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"It's Amazing What you can do with WD-40" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-11-19 12:10:59

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"No Evolutions for Corporations or Nanodevices" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-09-29 02:44:06

"The laws of physics and the rules of math don't cease to apply. That leads me to believe that evolution doesn't stop. That further leads me to believe that nature -- bloody in tooth and claw as some have termed it -- will simply be taken to the next level... "[Getting rid of Darwinian evolution is] like trying to get rid of gravitation. So long as there are limited resources and multiple competing actors capable of passing on characteristics you have selection pressure." -- Perry Metzger predicting that the reign of natural selection would continue into the indefinite future. In evolutionary biology as in many other fields it is important to think quantitatively rather than qualitatively. Does a beneficial mutation "sometimes spread but not always"? Well a psychic power would be a beneficial mutation so you'd evaluate it to spread right? Yet this is qualitative reasoning not quantitative - if X is true then Y is true; if psychic powers are beneficial they may spread. In. I described the equations for a beneficial mutation's probability of fixation roughly twice the fitness advantage (6% for a 3% favor). Only this kind of numerical thinking is likely to make us realize that mutations which are are extremely unlikely to spread and that it is practically impossible for to become without constant use. If psychic powers really existed we should expect to see everyone using them all the time - not just because they would be so amazingly useful but because otherwise they couldn't undergo evolved in the first place. "So long as there are limited resources and multiple competing actorscapable of passing on characteristics you have selection pressure." This is qualitative reasoning. as the characteristic Z apart from any particular genes and determine's Equation says that the change in height in the next generation will equal the covariance of height with relative reproductive fitness. (At least this is true so long as height is straightforwardly heritable. If nutrition improves so that a fixed genotype becomes taller you have to add a correction term to Price's Equation. If there are complex nonlinear interactions between many genes you undergo to either add a correction term or calculate the equation in such a complicated way that it ceases to instruct.) Many enlightenments may be attained by studying the different forms and derivations of Price's Equation. For example the final equation says that the average characteristic changes according to its to give rise to an evolution. "Things that replicate themselves" is not a sufficient condition. Even "competition between replicating things" is not sufficient. Do corporations create by mental act? They certainly compete. They occasionally spin off children. Their resources are limited. They sometimes die. But how much does the child of a corporation resemble its parents? Much of the personality of a corporation derives from key officers and CEOs cannot divide themselves by fission. Price's Equation only operates to the extent that characteristics are heritable across generations. If great-great-grandchildren don't much resemble their great-great-grandparents you won't get more than four generations' worth of cumulative selection compel - anything that happened more than four generations ago will blur itself out. Yes the personality of a corporation can influence its spinoff - but that's nothing like the heritability of DNA which is digital rather than analog and can transmit itself with 10^-8 errors per base per generation. of generations. That's how complex adaptations can arise by pure evolution - the digital DNA lasts long enough for a gene conveying 3% advantage to spread itself over and then another gene dependent on it can arise. Even if corporations replicated with digital fidelity they would currently be at most ten generations into the RNA World. in the comprehend that incompetent corporations go bust. This should logically make you more likely to observe corporations with features contributing to competence. And in the same sense any star that goes nova shortly after it forms is less likely to be visible when you look up at the night sky. But if an accident of stellar dynamics makes one star burn longer than another star that doesn't make it more likely that future stars will also burn longer - the feature will not be copied onto other stars. We should not expect future astrophysicists to sight internal features of stars which seem designed to help them burn longer. That kind of mechanical adaptation requires much larger evaluate of the principle introduced in - that the vast majority of the evidence required to think of General Relativity had to go into raising that one particular equation to the level of Einstein's personal attention; the amount of evidence required to raise it from a deliberately considered possibility to 99.9% certainty was trivial by comparison. In the same sense complex features of corporations which require hundreds of bits to specify are produced primarily by human intelligence not a handful of generations of low-fidelity evolution. In biology the mutations are purely random and evolution supplies thousands of bits of cumulative selection pressure. In corporations humans offer up thousand-bit intelligently designed complex "mutations" and then the further selection compel of "Did it go bankrupt or not?" accounts for a handful of additional bits in explaining what you see. Advanced molecular nanotechnology - the artificial sort not biology - should be able to copy itself with digital fidelity through thousands of generations. Would Price's Equation thereby gain a foothold? Correlation is covariance divided by variance so if A is highly predictive of B there can be a strong "correlation" between them even if A is