This makes me so happy. My dad worked on the mainframe team at the local university so this stuff was always all over the place. My scratch paper was old punch cards. I still miss the sound of him logging in over the phone. I do not miss the sound of those evil dot matrix printers with the paper with holes in the…

Oh god ... I tried to watch the first installment because I find selfishness utterly fascinating, but it's just so very very bad. I couldn't get through the first 30 minutes.

Yes indeed, I was agreeing with you. I've clearly not been doing a very good job of explaining my thoughts in this thread.

I read one of the earlier scripts for this, the one by J. Michael Straczynski and it would have been a pretty solid version of the book. It wasn't nearly as amazing as the book, but it maintained the vignette quality and I think it might have worked with a bit of tweaking. SPOILER for that script. It made Pitt's…

THANK YOU! It was so kind of you to take so much time and thought in answering my question. You've given me a really great place to start. We don't own a console yet but I know my spouse would very much like to get one and since our nephew is moving out in a few months (sniff sniff) I'm trying to find things to fill…

Yeah, it's tricky territory. It is very easy for the conversation to get derailed or for people to misunderstand and think one is advocating for this strange a woman having it all is ... being a housewife thing that the media is trying to make happen with 'Lean Out'. Maybe because I have been blessed with a…

I'm curious, what would you suggest for someone who has always been completely baffled by gaming? I am a hardcore sci-fi geek but I stopped trying to get into games back when Lemings was a big deal and Sonic the Hedgehog was cutting edge. My kid tries to get me to play Lego Star Wars or whatnot but it just seems ...…

I think there isn't really a solution per se, but I do think that we as a society have become very fragmented and women and men shut off large parts of themselves because they don't 'fit' in the proper role. We've made great strides, but cutting edge science is an area that is still very much a 'male space'. I think…

I was speaking of traits in terms of traditional feminine and traditional masculine, not nuclear families but I do see how easily what I wrote could be interpreted that way, my apologies. I often feel that when speaking of 'raising' a new intelligence the perspective is very colored by men and their relationships with…

Wait. There's such a thing as a 'serious' ninja movie?

Best? Hell no. I just felt we should all shudder at the memory.

It burns, it burns!

Absolutely. I am so glad you posted this.

I feel like this is the sort of thing that's indicative of the middle-space we're currently in. Women raised by her generation will have no trouble telling the men to please shut the hell up. This is the part that women need to do for themselves, right now no amount of societal support will give women the sense of…

I didn't mean women participating in the discussions, I meant the thinking itself was framed in a very masculine way. Specifically when thinking of artificial intelligence. A lot of it struck me that if AI had a mom as well as a dad it wouldn't turn out the way many were thinking. But since I'm nattering on about…

Historically, they've often been extremely good at the long game.

I first heard about the Singularity about three years ago and I was fascinated. It's actually what brought me into the io9 fold, that trans-humanism feature they ran around then. I was struck at the time by how deeply male the thinking was, very colored by the father/son struggle. I'll have to watch this and see if it…

I would watch that every day and twice on Sundays.

If you don't enjoy the period details and the weird socially constructed drama of a whole bunch of people willingly buying into the idea that they are inherently less than/better than because of birth it's like watching that camera set on pitch that drips once every 20 years or so.

I know I'll watch anything that's even vaguely 'speculative fiction' and I also love just about all costume dramas. I think there is a pretty significant cross-over out there. Now sucks, but the past and the future? Totally awesome.