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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Thursday July 23, 2009

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:06 pm
Blade Singer
Director’s Cut

Replication of 'The Immortal Game' of chess in 'Blade Runner'

“Bishop to King 7, check.” – Roy Batty

On Chris Hipp, who died of an apparent heart attack at 47 on July 14 (Bastille Day), 2009:

“‘He was the father of blade technology when he was with RLX,’ Jim Hall, president of the Blade System Alliance, said in an interview. ‘He invented the blade server.'”

“Hall said Hipp was a natural inventor who wanted to be on the cutting edge.”

— Jeffrey Burt at eWeek.com

Epitaph by a friend:

“He was known as a determined, fearsome and fair competitor.”

Red Kite Prayer

Hipp’s motto was “pounding idiots.”*

From a website celebrating the life and family (cf. previous two entries) of Leonard Shlain, author of Art & Physics and pioneering surgeon:

“Shlain n: unique last name of Russian origins. Possible meanings: 1: Sound sword makes as it’s pulled from sheath” —Shlain.com

A more authentic sound:

The blade actually does sing. When it is withdrawn from the sheath it makes a ‘Tshuiiing’ sound as one hears in the movies. It rings like a bell.”

Armageddon blade by Trace Rinaldi
Steel Addiction, Custom Knives

A less authentic sound:

Wizard of Id, July 23, 2009-- The Drawn Blade

* The residents of Id (as in the above cartoon) are known, affectionately, as Idiots.

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