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Robot Reproduction
Jun. 21st, 2012 08:14 amI haven't been writing here much recently, but I have basically set this journal aside for stuff about my personal life, and that's been very boring as of late. I still haven't found work, so I mostly sit around all day, and that's not as much fun as it's cracked up to be. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bethje wants to go to Applebee's as often as possible, and the rest of the time I'm mostly eaten frozen pizzas. (I mean, I heat them up, but they start out frozen.) We also watched two movies in the past week. One was Crash, not the one about racism (which we'd already seen), but the David Cronenberg one about sex and car crashes. And when I say that's what it was about, I mean it was pretty much the whole movie. People had sex in crashed cars, and one guy (played by Casey Jones from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies) filmed car crashes. It was different from anything else I've seen; I'll give it that. The other was Superbad, which was pretty funny. Much better than The 40-Year-Old Virgin, although now that I look at it, Judd Apatow was only the producer on Superbad, not the director. So I guess there's really no reason why they'd be at all similar.
I am pretty excited about the new season of Futurama. I know "The Bots and the Bees" was advertised as a tearjerker, but while it definitely had a sad ending, it was nowhere near the depression level of something like "Jurassic Bark." It says a lot for the show that we can feel bad for Bender when he's a rotten character in most ways. I liked seeing his parenting techniques. Strange that he wouldn't have known robots could reproduce when he had a son in The Beast with a Billion Backs, but whatever. The episode did try to explain why robots would be made with the ability to reproduce, but it's still weird. I guess that's just the kind of thing you have to roll with even when it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Last night's other episode, "A Farewell to Arms" (now THERE'S a title the significance of which you don't get until the very end), gave us a good take on Fry and Leela's relationship. The plot twist wasn't all that unexpected, as it figures that the Martians would have been more concerned with their world than ours. Doesn't the destruction of Mars change a lot of the status quo, though? The Wongs lived there and made much of their fortune from the planet, and the Professor worked at Mars University. It looks like there's a future episode called "Viva Mars Vegas," so maybe that will explain how everyone is compensating.
Finally, I've had several weird dreams that I thought were worth writing about. In one, I was in high school and something embarrassing happened to me. From what I can remember of what happened, it made no sense. Something involving getting an erection while on the toilet, and it being over some girl I really didn't find attractive. Anyway, I told a few other kids, hoping they'd understand my embarrassment, but instead they spread it around and everyone in the school was making fun of me. Eventually, it switched to an even more nonsensical setting, still at school but where I was riding in an elevator (yeah, because schools can afford them) and I had to reach the eleventh floor to get out of the building. The elevator kept missing the floor, though, and all these other kids kept getting on and mocking me. While the details made no sense, I think it was more or less a reflection of how I usually felt back when I was in secondary school. Later that night, I dreamed about my car breaking down, and it turned out that the last time I'd had it serviced someone had put a wooden frame between the body and the wheels. Yet another dream involved interviewing and hearing a lecture about becoming miners on some alien world, but it sucked because the hours were long and you were only allowed to return to Earth to visit once every several years or something. This one sort of sounds like it could be the germ for a science fiction story, but maybe not. It was followed by a conversation with Beth about how we both had the same dream, but of course in real life we hadn't. Another night, I dreamed I was at some party, and I remember little of it, although the venue kept changing around. I think sometimes it was just my family, and other times a whole bunch of people. I do remember that at one point I was playing The Sims, and there was some bit in the game where a baby was kidnapped and the family had to get it back. The thing was, it was pretty much entirely a text-based interface in the search for the baby, probably inspired by The Sims Medieval. Last night's dream involved an Oz Convention at my high school, and I was attending despite having exams, or something like that. And that's about all I can remember right now.
bethje wants to go to Applebee's as often as possible, and the rest of the time I'm mostly eaten frozen pizzas. (I mean, I heat them up, but they start out frozen.) We also watched two movies in the past week. One was Crash, not the one about racism (which we'd already seen), but the David Cronenberg one about sex and car crashes. And when I say that's what it was about, I mean it was pretty much the whole movie. People had sex in crashed cars, and one guy (played by Casey Jones from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies) filmed car crashes. It was different from anything else I've seen; I'll give it that. The other was Superbad, which was pretty funny. Much better than The 40-Year-Old Virgin, although now that I look at it, Judd Apatow was only the producer on Superbad, not the director. So I guess there's really no reason why they'd be at all similar.I am pretty excited about the new season of Futurama. I know "The Bots and the Bees" was advertised as a tearjerker, but while it definitely had a sad ending, it was nowhere near the depression level of something like "Jurassic Bark." It says a lot for the show that we can feel bad for Bender when he's a rotten character in most ways. I liked seeing his parenting techniques. Strange that he wouldn't have known robots could reproduce when he had a son in The Beast with a Billion Backs, but whatever. The episode did try to explain why robots would be made with the ability to reproduce, but it's still weird. I guess that's just the kind of thing you have to roll with even when it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Last night's other episode, "A Farewell to Arms" (now THERE'S a title the significance of which you don't get until the very end), gave us a good take on Fry and Leela's relationship. The plot twist wasn't all that unexpected, as it figures that the Martians would have been more concerned with their world than ours. Doesn't the destruction of Mars change a lot of the status quo, though? The Wongs lived there and made much of their fortune from the planet, and the Professor worked at Mars University. It looks like there's a future episode called "Viva Mars Vegas," so maybe that will explain how everyone is compensating.
Finally, I've had several weird dreams that I thought were worth writing about. In one, I was in high school and something embarrassing happened to me. From what I can remember of what happened, it made no sense. Something involving getting an erection while on the toilet, and it being over some girl I really didn't find attractive. Anyway, I told a few other kids, hoping they'd understand my embarrassment, but instead they spread it around and everyone in the school was making fun of me. Eventually, it switched to an even more nonsensical setting, still at school but where I was riding in an elevator (yeah, because schools can afford them) and I had to reach the eleventh floor to get out of the building. The elevator kept missing the floor, though, and all these other kids kept getting on and mocking me. While the details made no sense, I think it was more or less a reflection of how I usually felt back when I was in secondary school. Later that night, I dreamed about my car breaking down, and it turned out that the last time I'd had it serviced someone had put a wooden frame between the body and the wheels. Yet another dream involved interviewing and hearing a lecture about becoming miners on some alien world, but it sucked because the hours were long and you were only allowed to return to Earth to visit once every several years or something. This one sort of sounds like it could be the germ for a science fiction story, but maybe not. It was followed by a conversation with Beth about how we both had the same dream, but of course in real life we hadn't. Another night, I dreamed I was at some party, and I remember little of it, although the venue kept changing around. I think sometimes it was just my family, and other times a whole bunch of people. I do remember that at one point I was playing The Sims, and there was some bit in the game where a baby was kidnapped and the family had to get it back. The thing was, it was pretty much entirely a text-based interface in the search for the baby, probably inspired by The Sims Medieval. Last night's dream involved an Oz Convention at my high school, and I was attending despite having exams, or something like that. And that's about all I can remember right now.
