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Wednesday, November 09, 2005
I thought Republicans were supposed to be the party of fiscal responsibility
President Bush has borrowed MORE money from foreign sources than the previous 42 Presidents combined!!I hope all of you who voted for this damaged little man are happy now: thanks to you, your children and your grandchildren - and probably THEIR grandchildren - will be in hoc to overseas governments and banks until the new moon turns to gold.See, it's times like this that the evil little "id" part of me thinks that the grown-ups in America should...
Once again, I am a teacher
Well, THIS is ironic, considering that a day and a half ago I wrote about being a student again. Earlier today I accepted a teaching position. I'll be doing that in addition to the freelance work I've been doing for the past year or so. I taught computers and Internet skills to middle-school students at a private school about three years ago and really enjoyed it. I'm really looking forward to getting back into the classroom as an instruct...
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Just finished watching National Treasure
The latest to come in from Netflix. I really liked this movie. Enough that I may have to spring for the DVD to add to my personal collection. For a history buff like me, National Treasure is like hardcore porno. Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicholas Cage) has spent his entire life pursuing the family obsession: a treasure stash beyond imagination, hidden away by George Washington and the other Founding Fathers. It's an insane romp to just about...
Would rather it be the energy sword or fuel-rod cannon
New Scientist has a story about a new weapon the U.S. military has developed: a "non-lethal" laser based device called PHASR. I think it looks too much like many of the Covenant weapons in the Halo games, particularly the carbine from Halo...
Monday, November 07, 2005
Once again, I am a student
Tonight marked the first time I've been a student in a classroom in over six years. I started taking a class on creative writing that I'm hoping will help me tap into my creative impulse more. See, people have told me for years that I'm a good writer, and I like to think that I am... at non-fiction stuff. It's fiction that I've never been able to really master. Whatever you want to call it: writer's block, thoughts scattered all over the place,...
Weird medicine: "Bio-printing"
I'm still trying to figure out how this works exactly. Here, read it for yourself and see if it makes sense to you. Sounds hella cool thou...
Pat Buchanan: How empires end
Pat Buchanan - who I've always thought of as one of America's most fascinating thinkers - has published a fascinating essay at Human Events Online. In "Paris Burning: How Empires End", he makes an analogy of what is happening right now in France and the gradual fall of the Roman Empire to barbarian tribes. A somewhat unnerving read, but well worth ...
Why no more Star Wars movies is a good thing...
The Ultimate Star Trek Collection: a 212 DVD monstrosity, collecting EVERYTHING done with Star Trek in either television or film (except for the Star Trek animated series which hasn't hit DVD yet). Yours for only $2,499.99 (with Amazon.com savings from the list price of $3908.9...
Neil Armstrong on last night's 60 Minutes
In case you missed it, Neil Armstrong gave a very rare interview with Ed Bradley on last night's edition of 60 Minutes. It came soon after the release of a new biographical book out about Armstrong. It was a pretty good interview, covering his life from growing up in Ohio to getting his pilot's license at age 16, to flying in Korea and then into a career at NASA, where at age 38 he was named mission commander for Apollo 11. It's been fairly well...
Sunday, November 06, 2005
FINALLY, a LIGHTSABER of my VERY OWN!!
Last year I gave Chad and Melody - the two leads in Forcery - real lightsaber effects. But I never did that for myself, even though I've had a Jedi costume for two years now. So this past week I put on the costume and did some antics in front of the video camera. I "premiered" this tonight to my two little cousins who are visiting from Florida, and they thought it was pretty...
They don't do television like this anymore
Yesterday Lisa was flicking across stations on the TV and came across the Hallmark Channel, which all day yesterday up 'til 11 PM was showing the entire miniseries The Thorn Birds. I'd heard about it but until now have never seen it before. Well, it came as big a surprise to me as it probably will anyone else that I started watching it with her and found myself thoroughly captivated by this series. Guess it's because I'm a big fan of the multi-generational...
Blog keeps the dream of Carolina Circle alive
One of the best stories (and they're all great) in Neil Gaiman's epic The Sandman comic series is the one taking place in ancient Baghdad, the most glorious city in the world. The city's ruler knows that such beauty will not last forever. He makes a deal with Morpheus, the series' protagonist: he will give Morpheus the city of Baghdad, if Morpheus will forever preserve the city in dreams. Thus, the Baghdad that once was will always exist despite...
Paris riots a harbinger of what might happen here
What's happening in France right now has its roots in something that's already taking place here in America: a MASSIVE, uncontrolled influx of immigrants from outside the country, who are put on the government dole but for all intents and purposes are told they do not have to assimilate to the culture.Doesn't that sound like our own situation with wild out-of-control illegal immigration that sees millions of people streaming across the border each...
Saturday, November 05, 2005
Lisa's review of Children of Eden
Last night we caught Greensboro Day School's production of Children of Eden. If you've missed it so far you can still see it tonight at 7:30 and tomorrow afternoon at 2. Anyway, I was going to write a review of it but Lisa wanted to do the honors, since she now has a blog all her very own now. Read her review of Children of Eden here. 'Twas a REALLY good show by the way ...
"Remember, remember, the Fifth of November..."
Today our Brittish brethren (props to whoever recognizes the origin of that misspelling) are celebrating the 400th anniversary of Guy Fawkes' "Gunpowder Plot". It was on this day in 1605 that Fawkes and some other conspirators were caught trying to blow up Parliament - killing the king and everybody else - by placing dozens of kegs of gunpowder beneath the building. If they'd gotten away with it they would have perpetrated one of the most legendary...
Friday, November 04, 2005
The latest on Honey, the hero cocker spaniel pup
Two days ago I posted about Honey, a cocker spaniel puppy who saved her owner's life when he was pinned inside a vehicle for several hours. Well there's an update to that story: Honey was reunited with Michael Bosch at the hospital yesterday. Here's the story from the Marin Independent Journal...Hero, victim reunited A Nicasio man and his cocker spaniel puppy were reunited...
