Just discovered that they've made the Dark is Rising into a movie!!!
and that the movie probably sucks :(
They made the hero an AMERICAN and toned down the Christian symbolism- what???? The Susan Cooper stories are soooooo English and sooooo Christian-mythic...it's like...making a movie about the Beatles and deciding they should be American punk

Elvis is/was a vampire. No kidding.

Rinpoche's talk last night was awesome. Events had been closed for so long I'd forgotten the subtle differences between his public and sangha-only talks. It was like seeing an intimate friend at work or up on stage. It was still him but whole flavor was different. A little more formal. A little more wild, too. And of course, very, very funny.

Realized I should have posted this to my friends page a while ago but assumed no one was interested and today decided to post anyways ( Read more... )

Your results:
You are Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)
Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)
80%
Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)
75%
Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic)
75%
Wash (Ship Pilot)
60%
Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic)
60%
Jayne Cobb (Mercenary)
50%
River (Stowaway)
45%
Inara Serra (Companion)
35%
Alliance
35%
A Reaver (Cannibal)
20%
Derrial Book ( ( Read more... )

Just finished John Wood's "Leaving Microsoft to change the World". Awesome book. I think many of you would like it. The author left a high-powered job at Microsoft to start building libraries and schools in remote parts of Nepal and now runs an international NGO (www.roomtoread.org) with projects all over Asia and now in Africa.

For a while now I've wanted new offering bowls for the altar at home. The ones we have are actually ex-candle holders from our wedding. They're fine but a little large for the size of altar we have and require more than one pitcher of water to fill them all. I find the trip for more water to be an inelegant interruption in my morning offerings ( Read more... )

So we watched Armageddon tonight. Not the Bruce Willis one- the Chinese one. It sucked in a totally different way. You would think that a country that makes such good action movies could put more action into a science fiction movie-but noooooo, that would involve something actually happening! I did enjoy the main character's geek squad, though ( Read more... )

Has anyone else seen The Host? I'd like to see some good commentary on the title and the movie.

no internet at work today...
must. have. net.
ahhh. much better now.