Machine Learning (ML) services are quickly becoming a taken-for-granted part of the software developer's toolbox, in any domain. These days, databases or networking are a standard component of almost any non-trivial application, so easily integrated that almost no special expertise is required. We expect to see Machine Learning becoming, in the very near future, a similar layer in the software stack.
This commoditization of ML services has been driven so far by Service-oriented platforms such as BigML, which have provided a key ingredient of the process: abstraction. Simple and easy to use REST APIs hide away not only the details of the sophisticated algorithms underlying the services at hand, but also the complexities of scaling those computations both over CPU cycles and input data volumes. A programmer no longer needs to be an expert in distributed systems or the fine details of implementing ML algorithmics in order to incorporate intelligent behaviour in her applications.
Or does she? The answer is, well, sometimes. Machine Learning platforms excel at hiding away the complexities of distributed computation, and are already providing powerful building blocks in the algorithmic department: decision trees, ensembles, random forests, anomaly detectors, automated feature engineering and many other pieces are already there. And, sometimes, they are enough to cover the needs of the end user. However, it is also often the case that the machine learning solution for non-trivial problems requires combining many of those primitives and algorithms into a complex workflow.
Machine learning workflows are most of the time iterative, and typically involve the creation of many intermediate datasets, models, evaluations and predicitions, all of them dynamically interwoven. There are many examples of such workflows, and we have covered in the past several of them in this very blog, from basic ones that automate repetitive tasks (e.g., create a dataset, filter it removing anomalies, then cluster it to label instances and finally model the result and make predictions) to sophisticated algorithms that enhance our machine learning arsenal (e.g., feature selection or hyperparameter optimization techinques).
So, quite often, the predictive components of end-user applications are workflows that must be built on top of our machine learning platforms using a general purpose language such as Python or Java and its bindings to the corresponding platform's simple and nice API. That is, we write client-side programs that combine server-side API calls to solve our problem.
Complexity Coding the workflow in a standard programming language implies worrying over details outside of the problem domain and not directly related to the machine learning task.
Reuse REST APIs such as BigML's provide a uniform, language-agnostic interface for solving machine learning problems; however, the moment we codify a workflow using a specific programming language we lose that interoperability. For instance, workflows written in Python, won't be reusable by the Node.js or Java communities.
Scalability Complex, client-side workflows are potentially very hard to optimize, and they lose the automatic parallelism and scalability offered by sophisticated server-side services. Furthermore, there are performance penalties inherent to the client-server paradigm: asynchronously pipelining a remote workflow introduces an extra number of intermediate delays just to check the status of a created resource before moving forward in the workflow.
Client-server brittleness Client-side programs need to take care of non-trivial error conditions derived from network failures. When any step in a complex workflow can potentially fail, handling errors and resuming from interruptions without losing valuable work already performed becomes a big challenge.
In short, the underlying REST API is already providing an abstraction layer over computing resources and the nitty-gritty details of many algorithms, but client-side workflows are re-introducing inessential details in our workflow specifications.
We need a way to recover for workflows the nice properties the ML platforms are already giving us for each step the workflow is made of.
In the sofware engineering field, we have long known a very effective method to cure the kind of problems outlined above. To increase the abstraction level of our workflow descriptions and free them from inessential detail, we must express our solution in a new language that is closer to the domain at hand, i.e., machine learning and feature engineering. In other words, we need a domain-specific language, or DSL, for machine learning workflows.
If you are a BigML user, chances are that you are already familiar with another DSL that the platform offers to perform feature synthesis and dataset transformations, namely, Flatline. With that domain-specific language, we offer a solution to the problem of specifying, via mostly declarative symbolic expressions, new fields synthesized from existing ones in a dataset that is traversed using a sliding window. The DSL lets you also name things and use those names inside your expressions, an archetypal means of abstraction.
In Flatline, we talk only of the domain we are in, namely features (old and new), as well as their combination and composition. Also note how the Flatline language is based on expressions for the new features we are creating, rather than a procedural sequence of instructions describing how to synthesize those features.
Now, we want to be able to formulate machine learning workflows with a similarly expressive DSL. And that is precisely what WhizzML provides: a language specifically tailored to the domain of machine learning workflows, containing primitives for all the tasks available via BigML's API (such as model creation or evaluation or dataset tranformation) and providing powerful means of composition, iteration, recursion and abstraction.
Here, we can already recognize some of the qualities we have been discussing: the keywords define and let, which introduce new names for different artifacts: the identifiers of the dataset, cluster and batchcentroid that are created (ds-id, cl-id and bc-id), of a function, one-click-batch-centroid that encapsulates the workflow, and of the identifier of the resulting dataset, dataset-id, which will be the workflow's output. We also see how primitives for the creation of BigML resources are readily available (create-and-wait-dataset, etc.), and take care of their time evolution (in this case, by waiting for their successful completion). All the steps of the workflow are thus trivially rendered.
Admittedly, careful use of high-level language bindings such as Python's can attain similar levels of readability for workflows as simple as this example. However, as you'll see in other examples, WhizzML's readability scales better when the complexity of the workflow increases.
Moreover, there are other immediate advantages of using the WhizzML script for expressing your workflow, even in this simple case. For one, it is automatically cross-language and available for any development platform. Even more importantly, it is executable as a single unit fully on the server side, inside BigML's system: there, we not only avoid the inefficiency of all the network calls needed by, say, a Python script, but also automatically parallelize the job. In that way, we are recovering one of the big advantages of Machine Learning-as-a-service: scalability of the available machine learning tasks, which are mostly lost for composite workflows when using the traditional, bindings-based solution.
Library A collection of WhizzML definitions that can be imported by other libraries or scripts. Libraries therefore do not describe directly executable workflows, but rather, new building blocks (in the form of new WhizzML procedures, such as one-click-batch-centroid above) to be (re)used in other workflows.
Script A WhizzML script (as the ones we have seen in the previous section) has executable code and an optional list of parameters, settable at run time, that describe an actual workflow. Scripts can use any of the WhizzML primitives and standard library procedures. They can also import other libraries and use their exported definitions. When creating a script resource, users can provide a list of outputs in its metadata, in the form of a list of variable names defined in the script's source code.
Execution When a user creates a script, its syntax is checked and it gets pre-compiled and readied for execution. Each script execution is described as a new BigML resource, with a dynamic status (from queued to started to running to finished) and a series of actual outputs. When creating an execution, besides the identifier of the script to be run, users will typically provide the actual values for the script's free parameters (just as you provide its arguments' values, when you call a function in any programming language). It is also possible to pipe together several scripts in a single execution.
Workflow scripts written in WhizzML are reusable server side resources, which makes WhizzML's procedural abstraction capabilities especially powerful. New procedures can be made available, as part of a library (just another kind of REST resource), to other scripts. We have thus gained the ability to define new machine learning primitives, climbing even higher in our abstraction layer, without losing the benefits of performance or scalability associated with a Service-oriented platform such as BigML.
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Spring onions in filo pastry (Μπουρεκάκι με κρεμμύδι) » Preparation, Serve, Bake, German, Repeat, Frühlingszwiebeln » tobias cooks!
This is an amazingly minimalistic recipe. The dish consists only of filo pastry and spring onions. Just some salt, pepper and olive oil added to season it. I serve it as a mezze with ouzo or wine but as well as a starter in combination with some salad. The soft onion in combination with the crusty pastry makes an ideal light snack.
Wash and chop the scallions. Put them into a bowl, season with salt, pepper and some olive oil and mix well.
