William Chhit

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@josephsdsu Oh what?!

[William Chhit @Chhitmeister]

I guess you could call me Metcalf because during that exam I froze #SF409

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James May, from The Reassembler(paraphrased): “there’s been so many machines that are supposed to help us save time in our lives, yet where’s all the time gone?” #sf409

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In comm class today, we discussed the rising amount of technology we NEED to have nowadays and unsurprisingly, when left unchecked - as it often is - all these iPhones and laptops and watches and glasses don’t make us much happier, not to mention more productive... #sf409

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Hour 11 in the library: I’m starting to see the barbaric reasoning as to why you’d want to be able to end the life of a pizza delivery person..... sometimes you can feel so entitled that dammit, I DESERVE this #SF409

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@seth81210059 I use it too lol

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Seeing so many chegg windows open in the library snaps me back to Feed: we have the answers now, so why care about how to get them *sarcasm* #sf409

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I re-read the “eighth” Harry Potter and it demonstrates how mass-appeal books are regarded differently than books that aren’t so mainstream(talked about in our Hunger Games week. HP originally was a franchise-able series, book 8 doesn’t let me savor it like Rowling does #sf409

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It also made me remember watching Sunset Boulevard and playing LA Noire (literally a hard-boiled detective game in 1940’s LA). Along with Gun, they all really reflected on the power of control and desire - we always have trouble coming to terms of what we can’t do #sf409

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I was looking through old Film Arts projects to help my brother and came across some film noir stuff and I noticed the cover art is so formulaic across the genre. I really like the edginess and style of design, but they all look similar. Makes Lethem’s cover change pop... #sf409

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Another thing about Jory is that he can’t be stopped in any way... think about it. If you have a virus on your computer, you turn it off, if you have a disease, you can take medicine or, in extreme cases, die. But what if your problems followed you BEYOND that?! Terrifying #sf409

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Forgot to get a few licks in about Ubik: to me, Jory is what really gives the book it’s nightmarish quality... not only does he transcend the limit between life and death, he also has the power to take either one away from anybody, anytime. #SF409

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The technical details of Snow Crash are close to how the internet really works, explained well. An engineering professor once scolded me, “why are you dumbing down when engineering needs technical words” well how the f*ck do you explain any of it who’s not a prick like you #sf409

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I feel so much “die yuppie scum” in the first part (~10 or so chapters).... I get that suburban living and middle-class complacency is the thing to hate, but it’s so mainstream now that it’s not such an edgy shock that must’ve been revolutionary when the book just came out #sf409

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Last thing about SF and DMV (holy sh** they’re terrible): there’s a certain honor in how the DMV is so honest, unlike the tricks in our stories: no matter what class, gender, or any identifiers you are, they’ll give you a crap time and make you experience it in the fullest #sf409

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Also about the DMV and SF: with the advent of technology comes raised expectations about life, just like we talked about in class: it’s an old joke that the DMV takes forever, but in an era where I can get non-pizza stuff sent to me in 2 hours or less, it’s a TRAVESTY #Sf409

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We read a few books denouncing private industry with vigor, but yanoe they’d probably make the DMV faster to help trick us into loving them #Sf409

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While I was going through Grasshopper Jungle I knew that I have SEEN this story before, but couldn’t put my finger on where.... then some people were talking about it - it was a friggin Rick and Morty Episode pls don’t kill me I swear I’m not that kind of fan #sf409

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The names in “The Last Question,” while funny, are what really sets the tone of abstraction in the story: as humanity gets more advanced, the names get more ridiculous but the concern becomes more dire: the passing concern of 2 buzzed guys becomes a crisis for Man itself. #SF409

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When I bought the audiobooks for the Hunger Games, the seller gave me the whole series. I’ve finished all 3 of them (again), I truly realized how they’re mass-appeal, for-profit books: it’s well-written of course, but the first book feels like such a “free trial”... #sf409