District 9 is an excellent film
If you were wondering last year why District 9, a sci-fi movie about aliens coming to earth, was nominated for Best Picture, just watch the movie. It's an incredibly good movie–alternatively funny, horrifying, and intense, with a lot to say. Well worth the rental. I wish I'd seen it in the theaters.
Your classic hit for the day
via youtube.com Another song you’ll almost never hear on the radio anymore … I grew up with these songs … KBSG stopped playing Oldies, and KMCQ doesn’t go back this far. So it’s nice when I find some of the gems.
For iPhone twitterers. Tweet a photo of your homescreen. Might be a good way to discover new apps. #phonehome
This is mine. I love Things, Tweetie, and Reeder. Might be my favorite non-standard apps. Giving Harvest a go as a time tracker. We’ll see.
Jaya (a tiger at the zoo) is expecting twins, maybe triplets. And they’re due on my birthday! Maybe we’ll share cake together.
Zoo: Point Defiance officials announce that cubs are due May 22 via thenewstribune.com
Our 5 min. movie is showing at the Rialto tomorrow night. Don’t forget to get your tickets! Here are the requirements for the film:
Situation: Within the first minute of the movie, each film must find a bag with something important in it (and it must be relevant to the rest of the film) Line of Dialogue: “Should I know what that means?” Prop: A map Action: Breaking 5 minute maximum, length including credits via grandcinema.com
Galileo’s Dream
I have read many books by Kim Stanley Robinson including two trilogies (the Mars books and his Science in the Capital trilogy). Galileo's Dream was both unusual and yet typical from him. Unusual, in that it was primarily a work of historical fiction about Galileo. Typical, but he also painted a picture of a fantastic future that is not dystopian and is rather idealistic. In Galileo's Dream, he achieves this by having a future society living on the moons of Jupiter (circa the year 3020) contact Galileo. The "first scientist" goes back and forth between his present life in Florence Read more…
The State of Our Uncivil Union
If broadcast and cable media both encourage and reflect cultural divisiveness, online communities seem to fuel it even further. “The Internet has allowed everyone to hold a can of red paint and spray the wall,” says Erik Hanberg ’02. “They can say whatever mean thing they want to say and sit back and watch the fallout. That’s one of the plagues of the Internet.” via apps.carleton.edu I’m quoted in the Carleton Voice, the Carleton alumni magazine, on civil discourse. It paints me as being a little bit more down on the state of civil discourse than I generally am, but Read more…
For my readers who like taking care of themselves …
My friend Vania has been teaching private yoga lessons and at the YMCA for awhile now. Just this past week she started offering morning yoga sessions at Studio 6 Ballroom 4 mornings a week for $10/session. The two weekday classes start at 6:15 and get done before you have to get to work. Personally, I can't remember the last time I saw 6:15. But the weekend sessions start at 8:30 am, and that's not so bad at all. I've never done yoga, but I'm intrigued enough I might check one of those out. Here's her site with more info.
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