Drewtober, day 21. Trail of the Twister. You know I had to do it.

If you want to make your own box, papercraft below the cut.

The dimensions of my "cheese" is 8cm round by 3 cm tall, which fits in this box

So yes we went to see the new Horror movie Night Swim and its our first movie of 2024!

Now I thought it was pretty good its pretty much a classic Haunted House movie but the house isn't actually Haunted but its the in ground pool that is haunted and of course there is a reason for that which is explained in the movie.

Your basic story is the family is moving to a new town were the mom (played by Kerry Condon) will be closer to work and she is going to school to become a teacher and the Dad (played by Wyatt Russell) was a professional Baseball player but had to quit because he is developing MS. So they are looking for a new place and none of them seem right until they find this place which has an amazing in ground pool. The Doctor has told Wyatt Russell's character that swimming is good for MS and that is one of the reasons they buy the house. So they move in and get the pool ready and everything and they are living a happy life and then things start to slowly begin to happen the kids and the wife are seeing and being bothered/attacked by some type of creature? I believe this to be the physical manifestation of the Evil that lurks in the water. but the pool is having a different effect on the Dad as it is healing his MS and when that happens as he get more and more healthy the evil in the pool begins to possess him and that is when things really start to go crazy. It hits all horror bench marks for a usual Haunted House or real Haunted anything movie being you have Stage 1 where it is the build up to stuff happening usually Stage 2 is stuff actually happening Stage 3 is Discovery this is where they find out the history/backstory/lore about the Haunted whatever Stage 4 Showdown how to stop it I feel Horror movies like these can be summed up in the quote from Jeff Goldblum's Dr. Ian Malcolm: Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming. but seriously though I thought it was pretty good being that the pool was the thing that was haunted it felt interesting and different some of the filming that was done in the pool and under water was really well done and the visuals for things like I don't know what to call it "the deep?" where the evil lived with in the pool it was almost like a alternate universe with all the people it had collected was cool and reminded me of something else but I can't think of it at this moment.

Now I didn't find the movie really scary but it did have like the right amount of creepiness and should make you wonder about pools from now on lol but yeah I if you want to give it a watch I would say go for it.

Jurassic Park (1993)

            Jurassic Park (1993) was based the book written by Michael Crichton. While this was not my first time watching Jurassic Park, I knew quotes from this movie before I ever saw it. In my opinion, this is the biggest blockbuster we’ve discussed so far. I would rate this four and a half out of five stars. As someone studying the Save the Cat method for my novel, it was so cool to see how clear the beats are in this film. The moments of building and releasing tension were so well crafted. I found myself getting stressed, even though I knew the characters I cared about would live. The characters feel so alive and even those who had smaller arcs, such as Dr. Grant learning to like children, had me emotionally invested. Speaking to the hubris of humanity, I believe Jurassic Park will always be relevant.

            As a new horror writer, I wanted to take notes while watching this movie. This comes as no surprise as the film was directed by Steven Spielberg, who’d already had a massive number of hits under his belt by 1993. The writing, acting, directing, and cinematography work together seamlessly. I particularly enjoyed how we switched between the two main groups in the most dramatic scenes. The camera work during the scene where the visitors are attacked by the T-rex heightens the fear by focusing on different characters' reactions and switching rapidly between them. I felt like we as the audience were looking around frantically with them, unable to see the dinosaur, yet experiencing its impact on the environment. The horror is hidden until we are at the edge of our seats, and then lighting strikes, revealing the dinosaur as it eats the goat. Spielberg maintains our fear by switching between Hammond and his employees in the office, and the people being attacked. We have moments of respite, but during that time we are thinking about what is happening to the kids. He does the same thing later in the film when Dr. Grant climbs over the electric gates with Tim and Lex, as Dr. Sattler turns the power back on. Seeing both perspectives makes it more stressful because we know how close she is to turning it back on, versus how slow the other three are climbing. At one point Dr. Grant told the kids to take their time and I yelled out loud: “No! Go faster!”.

            I admired so much the way this movie was structured, however, there was one thing that bothered me a little bit. You can only do so much character growth in a movie with this big of a cast, but I would have liked to see more from Dr. Sattler, Ian Malcolm, and Tim. I picked up on three arcs of change: Hammond realizing his hubris, Dr. Grant learning to like kids, and Lex being able to face her fear to save her brother. These arcs were done so well and did not take time away from the story to complete, that I wished we had seen growth from the other three. If they’d had less screen time, I would be more okay with them being flat, but they were in so much of the movie that I wanted more. Again, this is a very picky complaint, but I think it would’ve just leveled up this already great movie even higher.

            The whole theme of humans getting their hands on a power they don’t know how to control reminded me of how we treat technology today. We are making progress in so many fields, especially AI, but I don’t think we are spending enough time considering how this will affect our society. Tech companies may have some good intentions, like Hammond did in the film, but ultimately what they are creating has the potential to hurt a lot of people. Already people have used AI to create sexually explicit images of others as a way to harm them. We’ve seen so many cautionary tales, and yet we do not seem to be taking their advice. Hopefully, before anything else happens, we can sit and think about potential consequences. Personally, I do not want to be eaten by the AI “dinosaur”.

Jurassic Park (1993) dir. Steven Spielberg. 7/10 Updated 2 years later. (8.21.20.) 7.5/10

How did they make all these things back in 1993? I feel like I underestimate the 90′s.

Everyone is such a geek. I love it. Spielberg is definitely a geek too.

Nedry made me so anxious. No me gusta.

Tim is kinda a good actor.

Some scenes reminded me of the 2000 Dinosaur movie.

Memorable Quotes: “I guess we’ll just have to evolve too.”

