I am now an official playground equipment tester.
Metro Parks Tacoma (@metparkstacoma)2/18/10 12:25 PMA very special guest (aka @erikemery MPT Park Commissioner) gives the new Kompan equipment a test drive at Garfield Park. http://ow.ly/i/wN1
The Happy Movie Trilogy
This weekend Mary and I watched Groundhog Day. Both AO Scott and Roger Ebert had plugged it on Groundhog Day as a great movie and it reminded us that we wanted to see it again. For me, it's part of what I think of as the Happy Movie Trilogy. Three movies, all dating back to about the same era–late 80s, early 90s, when I was just really starting to get into movies. They are all uplifting in their own individual way. I bet I watch each every 3 or 4 years. The movies are: Groundhog Day–with a message somewhere between Read more…
Crayola Rockets
via jcrocket.com Awesome. Via @RR_Anderson
On Avatar
I thought Avatar was a fine movie. Good blockbuster spectacle, coherent plot, fine characters, and well-made all around. It was the first movie I've seen with the newer 3D system (as opposed to the older blue and red cellophane glasses). I thought that the 3D effect was pretty good, too, though I don't know that the movie would have felt lessened in any way if I'd seen it on a regular screen. A lot of people have lobbed some criticisms at it for a "standard" or "generic" plot. Sure, it's the same plot as Pocahontas, Dances With Wolves, and probably Read more…
The Girl Who Played With Fire
I read the 2nd book in the Millenium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson. Again, I was totally hooked. It didn't have the freshness of the first book, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but it was still very very good. Good enough I'm tempted to buy the third book from the the Amazon.co.uk site rather than waiting for it to be released in the US (which isn't until the end of May).
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