domino, domino

[kittenscribble]

Robots is a decent movie, cute and v. predictable, message clear as day: you're quite special just the way you are, etc. Rather disturbing relationship between the main villain and his mother, but enough shenanigans by Robin Williams' character to distract me. I particularly liked the Rube Goldberg element; there's a domino theme throughout the movie, and I really loved the transport machine that took five minutes and myriad dizzying changes of direction to deliver two reeling robots to their destination.

After hearing me burble about Rube Goldberg, K was kind enough to send this link:

Go to http://www.thebravery.com/
-- Click on Music
-- Click on the Video link next to "An Honest Mistake"
-- Then it should pop up.

Click. Really. It's worth it.

In other news, I've been going to NASA's Eyes on the Sky lectures over at Goddard. Today's was essentially a Hubble slide show but the first few were much more technical; they've been catching me up with current theories, cosmic strings and dark energy and the like. (Apparently we've learned a lot more about the universe in the last ten years; my high school education is unsettlingly out of date.) The scientists are peering into the stuff that forms our universe, working backwards to root causes. Cosmologists are a strange breed; they think nothing of saying things like "our galaxy was probably formed out of a quantum fluctuation during the Big Bang. Lucky accident for us, eh?"

They seem so cheerful at the thought. Me, I have to fight off the existential dread.

Comments

[bkleber.livejournal.com]

The video rocks. But dude! their aim! They so totally suck.

And bah, on you and your existetial dread. Far too late to be worrying about such things. Silly woman.

[kittenscribble.livejournal.com]

aw, and here I thought the ending was the best part. Especially that one musician turning to look, with a wtf? expression on his face. It was priceless.