Updated Commentary:

Ellie talking about women inheriting the Earth is on point. I love her character and she’s hot.

The kids’ and parents’ relationship gives me og Jumanji vibes. The island gives me King Kong vibes.

People like Lex are not allowed in my apocalypse team. I don’t care if you are a child.

I’m just going to describe Nedry as pathetic.

I’m feeling like there is some Mandela Effect in terms of the dinosaur names.

Spoiler: [About a dinosaur shipment going wrong when a worker is attacked in Isla Nublar. In the Amber Mine in the DR, lawyer Donald Gennaro arrives since investors want to check the park’s safety after a lawsuit with the attacked worker’s family. Two experts need to sign off on the island to get the investors appeased. In the mine, a mosquito preserved in amber is found. One expert they want is Alan Grant. He’s at an archaeological dig in Montana with his girlfriend, Dr. Ellie Sattler. Their team is able to use a new computer program to get an image of a Velociraptor with a radar sent into the ground. Grant talks about how it’s more similar to birds than reptiles and a boy expresses his lack of fear since it’s like a large turkey. Grant scares him by going into detail of how the Velociraptor attacks. Ellie talks to Grant about how he doesn’t like kids and she does. John Hammond arrives on a helicopter, ruining the site. Grant and Ellie confront him only to agree to his plan to have them come to his park, Jurassic Park, and inspect it. In return, he would be paying for their dig for 3 years. Dennis Nedry, the park’s lead computer programmer, meets with Lewis Dodgson, Jurassic Park’s rival’s, Biosyn’s, head of research. Dodgson provides a shaving cream bottle that has the bottom open to contain the dinosaur embryos. Nedry plans to meet with their company at the east dock after he beats security and steals the embryos. Gennaro, Sattler, Grant, Hammond, and a chaos theorist named Ian Malcolm head to the Jurassic Park island on a helicopter. After arriving, they drive to the park and see a live Brachiosaurus. Gennaro believes they’ll make a fortune while Ellie and Grant are amazed. They go on a ride that explains that the mosquito in the amber had consumed dinosaur blood and they were able to recreate the dinosaurs with the DNA. Any missing gaps in the structure was replaced by frog DNA. Grant, Malcolm, and Ellie leave the ride to see the workers. They watch as a dinosaur is hatched. Hammond says he’s been there for every birth. They learn that all dinosaurs are genetically controlled to be female so they can’t reproduce on their own. They are also lysine deficient so they will die without being provided for. Malcolm argues that this can’t be controlled and life will find a way to do its thing. The dinosaur that was birthed is a Velociraptor. They go to the raptor cages and watch as a cow is fed to it. The group eats lunch and discuss the logistics behind the park. They believe this can’t be controlled while Gennaro thinks about the money they can earn. They meet Hammond’s grandkids, Lex and Tim. They go on a vehicle tour of the park. Tim talks to Grant about having read his book and wants to join him in the same car, but Grant goes out of his way to not be with the kids. Ellie thinks the kids will be good for Grant. The first section they go to is for the Dilophosaurus, but it’s nowhere to be seen. Nedry talks to Hammond about how he’s needed to run the place, yet his salary is low. Hammond doesn’t want to argue again about it. In the Tyrannosaurs paddock, they use a tied up goat to lure the dinosaur, but it doesn’t appear. Malcolm talks to Ellie about unpredictability in complex systems such as the Butterfly Effect. Everyone but Malcolm leaves the vehicle. They come across a sick Triceratops being tended to by the vet, Gerry Harding. Ellie looks through the dinosaur droppings to see if it ate something poisonous, but finds it clear. Hammond and his crew want to stop the tour since a storm is approaching. Gennaro insists that they leave since the storm is approaching. Ellie and Gerry stay behind. Nedry leaves after mentioning that the systems might go on and off for 18-20 minutes since it’s compiling. When the security is stopped for a bit, Nedry steals the embryos while the workers think nothing of it since Nedry had said it might happen. When they see that dinosaur fences are failing, they go look for Nedry. Nedry is driving through the park to head to the east dock. He rushes through the rain as chief engineer, Ray

Arnold, tries to fix what Nedry did. He can’t get access and needs Nedry to fix it. The cars on the tour are shut down near the T-Rex paddock. The goat is missing and its limb is spit out onto the kids’ car. Gennaro runs out after seeing the T-Rex and goes to the restroom stalls. The T-Rex gets out of its enclosure and starts attacking the kids’ car after Lex turns a flashlight on. Malcolm distracts the T-Rex with a flare and gets injured. The T-Rex then eats Gennaro. Grant saves the kids from the overturned car. They end up dangled over the cliffside into the enclosure with the car dangling above them. Nedry gets lost with his Jeep stuck. He goes to pull his car with a winch and sees a Dilophosaurus. He insults it and goes back to his car to drive over it. It follows and sprays poison on him. He ends up slipping and his embryos are carried away with the rain. In the car, the Dilophosaurus kills him. Grant reassures Lex that he won’t leave her and goes to save Tim from the car as it fell onto a tree. They rush to climb down as the car falls on them. Ellie goes back to the cars with Robert Muldoon, the gamekeeper. They find Gennaro’s body pieces and bring back the injured Malcolm. They drive away quickly as the T-Rex chases after them. Grant and the kids watch as the Brachiosauruses feed. Grant reassures Lex that they are herbivores after he tries to mimic their calls. They sleep in a tree for the night. Hammond talks to Ellie about his dreams for the park. Grant finds dinosaur eggs in the morning and concludes that frog DNA allows the dinosaurs to change sex in a single sex environment. Arnold shuts down all the systems so that they can reboot what Nedry did. The computer system is ready, but the lights and communications have to be rebooted by hand. Arnold goes to do it himself. Grant and the kids see a herd of Gallimamus running away from a predator. They see the T-Rex attack and they sneak away. Ellie is worried after Arnold doesn’t return and goes to do it herself with Muldoon. They are guided by Hammond on the walkie. Muldoon handles the dinosaurs as Ellie goes to the maintenance shed. Grant and the kids climb over an electrical fence since it’s shut down. Ellie gets to the systems and reboots everything. As the fence gets its electricity back on, Tim gets shocked and falls. Grant manages to resuscitate him. Ellie is shocked by Arnold’s detached arm and gets away from a raptor as Muldoon is killed by one. Grant leaves the kids back at the main building and finds Ellie. The kids eat until they notice two raptors in the building. They manage to lock one in the freezer while getting away from the other. They all get to the control room and Grant and Ellie are holding off the door as the raptor tries to get in. Lex uses the computer to bolt the doors. Grant calls Hammond to call for helicopters since communications run now. The raptors manage to get in to the room and the group gets away through the ceiling. They confront the raptors in a different room until a T-Rex attacks the raptors. The group gets to the helicopter with Hammond and Malcolm. They all agree to not endorse this park.]

