Category Archives: Otaku

Bishop to King Seven, Checkmate

I’m just re-watching Blade Runner for the nth time (captions on) and I noticed the quote from when Roy first meets Sebastian. “Gosh, you really got some nice toys here.” “Gosh, you really got some nice toys here” is what the subtitles say, at least in the Final Cut edition. I haven’t checked elsewhere, but GoogleContinue reading “Bishop to King Seven, Checkmate”

E.T. Gets A Callback

Orson Welles would be stoked. Here’s a link to the abstract. The GMRT began observing the FRB field as a ToO (proposal DDT B124) 2 d after the event at 610 MHz at 01:30 UT on May 16. The 3-h observation (including overheads and calibrators) produced an image of the field with 123 μJy rms. via A real-timeContinue reading “E.T. Gets A Callback”

Sony Studio Exec’s Salaries

SonyPictures/Exploits http://pastebin.com/Ez5JGT7G From the New York Times: But Sony was newly rattled by the leak of internal documents, some of which were published late Monday on Fusion, an upstart cable network and news site, after first appearing on Pastebin, the anonymous Internet posting site. The documents contained the pre-bonus annual salaries of senior executives, 17Continue reading “Sony Studio Exec’s Salaries”