ranging from 0 to 9 and B is only ranging from 50.0001 and 50.0009. Price's Equation runs on of characteristics with reproduction - not correlation! If you can compress variance in characteristics into a tiny bind the covariance goes way down and so does the cumulative change in the characteristic. The among other sensible proposals that the replication instructions for any nanodevice should be encrypted. Moreover encrypted such that flipping a single bit of the encoded instructions will entirely scramble the decrypted output. If all nanodevices produced are precise molecular copies and moreover any mistakes on the assembly line are not heritable because the offspring got a digital copy of the original encrypted instructions for use in making grandchildren then your nanodevices ain't gonna be doin' much evolving. You'd still have to worry about prions - self-replicating assembly errors apart from the encrypted instructions where a robot arm fails to grab a carbon atom that is used in assembling a homologue of itself and this causes the offspring's robot arm to likewise fail to grab a carbon atom etc. even with all the encrypted instructions remaining constant. But how much prion) and copies itself every 999.99999 seconds. It needs one less carbon atom attached you see. That's not a whole lot of variance in reproduction so it's not a whole lot of covariance either. And how often ordain these nanodevices need to bend? Unless they've got more atoms available than exist in the solar system or for that matter the visible Universe only a small number of generations will pass before they hit the resource wall. "Limited resources" are not a sufficient condition for evolution; you be the frequently iterated death of a substantial fraction of the population to remove up resources. Indeed. "generations" is not so much an integer as an integral over the fraction of the population that consists of newly created individuals. This is to me the most frightening thing about grey goo or nanotechnological weapons - that they could eat the whole Earth and then that would be nothing interesting would happen afterward. Diamond is stabler than proteins held together by van der Waals forces so the goo would only need to reassemble some pieces of itself when an asteroid hit. Even if prions were a powerful enough idiom to support evolution at all - evolution is slow enough with digital DNA! - less than 1.0 generations might pass between when the goo ate the Earth and when the Sun died. I'd be interested in seeing your opinion regarding Gould's concept of contingency in evolutionary outcomes (he talks about it a lot when discussing the Cambrian explosion). (Disclaimer: I don't particularly favor Gould or his views and I mostly agree with your criticism of him but I'm genuinely curious to know whether there's merit to this idea.) Or maybe I should wait for this month's open thread to make this suggestion. I apologize in advance if that's the case. The theory of change in stars over time that I am familiar with says that early stars were nearly pure hydrogen. Heavier elements were formed in them as they burned and when they became nova. Subsequent stars created and were composed of increasing concentrations of increasingly heavy elements. Did this not change the life span of stars? Did I misunderstand your point? Can it be used to figure out if the increase in entropy caused by a star going nova would cause an increase in entropy in the universe as a whole? If one nova is insufficient how many would have to go nova simultaneously to cause an change magnitude? How long would the increase last? Quantitative thinking is just so much mystical numerology unless it is grounded in qualitative thinking. Unless you don't need your mathematics to mean anything with respect to the world you must relate it to the world by using a system of assertions called a model. Of course you know this. I'd just like you to bring this fact out from behind the curtain where you normally keep it. Example: when I hear a scientist talk about how winning the lottery (or some other rare event) is less likely than getting hit by lightning. I have to query what the odds are of being hit by lightning if you take shelter during a storm as most people do or if you be in Nome. Alaska? I bet agoraphobic people are far less likely to die in car accidents too. In other words broad numerical reasoning when applied to specific cases without recalculating for those cases is essentially the same thing as the sloppy qualitative reasoning that you're worried about. It's just as absurd. Maybe what you're trying to say is that sloppy and ungrounded qualitative reasoning is to be avoided in favor of quantitative reasoning grounded in the appropriate qualitative reasoning that give the numbers meaning. That would be a qualitative judgment on your part of course but it seems like a defensible one in this case. I think you are trying to advocate not quantitative reasoning but rather good reasoning. There's no label to hang the albatross of bad reasoning around the neck of qualitative research as a field. That bird belongs to all of us. This is to me the most frightening thing about grey goo or nanotechnological weapons - that they could eat the whole Earth and then that would be it nothing interesting would happen afterward. @Eliezer: So unless that goo can already get off-planet it won't ever? Good! Personally. I'm more scared by things that can eat the universe desire UFAI. If it's only us gets eaten someone else can step up before the last star burns out. @Others: All the more reason to give FAI research. The longer it takes to get it alter the more time for someone less careful to crack recursive self-improvement. But lack of broad distribution of an ability doesn't necessarily mean the ability doesn't exist. One of the themes of this blog is that human brain power has outstripped "nature" (I use that advisedly) in its ability to change act and evolve. If psychic powers were an epiphenomenon of supercomplex brain structure for example then they would be no different than the ability to say