All Eyes on You.

Chaos Theory is the study of apparently random or unpredictable behaviour in systems governed by deterministic laws. It’s essentially the idea that random events occur that are beyond our understanding, or simply defy basic reasoning and deduction. Theres a scene in Jurassic Park, where Dr. Ian Malcom, played by Jeff Goldblum, explains the concept to Laura Derns’ character in the back of a jeep. “A butterfly flaps its wings in Beijing and the weather changes in New York,” he explains. It’s chaos, Malcolm argues, that dictates the flow of events. 

Chaos, however, is a human concept. It’s something that happens to us, but I would argue it’s something we cause. No other creature on earth acts with the same motives and drives we do. None are governed by their emotions as easily as we. Ask yourself why there are so many stories where humans fall from  grace? Why did Pandora open the box when she was told not to? Why did Eve take from forbidden tree? It’s chaos, really, thats all theres ever been. 

Thats why I love Jurassic Park. It captures the human condition perfectly, in one statement. When Dr. Ian Malcolm learns what John Hammond has done, he utters the now infamous line; "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."

We as humans, like moths to flame, are drawn to chaos. It is, for lack of a better phrase, our element. And like Pandora and Hammond before us, we will always rush to bring out chaos into the world. 

And we ran out of things to unleash, we made something ourselves. Artificial Intelligence is the genie in the bottle that we all collectively decided was ok to let out. We don't know what it does, or what it's really capable of. All we know is that it's learning. Despite our ignorance, we place smart speakers in our homes, use social media and generally just don't think about the AI conscious that is surely forming, somewhere. 

"...There has been no solution to examinations. Some [schools] have changed it to an assignment form where students can just copy and paste from the internet, while some have just cancelled them outright. If the way we are living is to be the new norm there needs to be some solution."

 - Vardan Agarwal

The above quote is primed to make you think a certain way. It's subtle, but effective. Hidden in the second sentence is what a writer would name a 'call to action.' It queues you to buy into the author's narrative. Will you stand by and watch as students cheat on exams so brazenly? Will you stand by as education crumbles? If you have the guts to do what it takes, then start using AI proctoring on your exams! The technology is simple, and it will save education, democracy and hell, it will save America itself. 

That is, obviously, total bull shit. For starters, standardized testing is an ineffective learning tool. All it shows is that a student can memorize information. An informed opinion or the ability to solve equations isn't something you can cheat. It’s something you learn. Copying and pasting an answer is also something any plagiarism software can detect, you don’t need Hal 9000 to tell you that. 

Second of all, the act of integrating an AI proctor into a learning environment is incredibly unethical. An AI proctor is not only able to, but actively does, monitor and record; advanced facial recognition, object recognition, plane detection, speech-to-text, eye movement detection, and voice detection. 

All of these are then data sets are then used by the AI to further itself. It learns from you. In exchange for anti-cheating software, schools effectively sell out their students identity and likeness to a robot.  

What comes next, and what the information AI’s gather will be used for in the future is anyone’s guess. We’ve opened the box, we’ve let the Dinosaurs walk the earth once again. 

Judging by the world theses days, I’m not especially hopeful for what comes next. But hey, maybe that’s just me. 

Sources: 

https://towardsdatascience.com/automating-online-proctoring-using-ai-e429086743c8

https://er.educause.edu/blogs/sponsored/2018/9/artificial-intelligence-in-online-proctoring-where-weve-been-where-we-are-and-where-were-going

Rules:

You can only have one answer to each question.

The questions are aimed generally at every single movie or TV Show you’ve ever saw in your life, so take your time and have fun.

Tag five people to learn about some more memorable movie experiences.

Tagged by @i-own-loki  

Favourite movie: I don’t have a clear favourite, more like a bunch of movies I love for different reasons. I’ve mentioned several in my responses below. One I haven’t mentioned is UP. For an animated movie, it packs a huge emotional punch: within the first ten minutes I’d laughed out loud and sobbed my heart out. Outstanding.

Favourite TV show: Northern Exposure. It was warm, whimsical, and utterly wonderful in every way with some of the most endearingly flawed, lovable, and surprising characters and relationships. It was completely unique and influenced many other shows I love. If you enjoyed Sense8 for its diversity and empathy, and Jane The Virgin, Galavant, Moone Boy, or the English movie Saving Grace for their warmth, humour, and magical realism, give it a go.