Take a leaf of the filo pastry and spread some olive oil over it. Add a second leaf and again spread some olive oil over it. Now put a third of the filling on one side of the pastry leafs. Roll the filo pastry up so it looks like a tube. Be careful with the openings of the filo. Make sure no filling is falling out while you roll it.
Once rolled, fold the filo at the openings to assure nothing is falling out while baking.
Repeat this until all the filling is used up.
Cut with a knife diagonally into pieces and put on top of a baking paper into the oven.
Bake for 30 minutes at 200 degrees centigrade.
The German version "Frühlingszwiebeln in Filo Teig" you can find here.
That looks so good! Perfect for the summertime!
A nice vegetarian and nistisimo kremidopita…a rose for this would be nice.
Minimalist is definitely best, especially in the summer. This sounds so good and fresh … and I would love to be nibbling on some while sipping a refreshing glass of Ouzo!
What a delicious finger food! I can see them being a hit at a cocktail party! They're like breadsticks, but with a surprise inside!
Tobias πολύ ωραία τα μπουρεκάκια σου! Θα τα δοκιμάσω!
Great looking dish! This is the first time I've visited your site, and can I just say I love it. The kind of food I'd love to eat and learn to cook, I'll be back for sure.
@ Rosa: Thanks a lot!
@ Peter: I agree with the coice of wine.
@ Maria: Yes, Ouzo would work too, definitely.
@ Martha: I use them as finger food as well.
@ Tim: Thanks a lot. That's good to hear!
this is a nice alternative for vegans and tasty finger food.
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Works great cleans very good and is super quiet. We are very pleased.
Just got our dishwasher yesterday and husband installed it. Love the black stainless. Love the stainless steel interior and the 3 racks. It is very quiet when it runs.
After reading all the negative reviews I was a little worried about my purchase. However I couldnt be more impressed. No leaks no noise and no more dirty dishes. I would recommend this dishwasher to anyone.
Great dishwasher Love the black slate finish and the top shelf for utensils etc. Very quiet as well. Only minor annoyance is that if the door is opened while cleaning you cant just close the door again and have the cycle continue - you have to push the start button again and then close the door weve left cycles unfinished this way a few times because we close and forget to push start again...and its so quiet you dont expect to hear it when its running.
Dishwasher is extremely quiet when it is running. The 3rd top silverware tray is great and needed as the basket had to be removed to allow more room for oversized bowls. We do remove food remains before putting dishes into the dishwasher to avoid the filter becoming a mess and so far it is still clean. By using Jet Rinse most of the plastic cups do get dry using the dry setting. The first few times I used it and set the various options the cycle time was like 4 hours Ive tried different settings and have gotten it down to 2 hours which is acceptable to me. Biggest issue is fitting in cereal bowls and some glasses. Weve figured out a way to do it but if the rack tines were spaced a bit differently that would solve the problem. I really like the black slate finish.
The dishwasher is so quiet I often forget it is on. Does a great job and the shelf for flat wear and utensils is a great bonus. Water left behind after a load of dishes can get a little smelly if the machine is not run frequently.
Very happy with dishwasher actually using the bottle jet cleaners more than I anticipated.
Dishwasher is well-built and does a real nice job cleaning dishes.
Our home configuration is an open concept around the kitchen/dining area. The dishwasher is so quiet I have to look at the door light to know if its running. You simply cannot hear it when its operating which allows easy conversation at our frequent social gatherings. We also like the 3rd rack for silver wear the adjustable shelves and especially the bottle jets.
This machine seems to be the pinnacle of dishwasher technology. We have been repairing appliances for decades and did not choose this model by accident. Though some reviews claim mainboard failures we have never worked on any of these GE series units. We also know to put surge suppressors on all modern appliances with computers eliminating the main cause of computer failures in all equipment. On to the review weve only had this for a week and we replaced an aged unit so install was a snap. I was ready to call GE as soon as I tried a test run because the lights were all on but it did not go. I left it on and looked thru the book for a number to call. I then heard a faint gurgle from the sink drain and went close to the sink and could hear water draining. It turns out this machine is nearly silent during operation. If you put your ear to the door you CAN hear it running It has tons of cool rack options the third top shelf and adjustable height top rack with bottle jets are great. Upper lower and both rack wadh options are perfect for light dish day loads. Everything comes out spotless and dry thanks to the dryer fan as long as you dont open it after the cycle completes the fan will run for up to 90 minutes. Will updat this review in a few months.
We bought it back in July and we love it I would recommend it to everyone.
Extremely quiet with this dishwasher I love the features and that its so quiet.
I have almost had my dishwasher a year. Im still loving it. My dishes come out clean with no spots due to the best tip received in what to do when having hard water.
We bought this a month ago and it works great runs very quietly.
This is an awesome dishwasher. Its so quiet you can barely tell its running. I really like the stainless steel tub 3rd top rack and all the cycle choices. Best dishwasher Ive ever owned.
Our old dishwasher went up on us so we had to buy a new one. We settled on this model initially because it looked nice and offered a bottle wash feature as well as it having 3 racks the one on the very top really comes in handy. The install was a breeze too. Something we learned later is that the color we picked black slate is specific to the GE brand. So guess what we did? A few months later we bought the matching stove microwave and refrigerator These are very nice products with convenience features you learn to count on.
Bought this dishwasher because I was wanting to match my black slate stove hood and microwave. First I love the color.....now needing a new refrigerator in the black slate. Second it is so quite...cant hear it even when standing next to it...perfect for a house with open area such as kitchen dining and living area all together. Love the tray at the top. Also have use the targeted area setting where I used only the top rack wash....great as often dont have full load. Ive only had this dishwasher a couple months so if it doesnt develope a mechanical issue Id say its a great dishwasher and for me its perfect.
Love it. Whisper quiet the appearance and esthetics are beautiful.
Great dishwasher. Leaves dishes so clean and sparkling.
Had it a few weeks and am very happy with it. Very quiet.
I love the look So clean and professional. Couldnt be happier.
Looks attractive relatively quiet running easy to use controls with great options love the third upper silverware rack Only reason it didnt get 5 stars is because the heat dry setting doesnt dry the dishes as much as my old model did.
Our other dishwasher was a lower level GE model. Replaced it with this one and WOW Its so quiet you do get what you paid for.
Decided what features were important to me. This dishwasher was one of only a few that had everything. Researched all the possibles and this one appeared to be the best. Have not been disappointed.
No grandkids fingerprints. Very easy to load and unload.
Love this dishwasher lever heard one so quiet.
We purchased the Dish washer over a month ago and it is super quiet. cleans the dishes squeaky clean every time. We can actually run the machine and not have any sound disruption.
Love this dishwasher Its so quiet you dont even know its running.
We bought our new GE dishwasher in May our old dishwasher was almost 20 yrs old It was time. We love how clean everything gets. We also love how quiet it is. You dont even know its running.


Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD): research investigating a range of disorders within the ear and brain that affect the processing of auditory information. HHF thanks the General Grand Chapter Royal Arch Masons International for enabling us to fund four grants in the area of CAPD.
Hyperacusis: research that explores the mechanisms, causes, and diagnosis of loudness intolerance. One grant was generously funded by Hyperacusis Research.
Méniere's Disease: research that investigates the inner ear and balance disorder. One grant was funded by the Estate of Howard F. Schum.
Stria: research that furthers our understanding of the stria vascularis, strial atrophy, and/or development of the stria. One grant was funded by an anonymous family foundation interested in this research.
