Finally saw Dark Knight Rises.
They certainly didn't skimp on the production qualities. It's impressive, no matter what else you might think about the movie.
Was talking to employee Matt, who said he was the only person he knew that didn't like the movie. I haven't asked why yet, because I didn't want any spoilers.
I liked it. The second movie, with Heath Ledger's Joker, will probably always be the highwater mark of this series. But still a monumental trilogy.
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Finally hit my low weight again, after a week of hovering above it. I've mentioned that it's always been easy for me to lose weight, once I decide to do it.
Well, apparently not this time. I'll be doing a second month, just like the first month. But I may have to do yet another month after that, at this pace.
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H.Bruce was saying it was my Calvinist tendencies that makes me say "I've been good" about dieting. That it has nothing to do with being "good."
Well, it sorta does.
But I was talking to Linda about "parental tapes" that run through my head. The biggest, I think, is my Mother's voice: "Get out and do something! Don't sit around reading (watching T.V. , daydreaming, etc. etc.) all day!"
"I don't think I have any "parental tapes," Linda says. "Except, I remember my Mother saying, 'Be Nice.' But I never had any trouble with that."
"No, you never have, have you."
The biggest 'tape' I got from my Dad was: "If you don't know something, you need to learn it."
This was not so much, learning How to do something (which would have been useful), but knowing About something. Which is more like Trivia, and doesn't seem to be as useful in the Google age.
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Speaking of which -- I've stayed away from Reddit for almost a week. Not because I don't like it, but because for someone like me, who likes to collect information, it is a Ginormous, Endless Time-Suck!!!!!!!
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This just in.
Peter Jackson is going to make a 3rd Hobbit movie.
I actually believe there is enough material in the appendices to do this: But I really wonder how he is going to craft it all into a narrative.
They certainly didn't skimp on the production qualities. It's impressive, no matter what else you might think about the movie.
Was talking to employee Matt, who said he was the only person he knew that didn't like the movie. I haven't asked why yet, because I didn't want any spoilers.
I liked it. The second movie, with Heath Ledger's Joker, will probably always be the highwater mark of this series. But still a monumental trilogy.
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Finally hit my low weight again, after a week of hovering above it. I've mentioned that it's always been easy for me to lose weight, once I decide to do it.
Well, apparently not this time. I'll be doing a second month, just like the first month. But I may have to do yet another month after that, at this pace.
**********
H.Bruce was saying it was my Calvinist tendencies that makes me say "I've been good" about dieting. That it has nothing to do with being "good."
Well, it sorta does.
But I was talking to Linda about "parental tapes" that run through my head. The biggest, I think, is my Mother's voice: "Get out and do something! Don't sit around reading (watching T.V. , daydreaming, etc. etc.) all day!"
"I don't think I have any "parental tapes," Linda says. "Except, I remember my Mother saying, 'Be Nice.' But I never had any trouble with that."
"No, you never have, have you."
The biggest 'tape' I got from my Dad was: "If you don't know something, you need to learn it."
This was not so much, learning How to do something (which would have been useful), but knowing About something. Which is more like Trivia, and doesn't seem to be as useful in the Google age.
**********
Speaking of which -- I've stayed away from Reddit for almost a week. Not because I don't like it, but because for someone like me, who likes to collect information, it is a Ginormous, Endless Time-Suck!!!!!!!
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This just in.
Peter Jackson is going to make a 3rd Hobbit movie.
I actually believe there is enough material in the appendices to do this: But I really wonder how he is going to craft it all into a narrative.