- I saw “The Happening” this weekend, and enjoyed it. But I like M. Night Shamylan (even if I don’t have any idea how to spell his name). I even really like the movies that nobody else likes, like “The Village”
- Cornell’s email servers have been down for three days, meaning that thousands of people have been unable to send and receive email, including me! My advisor has started calling me, for God’s sake.
- I’m really happy about the gay marriages occurring in California, but was intrigued to learn that while California doesn’t have a residency requirement for marriage, they do for divorce. So the people who are flying to CA for quickie marriages may be unable to get divorced unless they move there for 6 months. Maybe there is some state that hates gay marriage so much, they will allow gay divorce?
- Particle Physics still sucks.
Movies
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(That I have seen recently)
- No Country For Old Men
- I wasn’t very keen on seeing this one until I watched the Oscars, which made me a little curious. So I went and watched it at a Sunday matinée. It is very very good. Slightly bloody, but in such a over the top way, it really didn’t bother me. I am not a huge film geek, but even I could tell the editing, sound, lighting, etc was really really good. I loved Tommy Lee Jones’ line (as a sheriff in response to his deputy’s line “It’s a mess, ain’t it, Sheriff? “): “If it ain’t, it’ll do till the mess gets here.”
- Persepolis
- An animated film, which I normally don’t like, but this one is just a really good movie that happens to be animated. It’s about the Iranian revolution, as seen through the eyes of a girl growing up during it.
- 84 Charing Cross Road
- A 1980’s movie with Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft. This was a netflix recommendation, some of which can be truly awful, but we were really pleasantly surprised by this one. It’s about a friendship between a writer in New York and a bookseller in London, as told mainly through their letters to one another.