Tinnitus: research to understand the perception of sound in the ear in the absence of an acoustic stimulus. Two grants were awarded, thanks to the generosity the Les Paul Foundation and the the Barbara Epstein Foundation.
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The Government has accepted Ofqual's recommendation to defer first teaching of the new mathematics and further mathematics A/AS levels until September 2017
Nick Gibb MP, Minister of State for School Reform, said in his letter to Glenys Stacey, Chief Executive of Ofqual:
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Lyncean Technologies, Inc. located in Fremont, California, was founded in 2001 to develop the Compact Light Source (CLS), a miniature synchrotron x-ray source based on research performed at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University.
Unlike stadium-sized synchrotron radiation sources that require a highly technical support staff, the CLS fits in a typical laboratory space and is designed to be operated directly by academic or industrial end-users.
The first commercial Lyncean CLS, installed at the Munich School of BioEngineering on the campus of The Technical University of Munich, has been in continuous operation since April 2015.
Lyncean's newest development is a novel EUV source based on coherent photon generation in a compact electron storage ring, specifically designed for high volume manufacturing semiconductor lithography.
Michael Feser, Ph.D. is Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors at Lyncean Technologies, Inc. He received his doctoral degree in Physics in 2002 from Stony Brook University, NY for the development of phase contrast scanning microscopy using segmented detectors. He developed and applied his entrepreneurial skills during his 13 year tenure at Xradia Inc., which he helped grow from the start-up phase as part of the executive team to a mid-sized company followed by a successful buyout by Carl Zeiss Inc. in 2013. In February 2016 he left ZEISS and joined Lyncean in the role of Chief Executive Officer to apply both his executive leadership and management skills as well as his x-ray technology insight to the commercialization of the Compact Light Source (CLS). Dr. Feser is an expert in x-ray applications and in particular x-ray imaging, x-ray optics and x-ray detectors. He serves as the chairman of the Werner-Meyer-Ilse Award committee at the bi-annual international X-ray Microscopy Meeting (XRM) and authored 16 x-ray technology patents and numerous scientific publications.
Rod Loewen, Ph.D. is CTO and a Founder of Lyncean Technologies, Inc. As a former Engineering Physicist at the SLAC National Laboratory, he worked on RF/microwave components for advanced X band accelerators, control systems for automated testing, and electromagnetic modeling software. Returning to Stanford University for graduate work, Rod pursued development of pulsed, high-power optical cavities involving solid state lasers, optical cavity design, and hardware feedback systems. Motivated by a collaborative project with Stanford business school students doing a case study for the development and commercialization of an advanced x-ray source coupling an optical cavity with an electron storage ring, he brought the business idea for Lyncean to life. At Lyncean he was responsible in the development phase for the laser optical system and now oversees all aspects of technology development and technology leadership at Lyncean. Personally he enjoys wrangling all kinds of photons – from RF to IR to X-rays – which all play a major role in the Compact Light Source.
Ronald Ruth, Ph.D. is President and Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Science Officer at Lyncean Technologies, Inc. He is Professor Emeritus at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University and is an expert on particle accelerators and the author of numerous publications about particle beam physics and accelerator technology. His research at SLAC concerns the development of new concepts for particle acceleration and beam manipulation for application to both high-energy accelerators and free-electron lasers. During the mid 90's he led the development of the Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator, a test bed for x-band acceleration technology for future high-energy accelerators. The concept for the Lyncean Compact Light Source is a spin off from basic research performed by Professor Ruth and Dr. Zhirong Huang into a new electron damping mechanism called radiative laser cooling. Professor Ruth has been on review committees for many national laboratories. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and is a former member of the APS Council representing the Division of Physics of Beams.
Jack Kasahara is Vice President of Business Development at Lyncean Technologies, Inc. He received a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering in 1982 from the University of California at Davis. Most of Jack's career was spent in the semiconductor industry where he gained experience as a wafer fab process engineer, a product marketing manager at AZ Photoresist, and as a sales director at Semiconductor Systems, Inc., FSI International, and Tegal Corporation. During his four year stay at Arch Chemical's Microelectronic Division, he rose through the sales ranks from Asia Sales Manager to Worldwide Director of Sales, responsible for managing a $160M sales budget. Most recently he was an integral member of the Xradia, Inc. sales team that grew sales 400% over a five year period, culminating in the successful acquisition of Xradia, Inc. by Carl Zeiss Inc. in 2013. At Lyncean, he will draw from his 2 decades of technical, marketing and sales experience in the lithography arena to lead the business development efforts for Lyncean's Compact EUV Source, while identifying applications that will drive future sales of the Lyncean Compact Light Source (CLS).
Lon Ensler is CFO at Lyncean Technologies, Inc. He specializes in creating a financial infrastructure, positioning for high growth and M&A with over 20 years of senior finance and operations experience in high-tech manufacturing. Most recently, he has been CFO of EchoPixel, a high-tech venture-backed startup. Previously he was CFO of Xradia, where he was instrumental in the sale of the company to Carl Zeiss. Prior to Xradia he served in executive positions with Activant Solutions, ADAC Labs, Loral and Textron.
Chris Juan is the Director of Operations at Lyncean Technologies, Inc. He received a B.S. in Life Science (pre-med) and a minor in Business from the University of Portland. Chris spent his early professional years recruiting engineers and executives for the high-tech industry. In 2009 Chris joined Lyncean technologies and has since gained expertise in the manufacturing and fabrication of accelerator, storage ring and laser cavity assemblies. From 2014 to 2015 Chris led the successful on-time delivery and commissioning of the first Lyncean Compact Light Source product to Garching, Germany. Chris also spent time at Stanford Linear Accelerator working on the Linac Coherent Light Source II project, helping coordinate and manage the fabrication of more than fifty complex assemblies located at various points throughout the beamline.
Jay Chen, Ph.D. is VP Engineering at Lyncean Technologies, Inc. He received his doctoral degree in Physics in 1990 from Colorado State University. Most of his career has been in the semiconductor equipment industry with focus on metrology technologies and products. He started at Thermawave in 1994 as a scientist and grew into a program/project manager, helping develop the highly successful Opti-Probe product line. He joined KLA-Tencor's FAST division in 2003, managing the System Engineering team. His effort was instrumental for the development of the Aleris product line which was a huge success. All major semiconductor fabs adopted it for their metrology applications including thin film and CD (Critical Dimension). Afterwards, he moved on to ASML Brion division in 2012, built and managed the system engineering group for the development of application products to optimize patterning performance of DUV and EUV lithography systems. He brings 20+ years of capital equipment development experience to lead the Lyncean engineering team for the development of the most advanced EUV source for Lithography applications, the Compact EUV Source (CES).
At Lyncean Technologies, Inc. our employees are the most valuable asset of the company. We strive to attract well-qualified personnel that want to participate actively in the company's development.
Accelerator Physicist
Job Title: Accelerator Physicist
Department: Engineering/R&D
Reports To: CTO
FLSA Status: Exempt
Basic Function
The Accelerator Physicist specifies, develops, models, and helps test accelerator and electron beam systems used in the Lyncean Compact EUV Source (CES) and Lyncean Compact Light Source (CLS) with guidance and assistance from the CTO and CSO. S/he will interface and provide guidance to the engineering team to translate designs into final product implementations and assist the engineering and manufacturing team to develop manufacturing and testing processes.
