This budding flower is known as Cytherea
You son of a bitch!! I dance like a bandit and you know it!!
Upon first hearing about this movie, I thought that it sounded a lot like the story behind The Animatrix: Renaissance part 1. But it turns out that, although they had a similar premise, this movie played out much differently than the Renaissance, and was quite enjoyable.
I'm not going to ruin the story for you so I'll just put things in a nutshell, and here is that shell: For the first time ever a robot has killed a human, this breaks the 3 laws that govern the behavior of robots, and people refuse to believe it. Will Smith enters the picture and fun ensues.
The 3 laws of robotics go something like this:
Or in layman's terms:
1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2) A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Now those are some good laws, and make sense. But once you start thinking about it you start to see some problems. In fact one of the best things about the movie is that it really gets your mind going on the subject of A.I., robotics, dreaming of electric sheep, etc.
For instance, you could in theory have a robot war breakout since robot on robot violence is not prohibited by the 3 laws. Some sort of robot civil war... humm that's an interesting idea. But that's not what happens in the movie so don't worry about me having spoiled anything. I'm just talking about some hypotheticals of what could go wrong with those laws.
So we've established that the story and themes in the movie are good, now lets move on to the production side of things.
Product placement was a tad too rampant, but I guess that's to be expected of a summer blockbuster. The nerd in me liked the fact that US Robotics became the largest company in the world, I just wonder if they made their money off the Sporster or off the Courier modems : )
The special effects were pretty good. Although the whiteish/translucent material they used on the NS-5 robots looked far too early 2000 CG, for my liking. Some of the photogrametry shots they did, like on the catwalks, looked pretty damn cool.
In conclusion, go watch the movie.
I'm not going to ruin the story for you so I'll just put things in a nutshell, and here is that shell: For the first time ever a robot has killed a human, this breaks the 3 laws that govern the behavior of robots, and people refuse to believe it. Will Smith enters the picture and fun ensues.
The 3 laws of robotics go something like this:
if(action() != "hurt human") {
continue;
}
elseif(command() == "from human" && action() != "hurt human") {
continue;
}
elseif(action() == "protect self" && action() != "hurt human" && command() != "from human") {
continue;
}
Or in layman's terms:
1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2) A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Now those are some good laws, and make sense. But once you start thinking about it you start to see some problems. In fact one of the best things about the movie is that it really gets your mind going on the subject of A.I., robotics, dreaming of electric sheep, etc.
For instance, you could in theory have a robot war breakout since robot on robot violence is not prohibited by the 3 laws. Some sort of robot civil war... humm that's an interesting idea. But that's not what happens in the movie so don't worry about me having spoiled anything. I'm just talking about some hypotheticals of what could go wrong with those laws.
So we've established that the story and themes in the movie are good, now lets move on to the production side of things.
Product placement was a tad too rampant, but I guess that's to be expected of a summer blockbuster. The nerd in me liked the fact that US Robotics became the largest company in the world, I just wonder if they made their money off the Sporster or off the Courier modems : )
The special effects were pretty good. Although the whiteish/translucent material they used on the NS-5 robots looked far too early 2000 CG, for my liking. Some of the photogrametry shots they did, like on the catwalks, looked pretty damn cool.
In conclusion, go watch the movie.
Although I only have eyes for one girl. This new burrito place seems to be a damn nice place to hang out, with it's over abundance of hotties, and all. The burritos weren't bad either. We also saw some commercial getting filmed, but I'll let Bashtard tell the story behind that one.
Over all, a good gleam was had today. Aside from the devestating heat that is, the 70% humidity, 38°c was pretty insane.
Over all, a good gleam was had today. Aside from the devestating heat that is, the 70% humidity, 38°c was pretty insane.
Here is the funny part of the whole Police Chief Fantion debacle. The Toronto Police Union wants him gone, and right wing corporate interests want him to stay. Luckly, today City Council sided with the union and the Police Services Board and voted his ass right out of there.
Now here is my point. If the god damn police union doesn't want someone as a police chief, why the hell do some right wing councillors, that are still bitter over their bridge getting cancelled, think they know better about who should be the chief?
Now here is my point. If the god damn police union doesn't want someone as a police chief, why the hell do some right wing councillors, that are still bitter over their bridge getting cancelled, think they know better about who should be the chief?
Tonight's shenanigans started off at Darksyde's, watching TV while waiting for the rest of the crew to get there, and on that note I'll just say that Jason X is a terrible movie!
Eventually we left for the Funhaus, which was anything but fun. The music was alright, but the insane heat and humidity made the place unbearable. I couldn't even attempt to dance, it was so bad.
