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Now, with excellent television series such as Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, Space: Above and Beyond, and mind candy such as Star Trek, he is happy that its popularity is catching on with the American public, which is usually thrilled with the dregs of creativity, such as sitcoms.
Similarly, science fiction's popularity in film cannot be denied.
Multi-million dollar successes such as the
Star Wars trilogies, Jurassic Park, the Star Trek films, Close Encounters, and countless others, have ensured that science fiction will certainly stay a major part of the entertainment industry
The height of Emmo's anime fandom brought 7 trips to Japan to buy what was still rather scarce in the U.S. However, despite taking Japanese language classes at UCLA and another community college, his interest lagged, due to the fact that it was hard to follow the majority of stories, and harder to find translations. Now, despite a lot of work as a staffer at the yearly Anime Expo, he is pretty much out of the field. Perhaps, when domestic companies improve their translations and audio/video transfer quality, he may return.
Another fascinating line of Lego is the Dacta educational line. While harder to get than the Technic line, Dacta offers some incredible capabilities, including computer interfaces, optical and positional sensors, and more! Emmo is awaiting a chance to purchase some of these and experiment.
Unfortunately, the Model I met its demise on the way to college, and Emmo, after valiantly trying to resurrect the poor thing, wound up buying a Model IV TRS-80...the last of the line. Not nearly as much fun as the Model I, it nevertheless served him well until he left college, moved to Los Angeles, and bought a 486DX33 PC with 8MB of RAM, and a 200 MB hard drive. What a leap in tech!
Now running a mix of AMD64's and Intel Core 2 Duo machines, he is thinking of downsizing his home network, because frankly, with the speed PCs have reached in the past few years, there's really no point in having so many around at once.