Besides reading, I’ve also watched more movies this summer than I have in the past several years put together. In order of preference:
Batman Begins (repeatedly)
Hero
House of Flying Daggers
Fantastic Four (twice)
The Bourne Identity
Finding Neverland
The Incredibles
MIB
MIB II
X-Men II
X-Men I
Spiderman I
Spiderman II
Revenge of the Sith
I liked everything except Revenge of the Sith; I’d already seen MIB and MIB [...]
I’ve read 78 books so far this year. Not including schoolbooks and cookbooks.
This also doesn’t count the books I’ve started and dropped for something else. (Michael Jecks The Merchant’s Partner, Stephen Lawhead Byzantium, Bite, David Liss A Conspiracy of Paper, Takashi Maisouka Cloud of Sparrows, John Matthews The Song of Taliesin. I haven’t abandoned [...]
Into the Fire (1998) Dennis McKiernan
Book Two of the Hel’s Crucible Duology
The conlusion to the story started in Into the Forge, Phais, Loric, Tipperton, and Beau leave Mineholt North to continue Tip’s quest to take the coin to Agron. War continues to rage as Gryphon seeks to dominate Mithgar and its inhabitants.
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Into the Forge (1996) Dennis McKiernan
The first book in the Hel’s Crucible duology. Tipperton is awakened by sounds of battle outside his door, and thus is drawn into what is to become one of Mithgar’s great battles of good versus evil, as Gryphon seeks to dominate not just Neddra, but Mithgar and all its people.
Read [...]
I’ll be spending the day sitting on the porch watching all the motorcycles go by.
I’m sorry I missed the Clydesdales–but aren’t there more than three motorcycle movies out there?
ADDENDUM the First:
I missed the beginning of the mass of bikes that went by my house, so my results may not reflect all riders, but I was [...]
Roman ruler’s head found in sewer
Apparently an habitual drunk with little grasp of reality painted the lines downtown after the repaving. Going down University Avenue now involves swerving all over the road in an attempt to remain in your lane, especially where once wide lanes are now narrowed to to width of a Volkswagon Beetle. (See: southbound lane by the [...]
So last winter Michael and I both did WVU’s health screening, and in addition to cholesterol (we both have excellent cholesterol levels) I paid extra and got the extra blood work done. When I got the results back, my blood counts were irregular, so I made an appointment with my doctor. After a lot of [...]
So my blogroll seems to be dwindling. In the past couple weeks Memer and Solomon have said they’ll no longer be posting.
And others I like to read are posting less and less frequently. At this rate, I’m going to have to go back to reading the news.
Someone–I think it was Mark–was ranting about how Manchin wants to repeal the state helmet law for motorcycles. How there are more important issues for the state to be dealing with, and so on and so forth.
Now, despite the fact that I’m getting my Master’s in Public Health–a department that uniformly wants to extend the [...]
The Fencing Master (1988) Arturo Perez-Reverte
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa (1998)
I initially didn’t realize that this books were originally in Spanish, and was a little unsure when I realized they were translated, but then decided that it shouldn’t make a difference, and so happily read the book.
The Fencing Master is set in 1868 in Madrid, [...]
Officially I’ve only been at work for five minutes, and things are already going badly.
ADDENDUM the First:
Okay, so it’s been up and down all day, but (knock on wood) the worst of it seems to be over.
Having lunch from the Flying Fish helped too.
Check out today’s (21 July 2005) Marquee in the Dominion Post. There’s a lovely article on Wayne Rowand, classical guitarist and all around good guy.
The Word of the Day for July 21 is:
emissary \EM-uh-sair-ee\ noun
*1 : one designated as the agent of another : representative
2 : a secret agent
Jeesh! They forgot the most important definition!
(more…)
a direct english translation of the chinese interpretation of what the script (‘Revenge of the Sith’) was saying
“I was just made by the Presbyterian Church”
(via Language Log)
I told you so:
Drivers using cellphones have four times the risk of being involved in car accidents that result in hospital visits, according to a new study in the British Medical Journal. And those hands-free devices? They won’t lower your risk of a crash.
Of course there’s nothing that can be done to stop people using [...]
Avery’s post on BSV (Black Standard Vernacular) got me thinking about speech and accents, which lead me down another path entirely, thinking about poverty, and the things that are associated with it.
Raised in West Virginia, I grew up associating a drawl with poverty. Not everyone who had a drawl was poor, and not every [...]
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