Well I wouldn't bother writing about this except that I made a point to write a post about EVERY movie I watched this year that I hadn't seen before. So, here goes. This movie was stupid, mean-spirited, thoughtless and lazy. And that coming from a fan of the original. It started out promising. The idea of …
Enemy, 2014
This was a weird one, and by the end of it, I'm not sure i really understand what was going on. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a boring history teacher, who, when watching a movie notices an actor that looks exactly like him. He tracks the actor down and finds that they seem to be exact doubles. …
Ad lib writing
I haven't been doing a lot of writing lately, and what I have been doing has been completely improvised and for no purpose other than my own entertainment. Of course, I do hope other people end up enjoying it, but if they didn't and told me to stop, I wouldn't. It's sort of cathartic, liberating …
Citadel of the Autarch
I finally finished this amazing series, by Gene Wolfe.  I have been continually impressed by these books, and the conclusion was no different. These books all seemed to have a theme to them, or a focus. The first book I felt was more about the world, and though the story was exciting and interesting, I felt …
AI to End the Human Race?
You may have read one or more articles today about dire warnings from scientists about AI. This is because Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and others have signed an open letter detailing their concerns about the advancement of artificial intelligence technology. If you read the letter, you will see that it is much along the lines of …
Jonas David 