Favourite TV Show episode: It’s hard to choose between The Musketeers S03E06 Death of a Hero, which was a simply superb piece of storytelling, and OUAT S03E11 Going Home. If forced to choose, I’ll go with the latter because of the emotional punch it packed. Snow & Charming giving up their daughter again, Emma being ripped apart from her family, her moment of admission of her feelings for Hook, Regina giving up Henry and gifting Emma happy memories, Emma and Henry driving away and everything fading behind them. It was devastating and brilliant, and I almost wish OUAT had ended there so Emma didn’t have to suffer again.

Two characters who never canonically met but you still ship them: Season 2 Hook from OUAT and Season 1-2 Athos of The Musketeers. Drowning their bitterness and self-loathing in alcohol and sex until Emma and Sylvie come along and make them want to be better men.

Favourite battle scene: The final battle in Rogue One, from the moment the rebels landed on Scarif to the moments they all died. Way to rip my heart open. Stupendous. 

Favourite kiss: Emma and Hook’s first kiss in Neverland. That shit was hot! Turns out none of us could handle it.

Favourite sex scene: I generally prefer sex scenes that are left to my imagination. For example, Darius and Grace in Salvation S01E08 From Russia With Love - the whole set up was perfect: talking about what they’d miss most, dancing to Ella Fitzgerald, "Permission granted.”, “For then or now?” It turns out they didn’t actually have sex, but it sure as hell seduced me! 

One iconic move: Sandy pulling the cigarette out of her mouth, grinding it into the ground with her stiletto, then kicking Danny in the chest in Grease. “ You better shape up, up, up, up...”

A plotline you hated: The Rumbelle relationship in OUAT, especially from Season 3 onwards. I hate how abusive relationships are increasingly being portrayed as romantic (think Twilight, Fifty Shades, etc.) and how stalking and emotional abuse is being dressed up as the kind of passion to be aspired to. It pains me that young impressionable women are growing up romanticising relationships with narcissists. I loved how Big Little Lies blew that crap apart. 

Favourite soundtrack: Monsters Inc. for the sheer joy of it.

Favourite quote: Dr Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should”. Replace the word ‘scientists’ with ‘politicians’ ...

A character you think would have been better if they were from the opposite sex: None that spring to mind, but I’m looking forward to seeing Jodie Whittaker as the first female Doctor Who. 

A character you think should have died for the sake of the story: all the male clones in Orphan Black. Tatiana Maslany and the other four seasons were amazing, but I wish we could have skipped the whole mess that was Season 3.

A side character you think should have been the protagonist: I'd absolutely love to see a spin-off from Doctor Who called The Adventures of River Song (no, we can’t call it The Time Traveller’s Wife!). I loved every appearance by Alex Kingston in that role. In every role, frankly. She’s a goddess.

A protagonist you think should have been a side character: Dawson. Urgh, he was so annoying. It should have been Pacey’s Creek.

A completely unnecessary and annoying character death: Dr. Mark Greene in ER. I mean, seriously... WTF?! Heartless bastards. How could you do that to Elizabeth? To us?!

Favourite plot twist: Jamal’s brother Salim unexpectedly coming good and sacrificing himself to give Latika the chance to get away in Slumdog Millionaire. The moment I realised what he was going to do, I was an emotional wreck. That's one hell of a redemption.

The type of character you always go for and love: The anti-heroes. The guys (and gals) who dance to their own tune and don’t play by the rules but have their own code and always come through for their people: Spike, Hook, Han & Indi, Hawkeye Pierce, Baloo, Flynn Rider, Megamind, Grue, Merida, Sarah Manning, Anne Bonny, etc.

A movie you would love to watch in another genre: An Annamis & Constagnan-centric Bollywood version of The Musketeers (the BBC TV series, not the movie - being a rebel here! - with the original cast) would be hugely fun! I think it would translate beautifully: the moustaches, the costumes, the choreogaphed sword fights...

10 Quotes From All In The Family That Are Still Hilarious Today

Very few shows have impacted audiences as much as All In The Family did. The series, which spawned numerous spinoffs, featured lots of extremely serious topics, which is why it is still talked about so much today.

But part of what made the show so great and memorable was the humor. Each of the characters were funny and charming in their own ways. There were many times during which this show took something that wasn’t very funny and added a little bit of humor to it. Here are some of the best lines that can be heard in the show All In The Family.

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10 “Next Time You Want To Time Something, Edith, Just Let The Sand Run Out Of Your Head.”

Archie Bunker says this to his wife, Edith, in the episode that is called “Cousin Maude’s Visit.” Anyone who has spent much time watching this show knows that one of the main themes of it is Archie’s jokes about Edith’s intelligence.

Edith definitely has a heart of gold, and there are many episodes during which she is the voice of reason, but sometimes she isn’t the sharpest tool in the box, which is why Archie says things like this to her. This episode is actually full of hilarious quotes from all of the main characters, since many of them are sick and in need of Edith’s care and attention.

9 “Well You Don’t Work, Maybe We’d Better Throw You Out.”

This quote is one of many jokes about the fact that throughout much of the series, Michael Stivic does not have a job. In one of the episodes of All In The Family, he and Archie are talking about politics, which is something they discuss a lot on the show, and Michael says something about how people no longer try to fix things if they are broken.

He claims that most people would rather throw that thing out and replace it than spend time trying to fix it. This prompts Archie to ask suggest that they should throw Michael himself out since he doesn’t work.

8 “Anybody That Goes To See A Psychiatrist Ought To Have His Head Examined.”

This is one of the many humorous things Archie says in an episode called “Edith Flips Her Wig,” which is the sixth episode of the third season of All In The Family. This episode focuses on the fact that Edith gets blacklisted from a store she regularly visits because she accidentally ran out of store before paying for something she was looking at, which was a wig.

Gloria and Michael believe that she should visit a psychiatrist, but Archie doesn’t think she needs to. He believes that it’s a bad idea, which is why he says this quote. In the end, the whole thing turned out to be a big misunderstanding, and Edith is once again allowed to shop at that store.

