I have three pairs of glasses: My house glasses which are my oldest pair and the ones that I wear exclusively when I’m at home. Then I have real thick-rimmed glasses for when I want to really look like I’m wearing glasses. The Mr. Magoo Effect. Finally I have a [...]

The Pursuit of Happyness — I liked it. I knew I would like it before I started watching it — Will Smith is such a charismatic guy. But it’s also because I really like crowd-pleasers. I like populist stuff more than “art” — stories that get people through the rough tracts [...]

Regarding the Virginia Tech shootings — I grieve for the victims. It’s immensely sad and unfair. I read that of the three professors that died, one was a Holocaust survivor: Professor Liviu Librescu. He died trying to save his students.
It’s interesting that various factions are trying to ride this one [...]

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Tectonic Shifts: Vonnegut’s death last night hit me with a thud; not as much as Uncle Duke’s death or Douglas Adams’, but enough to make me pretty sad trudging in this morning. Who’s next? Ray Bradbury? J.D. Salinger? The guy who invented Pong?
The Green Zone gets bombed. [...]