Saturday, November 15, 2003
Past postings......
This was written in a class, on Thursday, 13th Nov at 5 pm. Since I don't want to edit and change what I wrote, I am just reproducing what I wrote exactly. The quality is not good..obviously; this was written in a class. Here goes:
I am in class sitting in the last bench, as usual.Unfortunately, the Prof doesn't know where to stand and he has a damningly clear view of me, as I do of him. So, instead of the usual nap I take in this class, I am forced to pretend taking down notes. Hence this article on my views of this class. A rarity I must agree - me having any view of any class apart from "Boring!"
Actually, this class is not much different from the other classes I used to wake through before I realized that there is precious little I can assimilate by staying awake. This class is on "Trends in Manufacturing", supposed to update us on the latest in production processes. I am left wondering - where India seems to have specialized considerably in reproduction, others are still stuck up on production.
The topic of the day is Rapid Prototyping and the first thing I am reminded of - given that reproduction came up in my mind earlier - is the film Sixth Day where we see human bodies being produced and memories being induced into them.
Talking about memories being induced, and also since I am really bored talking about my class, let me go on to Matrix Revoltuions. I saw the movie only this week; I agree I am late, but "better late than never". The movie is disappointing, to say the least, for those of us who belong to what the media calls the "Matrix Cult". I don't know what went wrong with the imagination of the Brothers Wachowsky, but they simply could not live upto the Matrix in either Reloaded or Revolutions. The special effects are all wonderful, but characters simply lost their touch. Neo is just a confused wanderer, Trinity has nothing to do except "love Neo", Morpheus is like a morose prophet and the Oracle in her "new shell". Only Agent Smith survives unscathed...er, I mean the characterization. I guess it is only Hugo Weaving, who played Agent Smith excellently, who got any real gain from the trilogy. But I must say that I don't think we could have gotten a better epic for our times than Matrix.
Back to present: I typed this out so late since I had an exam today..just finished writing it...and am really pleasantly surprised that I did reasonably well, a thing that I don't remember in recent times.
I am in class sitting in the last bench, as usual.Unfortunately, the Prof doesn't know where to stand and he has a damningly clear view of me, as I do of him. So, instead of the usual nap I take in this class, I am forced to pretend taking down notes. Hence this article on my views of this class. A rarity I must agree - me having any view of any class apart from "Boring!"
Actually, this class is not much different from the other classes I used to wake through before I realized that there is precious little I can assimilate by staying awake. This class is on "Trends in Manufacturing", supposed to update us on the latest in production processes. I am left wondering - where India seems to have specialized considerably in reproduction, others are still stuck up on production.
The topic of the day is Rapid Prototyping and the first thing I am reminded of - given that reproduction came up in my mind earlier - is the film Sixth Day where we see human bodies being produced and memories being induced into them.
Talking about memories being induced, and also since I am really bored talking about my class, let me go on to Matrix Revoltuions. I saw the movie only this week; I agree I am late, but "better late than never". The movie is disappointing, to say the least, for those of us who belong to what the media calls the "Matrix Cult". I don't know what went wrong with the imagination of the Brothers Wachowsky, but they simply could not live upto the Matrix in either Reloaded or Revolutions. The special effects are all wonderful, but characters simply lost their touch. Neo is just a confused wanderer, Trinity has nothing to do except "love Neo", Morpheus is like a morose prophet and the Oracle in her "new shell". Only Agent Smith survives unscathed...er, I mean the characterization. I guess it is only Hugo Weaving, who played Agent Smith excellently, who got any real gain from the trilogy. But I must say that I don't think we could have gotten a better epic for our times than Matrix.
Back to present: I typed this out so late since I had an exam today..just finished writing it...and am really pleasantly surprised that I did reasonably well, a thing that I don't remember in recent times.
