Sunday, January 28, 2018

St. Patrick's Cathedral

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The following texts are the Voight-Kampff test questions from Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, with screenplay written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. The appropriate copyright and licences apply.

For some reason the combination spoke to me, are you a replicant? Let's find out! :)

Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention. Now, answer as quickly as you can.

It’s your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet. How do you react?

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You've got a little boy. He shows you his butterfly collection plus the killing jar. What do you do?

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You're watching television. Suddenly you realize there's a wasp crawling on your arm. How would you react?

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Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind. About your mother.

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You're reading a magazine. You come across a full-page nude photo of a girl. You show it to your husband. He likes it so much, he hangs it on your bedroom wall. What do yoy do?

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You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?


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They're just questions. They're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response.

Tuesday, January 09, 2018

Tesla Broadcast Tower

Tesla Broadcast Tower. Previously published in Arthur B. Reeve, "Tesla and his Wireless Age" in Popular Electricity magazine, Popular Electricity Publishing Co., Chicago, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 1911, p. 97

Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe wireless station, located in Shoreham, New York, seen in 1904. The 187 foot (57 m) transmitting tower appears to rise from the building but actually stands on the ground behind it. Built by Tesla from 1901 to 1904 with backing from Wall Street banker J. P. Morgan.

The experimental facility was intended to be a transatlantic radiotelegraphy station and wireless power transmitter, but was never completed. The tower was torn down in 1916 but the lab building, designed by noted New York architect Stanford White remains.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1923.

Tesla Broadcast Tower

i, (+sookie tex) the creator of this Summer Clouds Clip Art image, hereby release them into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

If This Summer Clouds Clip Art image is subject to copyright in your jurisdiction, i (+sookie tex) the copyright holder have irrevocably released all rights to it, allowing it to be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited in any way by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, with or without attribution of the author, as if in the public domain.


Tesla Broadcast Tower

Tesla Broadcast Tower image by Popular Electricity magazine, Popular Electricity Publishing Co., Chicago, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 1911, p. 97. Background image, editing, photoshop by sookietex.


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