March 19, 2006
BSG + FSM
So, I finally got around to finishing the season finale of Battlestar Galactica, and...
SPOILER ALERT
there they are on New Caprica, and Chief starts rousing his union members with a speech that sounds oddly familiar. And I realize, Hey! That's the speech Mario Savio gave standing on a police car during the Free Speech Movement protests. Any Cal graduate is familiar with that speech -- you'll see it at least once during your time there. And I thought, "Damn! It's pretty cool that that speech has such resonance over such a long period of time."
The power of well chosen words, spoken from the heart.
You can listen to it here. The passage used on BSG begins at 0:59.
Bruce Sterling dissects me
In a highly entertaining post on his blog, Bruce Sterling has at a passage from my conversation with GK Van Patter. It's a remarkably bit of linguistic and conceptual insight; Bruce is like a cat with a toy, bouncing it between his paws, picking it apart, not out of malice, but because that's what he does.
I should demur on the phrase "That Measure Map thing of his is amazing," as it was largely the work of others at Adaptive Path.