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7 “I Think I Would Have Rather Have Drowned.”

This quote is one of Edith’s lines in the episode titled “The Bunkers And The Swingers.” During this episode, Edith decides that she would like more friends to hang out with, so she answers a personal advertisement she sees in a magazine.

But what she does not realize is that the people who paid for the advertisement are looking for much more than a couple of friends. Edith invites them to visit, and she and Archie are rather horrified when they find out what the couple’s intentions are. The other couple tell Archie and Edith that their lifestyle saved them, and they felt as though they were drowning, and that is when Edith says that she would have preferred to drown.

6 “Well, I Liked Being Called A ‘Goddess Of Beauty,’ But Somehow It Seemed More Permanent When Your Father Called Me A Dingbat.”

During an episode called “Archie Is Jealous,” Gloria asks her mother why she chose to marry Archie over someone else that she once dated, and this quote is her reply. The whole episode is about Archie being jealous over a man that Edith was romantically involved with before the two of them were married.

At the beginning of it, Archie comes across a love letter Michael wrote for Gloria, which prompts Edith to tell him that she once spent an entire weekend alone with another man while he was away. Though, since Edith is not a character that typically does anything questionable, it is later revealed that the whole thing was very innocent, despite what Archie thinks.

5 “That’s Right. You Contribute Deposits, He Contributes Withdrawals.”

This quote comes from Archie in an episode titled “Mike’s Appendix.” It’s another humorous joke about the fact that Michael hardly ever seems to have a job during the earlier seasons of this series.

During this episode, Michael has to have emergency surgery to remove his appendix, but the issue is that the Stivics don’t have enough money to pay for it (which is because of Michael’s lack of a job). This also an episode that tackles an important social topic, since Michael does not want a female doctor to operate on him. The ending is pretty surprising since his surgeon turns out to be a woman.

4 “Edith, Somebody’s Gotta Be Dead; That’s Life.”

Archie says this to Edith in the episode titled “Archie And The Computer.” The whole episode is about how technology is taking over jobs that used to be held by human beings, and Archie is mistakenly declared dead due to a technological glitch.

Another accident similar to that one causes a company to start sending Edith lots of quarters, which Archie thinks she should keep, even though it is a mistake. During this episode, Archie explains to Edith that death is a part of life, but of course he phrases it in a rather humorous way that does not make much sense.

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3 “Oh, Ain’t That Smart. Who Better To Impersonate A Female Than A Woman?”

One of the supporting characters in the series tries to explain their lifestyle to Edith, and she responds to them by saying this quote. That character’s name is Beverly LaSalle, and this character was actually very important on All In The Family.

Beverly was a female impersonator, and the creators of the show did a really great job of giving their audience an accurate idea of what life is like for others who are similar to Beverly. Beverly’s presence on the show forced Archie and Edith to open up their minds a bit, and they eventually become very close friends with this character. But at first, Edith had a hard time understanding what a female impersonator is, which was a rather humorous moment on the show.

2 "I Don’t Know, The Nose Is A Pretty Strong Thing. One Time I Was Changing One Of Joey’s Diapers And I Nearly Passed Out.”

This hilarious quote will always be a classic one from the show, since it is something lots of people can relate to if they have ever changed a baby’s diaper. During the episode called “Too Good Edith,” Archie says this to his niece, Stephanie, when she claims that smelling cabbage cannot cause any serious harm to a person.

But other than that, this episode is actually more touching than it is funny. Perhaps that is part of what makes the quote so funny, since it really lightens the mood up a bit. The writers of this series were great at adding humor to serious topics.

1 “Why Don’t You Go To Sleep And Dream About The Tragedy That Is Your Life?”

In the episode called “The Return Of Stephanie’s Father,” Archie says this quote to a to a vagrant they pass by when they are going to meet their niece’s dad, and the fact that it is such an unexpected line makes it so funny. This episode is another one that touches on some very sensitive topics in a way that only some of the best television shows can.

After leaving Stephanie with the Bunkers, her father returns. He asks them for money, and he threatens to take her back if they do not give it to him. They eventually reach a deal, since they love her as if she were their own daughter.

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10 Quotes From All In The Family That Are Still Hilarious Today – Screen Rant

Very few shows have impacted audiences as much as All In The Family did. The series, which spawned numerous spinoffs, featured lots of extremely serious topics, which is why it is still talked about so much today.

But part of what made the show so great and memorable was the humor. Each of the characters were funny and charming in their own ways. There were many times during which this show took something that wasn’t very funny and added a little bit of humor to it. Here are some of the best lines that can be heard in the show All In The Family.

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10 “Next Time You Want To Time Something, Edith, Just Let The Sand Run Out Of Your Head.”

Archie Bunker says this to his wife, Edith, in the episode that is called “Cousin Maude’s Visit.” Anyone who has spent much time watching this show knows that one of the main themes of it is Archie’s jokes about Edith’s intelligence.

Edith definitely has a heart of gold, and there are many episodes during which she is the voice of reason, but sometimes she isn’t the sharpest tool in the box, which is why Archie says things like this to her. This episode is actually full of hilarious quotes from all of the main characters, since many of them are sick and in need of Edith’s care and attention.

9 “Well You Don’t Work, Maybe We’d Better Throw You Out.”

This quote is one of many jokes about the fact that throughout much of the series, Michael Stivic does not have a job. In one of the episodes of All In The Family, he and Archie are talking about politics, which is something they discuss a lot on the show, and Michael says something about how people no longer try to fix things if they are broken.

He claims that most people would rather throw that thing out and replace it than spend time trying to fix it. This prompts Archie to ask suggest that they should throw Michael himself out since he doesn’t work.

