what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{5/5} “Too much garbage in your face? There’s plenty of space out in space! BnL StarLiners leaving each day. We’ll clean up the mess while you’re away.” WALL-E, released in 2008 WALL-E is a robot whose day job is to compact trash into cubes and stack them up to the sky. He’s been doing this […]
{4/5} “My brain hates my eyes for seeing this.” Big Hero 6, released in 2014 On the day that Hiro, a young robotics genius, is demonstrating his microbots at the university he wants to attend there’s a fire — his brother Tadashi is killed and his microbots are destroyed. When the single microbot Hiro has […]
{4.5/5} “Anyone can cook.” Ratatouille, released in 2007 A rat that cooks? It seems like an absurd premise, but the people at Pixar make it work. Remy is different from all the other rats — he wants to eat good food rather than garbage. He makes a deal with a human, Linguini, who’s working in […]
{4.5/5} “We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup.” Elf, released in 2003 Buddy is shocked to discover that he’s not really an elf — he’s a human. He decides to travel all the way from the North Pole to visit his father, in New […]
{4.5/5} “What has eighteen legs and isn’t going anywhere?” Robin Hood, released in 2010 Robin is an archer in Richard the Lionheart’s army. At one last battle with the French, Richard is killed. Robin and his friends head for home, England, not really knowing what they will do. When Robin returns a sword to a […]
{4.5/5} “This curse will last till the end of time! No power on Earth can change it!” Maleficent, released in 2014 This is a retelling of the “Sleeping Beauty” story. Maleficent is a fairy and Stefan is a human — although they come from different worlds, they fall in love. But then Stefan betrays her […]
Here’s a unique comic called The Oatmeal, which I like quite a bit. It’s done by Matthew Inman, and his standard type of comic is to point out something about everyday life in a funny way. A couple of examples I thought were particularly funny: How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell The 3 Most […]
I’ve always been of the opinion that people can believe and do whatever they want, as long as they’re not hurting others. You might think that believing in creationism is harmless, but it’s not. The most dangerous part of creationism is people getting the idea that it should be taught in schools along with evolution. […]
Everyone thinks of themselves as the good guy in their own story. But when one person spends a month researching your interactions with others and concludes that you are the bad guy, and dozens of people agree with her, you really have to think long and hard about what you’re doing. This story is about […]
{5/5} “Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds — justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can’t go on. To really ask is to open the […]