Lawrence of Arabia ( Read more... )

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington1939 ( Read more... )

Once again, I take to my Livejournal with a heady new purpose in mind, dear readers (i.e., the two people I've friended, who may see this fleetingly). I've signed up for Netflix, and am commencing a great journey through the wilds of film nerdery. Armed with a beginning list of suggestions from that AFI list of important movies, assorted folks, Sam ( Read more... )

TJ Physics 1 students: I've started nicely typesetting and making pdfs of the problems from Giancoli as a public service. So now you can do the problem sets without dragging around the big, heavy book. With any luck, someone will find this useful.

I changed my title to reflect the fact that I sort of gave up on the sonnet thing. I still won't ever post here. It is convenient to have an LJ for tjpeople commenting purposes. And for stalking anyone that friends me.

Okay, I missed a few days. I'll get in the groove soon enough ( Read more... )

Sonnet II: Prophet

The worlds of enigmatic truth are free
For use by Someone’s prophet’s careful pen
No need for any others to agree
None need be waiting there to say amen
In rigid lines and unexciting curves
The shadowed lights of prophecy take form
Some unseen voice that knows merely observes ( Read more... )

My livejournal is heretofore dedicated to writing a sonnet daily (or as close as possible). Shakespearean for now. Perhaps Petrarchan some other time, but these have some more structure, which helps. Please critique them.

Sonnet I: Shrapnel

Fear we useless toys of metal knives
When old ideals conceived and then betrayed,
The piercing painful ( Read more... )

Why, why, why, did I make an LJ? No one will ever read it. It's not that I don't have friends, they're just not friends who will bother reading my LJ. Yeaaagh...hey, now I turned my iMac sideways and I'm typing...but from the side...whoa...this is bizzare...now I'm not even looking at the computer screen anymore. Heh. I should do that more ( Read more... )