Contribute to the overall design and parameter optimization of products
Develop models relating to electron beam systems and verify their applicability through simulation and measurement
Assist the RF Engineer in the design and implementation of injector systems which includes an RF gun, accelerators, magnet transport, and diagnostic systems
Document designs, performance expectations and engineering requirements for designs
Work with the Mechanical Engineering team to transfer designs to real, practical and cost-effective components including tolerances and functional specifications
Lead the Characterization of electron beam subsystems and specify necessary instrumentation and sign-off on engineering implementation meeting requirements
Lead and participate in preliminary and critical design reviews and drive design documentation
Assist in specification and managing injector and storage ring feedback servo subsystems and control interfaces
Manage testing and validation of performance characteristics for all electron beam components
Self-directed, motivated and energetic team player with good communication skills
Strong, hands-on understanding of practical accelerator and electron beam designs including modeling and analysis
Ability to design and construct experiments and to generate and analyze associated data
Demonstrated experience in troubleshooting complex systems in a well-documented and sequential manner
PhD in physics, specializing in Accelerator Physics and Development
Minimum 10 yrs experience with Accelerator systems and beam dynamics, including RF Guns, RF accelerators, magnet design, lattice design and commissioning
Travel Requirement
Up to 20% travel may be required, including international travel. Must be able to obtain necessary travel VISAs to visit customer countries.
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Control Systems Engineer
Job Title: Control Systems Engineer
Reports To: VP Engineering
The Control Systems Engineer (CSE) is responsible for the design, development and maintenance of all aspects of the Control System Software for the Lyncean's accelerator-based light source products. The successful candidate will bring a diversity of skills relevant to software engineering and controls. The CSE has a deep understanding of the EPICS control system software and is able to troubleshoot across all layers of implementation, from configuration up to GUI design. For development the CSE must have the experience and judgement to manage and build complex systems, make architectural decisions, and support existing software. The CSE creates project break downs into its constituent parts, specifies scope, interfaces with stakeholders, assesses risks, estimates people and time resources needed for completion.
Develop and maintain the EPICS Control System for Lyncean's Compact Light Source and associated products.
Develop and maintain software for test and measurement of components.
Develop and maintain remote capabilities for CLS Operations and installations worldwide.
Architect and implement automation and easy-to-use user interfaces on top of the underlying control system
Close interaction with cross-functional team members
Support Lyncean customers and collaboration efforts.
Develop and maintain the control systems software and hardware resources, including managing network configurations, security, and data backups.
Help with non-software related tasks as requested by supervisor.
Write technical specifications and procedures for software and hardware systems.
Hold design reviews for new and improved systems.
Constant performance and improvement assessments of company products.
In-depth, demonstrated, practical knowledge of EPICS tools and applications
LINUX scripting and system management
Real time data collection is a plus
Familiarity and experience with additional software tools and programming environments
Ability to work independently and in a team
Ability to set and meet personal work priorities according to assignments and company goals
Ability to multi-task and adapt to changes in work assignments
Bachelors degree in computer science or computer engineering, or equivalent experience
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Futurama Fridays – S7E15 "2-D Blacktop"
Futurama becomes 2-D… er.
The Professor (Billy West) finishes supercharging the Planet Express ship, now called "Bessie," but Leela (Katey Sagal) complains that safety is more important than speed. When the crew tries to leave, the ship malfunctions and crashes. After Leela has the ship taken to the junkyard, Farnsworth goes and rebuilds it using scrap. As he flies it home, he is accosted by a gang of racers, resulting in the Professor agreeing to a race. The Professor reveals that he's heavily modified the ship and wins the race using a dimensional drift. The Professor joins the racers' crew. Meanwhile, Leela orders a very boring and beige box spaceship which is incredibly safe. On its maiden voyage, the ship delivers the package for them, leaving Fry and Bender (West and John DiMaggio) sad at the lack of adventure. As she becomes increasingly boring, the Professor, now a street racer, mocks her. She challenges him to a race on the Mobius Dragstrip. During the course of the race, the two ships collide while the Professor is doing a dimensional drift and flatten.
I love this joke.
Everyone assumes that Fry, Leela, and the Professor are dead, but it turns out they were just compressed into two dimensions. It also turns out that Bender was on the ship so that he can be there for this. The group experiments with their new 2-D life before meeting the locals, the lords of flatbush. At a feast, Farnsworth tries to explain 3-D to the 2-D king, leading to the crew being declared heretics. Leela suggests they try to use the dimensional drift to get back to 3-D. Just as the ship starts to be destroyed at the scrapyard, the Professor pulls it off and the crew return to normal.
The lords of Flatbush are not particularly well-drawn.
END SUMMARY
This episode manages to do two great parodies in one. In the first half, the Professor's racing crew is an over-the-top version of every '80s and '90s movie about teen drag racers. It's deliberately multicultural and the names are as ridiculous as you'd expect: Minx, Bazzo, Jibby, and Benniton. Minx is the most notable, having a tragic backstory of verbal abuse from her father, only for it to be revealed that it was what her father "left unsaid." It's a shot at how common it was to explain that female members of gangs in those movies came from broken homes.
Welcome to the future where gangs are very '90s.
The second half is a parody of the 1884 book Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott (yes, real name). It's a story about a world populated by geometric shapes featuring a square that interacts with one dimensional points that can't comprehend him and then a three-dimensional sphere that the square can't comprehend. The show takes most of the ideas behind living on a two-dimensional plane and shows how insane they would be in "reality." It also makes some fun sight gags, like having Fry try to eat a fraction of a picture of a pile of fruit, or having Farnsworth refer to the audience as seeing things from the Z-axis.
The ship got some modifications, then flattened.
Overall, pretty decent episode. I especially like that they name the ship "Bessie" here so that they can make a joke in a few episodes.
This episode also gave us Pimparoo, the best sight gag ever.
FAVORITE JOKE
The Mobius Dragstrip. It's a giant mobius strip, meaning that it is a single surface that has only one side and one boundary curve. The show makes sure to drive this home by having one of the gang members point out that technically driving through both sides of the flat surface, something that would appear to be two laps, is only one lap. This results in one of my favorite lines "You kids and your topology." I may be biased because I studied topology.
Dear F-Zero: THIS.
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Posted on January 15, 2021 January 15, 2021 Categories Futurama FridaysTags 2-D Blacktop, Billy West, Futurama, Futurama Fridays, Futurama Season 7, John DiMaggio, Katey SagalLeave a comment on Futurama Fridays – S7E15 "2-D Blacktop"
Futurama Fridays – S7E14 "Forty Percent Leadbelly"
Bender finally accomplishes his… fifth(?) lifelong dream.
The Planet Express team is transferring the carbonite-frozen villain Dr. Brutaloff to prison when Bender (John DiMaggio) is distracted by the presence of Silicon Red (Phil LaMarr), the greatest Folk Singer in the universe. This allows Brutaloff to escape and stab Fry (Billy West) before freezing him into the same carbonite. Fry becomes extremely angry about this betrayal. Bender seeks advice on how to be a folk singer from Red before trying to take his guitar, but Red stops him. Bender just takes a picture of it and has a copy 3-D printed from his memory. Bender tries to play a song on an open mic night, but fails due to his complete lack of knowledge about the folksy life he wants to sing about. Bender resolves to go live a hard life on the railroad. Bender meets a robot named "Big Caboose" (West) who introduces him to the other railroad workers. Bender begins composing a ballad about the people surrounding him and begins to add new characters like himself as the Rambler and a Jezebel who leaves Big Caboose for him. Big Caboose then appears with a fiance named Jezebel who promptly cheats with Bender.
Silicon Red looks like a cousin of the Borax Kid.
