"The Church says the Earth is Flat,
But I know that it is Round,
For I have seen the Shadow On the Moon,
And I have more Faith in a Shadow Than in the Church."
- Ferdinand Magellan
I have satellite television, and the dish is certainly ugly. However, mine is mounted on a metal posts set into the ground behind a large flowering shrub. This keeps it hidden from the street view, and it still function just fine. They could do something similar.
C.S. Lewis was a splendid writer indeed. I love his work absolutely. However, to say that Lewis was a better author than Tolkien is quite a statement to make. Lewis was about the individual story. Tolkien was about these individual stories _as part of the vast epic whole_. Their style and intent differed, yet they were friends and both part of the same writing group. Lewis targeted someone wanting a good story that was delightful and easy to read. He was better at staying on target as a children's author. Tolkien began by telling his children stories, but his mind worked on a larger scale, leaping from the stories of individuals to the stories of societies. There is a completely different manner of delight to be had from Tolkien's immersive archaic style as it envelops the reader and demands concentration. Lewis was better at writing for the average reader; Tolkien assumed and demanded more intelligence and education, as he was writing partially for the edification of his own love of language and ancient epics, not for the average person. They are both some of my favourite writers, BTW. Everyone should read both.:)
Of the movies listed, Pan's Labyrinth certainly gives one the most hope for a movie worthy of The Hobbit. The style will be a bit different from Peter Jackson's, of course. What I would hope for is that the director be as big a fan of Tolkien as Peter Jackson is. Is del Toro this dedicated to the books? Also worth noting is that The Hobbit is less heavy in tone as compared to the Lord of the Rings... more thought of as a children's book, while still introducing themes and characters that would later be more heavily and darkly developed in LOTR. Having seen Pan's Labyrinth, I am cautiously optimistic that del Torro _may_ be a good candidate to strike this balance if he can keep from making things too very dark.
What I'm wondering, is what on earth is "The Hobbit 2" supposed to be? It is now listed on IMDB for Del Torro along with "The Hobbit." Are they splitting the book in half or what?
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1170358/
I immediately had happy thoughts of adaptable ship computers a la Star Trek the Next Generation. They were always re-routing pathways though the systems on the spur of the moment to reach more resources or get past damage.:)
Yes, I am a geek.
Wow. Who knew West Virginia and Norway had so much in common?:) When we were kids, I would read books to my cousin, since she got car-sick and I did not. Too bad that won't work with a gameboy.
Bravo!
For anyone who doubts: Turn on your local PBS channel late at night and watch the BBC World News. Note the vast differences in what gets covered as compared to US news. Note the opinions of the World community that get downplayed or ignored by US media. The fact that so many of my fellow Americans take the first source of news they hear as stone truth, and do not look elsewhere malkes us look as dense as our test scores. This is what you get when you do not teach your children to think; when you teach them that they are not allowed to question authority becuase that would be un-patriotic. They learn to gobble whatever is sent their way blindly. This is true from fast-food to information. This is the underlying cause of many of our current social ills.
Excellent reminder that there is a fine line between due caution and paranoia. If you keep the masses on the paranoia side of the line, they're too busy being scared to question the neccessity for fighting a war... Gee... sounds eerily familiar...
See, even the Bible admits that species can go extinct or change. (which some evolution opponents deny) God must get a good chuckle whenever someone starts howling about how evolution didn't happen, acting like they know just what process their god used to start life. Either that, or he is continually disappointed because so many of us refuse to see the clues left lying around for us to learn from, wasting these brains we were given.
I mean, come on, a day isn't the same length on Mars as here on Earth, and yet some morons still think it must have been literally 7 Earth days in which the universe was made!
Just what I was going to ask! As a life-long native of WV, I often feel like a culural outisder who has imigrated to a related but quite different country, where everyone is unfathomably rich, and that just from growing up in Southern WV and moving to the more affluent and educated northern part of the state as an adult.
Why do so many masses of people assume that the USA is so uniformly the same jsut because that is what they see on TV? Why are so many US citizens so blind to the poverty and struggle in many places in their own country? Why do we care if people have it so horribly in other countries when we do nothing to fix our own socio-cultural-economic problems? It is not jsut WV, KY, or MI. Many in rural and inner city America have a similar attitude of "why care about the outsiders, they obviously don't care about us!?"
If the fellow were to walk a mile in the shoes I grew up with, he would fare as poorly as I would in his. We would each be out of our native element.
You couldn't tell how split we are by our last two elections? We have wider gaps between philosophies, in terms of how liberal or conservative we are, than we have for some time. The population is divided.
It is not about feeling personally superior for helping someone. It is primarily about other people not having the right to feel like they are _entitled_ to whatever money you have worked hard to accumulate. It's about having the _choice_ to spend your money/effort/time helping where _you_ see fit. Not where your governemnt sees fit. In your own community, your own people.