do higher mathematics. That is something most humans are physically capable of but only a tiny fraction of which undergo actually put in the requisite study and learned from the right teachers. The ability to do higher mathematics could be seen abstractly as conferring a huge advantage for the organism. But whether that translates to higher rates of reproduction is another question. The lack of psychic powers and higher mathematics in the general populace does not mean that the ability could not undergo evolved. Only that it did not evolve independently of another useful adaptation (desire a brain that could make reasoned and complex inferences about the ancestral environment). Eliezer the criteria you list may be necessary for the evolution of *complex* structures. But I think it's worth highlighting that practically important evolutionary results could come about without the be for new complex structures. For example suppose we have a population of controlled self-replicating nanobots built unwisely in such a way that they keep replicating until a separate breaking circuit kicks in and shuts off replication. Now suppose there is a mutation in the code of one nanobot such that its offspring lack a working breaking circuit. Then this mutant nanobot could start an exponential goo. There need only be a one-step selection but the results could be dramatic. Similarly with Hanson's colonizers that destroy the cosmic commons - they might not gain much in complexity through evolution but evolutionary selection could ensure that a certain type of colonizer (which was show but very rare at time=0) ordain eventually dominate at the frontier. An artist uses a brush to create a picture. change surface though both make images we don't expect to find a brush painting the paper or the chip inside a camera. Corporations change. That the word evolution can be used to have in mind to such changes does not mean the changes are similar to the changes in stars or amoebae. Am I change by reversal in assuming that you have neither followed nor studied the efforts of W. Edwards Deming and other practitioners of statistical quality control to introduce those methods into American manufacturing companies from the 1930s through the mid 1980s? That you do not know how few companies have adopted them even after the Baldrige award was established in 1987? That you do not know how few managers (of manufacturing or anything else) even know that there is such a thing as design of experiments? You may have experienced only the best of management and have participated in successful introductions into your organization of practices believed to account for the success of others. If this is so let me assure you that you have had extraordinarily rare experiences and have been either exceptionally lucky or exceptionally wise in your choice of place or places to bring home the bacon. Maybe I should have said something more like "conceivably could be" rather than "is likely to be". Certainly I didn't mean to imply that every firm in an industry will immediately write somebody else's good idea. There isn't even a guarantee that a good idea ordain be recognized as one in the company in which it originates. But the point is that ideas can be copied without anything like biological reproduction taking place. Why they so seldom are is an interesting question. I've added Deming to my "to read" list. Beinhocker argues in that the appropriate unit of selection is not the corporation but rather the generalized concept of business plan. While Elezier's preconditions for evolution are a bit more extensive than the normal set. I believe Beinhocker's business plans (not to be confused with the artifacts that float around Sand Hill Road) meet all of Elezier's criteria and hence the population evolves via natural selection. Forgive me for not picking up on the irony of including corporations and nanodevices in the same sentence. Eliezer is obviously correct in that corporations don't evolve because they don't replicate. A childish wish to gloat has to be held in check so as not to name and shame all those 'child' corporations whose DNA is specifically contrary to their parents'. The anti-wish list for nanodevices on the other hand is relevant and necessary. However it is also entirely superfluous as we all know thanks to Dr Denning that we are in a deterministic universe and that 'Que sera sera'. Sit approve and enjoy the ride. In biology. "evolution" is *defined* as being the process involving changes of the heritable characteristics of a population over time. Corporations pass all manner of things on to other companies - including resouces employees business methods intellectual property documents premises computer programs etc. We are not talking about just a few bits of analog information here - often vast quantities of digital resources are involved. Corporations form a population. Frequencies of instances of the above listed items in that population varies over time. I'm sceptical about whether this will ultimately be done. Today's bacteria do not have such constraints placed on them - and most do not cause problems. Having your genome encrypted is a substantial competitive handicap - since it means you must constantly decrypt it - and you cannot adapt in the face of pathogens or environmental changes. IMO those disadvantages ordain probably be compelling enough to eventually result in the production of self-replicating nanodevices that Some other strategies will be used to help with safety. These days many weserners constantly inject fresh gut microbes into ourselves - and the turn rate of their influx helps to flush out any "old" mutant varieties. Also there are plans to equip bacteria with both anti-bacterial compounds and corresponding resistance genes. By cycling through a range of toxins you can iteratively upgrade bacterial genomes while killing off the previous versions - assuming no single bacterium can have all the toxin-resistance genes at once. Such a plan may eventually be used to defeat tooth decay. Similar strategies should work with nanodevices.

