Fascinating video with commentary of the present-day reporter from the Guardian newspaper (UK):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2009/jul/14/apollo-11-eagle-moon-landing

Nail-biting (Neil-biting?) descent.

About this time of day 40 years ago, I was sitting in front of the television. That, in and of itself, was not so remarkable. What was unusual, even historic, was that a large percentage of the earth's population was doing the same thing at the same time -- watching a human being take the first steps on another world, our own moon. That we could ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got a package from England containing Graduation/Christmas/Mother's Day/Father's Day gifts, including a bar towel (I collect 'em, ya know) emblazoned with the words "Rebellion Brewery" and a master's thesis paper with my name in the acknowledgments. Some other cool gifts in the package: a t-shirt and program(me) from the 35th Cambridge ( Read more... )

Got tickets to Seattle International Film Festival today. Here's my line-up (so far ( Read more... )

Good god...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/11/cemetery-gravestone-design

Well, I guess it isn't actually designer until there's a Gucci or Prada label on one.

Still, appalled.

I'm curious about what others here thought of the love interest in the new Star Trek movie.

No spoiler alert needed, since the replies will be in a click-through.

I might offer my thoughts there.

Let the wild rumpus begin...

Just to prove that I haven't abandoned LJ ( Read more... )

I hadn't seen a film in a movie theater in, oh, like six months or more. So yesterday I played hooky from stuff I should have been doing and went to see "Slumdog Millionaire." I never thought I'd like a movie with so much of its storyline revolving around that crappy TV show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" (And Who Cares), but I did. Of course, the ( Read more... )

Where should I go next? I've been to Europe, Iceland (does that count as Europe?), southern South America, North Africa, SE Asia, Alaska, Hawaii, much of the continental United States (though not much of the Deep South), Mexico ( Read more... )

To be home. Here we are again. Piles of laundry everywhere. Backpacks still half unpacked in the livingroom. Sleep cycles still causing middle-of-the-night wakefulness. But it's good to come to rest in a familiar, comfortable place. Hot shower. Fluffy towel. Cat on the lap.