Thoreau

@Thoreau@mas.to

Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese

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Thoreau, to random

OTOH, I have really gotten into eating kimchi lately, and I can't help but imagine Teenage Me would not be impressed to learn Adult Me really gets off on sneaking into the kitchen about eight at night and snacking on hot garlic infused cabbage.

Also, don't even think about kissing me RN.

Oh, I am a mess!

Thoreau, to random

I am not crazy. The font has changed, right?

Thoreau, to linguistics

I just ordered the book Xenolinguistics by Douglass Vakoch. I can buy it on Kindle for 27.95, Hardback for 170.00 bucks on sale, or 48.00 in paperback.

Theoretical linguists must be making bank or somebody does not want just anyone reading this book.

Maybe he is teaching a university class with it or something.

Meanwhile, baby girl writer over here just wants to know how to talk to the aliens. 🙋‍♀️🙆‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Thoreau, to movies

I am folding laundry watching Ronin (1998) with Robert Deniro, Sean Bean, Jean Reno, Stellan Skarsgaard, Jonathan Pryce and Natascha McElhone in it.

Between Ronin (1998) and Halo (2024) Natascha McElhone looks ageless and stunning. I mean, she could be a clone!

Picture of 54 year old Natascha looking serious in a blazer in Halo.

Thoreau, to writing

So, do unconscious people sneeze? Like as a reflex? Orrrr... do sneezes just not happen?

Asking for a weird friend.

Thoreau, to Disney

Disney is now charging a two dollar resort fee to have access to a garbage can at the park. You will have to swipe your resort bracelet to unlock a garbage can to throw away a wrapper from the food you bought at Disney....and it will be automatically charged at the hotel.

The ecoconscious part of me says, yeah, okay. The inner rebel feels that Disney is expensive enough, and you just see where I put that garbage. Lol

Thoreau, to random

@kazarnowicz I thought you would find this interesting.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202403/llms-and-the-specter-of-the-cognitive-black-hole

Thoreau, to movies

Get ready for "The Omni Loop." I, too, feel like I have a black hole in my chest, hence my penchant for sarcasm and good whiskey on my vanilla ice cream.

This got a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. We shall see.

https://www.gamesradar.com/ayo-edebiri-the-bear-new-sci-fi-movie-omni-loop-time-travel/

Thoreau, to Sleeping

I woke up at 2am after a relentless nightmare about being hunted by a T-Rex. He chased me through the darkest forest, in a giant industrial garage, had me hiding in closets and the bottom of murky ponds. He had me mouthing "He's coming!" to others with sweat on my brow. Other people are so dumb and loud!

Man, was my amygdala tripping out on flight, fight or freeze impulses! I'm totally tense now! T-Rex's are the worst!

#TRex #Nightmare

Thoreau, to random

I don't understand why pitted olives are called pitted olives. Wouldn't they more accurately be called unpitted or depitted olives? If there is no longer a pit, because you removed it, it should not be labeled "pitted!"

I think English messed this one up.

Thoreau, to random

While making spaghetti tonight, I could barely get through the process as the oven fan was on, and, you know, running. Oven fans are so freaking LOUD. Bzzzzzhhhhzxhhhzhh! My brain can't take it.

That got me thinking about how I truly despise the obnoxious guest bathroom fan, which tortures me further because of its very bright Gitmo overhead light that just interrogates you mercilessly. It's traumatic!

Which leads me to my long-winded Proustian question.
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Thoreau, to random

No matter how many ways we create to communicate, humans will always find a way to drive each other crazy with it. At work I have to culturally know who will answer an actual telephone and who would rather die, who keeps their calendar online up to date and who is a conscientious objector to sharing calendars, who will answer a teams call whenever, and who believes all calls must be scheduled 3 weeks in advance. Who answers quickest on text and who never looks at their personal phone.

Thoreau, to random

Announcement:
Hawaiian butter mochi cake will be on the menu on my spaceship when we leave earth. Thank you. That is all.


