stmt approvals: last few "yellow", all of "green" groups
process red, orange, yellow group emails to current
stow tools now that pocket door is fixed
robovac
How high is a "one-third incline" pushup? 36".
:: A "no-incline" (wall) pushup is 54";
:: A "half-incline" pushup would be 54/2 = 27";
:: A 2/3-incline pushup would be 18"
haircut / brows fr
TIL our TV supports Bluetooth earbuds
settings : sound : sound output : bluetooth : (search for / pair with available device)
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Last night I started watching Prometheus (Alien franchise, 2012, set in 2089 ~ 2091) while Mrs was picking up her workstation. I dozed off in the last few minutes, literally the last or second-to-last scene. But I wondered more why (spoiler alert) the Engineer attacked Weyland and the android David. According to the fan community, Engineer society "respects the cycle of life" including death, to the extent of sacrificing themselves to seed life on new worlds. This calls back to the opening scene where the Engineer is seen drinking a vial of black goo, and then falls down dying into the waterfall. Its DNA is seen unraveling and recombining to seed that planet - strongly implied to possibly be Earth. So, David the deathless android simulacrum of intelligent life, and decrepit Peter Weyland clinging to life in his desperate quest for the secrets of immortality, are veritable blasphemies to the Engineer paradigm.
It's a bit frustrating that we had to crowdsource that bit of context to make "Prometheus" make sense. Also not really buying Dr. Shaw undergoing abdominal surgery, fully conscious, to immediately pop out of the surgery pod and stumble-run all over moon LV-223. I mean, ok yeah people do recover from C-section surgery, but it takes how long to heal enough for even light exertion?
Prometheus's David android is a complex character - certainly moreso than the covert android science officer Ash in 1979s's "Alien". David is programatically unable to disobey Weyland, yet advanced enough to know what Weyland is ordering is morally wrong - hence the "doesn't every child want his parents dead" quip.
Next in the series is "Alien: Covenant" (2017, set 15 years later i.e. 2104).