Me too! It’s so bad it’s great! Jeff Broadwick CTIconnect 312-205-2519 Office 574-220-7826 Cell jbroadw...@cticonnect.com
> On Jul 25, 2020, at 11:31 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > > > If I’m going to watch a movie about giant subterranean worms, I found Tremors > more entertaining. It may be lowbrow humor, but I’ll take it. > > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Mike Hammett > Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2020 10:01 AM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bored > > Dune books, Dune movie, Dune video game. I only have experienced the latter. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > > Midwest Internet Exchange > > The Brothers WISP > > > > From: "Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com> > To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> > Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 10:04:10 PM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bored > > My wife was into science fiction. She always bought these every year: > https://us.macmillan.com/series/yearsbestsciencefiction/ > > After she died, I took boxes of them to the AAUW book sale. > > She also tried to convince me Dune was great literature. I have nothing > against SF, but that’s not my idea of a good time. When I was a kid I liked > reading Jules Verne. And watching Flash Gordon in TV. > > There are some underrated old sci fi movies, like Forbidden Planet, Enemy > Mine, The Day The Earth Stood Still. Many movies were based on novels. You > could track down the books. I remember reading On The Beach. > > I used to watch stuff like Twilight Zone, I must be too lazy to read. Maybe > I need a cognitive test. Person, woman, man, camera, TV. > https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/hwqglc/person_woman_man_camera_tv_hotdog/ > > > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Mark Radabaugh > Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 9:11 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bored > > So y’all were supposed to find me some other good SciFi books. There is a > lot of SciFi out there but the vast majority of it reads like the narration > of a first person shooter. Boring. > > Martha Wells “All Systems Red” is amusing. > > Mark > > > On Jul 24, 2020, at 6:27 PM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The movie is shit, but apparently it wasn't even supposed to be a Starship > Troopers movie. The original title was "Bug Hunt on Outpost 9". Someone at > the Heinlein estate thought it had too much similarity to Starship Troopers > and there was a legal dispute. The studio agreed to pay licensing to use > Starship Troopers IP. The director had apparently never even heard of the > book and was annoyed at having to rework the movie into the "Starship > Troopers" framework. > > On 7/24/2020 5:59 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > Why are people talking about Starship Troopers lately? I’d never heard of > it. I asked my son what it was about and he said bugs. Bad bugs? Yes. > Good movie? Stupid movie. > > Was it satire? There’s a fine line between satire and stupid. > > > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Mark Radabaugh > Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 4:15 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bored > > Heinlein hasn’t aged as well as I would have expected. Some great ideas but > the sex bits appealed a lot more to a teenage male than they do some 40 years > later. > > Asimov has held up very well - as good today as it was when it was written. > > For newer SciFi: > > I absolutely love Dan Simmons “Hyperion Cantos”. A bit slow to start but a > fantastic work. Don’t start it if you have other things you need to do. > > The “Imperial Radch” series by Ann Leckie is also one of my very favorites. > A bit hard to wrap your head around at first but once you figure it out it’s > excellent. > > If you want something that’s just a plain fun easy read - “Old Man’s War” by > John Scalzi is a concept straight out of Heinlein’s style, with a slightly > different twist on the sexuality. > > Mark > > > > On Jul 24, 2020, at 4:53 PM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I liked Heinlein's Starship Troopers. > The idea that citizenship is not a birthright but something you earn through > service to society was interesting food for thought. It's not something we > could do realistically, but it was interesting to think about. On the other > hand, the idea that every soldier takes care of his own logistics is pretty > dumb though. Heinlein must have found it objectionable to have more people > in the rear echelon than you have actual fighters, but frankly modern wars > are won by logistics. Having more soldiers is irrelevant if they don't have > food, ammo, clothing, and fully working equipment; and expecting every Gomer > Pile to take part in every aspect of that would be dumb. > Puppet Masters wasn't bad either. It spawned the whole body snatching > subgenre in sci fi. > > On 7/24/2020 4:14 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: > I get Sinclair Lewis and Upton Sinclair confused. Didn’t really like either > of them. Been a while since I read any Bradbury or Heinlein. > > From: Ken Hohhof > Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 2:01 PM > To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bored > > I talked to an old college friend the other day, he had just read and was > recommending “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis. > > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Adam Moffett > Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 2:54 PM > To: af@af.afmug.com > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bored > > Books are better. > I found the 1911 edition of the Boy Scouts Handbook enlightening. The views > expressed by the author(s) are a glimpse into a different time. It also > discusses survival and outdoor skills in broad terms. If you tried to build > a bow or a log cabin from the instructions in that book you'd have to do a > lot of your own figuring to fill in the blanks, but maybe that's the whole > point, and maybe that's the piece we're missing from society today. Like > maybe the journey of figuring out the precise techniques to carve the notches > into the logs is a better experience than emulating a you-tuber who shows you > every single step. > My other recent recreational book was the National Audubon Society Field > Guide to North American Trees. I lived 40 years on this earth only ever > learning a handful of major tree types (Oak, Maple, etc). I'm embarrassed to > say I was calling every needle leafed tree a "pine" for most of those years. > I finally decided to educate myself on the topic. > > On 7/24/2020 3:29 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: > I am not much of a sports fan... I thought. But with no sports on I am > really missing them. I would at times catch part of a game to pass the time. > That option is gone for the moment and there nothing but crap on to watch... > Need a good book I guess. > > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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