Friday, June 11, 2010

Friday funnies: txt spk

I have learned something from you, dear students.

roflcopter

(from Urban Dictionary)
The superior being of chatspeak, 'roflcopter' out takes down all lollerbladers, lmaoplanes and various other outlawls. Pilots of the roflcopter often enjoy a nice crispy ZOMGBBQPIZZA and some lolmonade. Children also enjoy a good ride in the roflcopter, as it spreads smiles and festivals known as the 'lolapalooza' across the world.

Captain Sloloman of the elite omega roflcopter squad enjoyed a fresh ZOMGBBQPIZZA and a cool lolmonade after his swift victory over the lollerbladers, lmaoplanes and outlawls and returning safely to the lolapalooza.


LOL is now completely lame. ZOMG!!!

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

SINKHOLE!!!!!


Apparently, this is not a result of us wrecking the environment, but a natural, geological occurrence. Yikes!

Monday, May 31, 2010

More human than human.

Harrison Ford. Not just Indy Jones and Han Solo, but mega Spunkrat for those of us of a more advanced age, in a Gen-X kind of way.....

What is it about Rick Deckard in Blade Runner? With his dishevelled, disinterested, uneasily noirish approach to his murderous profession? Classic anti-hero in a Phillip Marlowe sense, doing what he hates, but what needs to be done. TCB.

And now for the $50 000 question. Replicant, or not? The director's cut muddies the android waters somewhat.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Read this!!!

Go to: http://www.truly-free.org/ and download Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

Similarities? Differences??

I will give you a couple of days to read this novella, then give you some of my bloggy ideas!

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Do Teachers dream of cosmic sleep?



I certainly do.

Dreams. What are they all about? Are they real, lucid or fantastical, mind meanderings which we tuck furtively away into those nether regions of our sub-consciousness?

For me, very occasionally, art gives hope, a type of wish-fulfillment that the world could be a different place. Things like the simple yet blindingly poignant death speech of Roy Batty, who, in a few words, reveals his understanding of the world and empathy for man through the ages. At that moment, he is indeed more human than human.

If only human empathy were that simple.


All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.
Time to die.


I hope you come to love Blade Runner as much as I do. :-) Tell me what you really think of it.