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:o the original Manci Pixie Dream girl https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Pixie_Dream_Girl https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Pixie_Dream_Girl

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ahartmetz 6y ago
That seems a bit disrespectul as a summary, even though I have to grudgingly admit that it's not wrong... It would have been nice for the article to say more about the woman, which would have mostly avoided the cliché!
- boomboomsubban 6y ago
  I read the biography the article draws from and it also did not mention that much about her or their relationship. It delved deeply into Dirac's childhood, but mostly ignored his home life as an adult. It makes some sense, it is a biography of Dirac, but felt strange at the time.
- mlang23 6y ago
  But the whole article is a cliché! The socially incompetent techie who is rescued by love from his rationality. I dont wanna guess how many readers here secretly hope for this event to occur at some point. Like in the story, ideally they'd not even have to court the woman. She would just appear and take care of them. Cliché!
  - lcuff 6y ago
    It does echo a bad Nicholas Sparks novel (they're all bad). But when the cliché is writ large in real life, it's touching, no? Secretly hoping for _something_ to magically rescue us from the emotional difficulties of our lives ... of course. Likelihood of it happening: (1.0 e -42).
teekert 6y ago
And the original mr. Spock?
- dnautics 6y ago
  honestly closer to Mr. Data. Spock had emotions that were repressed; Data thought he didn't have them and had to discover them, as they were relatively weak.
  - lcuff 6y ago
    I believe Data actually needed an 'emotion chip'. I recall some episode where he received one. Sometimes I think that's a pretty good description of most men (we need an emotion chip). I say that as a man, FYI.
    - dnautics 6y ago
      If you have time in the covid pandemic SIP era, go back and watch the episodes, it was a running gag that he would do something extremely human, downright emotional, and not realize it. Couple of examples off the top of my head: "The ensigns of command", final scene, where Data says goodbye to Gosheven; "Data's Day", where he proclaims that if he had 'gut feelings' he would be suspicious of the 'vulcan ambassador'; "In theory" where Data 'learns' some "toxic male" emotional behaviour by consuming media.
      - throwanem 6y ago
        "The Most Toys" is another very good example, as is "The Measure of a Man". There's not much in TNG, especially early TNG, that strongly moves me, but his conversation with Riker in the latter episode's coda never fails to.
PoachedSausage 6y ago
I wonder where Jordan from the film Real Genius fits in to that. She was definitely manic in the film.
- hprotagonist 6y ago
  But an agent of herself. Chris Knight is Mitch’s pixie dust, not Jordan. “I couldn’t figure out where to hang your sports coats,so, i threw them out. I’m chris knight!” “oh no” “oh yes!”
paganel 6y ago
Thanks for the link. Reading the article it seems that Dirac was a jerk, his only “luck” was that back in the day physicists were treated like rockstars were treated in the ‘70s and the ‘80s, otherwise I cannot explain why Margit Wigner accepted all those dick letter responses coming from him.

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ahartmetz 6y ago

That seems a bit disrespectul as a summary, even though I have to grudgingly admit that it's not wrong... It would have been nice for the article to say more about the woman, which would have mostly avoided the cliché!

boomboomsubban 6y ago
I read the biography the article draws from and it also did not mention that much about her or their relationship. It delved deeply into Dirac's childhood, but mostly ignored his home life as an adult. It makes some sense, it is a biography of Dirac, but felt strange at the time.
mlang23 6y ago
But the whole article is a cliché! The socially incompetent techie who is rescued by love from his rationality. I dont wanna guess how many readers here secretly hope for this event to occur at some point. Like in the story, ideally they'd not even have to court the woman. She would just appear and take care of them. Cliché!
- lcuff 6y ago
  It does echo a bad Nicholas Sparks novel (they're all bad). But when the cliché is writ large in real life, it's touching, no? Secretly hoping for _something_ to magically rescue us from the emotional difficulties of our lives ... of course. Likelihood of it happening: (1.0 e -42).

teekert 6y ago

And the original mr. Spock?

dnautics 6y ago
honestly closer to Mr. Data. Spock had emotions that were repressed; Data thought he didn't have them and had to discover them, as they were relatively weak.
- lcuff 6y ago
  I believe Data actually needed an 'emotion chip'. I recall some episode where he received one. Sometimes I think that's a pretty good description of most men (we need an emotion chip). I say that as a man, FYI.
  - dnautics 6y ago
    If you have time in the covid pandemic SIP era, go back and watch the episodes, it was a running gag that he would do something extremely human, downright emotional, and not realize it. Couple of examples off the top of my head: "The ensigns of command", final scene, where Data says goodbye to Gosheven; "Data's Day", where he proclaims that if he had 'gut feelings' he would be suspicious of the 'vulcan ambassador'; "In theory" where Data 'learns' some "toxic male" emotional behaviour by consuming media.
    - throwanem 6y ago
      "The Most Toys" is another very good example, as is "The Measure of a Man". There's not much in TNG, especially early TNG, that strongly moves me, but his conversation with Riker in the latter episode's coda never fails to.

PoachedSausage 6y ago

I wonder where Jordan from the film Real Genius fits in to that. She was definitely manic in the film.

hprotagonist 6y ago
But an agent of herself. Chris Knight is Mitch’s pixie dust, not Jordan. “I couldn’t figure out where to hang your sports coats,so, i threw them out. I’m chris knight!” “oh no” “oh yes!”

paganel 6y ago

Thanks for the link. Reading the article it seems that Dirac was a jerk, his only “luck” was that back in the day physicists were treated like rockstars were treated in the ‘70s and the ‘80s, otherwise I cannot explain why Margit Wigner accepted all those dick letter responses coming from him.