Terminate, Fail, Retry
April 8, 2010 in Blogs
Today’s title comes from the fact that earlier I encountered a supergeek line and I got it. I don’t know whether that’s sad or not.
Although the Examiner’s temporal anomalies series on Terminator formally ended on Monday, a question had been raised about the relationship of Kate Brewster to John Conner in the repeating timelines, and it seemed to me that the best way to answer it would be to recap those histories in brief, noting in particular just when Kate mattered, and incidentally also when Kyle Reese mattered. Thus today saw the posting of Terminator question 1: when does Kate matter?, placing the basement tryst in context with the motorcycle accident of later years.
Terminator has not done terribly well as it has wound toward a close. For a while it was popular, but more recently interest has flagged. I expect to start posting an analysis of The Last Mimzy on Monday, with some hope that a new film will attract a new audience.
I am waiting to hear whether Collision has a gig tonight or not. I announced yesterday through various channels that we are on the bill for next Friday night, as one of the “other up & coming groups” appearing with Tal & Acacia at LIFT-FM’s Feed a Friend free concert (7:00 PM April 16 at the Abundant Life Assembly in Ocean View, New Jersey). (Donate one nonperishable food item at the door for admission.) Meanwhile, if we’re singing tonight, I’d like to have time to announce that, not to mention to make the trip to Delaware most of an hour from here in time to do this. If we’re not, I should plan to make supper and rehearse for next week, so I’m sort of in limbo here.
The line I read was, Never go to the elves for advice, for they will answer Abort, Retry, Fail? The book in which I read it, The Empty Crown by Rosemary Edgehill (with thanks to Eric Ashley for the copy), attributed the quote to a button, which might or might not have been the origin, so I cannot credit it with certainty. I do think, though, that if the line strikes you, you are rather well rooted in two primary areas of geekdom, and obviously I am.
–M. J. Young