I figured Ms. Le Guin had been left out of this production while I was watching it. I really looked forward to a hopefully well-done Earthsea movie. As I watched it, and wondered what happened to the Nameless One, and where the Amulet came from, and where this sisterhood of goodness and light came from... etc, etc, I was more and more disappointed. Ms. Le Guin, I bow to your talent. The Sci-Fi Channel is failing to live up to it's potential. They have the potential to make millions of very loyal sf/f fans deleriously happy and loyal fans of their channel. But this sort of thing only plays to the uninformed masses. Oh, yes, I suppose there are more of those people to sell things too... I wonder if Peter Jackson likes Earthsea?
http://www.fotolog.net/
Static, been around a while, good design and lots of technical glitches.Simple, 1 photo a day.
http://www.flickr.com/
Still in Beta, makes extensive and phenomenal use of flash, amazing design, and seems pretty stable already. 10mb bandwidth/month
to the dangers of SUVs in accidents with little cars is to quit making miniature cars.;)
Seriously, the current "ooh, big" trend may have gotten out of hand in large cities, but there are many people with valid reasons to have SUVs in this country.
Here in Appalachia, there are many sub-par roads, and much bad weather. It's amazing how all those people I know who think it's weird, impractical, or politically incorrect to own an SUV or truck mysteriously forget all their objections when they need me to help them move furniture, etc. with my truck, or when our lovely winter weather means they can't get to the grocery store and I can. After years of driving a truck, hauling more passengers may be nice, so my next vehicle in a few years may be an SUV because I'm not willing to give up the conveniences of the truck form factor to seat those few extra passengers, or to live without 4 wheel drive in these mountains.
And if I had children? An SUV for me, as minivans scrape the pavement on uneven hilly drives.
What I'm really waiting for is for GM to get in gear and put out a hybrid truck and a hybrid SUV. Yeah!
I have to join the group saying Clié for me. I didn't want a PocketPC, and for the features at a given price(and the screen!) The Palm and Handspring models just didn't cut it.
The Pocket PCs have some very nice bells and whistles, but they um, have crashes and stuff, and if I could afford to spen $500, then I could get pretty much equivalent features on a Clié. Could I on a Palm or Handspring? Not quite, because while Palm is trying, those I looked at seem to still be working out the kinks in their design.
The Cliés have soem nice designs.
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"The Church says the Earth is Flat, But I know that it is Round, For I have seen the Shadow On the Moon, And I have more Faith in a Shadow Than in the Church." - Ferdinand Magellan
I have satellite television, and the dish is certainly ugly. However, mine is mounted on a metal posts set into the ground behind a large flowering shrub. This keeps it hidden from the street view, and it still function just fine. They could do something similar.
C.S. Lewis was a splendid writer indeed. I love his work absolutely. However, to say that Lewis was a better author than Tolkien is quite a statement to make. Lewis was about the individual story. Tolkien was about these individual stories _as part of the vast epic whole_. Their style and intent differed, yet they were friends and both part of the same writing group. Lewis targeted someone wanting a good story that was delightful and easy to read. He was better at staying on target as a children's author. Tolkien began by telling his children stories, but his mind worked on a larger scale, leaping from the stories of individuals to the stories of societies. There is a completely different manner of delight to be had from Tolkien's immersive archaic style as it envelops the reader and demands concentration. Lewis was better at writing for the average reader; Tolkien assumed and demanded more intelligence and education, as he was writing partially for the edification of his own love of language and ancient epics, not for the average person. They are both some of my favourite writers, BTW. Everyone should read both. :)
Of the movies listed, Pan's Labyrinth certainly gives one the most hope for a movie worthy of The Hobbit. The style will be a bit different from Peter Jackson's, of course. What I would hope for is that the director be as big a fan of Tolkien as Peter Jackson is. Is del Toro this dedicated to the books? Also worth noting is that The Hobbit is less heavy in tone as compared to the Lord of the Rings... more thought of as a children's book, while still introducing themes and characters that would later be more heavily and darkly developed in LOTR. Having seen Pan's Labyrinth, I am cautiously optimistic that del Torro _may_ be a good candidate to strike this balance if he can keep from making things too very dark. What I'm wondering, is what on earth is "The Hobbit 2" supposed to be? It is now listed on IMDB for Del Torro along with "The Hobbit." Are they splitting the book in half or what? http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1170358/
I immediately had happy thoughts of adaptable ship computers a la Star Trek the Next Generation. They were always re-routing pathways though the systems on the spur of the moment to reach more resources or get past damage. :)
Yes, I am a geek.
Metallica should send Sean Fanning a signed apology.
