"Jack."
Showing posts with label Geek Theories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geek Theories. Show all posts
Friday, June 21, 2013
Juxtaposition: Missions of Revenge
"Looked dead, didn't I? But I wasn't. But it wasn't from lack of trying, I can tell you that... When I woke up, I went on what the movie advertisements refer to as a 'roaring rampage of revenge.' I roared. And I rampaged. And I got bloody satisfaction. I've killed a hell of a lot of people to get to this point, but I have only one more. The last one. The one I'm driving to right now. The only one left. And when I arrive at my destination, I am gonna kill...
"Jack."
"Jack."
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Real Work Conversations: Nexus Four? No Problem
Boss: "Hey! It looks like the Nexus 4 is out."
Me: "I won't be worried 'til we get to Nexus 7."
Boss: "Really?"
Me: "It'll be more human than human."
Me: "I won't be worried 'til we get to Nexus 7."
Boss: "Really?"
Me: "It'll be more human than human."
Thursday, February 17, 2011
They look like us now
I have a theory.
Most of you are familiar with the recent Battlestar Galactica show, which as you know was a fictionalized retelling of an earlier pair of documentaries produced in the late seventies and early eighties. The first documentary told the story of the survivors of the Twelve Colonies and their search for the fabled "lost" thirteenth colony, Earth. The second documentary examined their arrival on Earth and their attempts to keep Earth safe from the Cylons - the same robotic forces which had destroyed the Twelve Colonies.
What the Colonials didn't know was that the Cylons were already on Earth. Apparently their hostility was reserved for the humans of the Twelve Colonies. Earth humanity was considered harmless, blameless, or simply too ignorant to merit destruction. So, while the crew of the Galactica struggled to keep Earth safe from the Cylons, the Cylons worked quietly in the background to save Earth humanity from itself.
They set up front companies to disguise their influence, and either found or created human(-seeming) proxies to be their spokespeople. Probably the best known of these was Knight Industries, which developed a very effective working partnership between a human and a Cylon under its FLAG program.
No, I'm not making this up. The FLAG program had its own documentary, though it was more of a PR exercise than the ones devoted to the Battlestar and its crew. Let me find a sample...
Here. Look at this, and tell me it's not a Cylon:
Most of you are familiar with the recent Battlestar Galactica show, which as you know was a fictionalized retelling of an earlier pair of documentaries produced in the late seventies and early eighties. The first documentary told the story of the survivors of the Twelve Colonies and their search for the fabled "lost" thirteenth colony, Earth. The second documentary examined their arrival on Earth and their attempts to keep Earth safe from the Cylons - the same robotic forces which had destroyed the Twelve Colonies.
What the Colonials didn't know was that the Cylons were already on Earth. Apparently their hostility was reserved for the humans of the Twelve Colonies. Earth humanity was considered harmless, blameless, or simply too ignorant to merit destruction. So, while the crew of the Galactica struggled to keep Earth safe from the Cylons, the Cylons worked quietly in the background to save Earth humanity from itself.
They set up front companies to disguise their influence, and either found or created human(-seeming) proxies to be their spokespeople. Probably the best known of these was Knight Industries, which developed a very effective working partnership between a human and a Cylon under its FLAG program.
No, I'm not making this up. The FLAG program had its own documentary, though it was more of a PR exercise than the ones devoted to the Battlestar and its crew. Let me find a sample...
Here. Look at this, and tell me it's not a Cylon:
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