Words Cannot Describe

Two words: F*cking amazing.

Well I thought it was funny

Hope everyone had a great Turkey Day. Nothing like a few days of sleep, good food and TV to encourage me to do work. Because of these motivating factors, I will now begin working and will not stop until Friday morning. So yeah. If anyone has, at any point, researched the Battle of Leuctra and has any opinions to share, feel encouraged to share them with me. I have eight pages left of a ten page paper, and I'm just waiting to run out of things to talk about.

So, back to the point of this post, which was to procrastinate. With all the TV I watched over the past few days (excluding baseball, more than I'd watched in the past three or four months), I had the opportunity to see a lot of funny stuff. Including a car commercial that advertised symmetrical all wheel drive. Which got me thinking...does this mean that some cars come with asymmetrical AWD?

So yeah. That's the kind of stuff I find funny. Moving right along...I'm gonna see if I can hammer out this paper in the next two hours (two more pages, not eight; different paper). Whee. I can't wait for January...acting for credit! Yay!

Daniel Craig wins approval

Mine, at least. Saw a midnight showing of Quantum in Augusta last night, and even though we got there an hour early for no apparent reason and didn't get back until 2:30 in the morning, it was totally worth it. It definitely wasn't the best Bond movie (Goldeneye, anyone?) but it earned its place. Dialogue was snappy and the action was tight, which went a good way toward masking a thin plot.

Also: previews for Watchmen and the new Star Trek movie. Both look excellent, although for some reason I thought Watchmen was coming out sooner than March. I'll definitely be doing the midnight showing, though.

Does this scare anyone else?

Saw this in the news today. Alright. We're starting down a dangerous path, folks. Soon Google will be enjoying government subsidies to share data with the political types. Not very long afterward Google will overthrow the government by manipulating the data they give the government. And after that...I don't know. One supposes Google might be a beneficial dictator. But just so you don't forget...

Really?

This reads like something out of a comedy sketch:

"Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska fired back Friday at the unnamed McCain campaign aides who have been maligning her in recent days, saying that their criticism was 'cruel and it’s mean-spirited, it’s immature, it’s unprofessional, and those guys are jerks.'"

That's from the New York Times article. And don't forget: Palin 2012!

Crichton, Crap Scientist

A decent author. "Next" is horrific; apparently at some point when writing his good books (Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, some others...) he started believing the kooky science he was writing about. Does it make me a horrible person that I was actually glad that he wouldn't be writing any more books like "Next" or "State of Fear?" I don't think so.

Progress

Well, we did it. As a nation, we elected a black man to the presidency. As a state, we voted Democratic. And as a county, we elected Mean Jean Schmidt again. Well, there's always room for improvement.

Should be an interesting four years.