Big Caboose, like in Bender's song, finds out and starts trying to hunt down Bender. Fry and Leela (Katey Sagal) realize that events are unfolding like in Bender's ballad just as Bender decides that Big Caboose should hit him with a train rather than shooting him in the song. It's revealed that as Bender has this thought, the 3-D printer from his guitar prints out a train, which Big Caboose promptly arrives with. Bender flees to Fry, who rejects him for his earlier betrayal just like in the song, but when he heads to Leela's apartment, Fry is there. It turns out Bender is even 3-D printing duplicates of people. They head to the lab with the printer, only for Bender to accidentally summon some giant octopodes (the third option for making octopus plural). Leela tells Bender he can write a way to save himself in the song, but when Bender refuses due to artistic integrity, Big Caboose arrives and flattens him. However, at his funeral, it's revealed this was a duplicate Bender which had artistic integrity, something Bender would never have, designed to take his beating.
Big Caboose, ironically, doesn't have one.
I think this is one of the funnier episodes of the final season. This makes at least the third episode which is focused on accomplishing one of Bender's lifelong dreams, but this one quickly goes off of the rails and I appreciate that. It's also one of the episodes that probably best calls into question a potential future of technology being misused. 3D printing was only really starting to take off when this episode aired, since commercial printing of metal parts became available. Because of that, people were speculating about the day when we would be able to cheaply create houses using giant printers or to eliminate many societal issues through easier proliferation of important goods. This episode takes that to the future conclusion that if you can truly print anything, then nothing is unique, not even people.
We need to beware of the Technology Lab.
I also like how much this episode both pays tribute to and takes shots at folk music. Bender describes almost all folk music with the formula that one of the main characters is named "Big" something, that "Big" character had a bad-hearted woman that did them wrong, and that "somebody kills somebody, blah blah blah." Amy even sings that last line just to drive home how easy it supposedly is to write one of these songs. While I don't think that it is truly that easy to write a folk song, it's a fun and loving ribbing of the genre.
And yes, this is the woman from all of those songs.
Overall, pretty decent episode.
We go inside of Bender's head and it's pretty great to see the organization. Bender's core drive is a single terabyte (which was a lot more impressive when this episode aired but still not too much). In that file, we see that Bender's main personality takes up only 3 MB, 1.3 MB of which is a single image file of the guitar belonging to Silicon Red. However, his penguin personality, from "The BirdBot of Ice-Catraz" takes up 50 times more. Then we see his porn file, which is an exabyte, an amount of storage that currently would require a large building. One has to wonder when he even finds the time to watch that much.
I mostly posted this for the HUFFPOST watermark on a porn drive.
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Futurama Fridays – S7E13 "Naturama"
It's a National Geographic special from Planet Express.
This episode consists of three separate vignettes of the crew re-imagined as animals.
In the first, Fry (Billy West), Leela (Katey Sagal), Zapp Brannigan (West), Bender (John DiMaggio), Amy (Lauren Tom), Hermes (Phil LaMarr), and a number of other characters are incarnated as salmon traveling upstream. Along the way, a number are killed by hazards such as whitewater and lobsters (Zoidberg). As they reach a fork in the river to their spawning site, Fry finds himself compelled to separate from Leela, with whom he had been planning to mate. Leela is instead courted by Zapp, but Fry leaps over the land, finally being kicked in when a pair of Bears (Lrrr and NdNd (Maurice LaMarche and Tress MacNeille)) fight over him, with Lrrr having eaten Zapp. Fry fertilizes Leela's eggs and then they both die.
Yes, Morbo as a salmon still has a giant forehead.
The second scene involves the Professor (West) playing a Pinta Island Tortoise, a species which is presumed to be near extinction due to only Hubert remaining. He attempts to find another mate and is accompanied on the journey to the other side of the island by a group of finches (Fry, Leela, Amy, and Hermes) and an iguana (Bender). Hubert moves so slowly that an entire generation of finches dies off and are replaced with new ones that have apparently evolved to better survive the new side of the island. Hubert thinks he found the other member of the species, but it turns out to be a rock. Mom, the actual female, arrives and destroys the rock, then mates with Hubert with his apparently weird turtle penis. A while later their babies hatch, only to be crushed immediately by a rock.
Mom looks younger as a century-old tortoise. Actually, she probably would be.
The final segment has everyone re-imagined as elephant seals. Bender is the alpha male "beachmaster," who keeps all of the other males separate from the females. One male (Kif) is attracted to a particular female (Amy), but the beachmaster keeps the beta males away. On the advice of an older seal (Farnsworth), Kif tries to seduce Amy as a sneaky male, but he's interrupted by Bender. After summoning his courage, Kif challenges Bender to a fight, but is completely destroyed, to the point that Bender is flattening his corpse while he sleeps. However, the fight distracted the beachmaster long enough that the other males all snuck in to impregnate the females, resulting in a litter of their offspring.
I love that the babies have glasses.
I am not sure what exactly the team was smoking when they decided to make this episode, but much like "Reincarnation," this episode manages to produce a bunch of laughs by sticking to its completely nonsensical premise. Without having to care about characterization or anything else like that, the focus was just on coming up with ridiculous jokes to fill an already absurd set of plots and it pays off pretty well. I think with the "Futurama Holiday Special" the team was a little worried about coming up with a musical number or trying not to offend anyone too much, but obviously no one can get too upset about taking shots at turtles and salmon. Well, maybe biologists, but as a (former) physicist I don't care about their opinion. Yeah, I said it. Bring it on, animal nerds.
Animal nerds don't think it's weird.
I also appreciate that all of the animal designs are just the right kind of anthropomorphic adaptations of the characters. It's always clear which character has become which animal, even though they're wildly different. Part of it is that they keep each character's color scheme, for the most part, which makes you all the more appreciative for the work that went into crafting all of the distinct color palettes in the series.
Even the blue-footed booby looks like Zoidberg.
Overall, it's not the best episode of the series, but it's one of the funnier ones.
Let's do one from each segment:
When the narrator says that a young salmon is called a "fry," Leela asks what Fry's name is. Fry responds "I don't have a name. I'm a salmon." It's perfectly delivered and timed.
When Mom, as a tortoise, destroys the rock that Farnsworth is trying to seduce, Farnsworth says "you always were a hot-blooded Latina." The narrator then adds "like all reptiles, the Galapagos tortoise is cold-blooded." It's someone doing a decent Morgan Freeman, so bonus points.
They adapt three of Bender's catchphrases perfectly. "Bite my freshly-molted, blubber-filled ass," "I'm 40% ass," and, as he's sleeping, "kill all penguins, kill all penguins." I'm pretty sure that they made Bender the beachmaster solely for these.
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Futurama Fridays – S7E12 "Viva Mars Vegas"
It involves a Casino theft, like that movie about the Ocean.
The Robot Mafia is escaping from a recent theft and dumps the loot into a dumpster. As the Planet Express crew plans to go to Mars Vegas casino, Amy (Lauren Tom) tells Zoidberg (Billy West) that he shouldn't go because of his poor money management skills. He finds the loot and heads to the casino himself. He places a few bets and wins, only to lose everything by refusing to walk away. When he returns to the dumpster, however, the Robot Mafia wants the money. After using his ink defense, Zoidberg escapes inside, only to be hit with the Professor's (West) ink remover, which makes ink invisible. Zoidberg, who is completely covered and saturated with ink, becomes undetectable by the eye. The Mafia can't find him, which leads them to decide to take over the Wong family casino as well as all of the Wongs' other properties. Amy devises a plan to get the money back with a heist.
