Miscellaneous

Altered Carbon

I was just so blown away by Altered Carbon If you are old enough to remember Blade Runner when it first came out, or you caught up with the sequel, and you liked the weird dystopian, dirty future that Ridley Scott envisaged, then you’ll love Altered Carbon. It’s a Netflix original, filmed in Vancouver (sorry,

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The Use of Lubricant

Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as “empty,” “meaningless,” or “dishonest,” and scorn to use them. No matter how “pure” their motives, they thereby throw sand into

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