20091121 Blog - Again with the movies ( Read more... )

This is what a disaster movie should be. I remember those early ones like Earthquake and The Towering Inferno. You had to sit through the familial histories of about ten different families. And not particularly interesting histories, at that. But the idea was, it personalized the tragedy of the disaster or made you care about the characters or ( Read more... )

Charlie Wilson's War ( Read more... )

OK, so here it is, another holiday (Veterans / Remembrance /Armistice Day) and I have a cold. Clearly, all of my physiology is under the control of my mind. Let’s see... off the 11th, let’s schedule the common cold for the 10th. Yesterday would normally have been a day off as well, but I had an appointment with my dental hygienist and then a ( Read more... )

There are two main spins to the election results, in which key states that went for Obama, New Jersey and my own state, Virginia, voted in Republican governors. (In Virginia, I don’t think there were Democrats who got elected to dog-catcher ( Read more... )

As I said in my status yesterday, I worked as an assistant chief election officer during that debacle of an election. There were a few odd moments. As usual, the guy who (for some reason) always services my heat pump (despite the fact that he works for a company with no doubt numerous workers) came to vote. But it turned out he had left the company ( Read more... )

20091020 Blog ( Read more... )

This is really sort of a rough draft for a review that I'll probably have to write for work. Truancy was one of the top twenty novels for young adults selected by the Young Adult Library Services Association:

Isamu Fukui was a 17 year-old senior at Stuyvesant High School in New York City when his first novel, Truancy, was published in 2008. Best I ( Read more... )

I like end of the world flicks and so I didn’t exactly mind watching this one, but really, it was at best, mediocre. Rather than give any more of an overall review than that, I just want to make a few comments:

1) A robot like that was kinda cool in 1956. (Although I vaguely seem to remember thinking even when I saw that version that the robot was ( Read more... )

Seem to be down to blogging about once a week these days. Sometimes I blog, but don’t post them, as with my account of when a storm knocked down a huge tree limb, which put my driveway out of commission for a while. The blog was a bit mundane.

So I’ve apparently decided it would be more interesting to blog about not blogging it...

Well, let’s turn ( Read more... )