Well, perhaps not. Still:

Mirror, Mirror (IMDB link)
"A dark twist on the classic fairy tale, in which Snow White and the seven dwarfs look to reclaim their destroyed kingdom."

Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen, Lily Collins as Snow White. Release date March 16, 2012.

Snow White and the Huntsman (IMDB link"In a twist to the fairy tale, the ( Read more... )

As of today, I have been working at Microsoft for fourteen years.

This is just slightly less than one-third of my life.


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So here are a couple of things that happened:


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Man, it's been quite a while since I posted to LJ, hasn't it? What's been going on in the world of Rossness?

Things that happened this summer:

The Mari came to visit. The Mari would be my sister Linda, her husband John, and my nephew Rick. They were conducting a whirlwind tour of the west coast -- or at least parts of it -- and stayed with me ( Read more... )

43

Forty-three is the 14th smallest prime number. The previous is forty-one, with which it comprises a twin prime, and the next is forty-seven. 43 is the smallest prime that is not a Chen prime. It is also the third Wagstaff prime.

43 is the fourth term of Sylvester's sequence, one more than the product of the previous terms (2 × 3 × 7).

43 is a ( Read more... )

Honor the fallen.

In particular this day, I remember Richard Arthur Akin Jr., 1948-1968, my uncle; killed in Vietnam.

Almighty God, our heavenly Father, in whose hands are the living and the dead: We give thee thanks for all thy servants who have laid down their lives in the service of our country. Grant to them thy mercy and the light of thy ( Read more... )

That is to say, Priest the movie. Here, have a trailerI'll spoil the plot for you: Paul Bettany engages in irrelevant heroics while Maggie Q saves the day ( Read more... )

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane; Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn, world serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs. Feed it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, the ladder starts to clatter with fear, fight down height. Wire in a fire, representing seven ( Read more... )