Monthly Archive for December, 2008
- It makes my skin tingle to see the device http://tinyurl.com/7n8znh responsible for Throbbing Gristle’s sound http://tinyurl.com/9vzu8x #
- “Empathy, thoughtfulness, and communication.” Very moving. I wish anthropology was actually like this. http://www.youtube.com/?v=hBmDgMFAZTI #
- “You know what I did the other day? I Googled murder.” #
- “The pope has sparked controversy by saying defending heterosexuality is as important as saving the world’s rainforests from destruction.” #
This older woman says, “I don’t think there’s anyone who loves the library more than I do.”
Clerk says, “I don’t know, there are a lot of people that really love the library.”
“But I come here every week.”
“Oh, there are some people who come here every day.”
Startled. “Oh. Well maybe they just come to read.”
“No, they’ll come one day, check out books, and then return the books the next day to get new ones.”
“Oh. Well, who has the time for that? I’d hate to see how clean their houses are!”
I really wasn’t impressed with this film. The story was all over the place, even for a Lynch film. I really couldn’t tell or understand what was going on, but the movie didn’t grab my attention enough to want to figure it out.
Also, the digital video just wasn’t doing it for me. It seemed as if the switch from film made Lynch a little too playful, which manifested in amateurish shots and experiments. The film was thus reminiscent of an eager art school film, and even, at some points, cop show reenactments on television.
I was, however, very impressed with Laura Dern’s acting.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sssk9TG3BUI
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460829/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_empire
Netflix: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Inland_Empire/70058078
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QQFKYE/
This article jokes about how voice chat is ruining cybersex on PlayStation Home. Reminds me of an outcry a while back by transgendered folk in Second Life. Second Life was adding voice chat to the game, and transgendered folk were against it, because the inclusion of voice chat would destroy their ability to pass for the opposite sex. This points to the fickle and porous boundary between cyberspace and meatspace, which Boellstorff treats in his book, Coming of Age in Second Life.
- I think “cesspool of flying dildos” is the best description of Second Life I’ve seen yet. http://tinyurl.com/7uasg5 #
It was very strange to visit Second Life, since they didn’t have voice capabilities built into the game when I last used it. I found several people using it as a conference call, and it was exciting to hear their voices and listen to their accents. It was also exciting to hear life bleed over into the game, such as when I could hear one woman talking to her kid in the background, speaking in an English accent, while she tried to help him with his “Batman game.”
One girl was complaining about a boy that wanted to make her his girlfriend. Something about taking heat from others based on what he would have written in his profile. I wasn’t sure if he wanted to be her boyfriend in Second Life or real life, but I figured it out when someone asked if he wanted to be her boyfriend in real life, and she said that she wasn’t about to discuss that, because that is the problem — people wanting to bring real life into Second Life. She did, however, mention that, as a “builder geek,” she is constantly looking at objects in the real world and wondering how many prims it would take to build them. Others joked about how their real lives were great — Second Life just made them better.
Besides that it was interesting to see that it was a common occurrence for them to have cross-language encounters, judging from their reaction to someone nearby speaking in another language.
Ah, one other thing. When I was hanging out with these people in Second Life the “builder geek” said that she liked my outfit — red shirt and black pants — and I explained that I had brought it over from real life.
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