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8 “Anybody That Goes To See A Psychiatrist Ought To Have His Head Examined.”

This is one of the many humorous things Archie says in an episode called “Edith Flips Her Wig,” which is the sixth episode of the third season of All In The Family. This episode focuses on the fact that Edith gets blacklisted from a store she regularly visits because she accidentally ran out of store before paying for something she was looking at, which was a wig.

Gloria and Michael believe that she should visit a psychiatrist, but Archie doesn’t think she needs to. He believes that it’s a bad idea, which is why he says this quote. In the end, the whole thing turned out to be a big misunderstanding, and Edith is once again allowed to shop at that store.

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7 “I Think I Would Have Rather Have Drowned.”

This quote is one of Edith’s lines in the episode titled “The Bunkers And The Swingers.” During this episode, Edith decides that she would like more friends to hang out with, so she answers a personal advertisement she sees in a magazine.

But what she does not realize is that the people who paid for the advertisement are looking for much more than a couple of friends. Edith invites them to visit, and she and Archie are rather horrified when they find out what the couple’s intentions are. The other couple tell Archie and Edith that their lifestyle saved them, and they felt as though they were drowning, and that is when Edith says that she would have preferred to drown.

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6 “Well, I Liked Being Called A ‘Goddess Of Beauty,’ But Somehow It Seemed More Permanent When Your Father Called Me A Dingbat.”

During an episode called “Archie Is Jealous,” Gloria asks her mother why she chose to marry Archie over someone else that she once dated, and this quote is her reply. The whole episode is about Archie being jealous over a man that Edith was romantically involved with before the two of them were married.

At the beginning of it, Archie comes across a love letter Michael wrote for Gloria, which prompts Edith to tell him that she once spent an entire weekend alone with another man while he was away. Though, since Edith is not a character that typically does anything questionable, it is later revealed that the whole thing was very innocent, despite what Archie thinks.

5 “That’s Right. You Contribute Deposits, He Contributes Withdrawals.”

This quote comes from Archie in an episode titled “Mike’s Appendix.” It’s another humorous joke about the fact that Michael hardly ever seems to have a job during the earlier seasons of this series.

During this episode, Michael has to have emergency surgery to remove his appendix, but the issue is that the Stivics don’t have enough money to pay for it (which is because of Michael’s lack of a job). This also an episode that tackles an important social topic, since Michael does not want a female doctor to operate on him. The ending is pretty surprising since his surgeon turns out to be a woman.

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4 “Edith, Somebody’s Gotta Be Dead; That’s Life.”

Archie says this to Edith in the episode titled “Archie And The Computer.” The whole episode is about how technology is taking over jobs that used to be held by human beings, and Archie is mistakenly declared dead due to a technological glitch.

Another accident similar to that one causes a company to start sending Edith lots of quarters, which Archie thinks she should keep, even though it is a mistake. During this episode, Archie explains to Edith that death is a part of life, but of course he phrases it in a rather humorous way that does not make much sense.

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3 “Oh, Ain’t That Smart. Who Better To Impersonate A Female Than A Woman?”

One of the supporting characters in the series tries to explain their lifestyle to Edith, and she responds to them by saying this quote. That character’s name is Beverly LaSalle, and this character was actually very important on All In The Family.

Beverly was a female impersonator, and the creators of the show did a really great job of giving their audience an accurate idea of what life is like for others who are similar to Beverly. Beverly’s presence on the show forced Archie and Edith to open up their minds a bit, and they eventually become very close friends with this character. But at first, Edith had a hard time understanding what a female impersonator is, which was a rather humorous moment on the show.

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2 “I Don’t Know, The Nose Is A Pretty Strong Thing. One Time I Was Changing One Of Joey’s Diapers And I Nearly Passed Out.”

This hilarious quote will always be a classic one from the show, since it is something lots of people can relate to if they have ever changed a baby’s diaper. During the episode called “Too Good Edith,” Archie says this to his niece, Stephanie, when she claims that smelling cabbage cannot cause any serious harm to a person.

But other than that, this episode is actually more touching than it is funny. Perhaps that is part of what makes the quote so funny, since it really lightens the mood up a bit. The writers of this series were great at adding humor to serious topics.

1 “Why Don’t You Go To Sleep And Dream About The Tragedy That Is Your Life?”

In the episode called “The Return Of Stephanie’s Father,” Archie says this quote to a to a vagrant they pass by when they are going to meet their niece’s dad, and the fact that it is such an unexpected line makes it so funny. This episode is another one that touches on some very sensitive topics in a way that only some of the best television shows can.

After leaving Stephanie with the Bunkers, her father returns. He asks them for money, and he threatens to take her back if they do not give it to him. They eventually reach a deal, since they love her as if she were their own daughter.

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Best Dream Quotes About Life, Love and the Future

Looking for thought-provoking dream quotes about your waking life?

The study of dreams has long been a fascination with many.

People often wake up puzzled by what they have dreamt.

Some want to search for the meaning of what ran through their mind.

As bizarre as some of the images and themes may seem, dreams are our subconscious way of working through things that are troubling us, or that are unsettled, while we sleep.

Dreams have been studied by so many individuals for years.

Many books have been written explaining the symbolism found in them.

While there is some discrepancy or multiple meanings for some of the dream symbols, most remain consistent. Understanding them can help an individual see the bigger picture and find greater meaning in their dreams.

In this respect, here are some dream quotes, dream sayings, and dream proverbs from some of the great – and surprising minds – of our time. Read them to understand more about your dreams and the nature of your reality.

