Slippery Holds on Identity and Reality - Friday Video Distractions with Mike Norton
A week with even less free time than last! Expanded work demands hit just as my youthful, junior tech took her week's vacation, meaning I had to do much more physical work than usual this week, and a little spice added as a neighborhood meth lab was revealed hiding in suburbia Thursday midday, starting with a firefight and ending with both a fantastically hot blaze (it takes phenomenal heat to reduce a structure and all its contents truly to ash) and full SWAT teams roaming a locked-down neighborhood. So, distractions of the unwanted kind. I seem to be among the minority to have at least somewhat enjoyed the latest sci-fi apocalypse flick, Awake , which appeared on Netflix Wednesday. I watched it on a whim when I woke up in the middle of the night heading into Thursday, and disturbed sleep may have been the perfect set-up for it. The core concept is that what at first seems to have been an electr...