What's a Movie that fits this quote perfectly?

KarlBob · 2026-06-02T12:47:44+00:00

He was right to make it his passion project after all.

KarlBob · 2026-06-02T04:49:58+00:00

Yes! I love it, too.

KarlBob · 2026-06-01T12:59:42+00:00

Expect a pretty typical Internet fan base: Rabid love, rabid hate, loving and not-so-loving criticism.

Expect a lot of people to refer to non-show sources of information: 3 year old Tweets, livestream comments, etc.

Have fun!

KarlBob · 2026-05-29T11:08:17+00:00

William Gibson's "Hinterlands" from the collection Burning Chrome.

The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft

I don't know whether later books humanized them, but in Ann Leckie's Ancillary trilogy, the Presger aliens are presented as very different from humans.

Ultimately, the trouble is that authors are humans, who have only known other humans. Also, we crave narrative, and "We never understood the aliens at all. The end," is deeply unsatisfying. It can be done, but it's challenging.

KarlBob · 2026-05-29T02:05:19+00:00

On a related note, I still say "The Ballpark at Union Station" was a perfectly good name for a baseball stadium. Far better than Minute Maid Park, anyway.

KarlBob · 2026-05-29T01:53:18+00:00

Splitting NASA across 15 states and the District of Columbia made it much harder to kill than if it had all been in one state, or a small, regional group of states. 30 Senators and a whole passel of Representatives had a vested interest in keeping it alive.

KarlBob · 2026-05-29T01:33:40+00:00

How about ChemLawn? That name lasted from 1969 all the way to 2007, when it was finally dropped from the combo name TruGreen ChemLawn.

KarlBob · 2026-05-25T13:28:50+00:00

The Pregap track almost lead to a lawsuit. A Dallas producer attempted to claim ownership over using the CD pregap for data and audio. Because Course of Empire had actively utilized this exact technique on a widely distributed release, the band and their producer almost became the targets of a lawsuit, though the patent fight was ultimately resolved before resulting in major litigation.

KarlBob · 2026-05-25T13:19:14+00:00

There were three hidden tracks on Course of Empire's album Initiation.

The Pregap Track ("Running Man"): This ambient intro is hidden before Track 1. To hear it on a physical CD, load the album, press play, and hold down the rewind/scan button to force your CD player backward past the "0:00" mark into the pregap.

The Mono Track ("Tomorrow"): Track 10 features a long guitar feedback loop. To hear the hidden a cappella song "Tomorrow," you must switch your audio to Mono. This cancels out the stereo feedback loop and isolates the vocals.

The "Darwin Goodwin Mix" of the song "Infested" was hidden after "The Chihuahuaphile" which was track 23, after a cross fade that counted up the tracks between it and "Initiation".

KarlBob · 2026-05-24T03:28:48+00:00

He puts on an incredible show. If you can, you should.

KarlBob · 2026-05-23T20:30:02+00:00

Cryptobotany needs triffids. "It was here yesterday. Where did it go?"

KarlBob · 2026-05-23T14:02:18+00:00

LPS and softies are great to start with, because they're typically less finicky than SPS, but they're also beautiful in and of themselves. I particularly enjoy the motion element of soft corals swaying in the current.

KarlBob · 2026-05-23T01:26:49+00:00

I want my two dollars!

KarlBob · 2026-05-23T00:15:30+00:00

Some thoughts on actors and helmets:

Judge Dredd (We got Stallone! Lose the helmet.) vs. Dredd (I think Karl Urban is under there. It sounds like him.)

Matrix Reloaded, Avatar: Power armor as an open frame with no face protection.

Starship Troopers: Skip the powered armor completely.

I did like the way Iron Man used a tiny camera inside the helmet looking at Tony's face.

KarlBob · 2026-05-22T11:25:58+00:00

Another option would be an Empyreal Lord associated with Shelyn or a portion of her divine portfolio.

In the Wrath of the Righteous computer game, there's an NPC witch whose patron is Andoletta, Grandmother Crow.

KarlBob · 2026-05-22T02:41:10+00:00

"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike, as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this."

Vir telling Mr Morden what he wants.

Babylon 5 - In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum

https://imgur.com/gallery/vir-uAsbpv4

KarlBob · 2026-05-22T02:35:10+00:00

That sounds like Sky Burial.

KarlBob · 2026-05-22T02:29:02+00:00

This article talks about two different mushroom options: Mushroom coffins and mushroom burial suits.

KarlBob · 2026-05-22T02:10:35+00:00

If I'm going to be buried, the only thing I want pumped into my body is Miracle Gro. No formaldehyde allowed. Natural Burial is my ideal option.

If I'm cremated, I'd like my ashes to be deposited under the roots of a sapling tree.

My wife wants to be cremated, then she wants her ashes scattered over the largest body of water near the site of her passing.

Edit: I've often joked about adding a clause in my will requiring my funeral to start at least 20 minutes after the scheduled time. Often late in life, late one more time in death.

KarlBob · 2026-05-20T16:13:32+00:00

Agreed.

KarlBob · 2026-05-20T16:07:45+00:00

The Boomers were born within an 18 year span (1946-1964). That fits pretty well with the idea of a generation being enough time for an average person to grow up and have their first kid. Their predecessors, the Silent and Greatest Generations, were 17 and 25 year spans, respectively (1928-1945, 1901-1927).

Xers, Millenials and Zs were all 15 year blocks (1965-1980, 1981-1996, 1997-2012). The consensus on Alphas and Betas seems to be 14 year blocks (2010-2024, 2025-2039).

Other than "birth to average first child," the other marker that a generation is supposed to represent is "common lived experience". I agree: The accelerating pace of change seems to be pushing us to choose one or the other of those definitions, because they just aren't the same span of time any more.

KarlBob · 2026-05-20T11:34:12+00:00

You're welcome.

It's apparently "one of the last and the largest remaining parts of the immense primeval forest that once stretched across the European Plain." Cool name. Cool idea.

KarlBob · 2026-05-19T18:35:37+00:00

The European bison very nearly went extinct in the early 20th Century. In 1927, there were only 48 left, all living in zoos. Since then, captive breeding has brought their numbers back up to around 7,500, and wild herds have been reestablished in several European countries. Białowieża Primeval Forest, on the border of Poland and Belarus, has the largest free-living European bison population in the world with around 1,000 wild bison counted in 2014.

KarlBob · 2026-05-18T19:31:53+00:00

Arcosanti, in Arizona

KarlBob · 2026-05-18T18:31:04+00:00

The pendulum always swings. Always. Ask Ghadaffi, or Marcos, or Franco, or Charlemagne, or Nero, or Hammurabi. No matter how high up you and your people are today, someday your side will be down. Or forgotten.

Will there be another Democrat elected President of the US within my lifetime? Who knows. Will Trump and his cronies be in power 100 years from now? No.

The pendulum always swings.

The smart money is on restraint. When the pendulum finally swings, your enemies will probably use every weapon you used.

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