i see through myself
If you wanted to know what I was thinking about...
I was watching the judge read Saddam's sentence this morning, and I had two realizations -- first was a sense of foreboding about the scary backlash that could raise our danger level much higher than it already was, but then they showed Saddam's reaction to the judge, the look on his face as he was being told that he was sentenced to death ... this may be inappropriate, but he reminded me a lot of Ian McKellen's version of Richard III... tragic, deposed leader, who can't believe how he got to where he is, being forced to stand to hear that he's sentenced to hang. I could really see the human aspect behind the villain, he looked scared, and desperate...
On a completely different topic, I heard about a new game called Spore that's coming from the god of god-games, Will Wright (Sim guy.)
In the game, you start off as a single celled organism, and evolve your way up the food chain by earning DNA points, and spending them on improvements, like webbed feet, etc. But, being where we are now as humans is the halfway point of the game. You get a spaceship, which you can use to travel to different planets, which will be created by other players of the game (so you're hooked up to the network, how I understand it is that they look at how you are playing the game, and then they give you planets created by other people, tailored to things that would be fun for you) Cool.
Finally, I think its weird that Sacha Baron Cohen is making the morning show circuit as Borat. It's like if Miss Piggy went on the Today Show to talk about her personal made-up beliefs. About how she hates.. things. Weird.
I was watching the judge read Saddam's sentence this morning, and I had two realizations -- first was a sense of foreboding about the scary backlash that could raise our danger level much higher than it already was, but then they showed Saddam's reaction to the judge, the look on his face as he was being told that he was sentenced to death ... this may be inappropriate, but he reminded me a lot of Ian McKellen's version of Richard III... tragic, deposed leader, who can't believe how he got to where he is, being forced to stand to hear that he's sentenced to hang. I could really see the human aspect behind the villain, he looked scared, and desperate...
On a completely different topic, I heard about a new game called Spore that's coming from the god of god-games, Will Wright (Sim guy.)
In the game, you start off as a single celled organism, and evolve your way up the food chain by earning DNA points, and spending them on improvements, like webbed feet, etc. But, being where we are now as humans is the halfway point of the game. You get a spaceship, which you can use to travel to different planets, which will be created by other players of the game (so you're hooked up to the network, how I understand it is that they look at how you are playing the game, and then they give you planets created by other people, tailored to things that would be fun for you) Cool.
Finally, I think its weird that Sacha Baron Cohen is making the morning show circuit as Borat. It's like if Miss Piggy went on the Today Show to talk about her personal made-up beliefs. About how she hates.. things. Weird.