I found this while roaming around. Quite interesting. Also puts the Kill Bill movie into perspective with his other work and his background.
The Defining characteristic of Reality: Social realism in the works of Tarantino
Monthly Archive for November, 2003
…this is what I saw in the bus today. Isn’t it fluffy?
Edited on Jan 16th 2004, 10:59 by jeck
Yay! Last shift this week is over, all that is left to do is file the things here:
- Ist die EU-Verfassung noch zu retten?
- Alles wird anders
- “Städtlein aus Holz und Tuch”
- RoF: [Spoilers] “pastell-politik” politiker sollen in Zukunft pastellfarbene Anzüge tragen. Zu diesem ungewöhnlichen Ergebnis ist eine deutsche Untersuchungskommission gekommen, die von der Bundesregierung beauftragt worden war, die Ursachen der landesweiten politikverdrossenheit herauszufinden. Als Hauptgrund geben die Wissenschaftler nicht nur das Fehlen klar unterscheidbarer politischer programme an, sondern auch, dass die vorherrschende Mode in Deutschland politiker immer noch in schwarze oder dunkle Anzüge zwingt.
The foreign ministers of the EU are meeting this weekend tp discuss the concept for the european constitution. This meeting is the last before the final summit in december where the text of the constitution should be finished and the positions of the EU-members still leave a lot to discuss.
CDU party congress will be begin sunday. The changes to the party platform will be dramatic, but are supposed to pass the votes smoothly. However arguments may flare up about the firing of controversial politician Hohmann. Later on there may be trouble with the sister party CSU cause positions on some social reforms are differing.
Traditional and well-known Yuletide market is opening in Nuremburg. It’s there since 1628 and even japanese people come to see it.
Wie psychologische Studien aber bewiesen, werden dunkle Farben unterbewusst mit negativen Attributen wie “böse”, “arrogant” oder “teuflisch” verbunden. Das führt dazu, dass sich die meisten Menschen von politikern - die sie ja ausschließlich in dunklen Farben wahrnehmen - abgestoßen fühlen und mit der Zeit alles was mit politikern zu tun hat, in einer Art Selbstschutzreaktion meiden. Um diesen Effekt zu unterbinden empfehlen die Wissenschaftler Bekleidung in warmen Farben - vor allem pastellblau oder hellgrün sollen sehr gut geeignet sein. [/Spoilers]
Oh. Nearly forgot: ZDFmorgenmagazin.
The new Linux Kernel 2.6 is thought be clean of any “suspicious” code SCO might (maybe) have Ip on. But that won’t stop them! Now they’re continuing because of “non-literal code transfers”.
That reminds me a lot about the White Wolf vs Sony case:
[Quote] “85. In the World of Darkness, the background setting is very dark, described as gothic/punk. In Underworld the background setting is very dark, with a combination of gothic and punk attire, settings and people.” [Quote]
Maybe they have the same lawyer? =)
And another box for my petty work at the ZDFmorgenmagazin.
Just in case: I always mention the ZDFmorgenmagazin so I have an one-to-one search phrase if I ever want to look things up later. But all you smart guys & gals had thought that anyways, don’t you? Enough rambling, todays pieces are:
- Neue Spielregeln für den Strommarkt
- “Queen of the Less”
- Aaaaand *long expectation raising pause here* the RoF: [Spoilers] “Weihnachtsleuchten” pünktlich zu Weihnachten sollen sie demnächst in deutsche Zoohandlungen kommen: Leuchtende Goldfische. Die aus Asien importierten Tiere sind genetisch so manipuliert, dass sie je nach Sorte in zwei unterschiedlichen Farbtönen leuchten. Dabei wechseln die Fische die zwei Farben in Abständen von etwa fünf Minuten. In Japan und Taiwan, wo die neue Art schon seit Anfang November erhältlich ist, wird die Farbkombination golden und rosa am meisten verkauft. Dieser bemerkenswerte Effekt wurde durch das Einfügen von bestimmten Genen anderer Arten erreicht. Die Fähigkeit Licht abzugeben wurde den “Neonkarpfen” - so sollen die Tiere offiziell heißen - von Tiefseefischen “vererbt”, während die Farbkombination von Seeanemonen-Genen bestimmt wird. Ursprünglich sollten kleinere Zierfische wie etwa Guppies oder Zebrafische modifiziert werden. Diese Arten erwiesen sich jedoch für die immer noch in den Kinderschuhen steckende Technologie nicht als robust genug. Da sich das Genom der Goldfische im Laufe der Evolution jedoch schon oft geändert hat, sind sie für derartige Veränderungen gut geeignet. [/Spoilers]
The government decided - or rather followed EU law, though happily cause they wanted it anyways - that the regulator that keeps an eye on the telecommunications and post market already should watch the power sector too. We have a free market here since 1998 but according to some sources private households still pay too much for power. What may the old an new regulator bring? Read on…
Jill Sander turns 60. So I did a little biography of her. (Or should that be “on her”?) If you always wanted to know where she had here first shop (Hamburg-pöseldorf) or why she started working at Jil Sander again (no clothes) this is the link to click!
Edited on Nov 27th 2003, 12:13 by jeck
Not much to do at the ZDFmorgenmagazin. All the topics were covered by the online-crew in Mainz so I basically hooked our homepage up to their articles. I only had to write one article and the RoF.
- Alles digital?
