Except for this one...
It gives me the creeps!
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Posted on 01/31/2004 9:52:08 AM PST by ecurbh
It sounds like some BIOS/driver/software updates are in order. Are you sure you're current with everything?
On an unrelated topic, I got an email from Steve Agee today, and he asked me to pass it on.
We are making a trip to Kuwait today, and expect to be out for ten days. Tell everyone I said hi and I'll log on when we get beck. Thanks. Steve
The Security people on 9/11 did exactly what they were supposed to do. There were no restrictions regarding boxcutters being taken on planes, so they were not confiscated by the Security folks. The airplane crews followed procedure as well, until they realized too late that the hijackers weren't following the typical hijack playbook. It wasn't until that realization came that folks fought back. There's some notion that the folks on the plane that hit the Pentagon were going to fight back, and we all know what happened on Flight 93.
The Security people got a bad rap, and it proves the adage that 'hard cases make bad law'.
It was a lot of fun! Only three couples were able to make it, but we had a blast! They all had to cut out around 11:30 because their older kids were baby-sitting their younger ones. They have sons Joseph's age, so this is new for them to leave the younger ones. One has 4 kids, the other two each have 5, so those boys have a big responsibility. They're all good kids, though, so no one had a problem.
We had our 8th Annual Shrove Tuesday dinner on Mardi Gras night. It was a nice crowd there, too!
Except for this one...
It gives me the creeps!
By the way...speaking of odd movies and Dr. Suess, have you ever seen "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T."?
No, I haven't--what is that?--sounds interesting :)
Interesting analysis of the contrasts in the Victorian. Our class on 19th-century intellectual history focused on tracing the development of the romantic-vs.-realist and liberal-vs.-conservative contrasts. In my own reading, I've probably focused most on the birth of Marxism, as well as more broadly the development of the conflict between Christianity and secular philosophy/science at that time.
And I've read all those Patrick O'Brian books, which are set in the early 19th.
Haven't read those--I should check that out. I also like 19th-century literature--esp. Poe, Stevenson, Stoker, and some of the other horror writers, as well as Verne and Wells' SF. There was some good fantasy written then, too--William Morris' Wood Beyond the World, E.R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, plus Alice in Wonderland if you count that.
As for medieval, I'm not sure, the primitive weaponry is fascinating of course. Just the pure distance of those times from ours makes them fascinating.
Same here. I'm interested in the weapons and armor as well as seige warfare. One thing I really liked about RotK was how well they depicted the seige of Minas Tirith.
More of a description here.
I guess good movies could work, too :) But making fun of the bad ones is also fun. Good fodder is provided by Godzilla movies, 1970s Kung Fu movies, 1970s blaxploitation movies like Shaft and Blacula (LOL!), 1970s horror movies--actually, come to think of it, just about any B-grade 1970s movie will work. 50s sf/horror movies are also good.
Very cool way of teaching :)
Might have something to do with my later love of fishing.
It had a similar effect on me--helped get me interested in marine biology and scuba diving.
We also started counting how many times he used the works "verdure" and "quadrupeds". Might have just been the translation we had, but those words came up ALL the time.
Yes, that's the one :) A kid is sitting by a fishing hole and a guy walks up and tells him there's nothing to catch there, so the kids starts telling him how the hole really connects with the ocean and there's all kinds of fish there. . .and from there the kid's imagination takes over :) It's pretty much the same story as To Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street, except with fishing.
It's a fun series of books :) I remember after reading it I wanted to get my own detective kit so I could try out some of the tricks in the books! There were some neat stuff about codes, too. I also liked to watch The Hardy Boys about the same time I was reading that.
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