Quote

“Time passes when you’re not looking.”

-- “Elegy” (2008) film

Monday Morning

A couple of neighbors are getting their lawn work done today. That loud, roaring, grinding noise is spoiling an otherwise cool, overcast, and wonderfully calm morning. Can't someone invent something to take care of that noise. Car engines are not that loud.

Marx

For the West, during the Cold War, he was the demonic begetter of all evil, the founder of an awesomely sinister cult, the man whose baleful influence must be suppressed. In the Soviet Union of the 1950s he assumed the status of a secular God, with Lenin as John the Baptist and, of course, Comrade Stalin himself as the redeeming Messiah.

-- Francis Wheen, “Karl Marx: A Life”

AIs

“One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossils.”

-- “Ex Machina” (2015) film