tags: The Matrix
2001
January
- 2001 Jan 26
- Technochaos
“What is real?” asked Morpheus. A quick endocrinology snippet. (Learn something really nerdy and impress your friends.)
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2003
May
- 2003 May 16
- The Matrix Reloaded — Unreal City (SPOILERS!)
The Prophecy shall be fulfilled. Every city is a manifestation of Unreal City—Babylon, Rome, London, New York, Chicago, L.A., everywhere and nowhere.
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- Curiouser and Curiouser
I am Alice in fucking Wonderland right now. It’s only a matter of time until the shit hits the fan and the Jabberwock comes chomping on my ass.
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- Fidgety
I know what is going to happen, but I guarantee I’m still going to feel like crap.
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- The Road Goes Ever On and On — Revisited
Ah, to return from exile. Does nothing ever last? At least longer than an effervescent moment?
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June
- 2003 Jun 22
- Let's Pretend It Never Happened
Like they say, there’s no problem so big that you can’t run away from it.
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July
- 2003 Jul 1
- The Sound of Inevitability
I am a machine(?)
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- Jesus, What A Mind Job
Why do I feel like I am once again, in the calm before the storm? I suppose I could be paranoid.
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September
- 2003 Sep 19
- blogging – a retrospective
Rebecca Blood is one of the original A-listers on the blogosphere, back before Blogger even existed, and you pretty much had to roll your own blog engine. Going backwards in time on the blogosphere always ends up causing me to go far and wide as well, though, and I find myself in very strange corners of the web.
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2006
April
- 2006 Apr 2
- it’s a trap!
Here I am pondering the chances of actually breaking out of the Black Iron Prison when I am reminded of a quote by Douglas Adams, author of the cult classic The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (who by the way was an atheist and is a big influence on my philosophies regarding the universe):
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2007
August
- 2007 Aug 31
- chief complaint: indecisiveness, avoidant behavior
Despite religiously taking my medications, I’m still not quite all that functional. I mean, I suppose the good things are that I’m not having any problems at work, and I’m not sleeping sixteen hours a day anymore.
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2009
March
- 2009 Mar 20
- the city and the stars
Sir Arthur C Clarke wrote The City and the Stars in 1956. It is basically a rewrite of his earlier novel Against the Fall of Night, updated to take into account the then-nascent Information Revolution.
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2016
April
- 2016 Apr 13
- Hugo Weaving
Since Middle Earth is really just supposed to be Earth, this means that The Lord of the Rings and "The Matrix" happen in the same universe. Agent Smith is really just Elrond after he went totally insane after countless millenia. And just like elves, agents cannot leave their plane of existence like humans can.
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July
- 2016 Jul 8
- Don Quixote, Neo, and Tyler Durden
I've been binge-watching "The Expanse" and all the Don Quixote references have made me ponder how Cervantes basically anticipated a lot of the themes in "The Matrix" and in "Inception" and it's making my perception of "The Expanse" feel way more Philip K. Dick-ian than it might deserve.
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