When people asked me for my reaction to the most recent Star Wars movie, I replied that what struck me most was that the Republic doesn’t appear to have any building codes. There are these platforms several hundred meters above the ground with no railings. For example, Padmé Amidala’s fancy apartment has a front porch far above the ground. Consider: You’re carrying a load of packages to the car, the kids are running around, you turn around to yell at one of them, miss a step, and over the rim you go. How many people fall to their deaths in that galaxy?
July 7th, 2005
What struck me about life in the Republic
Category
Topics
Author
Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.
Read next
July 20, 2005
The Northwest Mahler Festival performs Mahler’s Second Symphony (“Resurrection”)
0 comments