Wow. Who knew West Virginia and Norway had so much in common? :) When we were kids, I would read books to my cousin, since she got car-sick and I did not. Too bad that won't work with a gameboy.
Bravo! For anyone who doubts: Turn on your local PBS channel late at night and watch the BBC World News. Note the vast differences in what gets covered as compared to US news. Note the opinions of the World community that get downplayed or ignored by US media. The fact that so many of my fellow Americans take the first source of news they hear as stone truth, and do not look elsewhere malkes us look as dense as our test scores. This is what you get when you do not teach your children to think; when you teach them that they are not allowed to question authority becuase that would be un-patriotic. They learn to gobble whatever is sent their way blindly. This is true from fast-food to information. This is the underlying cause of many of our current social ills.
Excellent reminder that there is a fine line between due caution and paranoia. If you keep the masses on the paranoia side of the line, they're too busy being scared to question the neccessity for fighting a war... Gee... sounds eerily familiar...
See, even the Bible admits that species can go extinct or change. (which some evolution opponents deny) God must get a good chuckle whenever someone starts howling about how evolution didn't happen, acting like they know just what process their god used to start life. Either that, or he is continually disappointed because so many of us refuse to see the clues left lying around for us to learn from, wasting these brains we were given.
I mean, come on, a day isn't the same length on Mars as here on Earth, and yet some morons still think it must have been literally 7 Earth days in which the universe was made!
Why do so many masses of people assume that the USA is so uniformly the same jsut because that is what they see on TV? Why are so many US citizens so blind to the poverty and struggle in many places in their own country? Why do we care if people have it so horribly in other countries when we do nothing to fix our own socio-cultural-economic problems? It is not jsut WV, KY, or MI. Many in rural and inner city America have a similar attitude of "why care about the outsiders, they obviously don't care about us!?"
If the fellow were to walk a mile in the shoes I grew up with, he would fare as poorly as I would in his. We would each be out of our native element.
You couldn't tell how split we are by our last two elections? We have wider gaps between philosophies, in terms of how liberal or conservative we are, than we have for some time. The population is divided.
It is not about feeling personally superior for helping someone. It is primarily about other people not having the right to feel like they are _entitled_ to whatever money you have worked hard to accumulate. It's about having the _choice_ to spend your money/effort/time helping where _you_ see fit. Not where your governemnt sees fit. In your own community, your own people.
I figured Ms. Le Guin had been left out of this production while I was watching it. I really looked forward to a hopefully well-done Earthsea movie. As I watched it, and wondered what happened to the Nameless One, and where the Amulet came from, and where this sisterhood of goodness and light came from... etc, etc, I was more and more disappointed. Ms. Le Guin, I bow to your talent. The Sci-Fi Channel is failing to live up to it's potential. They have the potential to make millions of very loyal sf/f fans deleriously happy and loyal fans of their channel. But this sort of thing only plays to the uninformed masses. Oh, yes, I suppose there are more of those people to sell things too... I wonder if Peter Jackson likes Earthsea?
http://www.fotolog.net/cypher/
http://www.fotolog.net/treebeard/
http://flickr.com/groups/circle/
http://www.fotolog.net/ Static, been around a while, good design and lots of technical glitches.Simple, 1 photo a day. http://www.flickr.com/ Still in Beta, makes extensive and phenomenal use of flash, amazing design, and seems pretty stable already. 10mb bandwidth/month
Seriously, the current "ooh, big" trend may have gotten out of hand in large cities, but there are many people with valid reasons to have SUVs in this country.
Here in Appalachia, there are many sub-par roads, and much bad weather. It's amazing how all those people I know who think it's weird, impractical, or politically incorrect to own an SUV or truck mysteriously forget all their objections when they need me to help them move furniture, etc. with my truck, or when our lovely winter weather means they can't get to the grocery store and I can. After years of driving a truck, hauling more passengers may be nice, so my next vehicle in a few years may be an SUV because I'm not willing to give up the conveniences of the truck form factor to seat those few extra passengers, or to live without 4 wheel drive in these mountains.
And if I had children? An SUV for me, as minivans scrape the pavement on uneven hilly drives.
What I'm really waiting for is for GM to get in gear and put out a hybrid truck and a hybrid SUV. Yeah!
(flame retardant suit duly donned.)
Can we have some ammendment to the constitution, like, a limit on the number of frivolous suits per year? Per life?
I have to join the group saying Clié for me. I didn't want a PocketPC, and for the features at a given price(and the screen!) The Palm and Handspring models just didn't cut it. The Pocket PCs have some very nice bells and whistles, but they um, have crashes and stuff, and if I could afford to spen $500, then I could get pretty much equivalent features on a Clié. Could I on a Palm or Handspring? Not quite, because while Palm is trying, those I looked at seem to still be working out the kinks in their design. The Cliés have soem nice designs.