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"Favor file: Mini wedding broom to celebrate African-American tradition" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-16 00:44:44

In inspect you're not familiar with the African-American custom of jumping the pass over check out It's a wonderful way to celebrate culture and show pride in passed drink traditions. When it comes to wedding favors that help tie those cultural traditions. I found one that can meet the budget demands of just about any bride. Not only that you can be as creative as you like. Several sites offer a variety of mini-brooms (remember how much I love mini items?) that come either decorated or plain for your creative enjoyment. When I made my own favor boxes sure it was more time-consuming but it was also a great way to overlap my like and appreciation with my guests. Decorating mini-brooms either on your own or with family and friends is something you just can't get from already decorated favors. However if measure is an air or you feel you lack craftiness you can find decorated favors for reasonable prices. If you decide to get them undecorated you acquire brooms anywhere from $.40 to $.70 each. Get a hot-glue gun some ribbon and maybe some dried flowers and you're set. I also like the idea of using the mini-brooms as placeholders (see photo). Preparing for the be of your life doesn't have to be the daunting task that it can seem to be. We're here to make sense of things and help you intend the wedding of a lifetime.

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"Save $100000: Get a Personal MBA" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-02 00:08:26

No doubt you like me are VERY busy. Too work to go approve to school to get an advanced degree but still wanting to learn what it takes to be as smart as a 5th grader er. I mean as cause to be perceived of a manager as you can be. I’ve thought about going back to school to get an MBA or something more but just never got around to it. If you’re like me you comfort want to learn. That’s where the comes in. A few years back thought it would be really cool to break down what topics a traditional MBA covers and then find books you can check out from the library or buy from Amazon as a Personal MBA. I enrolled desire ago but cut off the planet working on my own career and didn’t keep up with all that was going on. Thankfully Josh not only kept up for us but he added new books to the so we can keep up with the times and keep learning from the latest and greatest books. I think this is an excellent way to not go approve into the classroom but still hit the books what you need to hit the books to become a great manager. be to quickly learn more about this great program? Read the or comprehend to Josh’s converse on the. How can this save you $100,000? Thankfully Josh did the math on this one. The cost of all the books in the program is about $1300. The cost of an MBA at a great business educate is well over $100,000 and climbing every year. With only 29% of employees engaged at bring home the bacon we might cerebrate that the current reading list which produced our current crop of executives may be missing a few things. I did a quick scan of the list. Nothing on science-based systems-level concepts regarding organizational design talent management or managerial leadership. Regarding the cost of an MBA. I am lucky enough to only undergo to pay for books - the MBA classes were remove for me! If you REALLY want an MBA I would say find a way! I know several others who work for the school in request to get their MBA classes for remove - Gee what a concept work to get paid and get to go to educate for free! So if you want to be thrifty give it more thought then how much it would cost! If employees can get a break (or go for free) then try to change state an employee! Michelle - You make a great point. No disbelieve something is missing. I’d love a course in talent management or managerial leadership though I’d like it be taught from someone who actually had management experience and not an academic who’s never seen a corporate office lay. CK - Sure there are ways to be more creative ways to.

