Notes

No matter what you believe in, I have a strong feeling that right now may be an opportune time to take that long overdue moral inventory. You may not get many more chances. You see, things are never going back to the way they were before. Truly, honestly ask yourself if you’re on the side of light or darkness. Examine with the utmost scrutiny those you stand behind. Be humble enough to learn, wise enough to know, and courageous enough to act and change.

Let me tell you about that Raspberry Pi Laptop (or Cyberdeck) project I’m working on for quite some time. Let’s call it Militarish Pi. At this stage, build took around 6 months (≈10 hours of prototyping, ≈20 hours of searching for the right parts, ≈4350 hours of waiting for parts to arrive). Now waiting for more parts, so before it takes another 6 months I probably need to write something about it.

I have this itch to build a laptop for a long time. In childhood, I’ve found a broken Texas Instruments Extensa and wasted a lot of time trying to fix it. Without any knowledge about computers of course. As you might guess it was a total failure. But since then I have this urge to build a laptop. The one I’m talking about today is the fourth attempt, and the only successful/kindof completed. Militarish Pi cyberdeck computer

Got an email out of the blue from an old friend and thought it was a nice gesture.
It turns out her email was hacked and it was a link to penis enlargement pills.

Looking at Mozilla’s current status, Brendan Eich is sure having the last laugh.

Say what you will about the 60s counterculture, but they actually scared their governments enough to be considered a real threat to national and international order. These “new” protestors don’t seem to scare anyone other than the small business owners who get caught in the crossfire. They don’t have any goals, they’re not trying to burn down government buildings or bomb politicians. All their protests amount to is going out into the street and acting like the scary guys from 60 years ago in order to convince some politician to say the right words on TV.

Do Americans realise their media turns the country into a spectacle for the rest of the world to laugh at and point towards what not to do?

There comes an age where you can’t help but feel the way things are is how they’ll be forever, and in the end, that tension you feel between aspirations and feeling dead inside will just be just a long daydream.

The chains within our mind is to our own accord. Happiness is not found within, but it is without. Going outside and soaking up the sun can do wonders on the mind, as is taking a look into what you eat and interact with daily. You are what you consume, my friend, and if you are consuming a life fit for a prison no wonder you are its prisoner.

There is no sentiment I despise more than hope. Weak, grovelling, desperate hope. The capacity for hope is the last indignity heaped upon the human soul by a cruel and indifferent God. Hope has no appeal but to the powerless, but even to them it does no service and has no value. Because to place your trust in hope is to vote for powerlessness. For hope is the last attempt to salvage some good from this world when all our powers have failed us and there is nothing that can be done. Hope is a gamble. Worse, it is the gambler deceiving themselves into the belief that the house does not always win, that the house, contrary to reason, is rooting for them to win.

Faith, the close cousin of hope, I can at least respect. Faith requires a certain strength of will. Hope is the collapse of strength, a surrender before a universe filled with entropy, poisons, radioactive abysses, parasites, full of an infinite assortment of possible configurations that drive human hope to extinction. Hope is a fool’s bet. No matter what fate throws at me I will never submit to the indignity of hoping.

1. Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl – Griffith, 1919.
2. Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari [The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari] - Wiene, 1920.
3. Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler – Ein Bild der Zeit (Part 1 – Part 2) [Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler] – Lang, 1922.
4. The Gold Rush – Chaplin, 1925.
5. La Chute de la Maison Usher [The Fall of the House of Usher] – Jean Epstein, 1928.
6. Un Chien Andalou [An Andalusian Dog] – Bunuel, 1928.
7. Morocco – von Sternberg, 1930.
8. Der Kongress Tanzt – Charell, 1931.
9. Die 3groschenoper [The Threepenny Opera] – Pabst, 1931.
10. Leise Flehen Meine Lieder [Lover Divine] – Forst, 1933.
11. The Thin Man – Dyke, 1934.
12. Tonari no Yae-chan [My Little Neighbour, Yae] – Shimazu, 1934.
13. Tange Sazen yowa: Hyakuman ryo no tsubo [Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo] – Yamanaka, 1935.
14. Akanishi Kakita [Capricious Young Men] – Itami, 1936.
15. La Grande Illusion [The Grand Illusion] – Renoir, 1937.
16. Stella Dallas – Vidor, 1937.
17. Tsuzurikata Kyoshitsu [Lessons in Essay] – Yamamoto, 1938.
18. Tsuchi [Earth] – Uchida, 1939.
19. Ninotchka – Lubitsch, 1939.
20. Ivan Groznyy I, Ivan Groznyy II: Boyarsky Zagovor [Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II] – Eisenstein, 1944-46.
21. My Darling Clementine – Ford, 1946.
22. It’s a Wonderful Life – Capra, 1946.
23. The Big Sleep – Hawks, 1946.
24. Ladri di Biciclette [The Bicycle Thief] [Bicycle Thieves] – De Sica, 1948.
25. Aoi sanmyaku [The Green Mountains] – Imai, 1949.
26. The Third Man – Reed, 1949.
27. Banshun [Late Spring] – Ozu, 1949.
28. Orpheus – Cocteau, 1949.
29. Karumen kokyo ni kaeru [Carmen Comes Home] – Kinoshita, 1951.
30. A Streetcar Named Desire – Kazan, 1951.
31. Thérèse Raquin [The Adultress] – Carne 1953.
32. Saikaku ichidai onna [The Life of Oharu] – Mizoguchi, 1952.
33. Viaggio in Italia [Journey to Italy] – Rossellini, 1953.
34. Gojira [Godzilla] – Honda, 1954.
35. La Strada – Fellini, 1954.
36. Ukigumo [Floating Clouds] – Naruse, 1955.
37. Pather Panchali [Song of the Road] – Ray, 1955.
38. Daddy Long Legs – Negulesco, 1955.
39. The Proud Ones – Webb, 1956.
40. Bakumatsu taiyoden [Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate] – Kawashima, 1957.
41. The Young Lions – Dmytryk, 1957.
42. Les Cousins [The Cousins] – Chabrol, 1959.
43. Les Quarte Cents Coups [The 400 Blows] – Truffaut, 1959.
44. A bout de Souffle [Breathless] – Godard, 1959.
45. Ben-Hur – Wyler, 1959.
46. Ototo [Her Brother] – Ichikawa, 1960.
47. Une aussi longue absence [The Long Absence] – Colpi, 1960.
48. Le Voyage en Ballon [Stowaway in the Sky] – Lamorisse, 1960.
49. Plein Soleil [Purple Noon] – Clement, 1960.
50. Zazie dans le métro [Zazie on the Subway] – Malle, 1960.
51. L’Annee derniere a Marienbad [Last Year in Marienbad] – Resnais, 1960).
52. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? – Aldrich, 1962.
53. Lawrence of Arabia – Lean, 1962.
54. Melodie en sous-sol [Any Number Can Win] – Verneuil, 1963.
55. The Birds – Hitchcock, 1963.
56. Il Deserto Rosso [The Red Desert]- Antonioni, 1964.
57. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Nichols, 1966.
58. Bonnie and Clyde – Penn, 1967.
59. In the Heat of the Night – Jewison, 1967.
60. The Charge of the Light Brigade – Richardson, 1968.
61. Midnight Cowboy – Schlesinger, 1969.
62. MASH – Altman, 1970.
63. Johnny Got His Gun – Trumbo, 1971.
64. The French Connection – Friedkin, 1971.
65. El espíritu de la colmena [Spirit of the Beehive] – Erice, 1973.
66. Solyaris [Solaris] – Tarkovsky, 1972.
67. The Day of the Jackal – Zinneman, 1973.
68. Gruppo di famiglia in un interno [Conversation Piece] – Visconti, 1974.
69. The Godfather Part II – Coppola, 1974.
70. Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo [Sandakan 8] – Kumai, 1974.
71. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Forman, 1975.
72. O, Thiassos [The Travelling Players] -Angelopoulos, 1975.
73. Barry Lyndon – Kubrick, 1975.
74. Daichi no komoriuta [Lullaby of the Earth] – Masumura, 1976.
75. Annie Hall – Allen, 1977.
76. Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino [Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano] – Mikhalkov, 1977.
77. Padre Padrone [My Father My Master] - P. & V. Taviani, 1977.
78. Gloria - Cassavetes, 1980.
79. Harukanaru yama no yobigoe [A Distant Cry From Spring] – Yamada, 1980.
80. La Traviata – Zeffirelli, 1982.
81. Fanny och Alexander [Fanny and Alexander] – Bergman, 1982.
82. Fitzcarraldo – Herzog, 1982.
83. The King of Comedy – Scorsese, 1983.
84. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence – Oshima, 1983.
85. The Killing Fields – Joffe 1984.
86. Stranger Than Paradise – Jarmusch, 1984.
87. Dongdong de Jiaqi [A Summer at Grandpa’s] – Hou, 1984.
88. Paris, Texas – Wenders, 1984.
89. Witness – Weir, 1985.
90. The Trip to Bountiful – Masterson, 1985.
91. Otac na sluzbenom putu [When Father was Away on Business] – Kusturica, 1985.
92. The Dead – Huston, 1987.
93. Khane-ye doust kodjast? [Where is the Friend’s Home] – Kiarostami, 1987.
94. Baghdad Cafe [Out of Rosenheim] – Adlon, 1987.
95. The Whales of August – Anderson, 1987.
96. Running on Empty – Lumet, 1988.
97. Tonari no totoro [My Neighbour Totoro] – Miyazaki, 1988.
98. A un [Buddies] – Furuhata, 1989.
99. La Belle Noiseuse [The Beautiful Troublemaker] – Rivette, 1991.
100. Hana-bi [Fireworks] – Kitano, 1997.