stumbling my way through a digital life
Gettin’ ready to brave the 10 Freeway to Old Town Pasadena, tonight. A good time is always had in the Playhouse district. Trying to decide which movie to see tonight. We are way behind in our cinema viewing. Options include “In America”, “Big Fish”, “Mystic River” or “Lost in Translation”. Recommendations?
I’ll blog later about our choice and offer up my humble opinion. …::As Always::…
Learned a valuable lesson today while walking home from school today…
When the wind is blowing vigorously on a January afternoon, avoid walking directly under palm trees. You see, they’ve got these little seeds that when accelerated by the aforementioned gusts of wind can darn well take your eye out. I got lucky and was only pelted on the chin with one of these little agents of death, but none the less my future career was in jeporday.
Here’s a shot of the projectile. Live in fear.
If you’re like me, you’re still shaking your head over Bush’s State of the Union address last week. The good folks over at The Center for American Progress did a point-by-point analysis of the President’s speech. In science, we would call this peer-review and the President’s statements would never be allowed to be published, but in politics they just call it campaigning. The “politics as usual” license is an unusual one in that it let’s the most powerful man-in-the-world distort facts (read:lie) at will on a global platform.
In other news, Halliburton has finally admitted to giving employees $6 million in kickbacks (yes, million). I blogged about this whole Halliburton mess a few months back and received some heat for going up against big oil. For those interested, check out this article describing the aforementioned debauchery.
Thanks to boingboing.net for the link.
This morning, I was happy to hear that the final installment of the Lord of the Rings is nominated for an Oscar for best picture and that Peter Jackson is nominated for Best Director. While the competition from Mystic River or Master and Commander looks tough, most everyone agrees that this should be LOTR’s year. While nominated for the first two installments, everyone had the feeling that the Academy was waiting until the final piece of the trilogy was finished to honor this epic.
For their sake’s I hope they don’t disappoint a legion of fans across America. If Return of the King doesn’t win, the nerds of America will take to the streets and make the L.A. riots look like a day at kindergarten. I kid you not. Strap in.
Man, I’m late for class…
Check out this audio clip of that freak-show of a presidental hopeful, Howard Dean. Not sure who mixed this clip up, but it’s really quite catchy.
Yeaaaahhhhggg!
“President Bush spent most of last weekend clearing brush at his Crawford, Texas ranch then jumped at the chance to “mend fences” at the Special Summit of the Americas in Monterrey, Mexico. Disappointingly for Bush, the Monterrey fences were “metaphorical,” and Bush packed his post digger for nothing.”
I’ve decided that if you’re not watching “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” that you are missing one of the funniest shows on television. For those of you who missed Wednesday’s coverage of the State of the Union address, I’ve got some links that are a must! For fans of the show, you should know that the show’s website consistently has extended coverage that doesn’t make it into the show.
Click Here for the Jon Stewart’s take on the State of the Union Address
And what about Howard Dean’s meltdown after the Iowa caucus? Wow. The Daily Show doesn’t play favorites and offers commentary on Howard Dean, M.D.’s near aneurysm in his now infamous post-Iowa pep-rally.
Enjoy!
I’ve been meaning to post this for all those interested but have perpetually been forgetting about it. Well thanks to some unwelcome boredom at school this week (fellow LLU students understand), I’ve been catching up on Cory Doctorow’s awesome novel “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” on my Palm handheld.
Cory is an awesome novelist as well as an all around good guy. He’s a prominent force at the Electronics Frontier Foundation and is diligently working to keep big brother out of our of our digital lives. In the true sprit of art and literature, Cory makes his works freely available for personal use under the Creative Commons License. If you like his work, do him a favor and buy a copy of his book via his site.
Here are the links to “Down & Out In the Magic Kingdom” in various formats.
Palm Reader Version for Palm OS Devices
Microsoft Reader Format for Pocket PC
PDF Version for all platforms
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