I am too lazy to sort
This is nice thing to hear about. Oregon representative Earl Blumenauer introduces some resolution to aid in making bicycling a viable means of transportation in the US.
We need some of this type of stuff so that a)we begin to mitigate our reliance on gasoline, b)we offer ourselves an alternative means of transportation, c) we give ourselves some exercise to win our own fat war, and d)we make nicer communities.
Yo, CapitolSwell! Get to work!
It’s always good for a post to check referers. I’ll just pick the recent ones and comment. Simple and effective. Plus then I start my own google bomb to get these to the top. Very self-referential and weird!
NY escort kottke: Must be wondering what kottke thinks about Gov. Spitzer resigning or even looking for some special service.
apple unboxing: Looking for some great computer porn.
oksana akinshina naked: What’s a week without this search term?
when love is unrequited the whole world is crap: Searches for NewsRadio quotes drive traffic here.
doobie keebler: ditto
ellen page show me love: Is she making the English remake? I hope she isn’t? She’s too sassy for an Agnes.
cool lamp shades: I keep meaning to get me some.
8-bit video game music: Sounds cool!
negative about monte pego: Can’t think of any. Oh, here’s one: it’s too far away right now. Darn.
That’s it for today. There’s no naked Oksana Akinshina here! Look for Oksana Akinshina naked here!
Dolphin saves whales in New Zealand. That’s just too cute to pass up.
Reminds me of Doug Adam’s “Thanks for the fishes!” when the end of the world arrives and the dolphins fly away leaving us dumb humans left to perish.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day features Amy Adams in all her princess-ness as singer/actor, Delysia LaFosse juggling three men. Frances McDormand is the titular character who helps her Delysia sort the men until she finds her true love.
It doesn’t sound appealing. It wasn’t at times, but what can you ask for a Sunday matinee. I feel that this was one of those stories that old time Hollywood gave to their leading ladies to pass the time. Not the classic, but a solid sub-par A. It will fill out the bill.
McDormand must have jumped on this at the urging of her husband, Joel Coen, because this looked like one of the Coen brother period pieces they so love. Except in London, every thing was the look.
3 of 5 stars.
Watching School Rumble reminds me of the NewsRadio quote, “Because I’m neither Japanese, 14 years old, or a girl.” Bill says this to Matthew thanking him for the Hello Kitty! school bag in his own acidic way. I am not Japanese, or 14 years, and I’m not a girl, but School Rumble is fun in a way that makes me feel like that. I’ve got the first two DVDs and am now eager to see the rest.
If my ramblings do convince you to watch it, catch a few episodes here.
I should’ve kept up my Cocoa skills. Damn two years is a long time. Plus the damn dev environment went from 2.0 to 3.1 during that time.
One of things I’ve been doing is watching all the iPhone getting started videos. They’re slight in their information, but they give a very nice gloss on the state of iPhone development. It’s something every one should do. Also, it’s funny because some of the presenters were also in the Big Nerd Ranch class, too.
Anyway, this shit is cool!
Tell me why again do I work at Initech? http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080306-live-coverage-of-the-iphon
e-software-roadmap-announcement.html
Not only has it been a while since I wrote a blog post (only broken by this flurry today), but it’s been a while since I read a novel. I think I’ve read a few non-fiction books, but no work of fiction since the trip to Spain and the darn jPod by Douglas Coupland.
Well, I did it. I finished a novel, Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. I fell back into my love for science fiction and decided to pick up one of the better hard science fiction books out there. It seems that this novel is beloved by sci-fi fans. And after breezing through it for the past 10 days. I can understand why.
The story follows the colonization of Mars in the middle of this century by 100 men and women scientists. They establish a toehold of civilization on the red planet. Once mankind has landed, then it was inevitable that things started to change. The story weaves through a couple of decades as mankind begins to terraform amd mine the planet bending it to mankind’s needs. Eventually, like Heinlen’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, this outpost must decide to break from the control of its masters, and like the British colonies, a revolution is staged to make Mars and its population the governors of the fate of Mars.
The story segues from scientific exploration of life and living on Mars to that of politics of independence and colonization to social order of capitalism versus benevolent communism and to religious and spirituality of a new world order. The themes permeate the book. And the author tells the story of the first 100 from several perspectives.
It ends with the death of the red mars. A small contingent of survivors ready to bring about a new green mars. And the bevy of corporations ready to take over.
My first reaction to the book was one of a good read. I probably breezed through the first 200 pages in a night. Then I came back nightly reading a few chapters before I fell asleep. That is until the John Boone chapters which were difficult to get through. It dealt with him becoming the legend that he is, but was not as fun as the other narrators. Not until after his part did things really move forward to the revolution and it became hard to put the book down.
So, now I’m finished it. It’s just the first installment of the three books of Mars. Why is it always a trilogy? Yet, I don’t know if I can read the next two. I was bogged down in the middle there worried about the politics of creating a new martian order, so I am worried that the next will be the same. It’s like when I read The Golden Compass did I want to read the next three. But that wasn’t as good a read as this book. I might have to.
Grade: A-
La tienda has some of what CapitolSwell’s been looking for.
