Author: trevoedwards

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  • November 27th, 2012 11:27am

    I just started really watching Arrested Development on Netflix and holy shit is it fantastic. I had seen a few episodes here and there, but never really got into it enough to sit down and start from the beginning. So, I was bored the other day and saw it was suggested. Probably the funniest, smartest, and most down to Earth tv show I have ever seen. It’s a tv show about a family that is exactly like mine. I love it. 

  • November 27th, 2012 11:23am

    Too bad. And Mozart, not long after writing The Magic Flute, had died—in his thirties—of kidney disease. And had been buried in an unmarked pauper’s grave.

    Thinking this, he wondered if Mozart had any intuition that the future did not exist, that he had already used up his little time. Maybe I have too, Rick thought as he watched the rehearsal move along. This rehearsal will end, the performance will end, the singers will die, eventually the last score of the music will be destroyed in one way or another; finally the name “Mozart” will vanish, the dust will have won. If not on this planet then another. We can evade it awhile. As the andys can evade me and exist a finite stretch longer. But I will get them or some other bounty hunter gets them. In a way, he realized, I’m part of the form-destroying process of entropy.

    — Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?  -Philip K. Dick (via veloriumcamper)

  • November 26th, 2012 11:37pm

    theremina:

    The man who saved the world:

    Stanislav Petrov was manning surveillance equipment for the Soviet Air Defense Forces when he noticed something strange on the screen.  Soon after, warning signals started flashing with the report of an incoming nuclear missile from the USA.

    Seeing only one missile, he figured it was a mistake, assuming Americans wouldn’t send only one missile if they wanted a nuclear war.  

    Soon thereafter, many more started appearing on the screen. 

    Nevertheless he trusted his instincts, and rather than contact his superiors he waited to see what would happen.  He waited past the perceived time on impact.  There was no damage – the warnings were due to a system malfunction.

    Had Petrov not defied protocol and contacted his superiors, a real retaliatory strike may very well have been fired in response – igniting nuclear war between the USA and Soviet Union.

    (picturesofwar)