It happens to me frequently that I get interested in a movie based on some comments or previews, but then I forget to watch it when it finally releases! Well, after discovering a couple of interesting movies today I will try to not to lose track of them.
First, Saluda al Diablo de mi parte is a Colombian movie by the same director of Al Final Del Espectro:
The second movie is the latest work of Mamoru Oshii, and it seems to be out (at least in Japan)
This reminds me that I also need to keep track of the new movies of Evangelion
P.S.
Did that woman just said "Kusanagi Suito desu"? She does look like Motoko!!
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Turning Political
I recently found an interesting video:
I think this video describes in an insightful way the differences between the two parties. I think we need to place ourselves in other people's shoes, their frame of mind and stop being so self-righteous.
However, by this same definition, it is liberals who tend to be less self-righteous than conservatives; and nothing could exemplify this issue better than the response of Obama and McCain on the question of Evil:
It was refreshing to hear about other "evils" in the world that are going unnoticed because of this single-minded focus on Islamic terrorists, as if the only evil in the world was Bin Laden.
But the most important fact was that the response of Obama included the fact that we must confront evil with humility, because some of the worst attrocities in the world were committed under the claim of fighting evil.
Although I wasn't originally a fan of Obama, I have become in time a supporter. His response demonstrates the open-mindedness and intelligence that the US needs from a leader. I recently saw Bill Maher questioning why republicans were accusing Obama of being Cosmopolitan? He argued that this accusation was ridicoulous: that the fathers of US were some of the most cosmopolitan and intellectual people in the planet, and he doesn't understand how in recent years being smart, cosmopolitan, and intellectual could be seen as something negative.
The Apollo program, affirmative action, the International Space Station... all these programs flourished thanks to presidents who had a minimum level of curiousity and who wanted a fair society. People who wanted to push some of the boundaries of what the human race could achieve.
Update: I found the ending of an article by Sam Harris in Newsweek very relevant to my post:
The prospects of a Palin administration are far more frightening, in fact, than those of a Palin Institute for Pediatric Neurosurgery. Ask yourself: how has "elitism" become a bad word in American politics? There is simply no other walk of life in which extraordinary talent and rigorous training are denigrated. We want elite pilots to fly our planes, elite troops to undertake our most critical missions, elite athletes to represent us in competition and elite scientists to devote the most productive years of their lives to curing our diseases. And yet, when it comes time to vest people with even greater responsibilities, we consider it a virtue to shun any and all standards of excellence. When it comes to choosing the people whose thoughts and actions will decide the fates of millions, then we suddenly want someone just like us, someone fit to have a beer with, someone down-to-earth—in fact, almost anyone, provided that he or she doesn't seem too intelligent or well educated.
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PS. I couldn't find the youtube posts of some of the videos in this post because I Leechblocked myself, so I had to post the links pointing to godtube.
PS.2 if you want to know what happened to my linux command post, you can find it here.
PS3 Time to play! Long live MGS4
PS4 "I play God games Old Testamet style" -Yahtzee ==> "Long live Rome: Total War" --Alvaro.
I think this video describes in an insightful way the differences between the two parties. I think we need to place ourselves in other people's shoes, their frame of mind and stop being so self-righteous.
However, by this same definition, it is liberals who tend to be less self-righteous than conservatives; and nothing could exemplify this issue better than the response of Obama and McCain on the question of Evil:
It was refreshing to hear about other "evils" in the world that are going unnoticed because of this single-minded focus on Islamic terrorists, as if the only evil in the world was Bin Laden.
But the most important fact was that the response of Obama included the fact that we must confront evil with humility, because some of the worst attrocities in the world were committed under the claim of fighting evil.
Although I wasn't originally a fan of Obama, I have become in time a supporter. His response demonstrates the open-mindedness and intelligence that the US needs from a leader. I recently saw Bill Maher questioning why republicans were accusing Obama of being Cosmopolitan? He argued that this accusation was ridicoulous: that the fathers of US were some of the most cosmopolitan and intellectual people in the planet, and he doesn't understand how in recent years being smart, cosmopolitan, and intellectual could be seen as something negative.
The Apollo program, affirmative action, the International Space Station... all these programs flourished thanks to presidents who had a minimum level of curiousity and who wanted a fair society. People who wanted to push some of the boundaries of what the human race could achieve.
Update: I found the ending of an article by Sam Harris in Newsweek very relevant to my post:
The prospects of a Palin administration are far more frightening, in fact, than those of a Palin Institute for Pediatric Neurosurgery. Ask yourself: how has "elitism" become a bad word in American politics? There is simply no other walk of life in which extraordinary talent and rigorous training are denigrated. We want elite pilots to fly our planes, elite troops to undertake our most critical missions, elite athletes to represent us in competition and elite scientists to devote the most productive years of their lives to curing our diseases. And yet, when it comes time to vest people with even greater responsibilities, we consider it a virtue to shun any and all standards of excellence. When it comes to choosing the people whose thoughts and actions will decide the fates of millions, then we suddenly want someone just like us, someone fit to have a beer with, someone down-to-earth—in fact, almost anyone, provided that he or she doesn't seem too intelligent or well educated.
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PS. I couldn't find the youtube posts of some of the videos in this post because I Leechblocked myself, so I had to post the links pointing to godtube.
PS.2 if you want to know what happened to my linux command post, you can find it here.
PS3 Time to play! Long live MGS4
PS4 "I play God games Old Testamet style" -Yahtzee ==> "Long live Rome: Total War" --Alvaro.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Navigator RIP
I have been a user of Netscape Navigator for more than a decade. While I have used Firefox or Safari once in a while, I always came back to Netscape because of the nostalgia. Lately, however, my Netscape browser keeps reminding me that I need to change to Firefox or Flock because there are not going to be any more security updates for Navigator. More precisely, AOL is ending development and support for Netscape Navigator.
What am I supposed to do now?
What am I supposed to do now?
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