Thoreau, to scifi

Check out the Holotile Floor! Holodeck lovers check it out.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=NJuK14JuvqIKzsa0&t=182&v=68YMEmaF0rs&feature=youtu.be

Thoreau, to Stoicism

I wonder what the nicest most peaceful calm period has been in human history in the last 5000 years? Where was it? Was there a ever a civilization that was notably civil and less murder-y than others?

Who did it and how? How long did it last?

Are the halcyon days of yore a big giant myth? Is there always a victim of some else's peace?

I have studied so many wars. I don't know much about peace.

Thoreau, to random

It will be interesting to see how they adapt The Three Body Problem to film.

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/netflixs-biggest-new-show-of-2024-just-got-a-full-trailer-you-need-to-watch-this-mind-bending-sci-fi-thriller

Thoreau, to random

The loop is looping. What's happening now has happened before and will happen again. Groundhog's Day, Groundhog's epoch. Groundhog's universe.

It's hard to think big when you are caught in your tiny blip of a life as the universe expands and contracts.

All these Ozymandias egos, excited to think their name might last 500 years, 5000 years. What is that next to 13.8 billion years? To the infinite and unknown?

We are just not remotely humble at all!

Thoreau, to random

Big round-eyed fluffy Ming the Merciless, very concerned about an empty food bowl.

Cute, eh? Sure.

In the cabinet to the right is his kibble. Whenever I lean over to get it, I have to make sure my ass is not pointing at the table. He is will to bite me in the butt for percieved slow-walking of his breakfast.

Does he look starved? I think not, my friends.

Thoreau, to random

A long time ago I used to have this hellacious commute across the 520 Floating Bridge every day. Basically you get on by the University of Washington + then connect with Medina- Bellevue. I have spent hours and hours in this bridge in snow, fog, pounding rain and waves capping over the bridge in high wind, the bridge rocking underneath you. I did this mostly in an ancient Toyota Tercel 4-Speed stick shift with no working radio. Hours and Hours. Stop and Go. I daydreamed a lot. I mean what else?

Thoreau, to random

Somebody called to tell me three days ago that while they sat right next to me in a meeting for a few hours that they got home later, didn't feel well and tested positive for the ding dang Covid.

So... I guess I will be testing on Sat and Sun and Monday morning to make sure I get Xmas with my fam or no.

🤬😒😡😟😬

Thoreau, to random

My paranoia is running rampant. I came down with a cold a few weeks ago. About a week into the cold I started getting ads all over my social media for bad coughs, bronchitis and cold medication. Now I have never said one word on social media about having a cold. I bought no cold medications online + did not schedule any doctor's appointments online. How would they be targeting me for having a cold? Who is listening to me cough on my phone? Or is it my Alexa? I find this very disconcerting.

Thoreau, to UKpolitics

My alarm just went off here in the US and I have started the coffee. Cue the UK politics toots! I see we are off to a robust rowdy rugby-style start.

Thoreau, to random

I just started watching some B-grade post-apocalyptic film and not even ten seconds in and I am so annoyed watching this actor pretend to look through the scope of a rifle like a man who has never held a gun in his life, then he stepped straight into a puddle. I don't care what apocalypse is happening, if no one is chasing you, who steps in a puddle?

And this concludes my cranky report, where I am mad a sci-fi dystopia movie isn't more real.

The End

Thoreau, to scifi

Did anyone know that Ursula K. LeGuin and Phillip K Dick went to high school together? She didn't know him though.
Berkeley High School. Class of 1947. Picture that: They would have been sophomores when the US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and WW 2 ended. They would have seen "It's a Wonderful Life" for the first time ever in theaters their senior year. Then they both wrote science fiction and influenced generations to come.

Thoreau, to random

I am hearing scientists have conducted a double slit experiment that focused not on light/ space but on light in time and discovered light shows the quantum properties in time as it does in space.

Don't ask me what the heck it means lol

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