I don't think that's supposed to be Olympus Mons, but it's big.
Using a shrimp cart to cover Zoidberg's smell, they get Zoidberg into the vault where he eats all of the money and a black box. Once he consumes the objects, they also become invisible. However, he becomes too sick to move, so the crew have to carry him. They try to escape to the roof, but Zoidberg causes the elevator to fall to the ground floor. They almost make it to the exit until a blind guard stops them. Amy offers him a deal, which the native Martian is skeptical of due to the Wong family's prior actions. Amy reveals that the Wongs only bought Mars for 100 years, and that the planet is now reverting back to the native Martians. The native Martians kick out the mafia and, out of gratitude, give the Wongs back their mansion and another casino.
Hermes and Bender basically do a Trading Places bit.
It has bothered me every time I watch this that Mars is back to normal. In "A Farewell to Arms," Mars gets blown out of its orbit and the native Martians all leave the planet. While Futurama doesn't really have a strong continuity, that was a really big thing to just undo without any kind of reference to it. We also have completely obliterated any continuity on who owns what part of Mars and how. Originally the native Martians were pissed at the Wongs for cheating them, only for it to be revealed that Wong paid a fair price for it and they left the planet. Then they were back, but were just grabbing their stuff because they knew Mars was doomed. Now they're back again only to reveal that they work for the Wongs and live on reservations above ground? Even for a show with loose continuity, this gets a little too much.
I also love the fact that the sci-fi magic element is a tattoo removing laser.
The heist element is done pretty well, mostly because it keeps pointing out heist tropes, particularly ones that make no sense. The best line may be when Amy is asked if people will smell Zoidberg, only for her to respond: "No, and to keep you on your toes, I'll only explain why after the heist begins." That's a perfect shot at so many heist movies where members of the heist are intentionally misled about what is going to happen, usually for no good reason. It's a trope that honestly will never make any logical sense and is a sign of a weak screenplay. If you want a good movie that averts it, watch Rififi. I appreciate them taking shots at the formulaic nature of heists, even if they seem to do it with kid gloves compared to other shows (like Rick and Morty).
Although no movie has used a smelly shrimp cart yet.
Overall, not a bad episode, but not the best either.
Honestly, it's the song from the episode. The style is almost a perfect cover for the original song "Big Spender" from Sweet Charity, and the lyrics are a perfect adaptation to Zoidberg. It contains a decent amount of potential euphemism, it matches the Vegas setting, and it just works for me. Here's a clip:
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Futurama Fridays – S7E11 "31st Century Fox"
Bender gives hunting a shot. GET IT????
Fry (Billy West), Bender (John DiMaggio), Leela (Katey Sagal), Amy (Lauren Tom), and Zoidberg (West) get their uniforms destroyed by a giant Moth. When they complain to the Professor (West) about getting new uniforms, he rebuffs them until the moth appears and destroys his outfit as well. The crew go to a discount uniform store and buy the outfits that the Professor had failed to pay for a year ago, but Bender also buys a 20th Century fox hunting outfit and decides to take up the sport. Angered by the notion, Leela objects, but Bender invites the crew to a fox hunt. During the hunt, Leela tries to disrupt the Huntmaster (Patrick Stewart), only to be repeatedly thwarted. She stops protesting, however, when it's revealed that the fox is a robot, and thus no animals are being harmed. This leads Bender to switch sides and revolt against the fox hunt.
I disagree with giving this little thing the "-zilla" name.
Bender forms an animal robot rights group called Bender's Animal Robot Front and starts committing minor acts of theft and vandalism. They don't quite work out, but Bender declares victory and sets out to save the robot fox. The crew gets the fox away but Bender stays behind to mock the hunters. This, naturally, leads them to hunt him. At the same time, the fox starts to drive the crew insane with its destructive behavior. The fox ends up running back to the hunting grounds and, together with the fox, Bender turns the tables on the Huntmaster and traps him. The Huntmaster tries to kill him, but the fox attacks the Huntmaster and reveals him to be a robot. Ultimately, everyone decides that the irony was so heavy that they just kill and mount the Huntmaster.
I never think about this episode when I look back on Futurama and that's probably not a great sign. Honestly, if it weren't for Patrick Stewart voicing the antagonist, I would probably have forgotten it altogether. There are a few fun lines in it, but it mostly just kind of chugs along until it finally resolves with a weird conclusion that everything that just happened was stupid. I mean, it doesn't have a real B-plot, and the A-plot's big payoff is that everyone is a hypocrite and that no one can really tell what is or is not a robot, but that's not really explored in a satisfying way. It's not that you can't just have a simple episode, but it's also just not that funny. It's like they figured they would insert the jokes later and then forgot.
A horse named "Sea Gasket" was supposed to be a major laugh.
It's interesting that this was the first episode where they swapped the order in this season, moving it to air later so that they could advertise the voice cameo of Patrick Stewart for the finale. Then, apparently, they just didn't do that. Maybe the marketing people watched it and said "let's not call too much attention to this episode." I don't want to say that it's bad, but it's pretty low on my list of Futurama. Aside from the favorite joke, I will call attention to the fashion montage at the uniform place. We get a stillsuit from Dune (modified to be kosher), a Star Trek uniform, Stormtrooper armor, the outfit from Barbarella, and the space plane uniform from 2001: A Space Odyssey, culminating in Farnsworth in the famous outfit from Zardoz. It's pretty funny.
R.I.P. Sean Connery.
Overall, though, just not a mind-blowing episode.
In the episode, in an attempt to confuse the robot hunting dogs that are chasing him, Bender pulls out a bag of Newmar's Own Catnip. This is a reference both to Newman's Own, the brand owned by actor Paul Newman, and to Julie Newmar, the actress who played Catwoman on the Adam West/Burt Ward Batman series. However, when Bender uses it, it instead causes a huge number of cats to jump on him. It's made even funnier because Bender uses it after saying "I know what'll confuse these dogs! Catnip!" Just a solid joke.
Eartha Kitt's version was banned by the Johnson Administration. She knows why.
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Futurama Fridays – S7E10 "Near-Death Wish"
It's Season 7, time for a retirement home!
Fry (Billy West) wins the Delivery Boy of the Year Award and is angry when the Professor (West) doesn't care. The crew realize that the Professor's parents, Ned and Velma (David Herman and Estelle Harris) are still alive at the Near-Death Star, the place where all old people go to die. It turns out that the old people are kept in a Matrix-like Virtual Reality, and Fry, Leela, and Bender (Katey Sagal and John DiMaggio) meet them in a virtual retirement community. Fry enjoys spending time with them, but ends up deciding to take them with him. On Earth, the Professor is angry at the pair and refuses to talk to them as they interact with Fry. It turns out that when he was young, they never played with him or paid attention to his science. They even moved to a farm and limited his ability to study science until he ran away.
Apparently "Trop Vieux" means "too old"
When finally confronted, Ned and Velma explain that they moved to a farm because they were worried that they would lose the Professor like his older brother. They explain that he was a scientist and a nutjob who they ended up having to commit to an institution. Unfortunately, it turns out that they are talking about the Professor. They thought he was their second son, Floyd, who the Professor had never met (and who may have come by years earlier only to be kicked out by Bender). Ned and Velma go back to the Near-Death Star, but the Professor joins them to play in Virtual Reality.
Combined age is like 600 years old.
