Category: stories

• I am a Scientist!

  

  Netflix: Bob Lazar and Area 51. A visual commentary.11) It isn’t my intention to give the final verdict of the Bob Lazar story. Not only is this not my purpose(on that more later) but it is probably impossible to do so given how little we actually know about him. And what little we do know…

  Merit Coba

  29/06/2019

  stories, Woo

  Bob Lazar, Georg Knapp, Netflix, Woo

• Computing Forever takes on the EU(starting with Richard Dawkins)2/2

  2:50 “It is not difficult to do some basic research[]”(Computing Forever) Sometimes it works to look at the sources someone uses for his arguments. https://youtu.be/omlGfwLC2Lw These are Computing Forever’s named sources. 1 The sun. 2 An article by a pro-Brexit writer, written for a news website called Heat Street, a libertarian source. The article is…

  Merit Coba

  25/07/2016

  rants, stories

  brexit, computing forever, crackpot, dawkins, democracy, eu, libertarian, referendum, theresa may

• Computing Forever takes on the world 1/2(starting with Thunderf00t)

  Computing Forever takes on people like  Richard Dawkins and Thunderf00t on his YouTube channel.https://youtu.be/pZ9fxpmM1lA Oh… Who are these guys you might ask? This is Richard Dawkins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkin This is Thunderf00t: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Mason I ran into Computing Forever when he called out Thunderf00t in his video. What struck me was that he says this about Thunderf00t: “These…

  Merit Coba

  25/07/2016

  rants, stories

  brexit, computing forever, eu, invalid reasoning, libertarian, rants, thunderf00t, undoomed

• Story telling: In the heat of the night 2/2

  

  In the hunt for key scenes in movies, it was hard to make a decision for In the heat of the Night. In an earlier post I showed one scene somewhat one-third into the movie where Virgil Tibbs is sitting at a train station waiting for the train so he can leave the town of…

  Merit Coba

  09/07/2016

  movie, stories, story-telling

  in the heat of the night, movie, movies, racism, review, rod steiger, storytelling, sydney poitier

• Story telling: In the heat of the night 1/2

  

  The scene: Virgil Tibbs(Sydney Poitier) is a black police detective from the North who gets stuck in a small town deep in the South where  black people are addressed as ‘boy’ and other derogatory names. He is more or less forced against his will to aid the local police forces headed by Chief Bill Gillespie(Rod Steiger), investigating the murder of a…

  Merit Coba

  09/06/2016

  movie, story-telling

  in the heat of the night, movie, rod steiger, storytelling, sydney poitier

• Movie rawr: Contact

  

    After spending a third of a trillion dollars Ellie, played by Jodie Foster, finds herself at the other end of a worm hole. That is to say: back on Earth. It took her 18 seconds to do so. Earth, inhabited by moronic creatures called humans, has just found itself to be the target of…

  Merit Coba

  20/05/2016

  movie, movie, review

  Carl Sagan, Contact, Jodie Foster, sci-fi

• Sign of Life: Lab-coat fallacy

  Perhaps it already exist in one place or another.. but I am introducing a new fallacy called lab-coat fallacy. Lab-coat fallacy is created to me in disrespect for a person called John Morris Pendleton and actually in honor of Logicked who called him out for pretending to be a scientist on spurious credentials and wearing  a lab-coat…

  Merit Coba

  19/05/2016

  rants, Signs of life

• Story thoughts: Unbearable knowledge(Oldboy)

  

  The scene A pretty young Asian girl hangs over the edge of a walkway on the top of a dam. An equally young Asian man holds her by the wrist, but she struggles free from him eventually. He cannot hold her and she falls to the green waters far below. Revenge and punishment have always…

  Merit Coba

  01/05/2016

  movie, stories, story-telling

  atonement, oldboy, storytelling, unbearable knowledge

• Story thoughts: The better life(Trainspotting)

  

  The scene: In a smoke filled pub Renton, Sick Boy, Begbie and Spud squat around a table filled with empty beer glasses. Prominent on the table is a black and white sports bag. The men are merry and exchange light banter. Begbie rises to get a new round of beer.  His gaze glances briefly over the…

  Merit Coba

  01/05/2016

  movie, stories, story-telling

  escape, movie, story elements, storytelling, The better life, Trainspotting

• Book review: To Kill a Mockingbird

    So…… It’s a good book. It really is.. Of course, I have to admit that To Kill a Mocking Bird was not an easy read for me, but this has nothing to do with the book itself, but rather with my haphazard reading habits. I am not a very good reader, actually. And you…

  Merit Coba

  12/12/2015

  stories