Dream quotes to help you interpret your dreams and waking life better

1.) “Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.”- William Dement

2.) “All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.”- Edgar Allan Poe

3.) “Dreams are illustrations…from the book your soul is writing about you.”- Marsha Norman

4.) “The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.”- James Arthur Baldwin

5.) “Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.”- Inception, 2010 film

6.) “Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.”- Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

7.) “Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.”- Sigmund Freud

9.) “Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”- Virginia Woolf

10.) “Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.”- H.F. Hedge

11.) “All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”- Elias Canetti

12.) “For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.”- Aristotle

13.) “Dreams are more real than reality itself, they’re closer to the self.”- Gao Xingjian

14.) “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”- Sigmund Freud

15.) “Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”- Alfred Lord Tennyson

16.) “In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.”- Carl Jung

17.) “A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.”- The Talmud

18.) “I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.”- René Descartes

Dream quotes about the nature of our reality

19.) “Your world is not real!”- Inception, 2010 film

20.) “Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember it either. Not truly or accurately. Not as it was. Our memories and our vocabularies aren’t up to the job.”- Alex Garland

21.) “Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.”- Henri Amiel

22.) “Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.”- Clifton Fadiman

23.) “Sleep… Oh! How I loathe those little slices of death.”- Author unknown

24.) “Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.”- William Wordsworth

25.) “Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.”- Gail Godwin

26.) “A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.”- Charlotte Brontë

27.) “Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.”- Vivian Mercer

28.) “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.”- Bill Watterson

29.) “There’s a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams.”- Stoddard King, Jr.

30.) “One can write, think, and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.”- Evelyn Waugh

31.) “Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist upon a challenging proposition: You must live truthfully. Right now. And always. Few forces in life present, with an equal sense of inevitability, the bare-knuckle facts of who we are, and the demands of what we might become.”- Marc Ian Barasch

32.) “In a dream you are never eighty.”- Anne Sexton

33.) “In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.”- Steven Kloves

34.) “I’ll take the dream I had last night, And put it in my freezer, So someday long and far away, When I’m an old grey greezer, I’ll take it out and thaw it out, This lovely dream I’ve frozen, And boil it up and sit me down And dip my old cold toes in.”- Shel Silverstein

35.) “Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.”- Friedrich Nietzsche

 Beautiful Dream Quotes for You

36.) “The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.”- Ashleigh Brilliant

37.) “I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams…. Man… is above all the plaything of his memory.”- Andre Breton

38.) “A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.”- Erich Fromm

39.) “Even thus last night, and two nights more I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep, by any stealth: So do not let me wear to-night away. Without thee what is all the morning’s wealth? Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!”- William Wordsworth

40.) “We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams… we are also more intelligent, wiser, and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.”- Erich Fromm

41.) “For a dreamer, night’s the only time of day.”- Newsies

42.) “Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast.”- William Shakespeare, Macbeth

43.) “Those who have compared our life to a dream were right…. We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.”- Michel de Montaigne

44.) “The sailor does not control the sea, nor does the lucid dreamer control the dream. Like a sailor, lucid dreamers manipulate or direct themselves in the larger expanse of dreaming; however, they do not control it. Lucid dreaming appears to be a co-created experience.”- Robert Waggoner

45.) “Pause now to ask yourself the following question: ‘Am I dreaming or awake, right now?’ Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer.”- Stephen LaBerge

46.) “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” – Colin Powell

47.) “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” – Yoko Ono

48.) “The Future Belongs To Those Who Believe In The Beauty Of Their Dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

49.)  “There Is Only One Thing That Makes A Dream Impossible To Achieve: The Fear Of Failure.” – Paulo Coelho

50.) “As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.” – Barbara Sher

Other inspirational dream quotes

51.) “When you cease to dream, you cease to live.” – Malcolm Forbes

52.)“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.” – Christopher Reeve

53.) “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ― Dr. Seuss

54.) “I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.” – Bill Walton

55.) “Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.” ― Gloria Steinem

56.) “Dreams are real while they last — can we say more of life?” – The sexologist and writer Havelock Ellis (1859-1939)

57.) “Dreams are not what you see in your sleep, dreams are things which do not let you sleep.”— Cristiano Ronaldo

58.) “Dreams are only thoughts you didn’t have time to think about during the day.” ~Author Unknown

59.) “Dreams are foreign lands within the bounds of our own hearts.”~Terri Guillemets

60.) “Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.”~ Emile M. Cioran

Which of these dream quotes is your favorite?

Dreams mean different things to different people. They can also be interpreted in a myriad of ways; whether or not you enjoy dreaming.

Hopefully,  these dream quotes inspired or motivated you for your next nighttime sojourn

Which of these dream quotes is your favorite? Do you have any other interesting quotes about dreams to share with us? Tell us in the comment section below. We would love to hear all about it.

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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Flat Whites?

When we talk about “what’s next” for coffee, rarely does that conversation center on the barista. They are the unchangeable constant across coffee in all its forms—a living, breathing human who manages the machines, the “mano” in the “mano, miscela, macchina” upon which the espresso tradition was built. A human, standing behind a machine, waiting to serve coffee to the world: that’s a barista.

At least, it used to be.

Cafe X—started by 23-year-old college dropout Henry Hu—seeks to automate the making and serving of specialty coffee. But unlike, say, BRIGGO, the HAL-like coffee behemoth at the University of Texas we visited in 2012, Hu has created a singular, multi-articulate robotic arm to do the work of mankind. Equal parts auto factory crane and the spindly arm you’d use to pull stuffed animals from an arcade machine, Hu’s robo-barista is scary smart, and it’s part of a trend that seeks to rewrite the rules of coffee service as we know it.

