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Liveblogging The Terminator

So what better way to re-watch an old classic than to Liveblog it.

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Here’s “The Terminator” :

00:00:05 What? This isn’t Star Wars?

00:01:03 Oh no, Johnny Five? Are you lost again?

00:03:57 There can be only one Highlander…

00:05:37 Couple cans short of a sixpack… Not Arnie! Plenty sixpack there.

00:06:25 What happened to “There can be only one????”

00:08:00 Really bad synthesizer muzak!!!

00:08:58 Crawling in my skiiiin!!

00:09:32 Product placement Nike. C’mon already…

00:10:15 That’s not MacGyver?!!

00:11:18 OMG!! Sarah Connor DOES NOT RIDE A SCOOTER!!!

00:12:00 Robot dress sense fail

00:13:00 Yeah, in a hundred years who’s gonna care?

00:14:40 Was that Richard Stallman?

00:15:40 Assassination fail

00:18:00 Johnny Five looks pissed off.

00:19:00 Skynet’s laser targeting and shooting algorithm sucks.

00:22:00 Token big-hair scene

00:25:00 Talking to a machine – there’s a pattern about to play out here.

00:28:54 Not the iPod. Definitely not.

00:30:55 Machines need love too? Maybe not this one…

00:34:25 He took four shots from the sawn-off – this Arnie guy is not human!!??

00:35:10 “Come with me if you wanna live…” until you die of time-travel cancer anyway.

00:35:45 Terminator HUD – POKE RAMCARD SLOT – Now is not the time for Facebook games Termie!

00:36:08 A fucking Terminator on the hood of the car. Fuuuuuck.

00:38:15 Terminator plays Jeff Dunham with his voice. Dot Com.

00:40:00 Reese’s guide to Terminatorers. From the futurerers.

00:46:12 Damn, Reese, you got made, fool.

00:50:43 Arnie takes a cue from Luke Skywalker’s cyborg hand.

00:53:03 Is my eyes red? Arnie actually looks plastic!

00:55:10 “He’ll reach down her throat and tear her fuckin’ heart out!” That’s not nice.

00:57:11 “I’ll be back”. You bet he’ll be back!

01:00:00 More bad synthesizer muzak.

01:02:23 Reese, Kyle Reese. Definitely not James Bond.

01:03:46 “I’d die for John Connor”.

01:08:12 Was that a Trellidoor in the future? They sure do make those things strong.

01:09:00 Future Sarah Connor porn photo sucks

01:11:25 “Fuck you asshole!” Sounds like Microsoft Text-to-Speech!

01:13:50 More Jeff Dunhamming of Sarah’s Mom this time.

01:14:38 A Terminator on a bike, wow these guys can do anything!

01:16:25 I sense a sex scene soon

01:16:45 Kyle Reese has never ever done the dirty???!?!!?! Say what??!?!!?

01:17:53 Kyle loves John’s mom. John’s mom has got it going on.

01:18:35 Technically, somehow, this sort of cross-time molestation has got to be illegal.

01:19:08 Linda Hamilton Boobs! KIAAAAA!

01:20:15 Hahaha Termie, they heard the dodgy danger-danger synthesizer music before you could get to them.

01:22:12 Reese gets shot – this is going to end in tears…

01:24:03 Terminator Elvis impression – truck driving!

01:25:38 Burn motherfucker, burn.

01:27:15 Oh shit! It’s not The Terminator, its the freakin Energizer bunny.

01:28:07 Gotta see someone about that limp, metalhead.

01:29:13 “On your feet, soldier!” Sarah’s hardcore kickass attitude is born.

01:30:51 Asimo can climb stairs!

01:31:42 Pipe bomb in the rectum and we’re having cyborg showers!

01:32:53 Pappa Bear is gone.

01:33:00 But not Skeletor’s chrome cousin. Persistent bastard.

01:34:55 “You’re terminated, fucker”. Off to the tin-can recycling plant for you.

01:36:00 What’s that boom microphone reflected in the ambulance window for?

01:37:03 “Gasoline por favor.”

01:38:21 Oh, so that’s where Reese’s photo of Sarah was taken! Cute!

01:39:00 It’s over. Doesn’t exactly scream for a sequel I guess.

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Rants Technology

Google Wields the Startup Axe of Death

In a sadly predictable turn of events Google has binned Jaiku, a service they bought just over a year ago for a huge chunk of change ($12 million). Dodgeball too, has eventually suffered the cruel fate that has been looming over it ever since Google bought them back in 2005. Apparently it’s part of a Google cost cutting and re-focusing exercise, but I can’t for the life of me understand why they went ahead and bought duplicate services in the first place and then didn’t build out on those products.

I’m worried its becoming quite the modus operandi for Google to buy out small exciting startups, starve them of resources and then discard them when they fail to bring in any real revenue. Not cool, Google. In fact, it’s rather evil. In future this should surely make any startup think twice before flipping their passion to Google for a sum of cash.

Why do I care? Well, apparently I told you so.

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Rants Technology

How Vodacom, MTN and Cell C make big money at our expense.

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I just came across an interesting article on the New York Times where Randall Stross decided to investigate the actual costs a text message has for a cellular network operator. Finally someone did the research I’d been too lazy to do for a while.

As I suspected, a text/sms message is basically free. They are sent to the nearest tower over a control channel – a channel that exists in order for the phone to communicate with the network, and so stuffing that channel with a message bears very little overhead, if any. This also explains the stupid 160 character limit that texts are subject to.

So yeah, another blatant rip-off. Go ahead, send your R10 messages to 35050 now!

[Article Link: New York Times]

[Update: A slightly more in-depth technical discussion by Tom Limoncelli at EverythingSysadmin.com]

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