"The opening gunfight is breathlessly thrilling, and the sequence featuring an SUV in a lift shaft is extremely intense. On the other hand, the jet vs tractor-trailer on a collapsing motorway is both implausible and gratuitous." -- film critic Rich Kline

It's a review like this that just solidifies my desire to see such over-the-top films as Live ( Read more... )

Two more quotes from A History of Western Philosophy:

"At Miletus the people were first victorious and murdered the wives and children of the aristrocrats; then the aristocrats prevailed and burned their opponents alive, lighting up the open spaces of the city with live torches." (From Rostovtseff's History of the Ancient WorldPythagoras is one of ( Read more... )

A quote from the Bacchae of Euripides:
Will they ever come to me, ever again,
     The long, long dances,
On through the dark till the dim stars wane?
Shall I feel the dew on my throat and the stream
Of wind in my hair? Shall our white feet gleam
     In the dim expanses?
One of the ways I shall keep busy this summer is to read a chapter of ( Read more... )

Whew! Made it through to the other side of Scavhunt 2007. I think I'll write about that in a seperate entry, especially if I can get all the pictures online that I was hoping for ( Read more... )

Question for you fourth years: any spare graduation tickets? We get six; eight of my family would really like to come.

So tonight was cool because I got to catch up with a friend that I have not seen in some time. Someone who is really awesome, and yet unfortunately is Woman. Otherkind. And thus I managed to make things a good sight more awkward than they had to be ( Read more... )

I was looking at some of the greatest unsolved problems in mathematics, and came across the question of Ramsey Numbers. Briefly: define a complete graph on n vertices to be 'n' different points each connected to every other. So, here are a few complete graphs:


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In today's lecture on crisis instability and nuclear deterrance theory, Professor Pape was in fine form, really outdoing himself with 'humorous' anecdotes and inappropriate chuckling. He shared a few stories about near nuclear disaster, and for proper effect you should finish almost every sentence with a hearty guffaw ( Read more... )

Ugh. I can't believe I woke up forty-four hours ago. The first forty-one werre just dandy ( Read more... )

I'm in the futile process of reviewing roughly 1200 pages of reading for an exam tomorrow at 8am, by which time I must also write a 10 page paper. But in the meantime, it *has* yielded some fun quotes ( Read more... )