Do you remember the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie “The Running Man”? It’s one of the better ones from his heyday in the late 1980s. It’s set in 2019, which was still a good 30-odd years away when the film was made, and it predicts a future where criminals are executed live on television through their unwilling participation in a “game” called “Running Man” — the criminals are released into a hostile environment and pursued by hunters who try to kill them in various “entertaining” ways.
They were only off by 12 years. Coming soon to the SciFi Channel, here’s “Run”.
No word on whether or not Richard Dawson might come out of retirement to host, or whether The Governator might be available as a celebrity contestant.
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT.
Since you cannot click a [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and [...]
Thanks to Shelley for alerting me that last night’s edition of the local TV newsmagzine “Chronicle” featured Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein, whom I blogged about recently in conjunction with the various atheist billboard campaigns around the country. I was busy helping Charlotte do her homework, so I didn’t watch the show, but WCVB’s [...]
Update to yesterday’s post about boiled eggs:
The picture at the top is what I got by boiling two eggs in 180-degree-ish water for 6 minutes. Sorry for the so-so photo, I only had my cell phone handy.
The eggs were indeed nicely done. The cooked ring of egg white was consistent in its thickness [...]