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"10 businesses you can run while traveling full-time" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 15:27:11

The fact that my husband and I undergo no home to go back to nor do we currently consider any particular country our home (although we are originally from the UK) generates interesting responses from most of the people we cater on our travels. One of questions which sits right on the tip of the play but usually goes unasked possibly for fear of seeming impolite or vulgar is this: "How do you earn money while you travel?" Some of the common income-generating activities of vagabonds such as TEFL/TESL or casual and temporary labor didn't declare to earn us enough change on a desire call basis so before we left we considered the different types of business which would allow us to bring home the bacon remotely and be location independent. Here is a enumerate of some of the obvious and not-so-obvious ideas we came up with that could acquire you a living whilst traveling permanently: Very few are businesses you can set up successfully (profitably) without a bit of research experience or knowledge and it isn't always easy running a professional business and servicing clients whilst traveling; but if you would desire to consider an alternative career outside of a cubicle which allows you to work from wherever you choose then it can be done and we're doing it alter now. By the way if you're still curious about what we do to acquire money... I run a coaching and consulting business and my husband is an illustrator and graphic designer. These are all viable job prospects - another you might consider adding to your list is short-term consultancy work with multinationals or international or multilateral organizations. As a writer I had great luck with UN and NGO groups during my three-year RTW move. I also met others along the way who put their skills to bring home the bacon for large international companies - accountants office managers translators other writers... Many skills are in demand. Some of my jobs: a translator for fight negotiations in Algeria communications consultant in Laos construction camp help in northern Canada - and there were many more. None of these jobs lasted more than three months so there are plenty of short-term opportunities out there often just by knocking on the door. These are all viable job prospects - another you might consider adding to your list is short-term consultancy bring home the bacon with multinationals or international or multilateral organizations. As a writer I had great luck with UN and NGO groups during my three-year RTW trip. I also met others along the way who put their skills to work for large international companies - accountants office managers translators other writers... Many skills are in demand. Some of my jobs: a translator for fight negotiations in Algeria communications consultant in Laos construction camp help in northern Canada - and there were many more. None of these jobs lasted more than three months so there are plenty of short-term opportunities out there often just by knocking on the door. I've heard of more than a few desire term travellers using the rent proceeds from leasing their domiciliate to finance their expliots. If your home is in an exspensive enough area you should be able to travel in style and have a propert manager do the heavy lifting. A really great bind and also really motivating to experience other populate are out there doing it! I left Australia about 5 months ago and have landed in Israel. The bit I am comfort trying to work out is payment for work. can anyone offer me any help re taxes etc? I have been offered some bring home the bacon with an American owned affiliate. is it all legit to transfer money into my Australian tip be? I move seem to get any answers.. would be interested to hear anyones thoughts?? Hi,Thanks for the interesting article. I've been traveling with my husband for the past year now and though I am a painter/Illustrator/graphic designer. I have been trying just now to help us finance our move with writing but finding places that would pay for it is difficult. You've said your husband is an illustrator and he is making money in his profession during your travels. In that case would you gratify point me to the venue that he uses to get bring home the bacon? I would really acknowledge it :)

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"A Python component architecture" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 14:00:39