This is a pretty middle-of-the-road episode of Futurama, but that's still pretty entertaining. It fleshes out the Professor's backstory, something that, due to his excessive age, has had a lot of parts to it, but we've never gone back this far. It's both funny and sweet that his parents reveal how much they had done for him while thinking that he was their other son. I'll admit the reveal that the newly-discovered brother, Floyd, is probably dead somewhere was pretty dark, the fact that no one seems to care saves it. Also, they do a great job of making the Professor's parents mirror his mannerisms in a way that make it seem like they're family.
And therefore a little bit like Fry.
The best part of the episode is the shots they take at The Matrix. The crew, when going into the Near-Death Star, pull apart the central premise of the film, that robots use people as a power source, by saying that it actually works, despite the logical flaws. It's one of the more biting shots at other science-fiction works in the show's run and I can only assume it came about because someone really couldn't look past the stupidity of the "human batteries" premise and enjoy the gun fights.
I want the Potato Matrix – The Tatrix.
Overall, like I said, it's not a top-tier episode, but it's not the bottom of the barrel either.
As much as I love the shots the show takes at The Matrix, my favorite joke is still when chasing after the Professor as he heads back to the family farm where Bender shouts "Faster! Faster! Okay, Stop Short!" which leads to Fry being shot forward from Ned's scooter. The reason why this works is because earlier we see Ned and Velma on parallel scooters. Velma is voiced by Estelle Harris, who played George's mother on Seinfeld. During one episode, Estelle reveals that her husband, Frank, has a move called the "stop short," which is when you slam on the breaks so you can reach your hand out to stop the other person from flying forward and potentially feel them up. This episode subverts it by revealing that now Velma is nowhere near them and instead Fry is the one who goes flying. Still, it's a neat reference.
It's Jerry Stiller's "Move"
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Futurama Fridays – S7E9 "Free Will Hunting"
Bender tackles the eternal question and the answer is "find better engineers."
Bender (John DiMaggio) starts his day by deciding to wear nerd glasses. This leads him to get invited to a sorority party, which leads him to enroll in college, which leads to him getting student loans from the mafia. He then drops out of school, gets addicted to drugs, and vomits on the Hendonismbot (Maurice LaMarche) for money. Eventually, he's arrested and put on trial, but his lawyer successfully argues that Bender, as a robot, lacks free will and therefore cannot make any decisions, negating mens rea. Bender is despondent over the revelation that he might not have free will, and, during a delivery to the robot home world, stays on the planet to try and figure out if he has free will. Eventually, he finds a robot temple where the robot monks have adopted a position that, while they are automatons, they can still be happy. Bender stays with the monks until he discovers that he has a "free will" slot created by Mom (Tress MacNeille) so that they could get free will upgrades.
It was a very long day.
Fry (Billy West) misses Bender and complains to Leela (Katey Sagal), with whom he is once again romantically involved. Bender returns and convinces the pair to help him steal the free will unit prototype, reasoning that he does not have free will to commit the crime. They successfully get in, only to have Mom explain that she never had the prototype because the Professor (West) never finished it. Bender realizes that the Professor clearly did complete it and threatens him into giving it. However, the Professor reveals that Bender can't hurt him, because the Professor programmed all MomCorp robots not to harm him. Seeing Bender sad, the Professor installs the free will unit in his head, which leads Bender to shoot the Professor in order to test it out. Bender is prosecuted successfully for the crime, much to his delight.
I think this is one of my favorite episodes of this show because it addresses a huge existential problem, whether free will exists, and manages to couch it in a funny parable by applying it to Bender rather than one of the other characters. As Amy (Lauren Tom) points out, no one is positive that humans even have free will, or if we're just extremely convoluted mechanisms following intricate programming. Bender, naturally, just moves past that, but it does at least remind the viewer that everything Bender worries about in this episode has been contemplated by philosophers throughout the ages. As in the episode, some people get depressed over the unknowability of the answer, some are too busy to care, and some turn to religion or philosophy in order to be happy without knowing. Ultimately, though, this episode actually proposes that eventually science will be able to just tell us the answer or possibly even give us free will using Quantum Theory. It's a very Futurama resolution.
Some of the better elements of this episode are the way that it highlights or even exaggerates many of Bender's more human traits despite focusing on how he believes himself to be different than humans. Throughout the entire episode he's prone to whimsy, then stuck in a need for self-discovery, and finally convinces the Professor not through logic, but through triggering his emotional empathy. Bender is at his least robotic during this episode and it works perfectly.
He suffers a lot from peer pressure, too.
Overall, just a great episode of Futurama.
Pretty much everything about the Robot Monastery. First off, the idea that robots, who confirm that they have no free will and thus should operate perfectly logically, end up using religion as a way to resolve their existential crisis is inherently hilarious. Second, they read from "The Whole eBook," rather than the Holy Book, which is a nice robot religion joke. Third, most of what the monks preach is based not on actual religious theory, but instead on the absurdist philosophy of Albert Camus, reinforced by the image of the monks working in an M.C. Escher setting. Last, the head abbot is named Ab-Bot, and that's just fun.
It's just fun.
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Futurama Fridays – S7E8 "Fun on a Bun"
Fry finds his intellectual equals and Leela finds the sunshine of her spotless mind.
The Professor (Billy West) takes the crew to Oktoberfest in Germany. Fry is excited, but finds out that over the centuries Oktoberfest has become a high-society event which doesn't allow for drunkenness or debauchery. Fry protests by getting drunk and doing the chicken dance. Leela (Katey Sagal) is so embarrassed that she breaks up with Fry (again). Meanwhile, Bender (John DiMaggio) sees a sausage-making contest and decides to enter, only to find out that everyone uses special ingredients for their meat. The two watch a video explaining that the valley they're near, the Neander valley, used to contain mammoths. Bender and Fry use the ship to find a mammoth, but as Bender is grinding it up, Fry seemingly falls in and is turned into sausage. Bender doesn't notice and ends up serving the sausage, leading Leela to eat a sausage dog which appears to contain Fry. Leela is so traumatized that she has her memories of Fry erased.
Fry's drumsticks don't go well with Mammoth.
Fry actually survived the machine, after it took off his clothes and some hair, but fell into the mammoth hole and hit his head causing it to swell. Fry is rescued by neanderthals who live under the ice sheet. Seeing his swollen forehead, they believe Fry to be a fellow caveman and his wound causes memory loss so he quickly agrees with it. Fry leads the neanderthals to attack Oktoberfest in order to take back the surface world. During the attack, the neanderthals end up doing well despite their lack of technology, because Zapp Brannigan (West) is an idiot. Fry and Leela end up fighting but stop when they recognize each other. They kiss, ending the war, and the neanderthals join Oktoberfest and bring back some of the old ways.
I actually think this was a well-done episode. It manages to combine the traditional "head wound causes amnesia" plotline with the more futuristic "mind-wipe" plotlines that sci-fi has been bringing lately, most directly Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Much like in those tropes, some level of memory always exists and can be triggered by a strong enough emotion. The show drives the comparison home by having them simultaneously recover from their amnesia. It's a very Futurama way to deconstruct sci-fi tropes back to their roots.
And to show yet another Funeral for Fry.
The other thing about this episode is that it is one of the more fun episodes of the last season. Each of the characters' arcs are solidly comedic, particularly Bender and his quest to be the greatest sausage maker of all time. Bender does actually put forth more effort towards this goal than he usually does, but when he only gets third place (which he calls the greatest injustice that Germany has ever committed), he manages to ensure that his opponents are killed in the ensuing attack. Or at least that's the story. Fry's lines to the neanderthals are pretty solid, including his line "I do have vague memories of people refusing to breed with me" that he uses to confirm his neanderthal lineage. The idea of cavemen fighting with spacemen has often been floated, including a famous debate in the show Angel which literally named the "cavemen vs. astronauts" trope, but Futurama is one of the few shows where the key to the fight is that both sides are actually equally stupid.
