andrewulrich

I had the opportunity to visit a few Amish farms in central Missouri last fall. We enjoyed being able to buy farm fresh meat (some still twitching!), eggs, and such, and from what I saw and what I've heard from others' experiences, the Amish are honest, hardy, and hardworking. Their buggies shared the road with their neighbors' cars, and I was surprised to see obviously non-Amish homes in the area.

Also, I've seen Amish craftsmanship of barns and lofts and things on occasion, and have been impressed, and clients I've talked to had nothing but good to say about their carpentry work.

I was also thrown off by this movie. I remember watching it in college. It seemed very disjointed, throwing around a bunch of dialogue, vocab, characters, politics, etc. at me that seemed badly translated and only poorly if ever explained or described. Sure, plenty of eye candy and then some somewhat intriguing AI stuff at the end. Recently, I tried watching a couple episodes of SAC, and while it was easier to follow, it felt again like I was only understanding about half the dialogue.

I am also told that it can be a little off-putting or disorienting to some because it is more concept-driven than plot-driven, which, in addition to being an awkward mashing together of the beginning and the end of the manga (manga wrangling seems in some form or other a common source of awkwardness in anime- e.g. Akira), is probably why it was hard for me to follow. To each his own, I suppose, but I think it's cool when you have both a well-told story AND intriguing concepts (e.g. Neuromancer, Gattaca, Blade Runner, etc.)

@d99kris I just went to the filters page, and saved filters, went back to the home page, and the filters were not applied. I am not logged in; does it only work when you're logged in? If so, you might want to hide that link for non-logged in users.