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Apr. 11th, 2003 08:27 pmI have been wanting to watch the movie Enemy At The Gates for a little while now. This even motivated me to go to Blockbuster for the first time in months last weekend, but they didn't have a copy of it. I just noticed that it is on TV tonight, so looks like I get to watch it. Yep, this is my Friday night, and I am not ashamed. I am just happy to be sitting comfortably at home.
But there is further excitement in the offing. I am also going to search online to find the hours of the local branch of the public library. I am hoping to go get a card tomorrow. Based on past experiences with libraries, I am guessing I will be able to get a card, but I am not sure how many items they will allow me to check out on my first visit. Not that I have a lot of time for reading anyway... but of course I already have a little list of books I would like to check out. Actually, what the hell, they are:
Open Letters by Vaclev Havel
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
any volume of the "Cartoon History of the Universe" series by Larry Gonick
Ghost Soldiers by I don't know who
What Color Is Your Parachute
Lately I have had this recurring fantasy of getting to some hermit situation that allows me to just lounge around and read all the time. Sort of like how things worked out for Burgess Meredith in that one Twilight Zone episode, the one where there's a nuclear war and he survives due to being locked in a vault and is then free to read all the time. I can't remember how that episode ends, but such an arrangement appeals to me and might just be my new goal, only with no requirement that everyone else die from hydrogen bombs. I don't know maybe I would get bored as the hermit of the library, or quickly descend to some Unabomber shower-free level of existence. I don't think I would like being as dirty as the Unabomber was when they arrested him, out there in that little shack, but I guess you never know until you try it.
The more I think about this admission from CNN, the more it bothers me. At first I was just horrified by the anecdotes he relates, then I was troubled by CNN's behavior. I need to think about it some more though, and I want to read and 'process' some additional comments on it. Get some other perspectives and so forth. I dunno. Oh also I do want to see Uncle Saddam.
On the work front, I am just about done with another provisional patent. Mike read a draft the other day and his feedback was quite positive, which is unusual in our working relationship. It was surprising and possibly a little sad to see how quickly some positive feedback turned my mood and attitude around. There is usually something contentious in the tone of the feedback I get; maybe it's in how I hear things, or something about this particular relationship.
I am sitting here feeling the need for new icons.
But there is further excitement in the offing. I am also going to search online to find the hours of the local branch of the public library. I am hoping to go get a card tomorrow. Based on past experiences with libraries, I am guessing I will be able to get a card, but I am not sure how many items they will allow me to check out on my first visit. Not that I have a lot of time for reading anyway... but of course I already have a little list of books I would like to check out. Actually, what the hell, they are:
Open Letters by Vaclev Havel
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
any volume of the "Cartoon History of the Universe" series by Larry Gonick
Ghost Soldiers by I don't know who
What Color Is Your Parachute
Lately I have had this recurring fantasy of getting to some hermit situation that allows me to just lounge around and read all the time. Sort of like how things worked out for Burgess Meredith in that one Twilight Zone episode, the one where there's a nuclear war and he survives due to being locked in a vault and is then free to read all the time. I can't remember how that episode ends, but such an arrangement appeals to me and might just be my new goal, only with no requirement that everyone else die from hydrogen bombs. I don't know maybe I would get bored as the hermit of the library, or quickly descend to some Unabomber shower-free level of existence. I don't think I would like being as dirty as the Unabomber was when they arrested him, out there in that little shack, but I guess you never know until you try it.
The more I think about this admission from CNN, the more it bothers me. At first I was just horrified by the anecdotes he relates, then I was troubled by CNN's behavior. I need to think about it some more though, and I want to read and 'process' some additional comments on it. Get some other perspectives and so forth. I dunno. Oh also I do want to see Uncle Saddam.
On the work front, I am just about done with another provisional patent. Mike read a draft the other day and his feedback was quite positive, which is unusual in our working relationship. It was surprising and possibly a little sad to see how quickly some positive feedback turned my mood and attitude around. There is usually something contentious in the tone of the feedback I get; maybe it's in how I hear things, or something about this particular relationship.
I am sitting here feeling the need for new icons.
