Yeah, there’s still bits and pieces left here.
No, I’m not in “11st” or “13rd” place.
No, there isn’t “0 bingo left”.
And in both cases: look elsewhere on the screen for the correct spelling.
No, my rank isn’t “0th”. That would put me in front on #1, and that makes no sense, I have 0 points, eh, coins.
Come on. This is the easy stuff.
From Læger i oprør over udsigt til brud på it-fortrolighed:
The Danish army wants more access, including patients records and prescriptions.
This to prevent hacker attacks.
På mit skolebibliotek havde de bl.a. de her tegneserier. For en nybagt sf-fan var de guf. Lucky Luke og Asterix havde bestemt deres gode sider, men de der rumskibe, styret af Linda og Valentin, kunne altså noget specielt.
Jeg har her anmeldt disse små underværker skabt af bl.a. Jean-Claude Mézières. Jeg kan se, min plan var, at læse dem alle i rækkefølge, men det blev da ikke til noget. Så meget god læsning, så lidt tid …
Uden at jeg vidste det dengang, så lærte jeg bl.a., at kvinder kan være stærke og mænd kan fjumre. Dengang grinede jeg nok af deres problemer. I dag kan jeg bedre sætte pris på det. Og hvem kan nogensinde glemme det lille væsen, der kan fremstille valuta af enhver slags – når den altså ikke er træt.
De var en væsentlig del af mit liv som teenager. Og selvom de ikke længere fylder så meget, så krydser jeg fingre for, at filmen er god.
From KMD er farlig for IT-sikkerheden i Danmark and Fandt hul i sikkerheden hos it-kæmpe – nu er han politianmeldt:
Prediction, SF Encyclopedia, David Langford and Peter Nicholls.
The most widespread false belief about sf among the general public is that it is a literature of prediction. Very few sf writers have ever claimed this to be the case, although Hugo Gernsback did see one function of his sf magazines as to paint an accurate picture of the future. Very few of the stories he published lived up to his editorializing. When John W Campbell Jr took over the editorship of Astounding he demanded an increasing scientific plausibility from his writers, but a plausible-sounding “perhaps” is a long way from prediction.
“Huxley’s Bad Trip”, An introduction to the Folio Society edition of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, 2013, Ursula K. Le Guin.
“The cautionary novel does what many people assume all science fiction does: it predicts the future. However much they may exaggerate dramatically or satirically, predictive writers extrapolate immediately from fact. And, believing that they know what’s going to happen in the future, for good or for evil, they want the reader to believe it too. A great deal of science fiction, however, has nothing to do with the future, but is a playful or serious thought experiment, such as H. G. Wells’s War of the Worlds or Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles. Thought experimenters use fiction to recombine aspects of reality into forms not meant to be taken literally, only to open the mind to possibility. They don’t deal with belief at all.
This distinction enforced itself on me when I realised that Huxley himself appears to have believed quite literally in his prediction.”
Anmeldelse af Snik snak om Allegiant, af Veronica Roth.
Tredje bind. Endelig får jeg opklaret, hvordan det slutter. Og jeg bliver overrasket. Også over, at slutningen er lidt modig.
Ligesom det foregående bind er der ikke meget lighed med filmen. Jeg har svært ved at gætte, hvordan den sidste film skulle have været.
Jeg gnider med det samme tænder, da Tris bliver beskrevet, nu med hår som “en kriger, ikke en pige”. Som om de 2 tilstande udelukker hinanden. Som om krigere bør være korthårede.
Denne beskrivelse lader sig i øvrigt gøre, fordi bogen har et nyt tiltag. De 2 andre bøger er fra Tris’ synspunkt. Den her har også kapitler fra kærestens vinkel. Jeg kan ikke finde ud af, om jeg kan lide det eller ej. Det er ikke skrevet godt nok, jeg blev ved med at rode sammen på dem. Men det er en løsning på noget, der ellers skulle løses på en anden måde.
Jeg kan godt lide, at der viser sig at være en logisk forklaring på de 5 faktioner.
Tris møder en hel bunke mennesker, der taler og taler, men ikke går op i, om hun lytter. De er også på andre ledder usympatiske. Men lige det her er måske et trick, hvor de faktisk taler til læseren?
Emnet viser sig i høj grad at være – skal vi kalde det geneticisme? Din sociale status afhænger af 5 specifikke gener. Tris er øsende ligeglad, men andre bliver meget påvirket.
Hov! Så er der et par bøsser! Fint behandlet.
Jeg er tilfreds med, at jeg fik læst den her bog og dermed den her trilogi. Hunger Games var bedre, men der er også en del gods her.
“Our Dystopia: Imagining More Hopeful Futures”, Kameron Hurley:
“People often ask me about the power and purpose of science fiction. Are we future-prophets? Should there be a religion founded on William Gibson texts? Should we make Octavia Butler our patron saint of change? Will Connie Willis found the next Scientology spin-off?
I don’t think we’re seers. Most of us can’t even predict what we’ll have for lunch tomorrow. I’m even conflicted about the idea of us on advisory committees for NASA. We don’t know the future any better than anyone else. If you’d asked me in 1988, I’d certainly have thought the world would have exploded into a fiery World War Three by now and we would all be being hunted by Terminator robots. In truth, some of the worlds I created, like the one in my God’s War trilogy, look far more like post-apocalypse novels than anything else. That’s still the future I turn my head toward when shit gets real. It’s the future I know. It’s the one I grew up with.”
June 28: The only way for me to share on the game’s Facebook page is to comment on an existing post. I shared this blog post that way. For this I have been banned. I can no longer comment on their posts.
I want to play bingo.
Yes. That’s a good game. Bingo!
That’s okay, 6 bingos, but after that we play.
Yes, yes, the round is over, now we play.
2 more cards to start? Eh. Okay. But then we play?
But no. First we wait 40 seconds.
Then we actually play.
Sigh. Bad design.
June 23: Nope. It’s back.
June 22: This behavior seems to have disappeared.
I want to play a nice game of Number knot. Wait, what is this?
Okay… No, I think I’ll deny that. Wait, what?
Ehm. Okay. I can live with that.
But. This happens every time I start the game. Not good design.
Stuff from ommadawn.dk (Lise Andreasen) 