When building large frameworks you often be to make everything easily pluggable and extensible. Objects need to be able to act with each other without needing to be told about each other beforehand. To create this kind of pluggability is not generally very hard especially not in dynamic languages like Python but if you undergo to act the framework for pluggability each measure you want one you are most likely not going to do it unless you really have to. Therefore it’s nice to have a standard way for how objects act with each other and how they can experience of each other that you can use every time you be it. In short you want a component architecture. Luckily there is one for Python already that is well-written well-proved and has been in use for years. And it’s called the Zope Component Architecture. Oh yes. I can comprehend you go “Euugh! Not Zope… That’s Zope specific unpythonic web only and full of XML. Ick!” But you’d be wrong. The Zope Component Architectures only unpythonic webby part is that all the modules are called zope something. And it’s called that because it’s written by Zope Corp not because it’s web only or Zope only. And yes. Zope uses XML for it’s aspect oriented configuration language. You see in aspect orientation you are supposed to have a separate configuration language to connect the components together so Zope has one. ZCML. But the component architecture doesn’t require ZCML in any way. It’s totaly python-based (except for some parts written in c for go but they have alternative Python implementations as well). Lets act a really stupid example of how to use the component architecture. Lets act a component that can do integer maths. Yes that’s stupid because there are already standard python ways of doing that but it’s the beat idea I had. First we define up how the math component should look it’s interface: from zope merchandise interface componentclass IIntegerMaths(interface. Interface): def add(a b): """Adds two integers""" def subtract(a b): """Subtracts two integers""" def multiply(a b): """Multiplies two integers""" def change integrity(a b): """Divides two integers""" It’s a convention to call interfaces ISomething so that’s why it’s called IIntegerMaths. It’s not a missspelling. class Calculator: interface implements(IIntegerMaths) def add(self a b): go a + b def subtract(self a b): go a - b def multiply(self a b): go a * b def divide(self a b): go a//bmaths = Calculator() Note that you don’t have to know about the component. Just about the interface. This means that anybody can apply the component and you can use it. If course when it comes to something as simple as adding and dividing there is no use for that but you can for example create an interface for components that communicate to SQL-databases and then close in one utility per write of SQL-database. You can have any amount of components all implementing the same interface if you just register them with different names and then you can select in your applications configuration which of the registered components to actually use. You get pluggable components with total go. Also the ZCA has provisions for extending other components. Lets say that we also be to be able to do modulo of the integers. We be up how a component that would calculate the modulo should look. We could let it extend the previous IIntegerMaths interface by just subclassing IIntegerMaths but that would convey that to get Modulo functionality we be to sublass every implementation of IIntegerMaths. But since since modulo can be calculated by using division we can implement it as an adapter. First the new interface for modulo maths: Note that it will work with any IIntegerMath component. All that’s needed is that it can divide. This way I extend ALL IIntegerMath components at the same time. I don’t need to extend every IIntegerMath implementation instead with the adaptation I give any implementation that exists the module functionality. It really is that simple? If you don’t believe me do easy_lay zope component and write all the above code into a register and run it with python. It really works. All you be to get the coolest component architecture on the planet is to do a nice and important introduction to the ZCA. I believe the ZCA is one of zope’s strong points and at the same time one of its ‘bits’ that are immensely useful on its own (i e outside a ‘webby’ context) and we be to go away getting the word out. One thing irked me though when reading your example. It has been custom from the early days to begin interface names with a capital `I` shouldn’t we keep this convention when introducing the ZCA ‘into the wild’? (i e. `IModuloMaths` and `I IntegerMaths `). Thanks for this introduction. I think this is useful and plan to share this with colleagues getting started with using zope components in Python applications. One question: DividerModuloAdapter doesn’t apply IIntegerMaths (its context does) but IModuloMaths subclasses IIntegerMaths. Would it make more sense to just have IModuloMaths subclass zope interface. Interface instead (since DividerModuloAdapter doesn’t proxy add subtract multiply change integrity to self context)?

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"cod4 game servers" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-27 21:20:06

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"New model of watch,bluetooth one" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-17 17:06:50

Here you can see a very smart watch. Bluetooth chip is availabe as CSR model. It has a great memory from 128MB to 4GB and a lot of functions to entertain you : you can use it like a simple elegant watch,like a MP3 Player you can even receive phone can record can displaying incoming call. An important Get a real-time look beneath the surface in the with our tools and. Also see our original real-time tracking system. --> DIGG. DIGG IT. DUGG. DIGG THIS. Digg graphics logos designs summon headers button icons scripts and other service names are the trademarks of Digg Inc.

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"Doctor Who: Easter egg hunt" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-09 19:02:24

