"What was it my dad told me?" "You're going bald." "No, before that." "Get out?"
There's a new show on saturday on TV1 called the Book Show where NZ authors get together and talk about new books.
But I work at that time.
Dammit.
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A Terrifying Message From Al Gore.
Y'know, he has a real sense of humour. Sometimes I wonder what the world would have been like if he'd gotten in?
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LiveJournal: Being an Humble Treatise on which behaviors are thereon Acceptable and which are Not, and some General Meditations upon how to make one's Experience in the Realm of Live Journal more Enriching, or by the which one may at least Minimize one's chances of being Pwned.
I helped!
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Louise and I decided to go out last night. Just the two of us. Dressed nice. Babysitter round and everything. It was nice.
Only we decided to go and see Dead Man's Chest. We got to the cinema an hour early. The next session and the evening sessions were sold out. There were massive queues already forming to get in to the theatre.
That kind of answers any questions about how good a sequel it is to me.
So we figured, what the hell, we'll go see Click instead. We like Adam Sandler even if he can be mindless sometimes. And it has Kate Beckinsale in, Mmmmmm.
But that was sold out too. Looking a tthe display, it seemed half the movies were sold out, all the people being turned away from POTC going to see other things instead.
We managed to get into Superman Returns instead. I hadn't been excited about Superman, he's never caught my fancy as a superhero particularly, but that movie was cool. He was cool, it was funny, Kevin Spacey rocks my small self-centred world and the action was dramtic. I did find myself wondering how Superman would be able to save EVERYBODY falling in that last earth shatters kind of sequence though.
Oo, and there was a trailer for a new M. Night Shamylanyanmlaynm... Him... Movie. Can't wait!
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I read this article in the latest Time magazine over the weekend and wanted to say something about it. The writer is correct that both sides jsut keep making the situation in Palestine/Israel worse. I personally think both sides don't give a crap about who's got rights to what but just want to cause bloodshed, regardless of reason.
But I found it wierd for him to talk about moving backwards through various issues to find what each side did to set off the other. He goes a long way back asays that it comes down to the Palestineans not accepting Israel's right to exist right at the very beginning.
He's right but he doesn't answer the question of why should they have accpeted it? They were the people of a large area of land who had been ruled over for a long long time and were promised automnomy but then got told by a new international body that half of 'their' land would be given to a bunch of people who just arrived and who had been commiting terrorist acts in order to get noticed.
I think both sides are wrong. But I think the whole thing was set off by the decision to found Israel in that place at that time.
I noticed a chapter in my history textbook over summer school that talked about the effects of colonialsim between the world wars. While there were many powers with colonies there were also other powers seeking colonial influence. This reflected in Japan's aggression in Asia and a lot of the chaos in Africa. The chapter included some thoughts on how the U.S. expressed their desire to have similar influence.
But at the time Nationlaism was on the rise. People were no longer content to be ruled by jsut anyone, there was a lot of feeling that each group should rule themselves. Obviously this would lead to the break up of otherwise wide unified nations and unrest if the ruling group wouldn't let the nationals assume more power. So places like Britain were letting the reins loosen.
In that context I thought that the creation of Israel, originally formulated specifically to give the Jewish ethnic group there own area of land to control in exactly this nationalist way, was like creating a colony of Israel that was the primary land. So, while other countries could eventually back off and out with varying degrees of strife and bloodshed, Israel has nowhere to back off to. They have staked a claim over a group that was already there and now there are two groups dying over the same small triangle of desert.
Sometimes I wonder how things would have turned if they HAD founded Israel in South America instead.
But I work at that time.
Dammit.
--
A Terrifying Message From Al Gore.
Y'know, he has a real sense of humour. Sometimes I wonder what the world would have been like if he'd gotten in?
--
LiveJournal: Being an Humble Treatise on which behaviors are thereon Acceptable and which are Not, and some General Meditations upon how to make one's Experience in the Realm of Live Journal more Enriching, or by the which one may at least Minimize one's chances of being Pwned.
I helped!
--
Louise and I decided to go out last night. Just the two of us. Dressed nice. Babysitter round and everything. It was nice.
Only we decided to go and see Dead Man's Chest. We got to the cinema an hour early. The next session and the evening sessions were sold out. There were massive queues already forming to get in to the theatre.
That kind of answers any questions about how good a sequel it is to me.
So we figured, what the hell, we'll go see Click instead. We like Adam Sandler even if he can be mindless sometimes. And it has Kate Beckinsale in, Mmmmmm.
But that was sold out too. Looking a tthe display, it seemed half the movies were sold out, all the people being turned away from POTC going to see other things instead.
We managed to get into Superman Returns instead. I hadn't been excited about Superman, he's never caught my fancy as a superhero particularly, but that movie was cool. He was cool, it was funny, Kevin Spacey rocks my small self-centred world and the action was dramtic. I did find myself wondering how Superman would be able to save EVERYBODY falling in that last earth shatters kind of sequence though.
Oo, and there was a trailer for a new M. Night Shamylanyanmlaynm... Him... Movie. Can't wait!
--
I read this article in the latest Time magazine over the weekend and wanted to say something about it. The writer is correct that both sides jsut keep making the situation in Palestine/Israel worse. I personally think both sides don't give a crap about who's got rights to what but just want to cause bloodshed, regardless of reason.
But I found it wierd for him to talk about moving backwards through various issues to find what each side did to set off the other. He goes a long way back asays that it comes down to the Palestineans not accepting Israel's right to exist right at the very beginning.
He's right but he doesn't answer the question of why should they have accpeted it? They were the people of a large area of land who had been ruled over for a long long time and were promised automnomy but then got told by a new international body that half of 'their' land would be given to a bunch of people who just arrived and who had been commiting terrorist acts in order to get noticed.
I think both sides are wrong. But I think the whole thing was set off by the decision to found Israel in that place at that time.
I noticed a chapter in my history textbook over summer school that talked about the effects of colonialsim between the world wars. While there were many powers with colonies there were also other powers seeking colonial influence. This reflected in Japan's aggression in Asia and a lot of the chaos in Africa. The chapter included some thoughts on how the U.S. expressed their desire to have similar influence.
But at the time Nationlaism was on the rise. People were no longer content to be ruled by jsut anyone, there was a lot of feeling that each group should rule themselves. Obviously this would lead to the break up of otherwise wide unified nations and unrest if the ruling group wouldn't let the nationals assume more power. So places like Britain were letting the reins loosen.
In that context I thought that the creation of Israel, originally formulated specifically to give the Jewish ethnic group there own area of land to control in exactly this nationalist way, was like creating a colony of Israel that was the primary land. So, while other countries could eventually back off and out with varying degrees of strife and bloodshed, Israel has nowhere to back off to. They have staked a claim over a group that was already there and now there are two groups dying over the same small triangle of desert.
Sometimes I wonder how things would have turned if they HAD founded Israel in South America instead.