Sometimes I wish more of my friends lived here in Phoenix with me. I have almost innumerable friends in California, a couple in Hawaii, a couple in Tucson, one in New York, one in New Hampshire, several in Britain, a couple in various areas of Canada, not to mention Washington, Oregon, Virginia, Germany, blah blah etc.
But here in Phoenix I have two, not counting Mason or my family. I love Mike, Richard, Mason and my family to bits but sometimes I crave variety.
Uneventful weekend day today (to which I must respond with a hearty 'yay!'), which included watching of The Road to Perdition. Despite spending the entire movie going, 'eep! Tom Hanks! eep!', I thought the film was fantastic. Nothing like an old-fashioned gangster flick with gray-area moral dilemmas, an unsettling climax, a predictable but unifying ending to get you thinking about life, family and the struggle to do the right thing.
I must say that despite being distracted by his Tom Hanks-ness, I was impressed with his performance in this movie, playing a character quite unlike any I'd ever seen him play before.
Dropped my nachos on the floor. Didn't want to miss the opening of the movie waiting in line to beg for more. Was bummed.
Current reading: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Neal's my hero. This book rocks, despite or perhaps because of the fact that, about 50 pages into it, I'm still not entirely sure what it's about besides cryptography. A novel about cryptography ... who'da thunk it? Please buy his other books and read them, too. They're all great (especially Snow Crash, which out-William Gibsons William Gibson): Zodiac, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash and his non-fiction computer age manifesto In the Beginning Was the Command Line.
I must further give snaps in an unlikely direction: The Passing of the Techno-Mages trilogy of Babylon 5 novels, which I just finished Friday. It's rare that a novel of any type sticks with me for days, causing me to think about the nature of life, living, good and bad, knowledge, understanding, belief, wisdom, doubt, fear, ignorance, selfishness, will and fate. And I thought Galen was cool when I saw him in the short-lived and ill-fated Crusade series. I didn't know the half of it.
But here in Phoenix I have two, not counting Mason or my family. I love Mike, Richard, Mason and my family to bits but sometimes I crave variety.
Uneventful weekend day today (to which I must respond with a hearty 'yay!'), which included watching of The Road to Perdition. Despite spending the entire movie going, 'eep! Tom Hanks! eep!', I thought the film was fantastic. Nothing like an old-fashioned gangster flick with gray-area moral dilemmas, an unsettling climax, a predictable but unifying ending to get you thinking about life, family and the struggle to do the right thing.
I must say that despite being distracted by his Tom Hanks-ness, I was impressed with his performance in this movie, playing a character quite unlike any I'd ever seen him play before.
Dropped my nachos on the floor. Didn't want to miss the opening of the movie waiting in line to beg for more. Was bummed.
Current reading: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Neal's my hero. This book rocks, despite or perhaps because of the fact that, about 50 pages into it, I'm still not entirely sure what it's about besides cryptography. A novel about cryptography ... who'da thunk it? Please buy his other books and read them, too. They're all great (especially Snow Crash, which out-William Gibsons William Gibson): Zodiac, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash and his non-fiction computer age manifesto In the Beginning Was the Command Line.
I must further give snaps in an unlikely direction: The Passing of the Techno-Mages trilogy of Babylon 5 novels, which I just finished Friday. It's rare that a novel of any type sticks with me for days, causing me to think about the nature of life, living, good and bad, knowledge, understanding, belief, wisdom, doubt, fear, ignorance, selfishness, will and fate. And I thought Galen was cool when I saw him in the short-lived and ill-fated Crusade series. I didn't know the half of it.
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