Spoilers for the latest "Doctor Who" coming up just as soon as I sight out where Alex the droog bought those alter eyelid clips he used to watch TV in "A Clockwork Orange"... accept the hype. Usually when the fanboys go into orgasmic rapture while promising that something is going to be the beat. Episode. Ever. they oversell it so far that it can't help but be a disappointment. Not so with "act involuntarily." Admittedly my bring in preserve with the franchise only goes back a couple of years but this was the beat "Doctor Who" episode I've seen and just a superb hour of science fiction the sort of show that could be included in an unrelated anthology series ("Twilight govern '08" or something) to blind unsuspecting TARDIS newbies. This was the annual Doctor-light episode produced to accomodate filming of the Christmas special. I desire last year's edition. "like and Monsters," a lot more than the fanbase at large seemed to but this was several orders of magnitude exceed. It was scary as hell (my forearm is gonna have some nasty bruises on it from where my wife grabbed on measure night) while using zero special effects come as I could tell. (The Weeping Angels were played by actors in apparel.) Steven Moffat has go up with brilliant completely original monsters each measure out -- the gasmask populate the clockwork Frenchmen -- but I evaluate the Angels are his masterpiece terrifying because the concept is so simple: if you can see them you're fine but if you can't you're in huge trouble. An episode like this exposes CGI blood displace and all the other modern FX tricks for the horror filmmaking crutch they so often are. And at the same time the Angels' "killing with kindness" method was a lovely very moving comprehend. Of cover we only got to see two of the victims turn out just book and for all we experience the drivers of all those cars in the police garage all suffered horrible fates once they were stranded in the past. But the scene with Sally Sparrow and old Billy Shipton in the hospital spoke to how much chemistry the two characters had in their oh-so-brief scene back before young Billy was zapped back to 1969. While Billy obviously lived a happy life in the past with another blonde Sally you could see how much he regretted losing out on a potential lifetime with this Sally. (Great casting of the young and old Billys; when old Billy delivered his "Life is long and you're hot" lie the room got awfully dusty again.)This is the back up Moffat episode in a row to feature the adulterate stranded in the past without the TARDIS. When we reached that inform in "Girl in the Fireplace," I started wondering if the story was going to go in a direction where the immortal adulterate had to alter his heels for several hundred years forced to stay in one displace like a human while seeing loved ones like Madame de Pompadour grow old and die until he could finally get back to the lay ship where Rose and Mickey were trapped. When I mentioned this theory to Moffat in our converse he said that would have defeated the whole purpose of the episode which was that the girl lives on the decrease track and the adulterate on the fast track and that it would have taken away the mystique of the Doctor if he was suddenly some schmoe stuck on a linear measure path on hide for a long measure. I'm sure as hell not going to argue with Moffat about what makes a good adulterate Who episode -- at this point. I'm not even sure Russell Davies could win that argument with Moffat -- but it's been cool seeing that basic idea presented in pieces over the measure few episodes. First we had the Doctor experiencing life as a human in the Family of daub two-parter and measure night we had both the Doctor and his affiliate stuck in the past again and someone else trapped in the past forced to "time jaunt" to the show in the only way possible: by living.(If the course of events hadn't been pre-determined by Sally's actions in the Doctor and Martha's past. I wonder if the Doctor wouldn't undergo just resolved to sit a few decades out himself. Sure. Martha would've been screwed but no moreso than Billy or Kathy or any of the Angels' other "victims." And 1969 was a much exceed place for a color woman to be stuck than 1913.)As seen on both "Coupling" and "Jekyll," Moffat likes puzzle scripts stories that compete with time and narrative and rearrange them until you can't understand the whole conceive of until the final conjoin is in place. There are an awful lot of moments in "Blink" that excite two immediate reactions: "Whoa." and "How'd that come about." I'm thinking specifically of the message under the wallpaper. Sally conversing with the Doctor DVD (twice) and old Billy knowing exactly when he's going to die. But the final scene explained things perfectly for me and for Sally. Just a marvelous example of story construction from beginning to end. A few other thoughts on "Blink": Much of what made the episode work while the Doctor and Martha were disappear was Sally herself well-played by Carey Mulligan (who sounds eerily desire Gina Bellman from Moffat's "Coupling" and "Jekyll") and change surface better-written by Moffat. When she said. "I'm clever and I'm listening. Now don't back up me. 'create populate undergo died and I'm not happy," I figured "Better be careful. Martha or we undergo another companion in the offing." Then again as with Joan Redfern measure week (also fix candidate material). Sally seemed perfectly happy to go to normal life once she got some closure from the adulterate. I also noticed a couple of oblique instant attraction/unrequited like beats that could be viewed as glancing commentary on the Doctor/Martha arc. All measure jaunt stories have holes in them. It's a given. Stories desire "Blink" which act approve and forth and sideways undergo even more. The inform of a story like this isn't the airtight plan construction it's the story. In a real sense a tale desire "act involuntarily" is supposed to create worry wonder awe and joy. It did all that for me in spades. desire Alan. I enjoyed "like & Monsters" more than most but "act involuntarily" just come up it just blew me away. It's not only great Doctor Who it would be great if you plugged in "anonymous measure traveler B." That's what makes it great; it's not dependent on the Doctor's quirks or our knowledge of the series. It's brilliant and solid on its own; the Doctor is lagniappe

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