So, went to see Goblet of Fire last night. I'd sort of... well, not forgotten it was coming, really, but I kind of got wrapped up in other stuff. So when I finally watched it, I was seriously blown away.

That is a good movie.I won't give anything away (might write more coherent, spoilery review later) but I thought they did an incredible job. ( Read more... )

So tonight in class, the prof handed back the papers we'd turned in last week. (Prompt grading, this one. Sort of freakish and novel.) I was sorta worried about mine, because the instructions had been a bit on the complicated side, in terms of having to cover a lot of bases in a relatively short paper ( Read more... )

We have been talking before about Jesuit priests arriving with the conquistadors in South and Central American with the gospel in one hand and a rifle in the other.I know. I know. Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building. [laughs] A list of instructions where there was once conviction; ( Read more... )

The last day and a half at work has been spent learning how to 'couch' textile rips and tears. Couching is when you stabilize a fragile textile by sewing a fabric on the back of it, and then do a certain type of stitch across the worst of the tears to keep them from shredding further or getting snagged. It's rather difficult, I have to say -- ( Read more... )

You have got to be kidding me.

When I have fears that I may cease to be ( Read more... )

( September 11. )

All of these statements were made when Clinton committed
troops to Bosnia. No U.S. soldiers were killed during the
conflict.

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Insurance companies refer to natural disasters like Katrina as "acts of God."

I hate that.

God didn't want this. He didn't send a hurricane to the Gulf Coast for vengeance, or to right some great cosmic wrong.

It just happened. It doesn't matter why, or how; not right now, anyway. And it's certainly no one's fault ( Read more... )

Just got back from seeing an IMAX movie for free, at the museum. We get to see all the films before they open, which is a very cool thing, I must say. This one in particular was really neat, because space+deep ocean=RILLY COOL. Also it made me forgive James Cameron for that whole "King of the World" moment, because he really does seem to know his ( Read more... )