The San Francisco location of Cafe X (the other one is in Hong Kong) is tucked into a dimly lit alcove near a frozen yogurt stand and the stairs on the bottom floor of the Metreon shopping center. A medium-sized fiberglass enclosure encircles the robotic arm and its necessary accoutrements. The only human presence is a cheery Cafe X-employed attendant, there to assist you in the process and soften the strangeness of ordering your coffee from a robot.

You have two options: order the coffee through the touch screen, or download the Cafe X app and order through your phone. My cheery attendant—a sort of sherpa through the uncanny valley—explained that their app functionality allows customers to order while on their way to Cafe X, assuring prompt delivery of the finished drink. I chose to download it and was quickly ordering a flat white built on Verve Coffee Roasters espresso.

There before me lay the robot arm, swinging gracefully around its small workstation—grabbing a cup, placing the cup under one of the two espresso machines, and waiting to receive a union of espresso and milk. When the drink is done the machine places it off to the side and you sidle up to the touchscreen, tap in a code sent to your phone, and the coffee descends down a circular elevator into an LED-lit receiving area.

It is, quite frankly, the entire process of purchasing a coffee beverage with the human aspect left on the cutting room floor. The machine does its work without emotion, or error, or expectation of compensation. It is servile and efficient as only a programmed device can be.

During my experience, a few other curious customers approached the robot. Some laughed nervously, others snapped photos, but for the most part they stood quietly, in awe of automation at work. The coffee itself was good—the milk smooth and not terribly hot, the shot of espresso thick and flavorful. My flat white was a drink that could’ve been made by a living, breathing human, and a skilled one at that.

The coming rise of automation is a hot topic right now, driven in part by the rush towards driverless cars—Google and Uber are currently at war over what this looks like next, and how to take it to market. Automation threatens millions of jobs around the world—especially manufacturing jobs—and may very well strike a staggering blow to the fabric of Western capitalist society. If robots take our jobs, who pays taxes? Where does the money go, but back up to the chain to rulers and owners of these robots?

Will our children watch robot barista competitions? Do androids dream of electric flat whites?

For his part, Henry Hu told Forbes Magazine that his intention for Cafe X was simply to “save money”—by his own approximation, the cost of the robot will be far less than a full cafe build-out. He’s right, of course, and that means passing the savings on to you. Drinks from Cafe X already run few dollars leaner than most coffee shops—lattes are $2.95, shots of espresso just $2.25, and this is in the middle of San Francisco, where coffee drinks easily run $4-6 in many cafes. In other words, this is a cheaper, arguably more efficient way of getting caffeine from a machine to your mouth. There was no line when I visited—who knows how the robot handles a morning rush, but I doubt he’ll be much for banter.

I found myself drawn to the cheery attendant, the lone human whom I could share my experience with. I sought normalcy, something akin to the café experience I was used to. But, if efficiency and automation are the goals of Cafe X, then inevitably humans will be phased out of the experience. We’re pretty inefficient as a species, after all—a bunch of loss leaders eating into the profit potential of a fully automated flat white production Borg, designed to get some as-yet-unagreed-upon combination of milk and espresso into your gullet for credits as soon as possible.

But what of our society? What of coffee as an employment opportunity for real living humans? Will history judge the likes of Henry Hu as a real-world version of Miles Dyson, the fictional (probably?) Director of Special Projects at Cyberdyne Systems who, while just doing his job and increasing project efficiency unknowingly brought about the human-robot apocalypse depicted in The Terminator films.

However, in writing this article, it dawned on me that there may be hope for us yet. The one human you can’t pull out of this equation is the consumer—I’m the one depositing credits, after all, and I can spend my money how I wish. And so it stands to reason that I go to my corner coffee shop ostensibly to get a cup of coffee in the morning, but I also go because I enjoy chatting with my barista; knowing what they’re reading, or who they’ve been dating, or if that dreadful regular we all wish were a little less regular has been back in recently. This human interaction makes the coffee taste better. It’s good for my brain. It’s a UI quirk in this vast human public beta we call life, something that draws us to one another to connect, talk, socialize, fall in love, and pick fleas off each other’s fur. Perhaps it’s a design flaw; perhaps it’s our species’ greatest triumph.

Automation is inevitable, but we can at least hope it’ll be in line with the core values of whatever is being automated. Serving coffee is more than just getting a beverage into a customer’s hands immediately for maximum profit. It’s about interaction, an engagement between people. It isn’t always perfect, and it isn’t always fast, but it’s satisfying in a way that’s hard to quantify until that moment you watch a robot do the same damn thing, for less money, and *still* you want to have a chat.

Cafe X proves that a robot can make a good cup of coffee, but it also, at least to this writer, proves how much is sacrificed when we aim for efficiency over humanity. If fast, consistently delicious coffee, means stripping the barista out of my cafe experience well, then, it doesn’t seem much like the coffee experience anymore. Maybe we’ll all be issued Soylent x Sudden rations in tomorrow’s New Frontier, judiciously pre-mixed by robots too busy to gossip. Or maybe that’s not really what humans want from a cup of coffee, or a cocktail, or a taxi ride. Maybe deep down we want all the inefficiency, the politeness, the imperfect small talk—hell, maybe we even need it, so wired for social interaction are our human brains.

To quote the great philosopher Dr. Ian Malcolm, “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” Robot coffee is coming—it’s already here—and it’s just one more bit of reckoning that we, our children, and our children’s children will face in the decades to come.

Meanwhile, you can find me at the coffee bar, enjoying a minimally efficient but highly engaging experience, and leaving a tip.

Cafe X is located at 135 4th Street, San Francisco. Visit their official website and follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Noah Sanders (@sandersnoah) is a Sprudge.com staff writer based in San Francisco, and a contributor to SF Weekly, Side One Track One, and The Bold Italic. Read more Noah Sanders on Sprudge.

Editor: Jordan Michelman.

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