Terminator 2, Sound Hunger

January 31, 2022 Lehan Edirisinghe

Terminator 2’s ratings and sound credits sparked obsession with audio craft. Late-night chocolate plans and robot dreams ended in sleepy plot questions

Story

Exercise, Smoking, Drinking and Loving Terminator 2

7:45 p.m.

Sarah Connor, she also does her exercise. It's really important. A lot of Sri Lankans don't do enough exercise. My only exercise is my 5 minutes of elliptical machine running per day. Gradually, after years, my stamina improved to 15 minutes.

I wish Upali Dharmadasa had just done 5 or 15 minutes per day on the elliptical machine. He was telling me in the Lanka Hospital that he missed his weekly squash game once and then he had to lose the feet. Yikes.

I was at his place, I hardly smoke or drink alcohol. I do it. But I don't enjoy it. So, I never really do it. I smoke maybe 5 or maybe 10 cigarettes sticks per year only.

He always smokes. Udesh also picked up a cigarette butt he had thrown away.

It's terrible. It's like going into a casino. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

You end up with diabetes.

He was cooking for me, he even got me these big boxes of food from Hilton where his wife Sandhya worked at, when she met him.

It was full of sugary donuts. I didn't eat any because I don't like to eat so much.

He was like, it's fine. Later he was telling me I have to somehow gain weight to 70 or 80kg.

I wish he didn't eat any of those sugary snacks. He was quite suicidal to push it the way he did, cigarette on one hand, sugary donuts on the other.

I learned from him.. now my mum tells us to stop eating chocolates, it's got sugar, bla bla, Lal Loku Thathi has diabetes, Achiammi Milina had diabetes, my mum is prediabetes, so it's in my family and in our Sinhalese genome according to Chamath Palihapitiya.

His dad HK Dharmadasa would always drink a shot of whiskey every night.

Which is pretty cool.

I don't care if I get annoying reminders to avoid sugar. I really should.

I avoid it. Sugar is a poison. There is an anti Imperial British conspiracy theory in Sri Lanka that "the British removed our agriculture and replaced it with sugar and tea, to try to destroy our health".

I doubt it. I don't know. The British, Queen Elizabeth II, they drink alcohol all day, she drinks champagne every day.

I don't know if it's that bad.

Tomorrow I'll do 10 minutes as I did 20 minutes today.

I love this movie.

Terminator 2. I wanted to get a model Terminator toy, the metallic machine version, to keep in my office.

But not really. I don't care.

Story

An ATM Hack and a Crude Bank Joke

8:45 p.m.

Omg, they hacked this atm machine!

They really made that Federal Security Bank go from

https://youtu.be/yB82FNPoiPM

Story

Calculating Civil War Slave Populations and Making Dark Jokes

11:00 p.m.

So, they had a 31m population in 1865. Apparently 33 states. Close to 4m slaves.

4 divided by 31 is 13%.

So, 9 whites control 1 black.

27,000,000 white

4,000,000 black

33 states.

Each with

121,121 slaves.

Oops.

Wait a minute.

Now, this is a dark joke.

It's actually 212,212.1

As it's a human life, you have to--

212,213 slaves per state..

If there are 1,000 plantations.

It's 121.2 = 122 slaves per plantation.

So, 27,000,000.

Half of them are female.

So, 13.5m males.

Oh and the slave population, half of them are also female. Which means, less trouble.

13.5m men. I think life expectancy was pretty awful back then. 40 years in 1865.

So, the boys grew up early. Let's say, it was 25% under 20, then 50% 21 to 35, and 25% 35 to 40..

This is 3m kids, 7m men, and 3m older men.

Let's suppose, kids and old men were half as useful, then, 3+7, is active.

10,000,000 white officers.

/ 33

=

300,000 whites per state.

/ 1000 plantations

300 whites per plantation

303 white : 122 slaves.

3 is to 1.

Oops.

I got my mathematics wrong.

Umm

It's 121,213 slaves.

60,000 men slaves.

/ 1000

60 per farm.

300 white is to 60.

5 to 1.

Chairman Mao would've suggested they go for a one child policy.

To help even the odds.

They get scared.

Usually, not 60, but 5 or 6 will rebel.

You control the info they get, then they won't dare rebel as there are no success stories of Django.

You reward Stephen and the blacks who cooperate, to rat out the trouble makers, the compliant slaves are rewarded, this is the modus operandi.

You say, it is justice, the law, to hang or to castrate or torture the bad, disobedient slaves, that you paid $500 dollars to buy at the auction.

Who you expect 5 good fights off of, 5 good games, 5 x years for.

It took till Abraham Lincoln in 1861, to free the slaves.

So, by then, population was 27 to 4, so, 27 divided by half, the northerners, the union, it was 13m. Plus 4m slaves.

Versus 13m southerners, Confederate soldiers.

https://youtu.be/B8Uxvp1ctfA

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Terminator 2’s Sound and Planning Great Audio

11:45 p.m.

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I love this movie! The Terminator 2! 8.5 on IMDb. I love it! It won awards for sound. The sound is pretty good.

When I was watching Django Unchained.

I saw that the sound mixer, supervisor, they had these credentials.

MPSE

Motion Picture Sound Editors

I need my movie to sound fantastic

The screenshot shows a scene from the film "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," displayed in the VLC media player. The visual is tinted red, indicating a robotic or computer interface view, characteristic of the Terminator's perspective. In the frame, two characters are visible. On the left is a man sitting with a serious expression, suggesting focus or determination. Beside him is a younger character, looking attentive and somewhat concerned.
Displayed text on the left reads "CYBERDYNE SYSTEMS SERIES 800 MODEL 101 VERSION 2.4," indicating the technical specifications of the Terminator model. On the right, text states "DISCONTINUITY CHRONO 543-665" and "ELAPSED TIME MARK 00:01:26," suggesting a diagnostic or status check is being conducted. Below, the phrase "CHECKING POWER LEVELS" is shown alongside numerical data, further emphasizing the technological theme.
The subtitles at the bottom read, "Was there a problem?" adding a layer of dialogue to the scene. The overall ambiance is one of tension and urgency, typical of the film's action and sci-fi elements.

Terminator 2, Chocolate and Questions About Reprogramming Robots

Tuesday 1st, February.

1:15 a.m.

I'm watching Terminator 2. Will eat a bit more of my mum's Cadbury Chocolate. Will sleep later.

I think chocolate and sugar is my deadly sin, my bad habit, but i don't care, I prefer it to alcohol or cigarettes.

I gotta buy that toothbrush when i wake up today.

I gotta cut my hair.

(Can't wait for the Good Lord to come)

Gotta buy Mountain Dew.

Umm

It's rare, and old, I hear.

This scene is fascinating. John sends a terminator series 800 v. 2.5 model 101 back, in time, not SkyNet, so why does John have to reprogram the Terminator's reset switch, so it is no longer Read Only?

I don't know, it's fascinating. I also want to create robots one day, which can do stuff.

We will send robots to Mars. To war. To do the hard work one day, soon.

It's a plot hole apparently, maybe John, needed to learn how to do this himself, so that's why Terminator, it teaches him step by step what to do. So, he learns.

I am going to sleep after this.

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