And the only one featuring chicken hats.
Overall, solid episode of Futurama.
This is another three small joke episode.
1) When Hermes sees mammoths, he calls them "hairy elephantes," which is both a fun description and also a joke on singer/songwriter Harry Belafonte.
2) Later, Hermes is attacked by a giant sloth that takes forever to actually maul him. So long, in fact, that the battle pretty much ends by the time it gets there. Having Hermes, a normally serious character, participate in this only makes it that much funnier.
3) Everything about this exchange:
Zapp Brannigan: Up here in the clouds, our technology makes us invincible, like the mighty "x" in tic-tac-toe. Look at those pathetic cavemen down there, loading their silly catapult with…what is that, Kif?
Kif: I believe it's a saber-tooth cat, sir.
Yes, it's a Cat-apult.
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Futurama Fridays – S7E7 "The Six Million Dollar Mon"
Hermes becomes a cyborg and apparently that's addictive.
Hermes (Phil LaMarr) conducts a performance review and determines that he is massively inefficient for the company. He fires himself and is replaced by a robot accountant, much to Zoidberg's (Billy West) chagrin, as he believed he was Hermes' best friend. Hermes and LaBarbara (Dawnn Lewis) go for a walk and are mugged by Roberto (David Herman), but are saved by Smitty and URL (West and John DiMaggio). Hermes observes URL's robotic body and decides he could upgrade himself with robot parts, getting a harpoon put in his chest. He rehires himself at Planet Express, but soon starts to respond to any problem, no matter how minor, by getting a robotic upgrade. Despite LaBarbara telling him to stop getting more parts replaced, Hermes soon is completely made of automaton parts, aside from his hair and brain. Meanwhile, Zoidberg has collected the discarded parts of Hermes and has been using them in a ventriloquist act.
Mark 7-G is actually Homer Simpson's computer evolved over 1000 years. #Canon.
Hermes decides to get his brain replaced with a computer, but his back alley surgeon refuses. Hermes and Professor Farnsworth (West) dig up a dead robot brain, but it turns out it was Roberto's. As Farnsworth is about to perform the brain transplant, LaBarbara arrives and tells Hermes she'll divorce him if he goes through with it. Farnsworth refuses, but Hermes, now near emotionless, threatens the group until Zoidberg does the operation. However, he places the brain into the ventriloquist dummy, which brings it back to life as the normal Hermes, only for Roberto's brain to take over Hermes' robot body. Roberto tries to eat Hermes, only to have the heat of Hermes' Jamaican food burn through his metal frame, melting him. Hermes ends up thanking Zoidberg, even though he still hates him.
The premise of this episode is pretty solid. Hermes, a person obsessed with efficiency, is a natural candidate for a cybernetic upgrade. It honestly boggles the mind why he hasn't already gotten some kind of high-efficiency enhancement, or at least LASIK. Tying it into his feelings of inferiority make it somewhat more relatable, particularly since he needs it for his job at the beginning. However, they never lose the humorous bits by having many of the upgrades being wildly impractical, including the chest harpoon that starts the whole thing. The final reveal that the thing that saves the crew is Hermes' body being impossibly spicy is both foreshadowed and just freaking hilarious.
MechaHermes cares not for goat. Or symmetry.
This episode does mark a notable increase in Roberto's craziness, particularly since he moves to being much more blatantly homicidal and strangely obsessed with eating skin. I guess there's a little bit of a precedent for this from when he threatened to turn Fry's lungs into hamburger patties in another episode, but it still feels like a massive deviation from his usual crazy. It also seems ridiculous to me that Hermes would steal his brain for the surgery. While I could buy the Professor or Bender getting a robot brain without caring to look at the source, this is the new extremely obsessed Hermes.
Genuinely creepy.
Overall, still a good episode, particularly for this season.
Zoidberg self-harmonizing while singing a parody of "Monster Mash" while replacing Hermes's brain with a robot CPU. Even writing that sentence is amazing. It's insane enough that Zoidberg apparently does medicine correctly, for once, but that he does it to a musical number and harmonizes with his own ventriloquist dummy just elevates it to another level of funny. Even Amy has to call out the fact that it's ridiculous.
He was actually pretty impressive.
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Futurama Fridays – S7E6 "The Butterjunk Effect"
Leela and Amy take the world of competitive floating by storm.
Fry and Leela (Billy West and Katey Sagal) are on a double date with Amy and Kif (Lauren Tom and Maurice LaMarche) where the ladies keep making catty comments to each other. Later, on a delivery, they attend a Butterfly Derby, a sporting event where women fight each other while floating using butterfly wings. Leela and Amy agree to compete, only to be beaten. However, they do well enough that they are offered a position as a competitive team named The Wingnuts. Unfortunately, they still lose every match, leading them to take the steroid-like Ocephalus Nectar. It improves their musculature and their performance in matches, but makes them mean and aggressive. They eventually qualify for the championships, but the entire Nectar supply is bought by their opponents. The crew journeys to Kif's homeworld in order to harvest more.
I'm sure rule 34 hit this hard.
At the butterfly sanctuary where the nectar can be found, they are warned not to provoke the males. Fry soon does and is sprayed by a foul-smelling liquid. However, Amy and Leela both find the scent arousing, as the liquid was butterfly pheromones and the Nectar ingested have made the two act like female butterflies. They decide to go cold turkey while Fry slowly builds a cocoon around himself. During the match, the now normal Wingnuts are getting beaten badly, but Fry hatches as a butterfly and their opponents fly to him due to their Nectar abuse, saving the girls. Fry sheds his butterfly body and returns to normal.
I seem to have a soft spot for this episode despite not really thinking it's a particularly well-written one. I like it mostly because I think the Butterfly Derby was one of the funnier "theoretically possible" things this show ever came up with. I don't know if you can do it on the moon, but people, like XKCD, have pointed out that you can definitely do it on some of the moons of Saturn. Perhaps you can do it on the moon if there is a false atmosphere in place. Maybe if it's more oxygen rich? I dunno. I could do the math but I haven't slept in two days and I'm pretty sure I'd add it up to Llama. Llamas are bigger than bullfrogs. No, I'm not planning on editing this.
You could do this on a bridge.
Doing an episode about steroid abuse for laughs is a bit overused. I think the Simpsons have done it at least twice. Hell, South Park did it with the Special Olympics, something that they probably should apologize for, honestly. The subplot about Fry becoming a butterfly is kind of weak because you do know that eventually he's going to come flying out. You probably even get the eventual twist because they already revealed he's irresistible to Nectar addicts. However, I still think his final random popping out is pretty well-timed. They even mention that he has no brain activity and that is no different than normal.
Yeah, Rule 34 loved this episode.
Overall, not the best episode, but I still think it's got a certain charm to it.
It's the exchange between Leela and the Professor about Nectar. When he says that the nectar worries him, the following follows:
Leela: Professor, there's nothing wrong with Nectar. It's all natural.
Farnsworth: So are carrots, but you don't see me injecting them between my toes!
While this would be funny enough, he proceeds to put a carrot in his mouth and light it like a cigar before smoking it. This one amuses me to the point that I feel like I have thought of it every time I try to eat a carrot since.
High as f*ck.
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Fernando Domingos de Moura (born 16 April 1981 in Guarujá, São Paulo), known simply as Fernando, is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a forward.

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