- RoF: [Spoilers] “Chip-Stimme” Ein weiterer Beruf könnte vom unaufhaltsamen Fortschritt der Technik bald überflüssig gemacht werden: Sänger. Schon im Januar soll ein System auf den Markt kommen, dass es möglich macht die menschliche Stimme vollständig nachzuahmen.
How our government tries to bring all the bureaucracy online and make administrative things available over the net. Until now they seem to be quite successful.
CvD-Comment: “Well written.” Ya!
Ähnlich wie bei einem Synthesizer werden verschiedene Laute - so genannte phoneme - einer Stimme aufgenommen und in einer Datenbank abgespeichert. Der Computer kann diese dann später in jeder erdenklichen Art kombinieren. Im Gegensatz zu derzeitigen Computerstimmen sind die so entstandenen Musikstücke jedoch kaum von einem menschlichen Sänger zu unterscheiden. Zum ersten Mal könnten so auch Computer durch eine neue Technologie arbeitslos werden: Eine amerikanische Bank soll ihr Interesse bekundet haben, das System für ihre automatisierten Ansagen zu verwenden. [/Spoilers]
Edited on May 31st 2006, 11:19 by jeck
…for you made me spend money again. After giving up on Bluetooth for synchronizing my T610 I decided to get a USB-cable straight from the source. I assumed it would be at least 10 bucks more expensive than at any online-shop, but I was pleasantly surprised: They where 3 Bucks cheaper than the cheapest offer I’ve seen so far. And now it syncs as if there’s no tomorrow…
I am working at the ZDFmorgenmagazin this week again. It’s very hard to keep track about what I have written*, but now I realized that my blog is a very cool and handy place for this. So this week I’ll collect the fine *cough* pieces I’ve written day by day. In the spoiler tag there’ll be the “Right or Wrong?” a quiz which we actualize every day and which isn’t stored on the web. If you’re from the german speaking community you can have a guess if you want to win some nice cups from our show! yay!
Anyways, here we go:
- Bürokratisches Zensursystem?
- Hat die Regierung gelogen?
- “Rot ist wieder in!”
Every slogan with which food is advertised should be scientifically backed up - at least this is what the EU wants.
Last year the opposition initiated a comission which researched whether the government lied about certain things during the last election campaign. The work of the comission ends this week and we have a look at what the parties think about it. Not to surprising though.
About the place where the Christmas tree balls made of glass come from.
And the RoF: [Spoilers] “Finger im Ohr” Eine japanische Telefonfirma hat den prototyp eines neuen Telefons vorgestellt, das ohne Zifferntasten und ohne Hörer auskommt. Das Telefon in Form eines Armbandes überträgt die Tonsignale als Schwingungen auf den Armknochen. Um zu telefonieren muss man sich den Zeigefinger ins Ohr stecken, wo die Knochenschwingungen vom Trommelfell als verständlicher Ton wahr genommen werden.
Die Bedienung des Telefons und die Nummernwahl erfolgt über Spracherkennung. Das Mikrofon befindet sich an der Unterseite des Handgelenks. Schon 2005, so die Telefonfirma, könne man das Gerät als fertiges produkt auf den Markt bringen. [/Spoilers]
* It’s not really creative writing, it’s more like combining the sources and warp them into a readable text.
Edited on Nov 24th 2003, 21:43 by jeck
After my examination on Thursday I was pretty excited, cause I managed to do such a good grade after all the trouble. I spent the rest of the day with Lady Di, the Vampire, Lili and SenseiS. Unluckily the night turned sour as I got into conflict mode with the Vampire. I was sad [cause everything including our planned Slyvester Con was on the brink of being cancelled] about it from then till saturday night when we had talk which - well - it didn’t really resolve anything it was more like putting things in perspective. After all for me it came down to two things:
- You’re not the only one who has buttons who might be pushed accidentally.
- It’s as dangerous to overestimate a person as it is to understimate her. ( With the Vampire it seems better not to estimate at all)
On sunday morning I met with SenseiS and we had breakfast at the Atlantis. Of cause we talked about the trouble and from there we took off to a psycho-go-round-tour of all the relations. On one point I made an half-educated guess as to why I think Lady Di does things how she does them. Later we came to a point where SenseiS told me, that “this was the same you’re accusing Lady Di of!”
That stung a little, but only later I came to realize that it was, because I don’t think of it as accusing. When I try to make a (more or less sophisticated) guess about other peoples behavior I don’t want to accuse/analyze them, I want to find a way to learn something about them. I had to realize very early that in this field one seldom hits the spot, but those guesses may be helpful to find the right kind of communication/behaviour with the person in question. Of course it’s dangerous too when I base my actions more on the assumptions I make than on the attitude of the person.
So to make a long point short: I don’t accuse people of something, I just try to understand them and I’m very careful with the analyzething too.
Live long & prosper!
Examination is over.
I passed.
I got 1.7 ( with 1 as the best and 5 meaning failed).
w00t!!
It was worth the trouble after all. Thanx go to the vampire, Lili and A.
Interesting for everyone who needs them but hasn’t a full blown server: selfphp is offering free cronjobs [limited to call a page 1/day]. I had a look at the GLUE-package lately and wondered were to get cronjobs which are required to reset the daily rankings but my server doesn’t support. Well, here they are! =)
And: 2 days to go.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
collapses.
..some links:
- The riddles that were not solved. The Matrix:Unexplained.. [via Redeemer]
- Scam the 419 scammer. [via /.]
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