Quote of the Day [6.25.08]
“A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.”
3rd Law of Robotics, Isaac Asimov
Link of the Day [6.25.08]
Another in the string of posts to get a Chris Bishop painting. I prefer the girls, but he also does robots.
I”s Volume 15
These pages make me happy and sad. Go on. Break her heart. It’s the only thing to do.
Well, I just finished Masakazu Katsura’s I”s a second time. Yes, I read it a while ago on OneManga, but decided to read it again because Borders had all 15 volumes ready to be purchased. And so I did. It’s still an amazing read.
Ichitaka Seto is a fool in love with his classmate, Iori Yoshizuki. He’s also have to fend off the advances of Itsuki Akiba and Izumi Isozaki while hoping he doesn’t fall for Aiko Asou. You know, standard harem fare. But true love finds a way.
Ichitaka is a fool. He should’ve said something earlier, but then we wouldn’t have had 15 volumes to read. Iori is cute as a button, but needs to express her love for him as well. It’s damn near amazing that they did get together in the end. Itsuki and Izumi are there as road blocks. He’s a fool for entertaining them. Aiko almost, almost made it impossible for this story to have a happy ending. But the fool becomes the prince and makes Iori’s day.
I am a sucker for this story. And I am glad I read it a second time. Purchased it to help further getting stupid, sappy crap like this made. More, please, because it warms my heart.
Someday….
Quote of the Day [6.24.08]
“A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.”
2nd Law of Robotics, Isaac Asimov
Die, Flash! Die!
For those wanting Flash on iPhone, why? Not to be all snarky, but I don’t think it makes any sense as far as enriching your mobile web surfing.
Do we really need those pesky flash animated ad banners? Do we want to download a flash file just to see a commercial? I don’t know about you, but I don’t.
How about video? How about it? There’s already a youtube application and quicktime, while it doesn’t embed it on the web page it does launch a standalone viewer.
Games? Maybe. But with the appstore coming, and the free iPhone SDK, I’m sure you’ll find something to like.
So there are alternatives to Flash. You can live without it on iPhone. You already do. Live with that. Kill Flash dead.
Link of the Day [6.24.08]
I have no idea why a christian site would think about the top 10 best movie robots of all time, because I haven’t read the article. I hope they don’t posit that god is in these creations, because that would be creepy.
“Klaatu. Barada nikto.”
http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/commentaries/top10movierobotsofalltime.html
Get Smart
Get Smart is dumb summer fun. What can you say about a movie that was meant to be forgotten as soon as you exit the theatre? That’s why I’m writing this review like this: I forgot what happened. Good for the popcorn, bad for the film fanatic. It was a nice two hours in the shade.
Agent 13 is disguised as a tree.
Jaime shows up.
Agent 99 almost had us believing in Barabara Feldon. I wish she was there. I loved her as a kid. I wonder if she did do a cameo?
They had Zigfried.
Would you believe…? Missed it by that much. Cone of silence.
2 of 5 stars.
Quote of the Day [6.23.08]
“A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”
1st Law of Robotics, Isaac Asimov
Link of the Day [6.23.08]
In the same vein as the zombie books. Here’s how to survive the upcoming robot uprising. I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.