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Nokia Morph Concept Mobile Phone

Nokia first conceptualized the application of flexible OLED displays in mobile phone with the Nokia Morph concept mobile phone. Released to the press in February 2008, the Morph concept was project Nokia had co-developed with the University of Cambridge. With the Morph, Nokia intended to demonstrate their vision of future mobile devices to incorporate flexible and polymorphic designs; allowing the device to seamlessly change and match a variety of needs by the user within various environments. Though the focus of the Morph was to demonstrate the potential of nanotechnology, it pioneered the concept of utilizing a flexible video display in a consumer electronics device.

Bougainvillea in bloom

My “Barbara Karst” Bougainvillea is in bloom and I couldn’t be more happy. It’s something like 10% of the photo below, but it’s marvelous. Marvelous.

Waking Life, 2001

Godard’s “Vivre Sa Vie” meets Louis Malle’s “My Dinner With Andre”, all with the digital rotoscoping technique makes a super interesting movie, for the dreamers and thinkers.

Did you ever have a job that you hated and worked real hard at? A long, hard day of work. Finally you get to go home, get in bed, close your eyes and immediately you wake up and realize… that the whole day at work had been a dream. It’s bad enough that you sell your waking life for minimum wage, but now they get your dreams for free.

The Dark Hours, 2005

Now this is a proper horror thriller, very good performances and leaves a number of questions unanswered, just as it should.

Cyberpunk

Boundless

13 Tzameti, 2005

A beautiful black and white sadistic journey through the misery of men. Some Kafka, some Dostoievski, a film about the power of violence.

Rest of the world

Those of us who critique and criticise the world are naturally avoidant of others who share the same world view as us. Why? Because knowing ourselves as we do, we don’t wish to be subject to their critique exposing us to our own faults of which we are likely already painfully aware of. We are afraid of the rejection and being lumped in with the rest of society we so loathe for their mindless ways.

This leaves us with a conundrum.

With no hope of connecting with those to whom we may actually share something in common, we are left with the rest of the world. The very same world we eschew and judge on a daily basis, and how can one connect with people they don’t truly respect? As a result we our left to our own devices, alone and with no attempt to connect with the world.

For we are disappointed and dissatisfied with society, and we are scared, that if we attempt to forego our pre-cognate conclusions, that we will be rejected due to a fundamentally different world view.

And it’s easier to sleep at night thinking you could be a part of something bigger, than it is to sleep knowing you are truly alone.

HOMEworld

I don’t mean to be overly melodramatic, but Homeworld is - for a lack of a better word - part of my soul.

Cyberpunk

Sphere, 1998

Bad. Bad. Bad. Every clichés possible and impossible. Bad acting. Bad actors. Bad setup. Bad alien. Bad science. Bad.

Adaptix Framework

Adaptix is an extensible post-exploitation and adversarial emulation framework made for penetration testers. The Adaptix server is written in Golang and to allow operator flexibility. The GUI Client is written in C++ QT, allowing it to be used on Linux, Windows, and MacOS operating systems. Adaptix Framework

Waterworld, 1995

I was small when I first saw Waterworld, and what a cool movie it was and still is. Beautiful story from the past, Mad Max of the waters.

And I finally remembered and understood what the “nonconsensual haircut” was about, lol.

He doesn’t have a name so Death can’t find him!

Scalping or nonconsensual haircut?

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Oh, I think it was the thing the Mohicans and the Comanche did. Wasn’t it called scalping or something similar?

Nonconsensual haircut

The fuck is a nonconsensual haircut and where do I get one?

The Perfect Storm, 2000

Nice visual effects, nice drama based on a true story about Andrea Gail, a fishing vessel that in October 1991 left the port of Gloucester, Massachusetts, never to be seen again, lost in a huge storm. I just couldn’t connect with the characters. Will they live? Will they die? Whatever. But it’s not a bad movie, it’s just the main actor is the ocean. Rest of them, Clooney, Wahlberg, Lane, are just clichés.

The fog’s just lifting. Throw off your bow line; throw off your stern. You head out to South channel, past Rocky Neck, Ten Pound Island. Past Niles Pond where I skated as a kid. Blow your air-horn and throw a wave to the lighthouse keeper’s kid on Thatcher Island. Then the birds show up: black backs, herring gulls, big dump ducks. The sun hits ya - head North. Open up to 12 - steamin’ now. The guys are busy; you’re in charge. Ya know what? You’re a goddam swordboat captain! Is there any thing better in the world?

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We’re here, ladies and gentlehorses. Spice up your life (Spice Girls ‘members).

Paolo Nutini - Iron Sky

To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed
The bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die
And the power they took from the people will return to the people
And so long as men die, liberty will never perish
Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men
Machine men with machine minds and machine hearts!
You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men!

Cyberpunk

Suntan, 2016

Bit of a shocker ending but I loved this movie. Plenty of nudity, but it’s the Greek islands so it’s understandable. Humans are very capable of telling themselves stories, particularily where sex is concerned.

So what, doctors don’t have dicks?