Parties and things
Winter is still slow, and it's not really winter until next week. Monday was a potluck for hiking leaders to plan February and March activities, meaning more winter things. We had a gift exchange for people who wanted to participate, draw a number and pick a gift, and if you like someone else's pick, take that one. Gifts were supposed to be fun, and the gift that got the biggest reaction was a Wild Men of Wild Nevada calendar. That's with guys from the Wilderness Society (I think) wearing nothing but hiking boots and smiles. The women had a good old time looking at that. I've never seen that kind of spark from this group. The calendar doesn't do a thing for me, but of course I wonder what one called Wild Women of Wild Nevada would do (and could you get arrested for having one). The other hiking group met for lunch Saturday to plan out next year's events. I'll lead a hike to Jamison Lake in June and hope the snow has melted by then. Creative Cooks got together Saturday night. We delayed the planning session until January. I don't know what's going to happen with that group. Membership has dropped the past year and I guess we have to see if it can be kept going.
The Story of Stuff
I guess talking a computer into destroying itself is like riding a bike--once you have learned it, you never forget how.
--Laura Goodwin
The Women of Star Trek
Commander Spock--A bad, bad boy
The Wachowski Brothers have dreamed up brand-new special effects, have raised the bar of technical accomplishment in filmmaking, only to put a pathetically hackneyed, depressingly impersonal, and politically thoughtless bit of tripe onto the screen. After proclaiming our own world false, diseased, and worth escaping, they have promptly built a new world and just as promptly filled it with images and ideas that say nothing and help no one.
--Nick Davis
Ultimately, what one finds in The Golden Compass, whatever its limitations, is a healthy attitude towards imagination, scientific discovery and experience. In other words, an orientation towards life. There is an openness in this work that the film’s reactionary critics simply cannot tolerate.
--Hiram Lee
Methodism in America
Magna Carta is called Magna Carta because there was a smaller one, the Charter of the Forest. They both were lost after 1215 only to be recovered on 11 September 1217. Then, a new and profound theme appeared in The Great Charters of the Liberties of England, a theme expressed in one of the most complex and beautiful words of English language, the commons.
--Peter Linebaugh
The Story of Stuff
I guess talking a computer into destroying itself is like riding a bike--once you have learned it, you never forget how.
--Laura Goodwin
The Women of Star Trek
Commander Spock--A bad, bad boy
The Wachowski Brothers have dreamed up brand-new special effects, have raised the bar of technical accomplishment in filmmaking, only to put a pathetically hackneyed, depressingly impersonal, and politically thoughtless bit of tripe onto the screen. After proclaiming our own world false, diseased, and worth escaping, they have promptly built a new world and just as promptly filled it with images and ideas that say nothing and help no one.
--Nick Davis
Ultimately, what one finds in The Golden Compass, whatever its limitations, is a healthy attitude towards imagination, scientific discovery and experience. In other words, an orientation towards life. There is an openness in this work that the film’s reactionary critics simply cannot tolerate.
--Hiram Lee
Methodism in America
Magna Carta is called Magna Carta because there was a smaller one, the Charter of the Forest. They both were lost after 1215 only to be recovered on 11 September 1217. Then, a new and profound theme appeared in The Great Charters of the Liberties of England, a theme expressed in one of the most complex and beautiful words of English language, the commons.
--Peter Linebaugh