Rian's been here 3 days and I'm already about to kill him
Mostly because, like every single Christmas, he caught a horrific cold the week before he came, and you can barely carry on a conversation over the noise of his coughing and aggressive sinus/throat clearing.
The reason why a bad philosophy leads to such hell is that it is what you think and want and treasure and foster in times of preparation that determine what you do in the pinch, and that it takes an error to father a sin.
What struck me most about Oppenheimer as a person while I was reading (or listening to, I got it with my November Audible credit) was how... normal? he came across. I mean obviously he was smarter than most of the people who have ever lived, but most famous physicists have such outsized personalities, and Oppenheimer seems like someone I could have had a martini and a conversation with. His real talent was in getting groups of scientists to work towards a common goal; that's as rare a talent as any of his more intellectual ones. It was good, I can see why it's such a highly regarded biography. Guess I'll watch Oppenheimer when it shows up on HBO (that's a joke, I love Cillian Murphy and I was never not going to see this movie).
Civil War looks kind of overwrought, but that's a good cast--Wagner Moura without his Pablo Escobar fat suit!--and I am curious to see what chain of events leads to Texas and California becoming allies. Although as a California native who lived there for 3 1/2 decades, I can tell you there are areas that are just as fuckbonkers conservative as Texas. Kevin McCarthy represents a California district (not for much longer, apparently).
Speaking of civil war, Apple TV+ has finally adapted Manhunt, James Swanson's book about the hunt for John Wilkes Booth. That was a super hot property back when it was published about 15 years ago--I believe the rights were sold before the book was even published--but for some reason it just never got made. Tobias Menzies is playing Edwin Stanton, the Secretary of War that organized the search (because the surrender of the CSA was not yet final and the assassination was seen as an act of war). It's coming out in March, but I could only find a fan-made trailer on YouTube, which was mostly clips of the first season of The Terror. Pretty sure Booth didn't escape to Nunavut!
The reason why a bad philosophy leads to such hell is that it is what you think and want and treasure and foster in times of preparation that determine what you do in the pinch, and that it takes an error to father a sin.
What struck me most about Oppenheimer as a person while I was reading (or listening to, I got it with my November Audible credit) was how... normal? he came across. I mean obviously he was smarter than most of the people who have ever lived, but most famous physicists have such outsized personalities, and Oppenheimer seems like someone I could have had a martini and a conversation with. His real talent was in getting groups of scientists to work towards a common goal; that's as rare a talent as any of his more intellectual ones. It was good, I can see why it's such a highly regarded biography. Guess I'll watch Oppenheimer when it shows up on HBO (that's a joke, I love Cillian Murphy and I was never not going to see this movie).
Click to viewCivil War looks kind of overwrought, but that's a good cast--Wagner Moura without his Pablo Escobar fat suit!--and I am curious to see what chain of events leads to Texas and California becoming allies. Although as a California native who lived there for 3 1/2 decades, I can tell you there are areas that are just as fuckbonkers conservative as Texas. Kevin McCarthy represents a California district (not for much longer, apparently).
Speaking of civil war, Apple TV+ has finally adapted Manhunt, James Swanson's book about the hunt for John Wilkes Booth. That was a super hot property back when it was published about 15 years ago--I believe the rights were sold before the book was even published--but for some reason it just never got made. Tobias Menzies is playing Edwin Stanton, the Secretary of War that organized the search (because the surrender of the CSA was not yet final and the assassination was seen as an act of war). It's coming out in March, but I could only find a fan-made trailer on YouTube, which was mostly clips of the first season of The Terror. Pretty sure Booth didn't escape to Nunavut!