Cryptic Whining Part Deux, because I can

[varadia]

Presentation is OVER.

*rejoices*

Now I just have to get back into the swing of things re: reactions of note.

Also reading papers.

God, this original proposal will be the death of me.

Also, topics for my class are due. Hopefully my partner has some good ideas. Otherwise, hello shit creek, where the hell did I put my paddle?

Comments

[silveraspen]

Yay presentation! Augh overwhelming things.

Coherent, me? Surely you jest.

*hands over paddle, helpfully*

[varadia]

*grateful*

Coherence and I are enemies. ENEMIES, I tell you!

*firm*

[silveraspen]

Let us band together against coherence and insist on our right to be chaotic!

Er, or something.

(Can you tell I've been re-reading my essay on how structure-agency theory and chaos theory are related? WTF.)

[varadia]

I just thought Raven'd jumped from my brain to yours.

You know. As sometimes happens.

*snickers*

(Are they? Really? *pretends to know what they are in the first place!*)

[silveraspen]

As sometimes happens. Yes. *utterly straight face*

(Um, sure! Or at least I think so. Structure = overall system, agent/agency = actions of individual, and in chaos theory, think about the "butterfly effect" where a small thing can have an effect on the larger system.

I suspect I am a systems theorist. I know for pretty-darn-certain I'm not a Marxist, though. *eyes other paper with malcontent*)

[varadia]

Ew. Marx.

I remember him vaguely, which is kind of sad.

(OH. Like that movie with Ashton Kutcher! *makes face of ohgod I cannot believe I just said that*)

Chaos theory is my happy place, even though mostly I don't understand it worth a damn.

Curse you Ian Malcolm, for being imprecise and vague and poppy. Also misleadingly not-dead.

[silveraspen]

(... Ashton K. *feels soul die a little, despite laughter* Um. Yes. Except where not.)

Likewise, re: chaos theory and Ian Malcolm! I kept my copy of Jurassic Park just because of him.

I had way too much fun with the paper, though. I included chaos theory, complexity theory, quantum mechanics, and systems theory from a business perspective.

[varadia]

(I totally did that on purpose! Swear! *is not big AK fan*)

Heee. Yes. Him and the compys, man. Him and the compys.

WTF was UP with that second movie?

Yay quantum mechanics! Even though they are a PAIN in the BUTT.

[silveraspen]

(Oh, come on, you KNOW you think he's the cutest and best actor EVAR!!11!!eleventyone!

... no, I can't even type that with a straight face. *dissolves in gigglefit*)

The compys are adorable little deadly scavengers! Yes. I try to ignore the existence of the second movie entirely. Also the book.

And yes, they are, but FUN to deal with in the limited fashion that I have to!

[varadia]

(Apparently he is good in that Coast Guard movie? You know the one, the one that COVERED THE ENTIRE FILM IN THE PREVIEW? Except, you know, for who gets out alive. *sigh* Stupid Hollywood.)

*snuggles the compys*

Oh, man. The second movie. With the ROLLING GIANT 87 ball, or whatever. Also . . . bar routines hypnotize raptors? Um. Right.

[silveraspen]

(I'll have to take that as read, then, since I'm not currently planning to see that film. Kevin Costner, you see, AND A.K. I have other things to do with my limited time!)

Compys: *whistle, chirp, squeak, and eye you assessingly*

... riiiiiiight. *helpfully drops cloth over second movie and book* Look! They're gone!

[varadia]

(Yeah. That was sort of my rationale, too. But see the preview! It is like . . . two minutes? And then you know the entire movie! Like with Free Willy. *sigh* I was SO sad when it was Kevin Costner who did The Postman. I LIKE David Brin. Sometimes.)

*sets cloth and accompanying movie and book on fire*

But seriously . . . didn't it seem like Malcolm died in the first book?

[silveraspen]

(They kept showing the preview before PotC2. I saw it several times, as a result of that. I also didn't see the Postman, for similar reasons, but I admit I've not read it either, so. At least I recognize the name David Brin?)

*toasts marshmallows, happily*

It did. I suspect that Crichton wrote it with the intention of Malcolm being dead and then succumbed to Sequel Syndrome after realizing just how popular Malcolm was. As I recall, the second book was written after the first movie, right?

*checks*

Yep. Jurassic Park the movie came out in 1993, and The Lost World was published in 1995.

"Something has survived." HA.

[varadia]

Something HAD survived!

DRECK.

Absolute dreck.

(David Brin wrote the Uplift War trilogy. Dolphins in Spaaaaace)

[silveraspen]

But it survives no longer!

*hands you toasted marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate pieces*

S'more?

(THAT is the BEST EVER description of that series. *giggle*)

[varadia]

(Also monkeys! I wish I liked it more.)

Yay s'mores!

*rejoices*

Also yay no more anything after Jurassic Park!

Though--I saw a site that had a supposed summary of a script for Jurassic Park 4.

Super-smart dinos FIGHT TO THE DEATH.

I cannot help feeling as if that would be hilariously bad yet awesome.

You know, if they ponied up the money for the CGI.

[silveraspen]

...

It's a Dino Celebrity Deathmatch! Inna CAGE!

That's the sort of thing to see with friends in a matinee where you can throw popcorn and catcall and laugh hysterically. :) We should do that! Er, if it ever comes out. Which it won't. Because seriously -- Dino Deathmatch?!?

And on that cheerful note, I must flee the computer for a bit. *hugs and leaves tea* Talk to you later!

[varadia]

But--

But--

DINO DEATHMATCH!!

See you! *hugs* Be productive, or whatever!