Sometimes it’s hard to believe how far America has come in the past hundred and fifty years or so. Near the end of Lincoln, the Congress goes into riot mode, not when it’s suggest that slaves should be freed, but when it’s suggested that women and former slaves should be given the right to vote. They didn’t like the idea of interracial marriage, either. The bulk of Lincoln deals with whether or not the President will be able to get enough votes to pass the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution abolishing slavery. There is a lot of wheeling and dealing, a…
Tag: fifty years
Glasses
I’ve gone almost fifty years without glasses. I once had an employee at the DMV ask me if I were wearing contact lenses because she didn’t believe my eyesight was that good. But now time has caught up to me and my eyesight has started to bail on me. I choose a boring set of black frames that were on sale. The regular sight part of the glasses is pretty light, but just enough magnification to shift the world an small uncomfortable amount. The reading part of the bifocals is about what I have been using in the reading glasses…
Inception-Dreaming The Matrix
I’ve been waiting for someone to make another Matrix movie since 1999 and Inception is pretty close. It’s a sci fi movie, sort of. Sort of because there is no real science mentioned as to how the people in this universe share dreams. This is not a problem, since we are never sure what reality really is and if there is a higher level where the real technology of Dreaming exists. We are shown a number of realities, all of which have differences in how time passes, so that the 30 seconds it take a van to fall from a…