It amuses me that you made an inquiry about Japanese Sci-fi (which of course there are plenty) but there’s one that I’ve read last year for JLC3, and it’s called Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence: After the Long Goodbye. Michael, if you’re familiar with this Japanese manga/anime franchise, then must have at least heard about it already. I haven’t read the manga but I’m a fan of the anime, which I consider to be one of the most intelligent animated series out there. And so when I discovered this at the bookstore, I felt compelled to pick it up. This book serves as a kind of prequel to the movie sequel and the writing is just beautiful. Looking back at it now, I guess I can compare it to the elegant equations of mathematics (how I wish I had thought of that when I wrote my review). I must say that it’s the first sci-fi book that I’ve read, but it’s one that I like to call literary science fiction, because it did feel very “literary” to me.

I have a review in my blog in case you’re interested in learning a bit more about it:

http://absorbedinwords.blogspot.com/2009/08/review-after-long-goodbye.html

Great episode you two! Keep it up

It amuses me that you made an inquiry about Japanese Sci-fi (which of course there are plenty) but there’s one that I’ve read last year for JLC3, and it’s called Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence: After the Long Goodbye. Michael, if you’re familiar with this Japanese manga/anime franchise, then must have at least heard about it already. I haven’t read the manga but I’m a fan of the anime, which I consider to be one of the most intelligent animated series out there. And so when I discovered this at the bookstore, I felt compelled to pick it up. This book serves as a kind of prequel to the movie sequel and the writing is just beautiful. Looking back at it now, I guess I can compare it to the elegant equations of mathematics (how I wish I had thought of that when I wrote my review). I must say that it’s the first sci-fi book that I’ve read, but it’s one that I like to call literary science fiction, because it did feel very “literary” to me.

I have a review in my blog in case you’re interested in learning a bit more about it:

http://absorbedinwords.blogspot.com/2009/08/review-after-long-goodbye.html

Great episode you two! Keep it up

The Giver is next on my list….

The Giver is next on my list….

The best analogy I can think of is that hexidecimal is like the diacritical system of pronunciation in language. Diacritics provide an exact value to what we intuitively know. But computers don’t have an intuitive sense or a sense of alphabetical language (theirs is a numerical language) and so the hexidecimal system comes into play. After a while, you could look at a sheet of hexidecimal code (always formatted in two columns of and read it as if it were in “English!”

Reading this over, I realize I’m about as clear as mud, but yeah, “8″ is huge in the computer world, as well as “0,” “1,” “2.”