After much bitching Darkyslide said we should go over to the Velvet since they have a working air conditioning system. I haven't been to the Velvet in over a year, so I had no idea how much the place had changed. Not cosmetically though, just in the crowd. Where as before it was a hang out for the cracked out goth wannabes that were too cool for the Zen lounge, it is now a trendy college kids hang out. I didn't even see one guy with eyeliner in there! It was beyond weird. OHHH I have to rewind this story a bit... back at the Funhaus we ran into this old acquaintance of ours and her friend.
Those two girls could not stand the horrible Funhaus heat either, so they left to the Velvet with us . Actually they wanted to go to Savage but they followed us to Velvet... errr no, wait, not so much "us" but more "me", since I was the only one they were chatting up.
Upon arrival at the Velvet they made the same observation as me about the crowd being all weird and different, and of the music sucking. They also made the observation that I was the hottest guy in there, and well I couldn't argue with that, since I really was.
But my hotness not withstanding that place sucked and I'd had enough of the clubs for one night, so we followed Jcloth's idea of going out for a gleam (this was around 1am). The girls were not at all pleased about that, since they wantedus me to go to Savage with them, and they were in disbelief that we were actually going to bail to go gleaming.
It took several attempts on my part to leave their clutches, but they would not let me go. So I threw 'em a card, exchanged some info, and was out the door like a Centaur.
From there we then went for a good gleam, in ideal weather conditions. I think my calves are once again ready for some marathon gleams, because they were toight and well behaved. So a good night was had by all.
Eventually we left for the Funhaus, which was anything but fun. The music was alright, but the insane heat and humidity made the place unbearable. I couldn't even attempt to dance, it was so bad.
After much bitching Darkyslide said we should go over to the Velvet since they have a working air conditioning system. I haven't been to the Velvet in over a year, so I had no idea how much the place had changed. Not cosmetically though, just in the crowd. Where as before it was a hang out for the cracked out goth wannabes that were too cool for the Zen lounge, it is now a trendy college kids hang out. I didn't even see one guy with eyeliner in there! It was beyond weird. OHHH I have to rewind this story a bit... back at the Funhaus we ran into this old acquaintance of ours and her friend.
Those two girls could not stand the horrible Funhaus heat either, so they left to the Velvet with us . Actually they wanted to go to Savage but they followed us to Velvet... errr no, wait, not so much "us" but more "me", since I was the only one they were chatting up.
Upon arrival at the Velvet they made the same observation as me about the crowd being all weird and different, and of the music sucking. They also made the observation that I was the hottest guy in there, and well I couldn't argue with that, since I really was.
But my hotness not withstanding that place sucked and I'd had enough of the clubs for one night, so we followed Jcloth's idea of going out for a gleam (this was around 1am). The girls were not at all pleased about that, since they wanted
It took several attempts on my part to leave their clutches, but they would not let me go. So I threw 'em a card, exchanged some info, and was out the door like a Centaur.
From there we then went for a good gleam, in ideal weather conditions. I think my calves are once again ready for some marathon gleams, because they were toight and well behaved. So a good night was had by all.
It's official baby! PHP 5 is street legal. Go download it now.
I was watching The Casino on Fox and saw something that I had never thought that candy ass american TV station would show. They actually showed full on naked female breats, saline, nipples et all. They belonged to Roxanne from Trashy Lingerie and they were spectacular.
Fox turned into a hardcore porn channel so gradually I didn't really notice
We got our new Noizex business cards back from the printers. They are SOOOO money.
Downtown Toronto never ceases to amaze me with it's plethora of weirdness.
Earlier tonight while out on a gleam, DC and I took a rest at the Cloud Garden park. While sitting there minding our own business we spotted these pair of construction boots floating in one of the fountains. After some more surveying of the area we spotted a quarter empty bottle of generic Listerine sitting near the boots.Indeed a bizzare sight.
Our theory is that some hobo went on a Listerine bender, took off his boots and left them in the fountain during his drunken stupor.
Earlier tonight while out on a gleam, DC and I took a rest at the Cloud Garden park. While sitting there minding our own business we spotted these pair of construction boots floating in one of the fountains. After some more surveying of the area we spotted a quarter empty bottle of generic Listerine sitting near the boots.Indeed a bizzare sight.
Our theory is that some hobo went on a Listerine bender, took off his boots and left them in the fountain during his drunken stupor.
Off to celebrate Canada Day, I'll be editing this posts with some pictures later on, so stay tuned.
[addendum]
We celebrated Canada Day by going out on Jon's dad's boat. It was ever so much fun. We mainly hung out by the Toronto Harbour Front, then we went to the Toronto Islands to eat, then back to the harbour front for the fireworks. Other than the damn Pigs pulling us over (on a boat), it was a fun and eventful day.
[addendum]
We celebrated Canada Day by going out on Jon's dad's boat. It was ever so much fun. We mainly hung out by the Toronto Harbour Front, then we went to the Toronto Islands to eat, then back to the harbour front for the fireworks. Other than the damn Pigs pulling us over (on a boat), it was a fun and eventful day.