Quote of the Week - 11/30/08
"'I have done that' says my memory, 'I cannot have done that' says my pride, and remains adamant. At last, memory yields." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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November 30, 2008
November 17, 2008
Quote of the week - 11/17/08
"All our work, our whole life, is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them."
-- Felix Frankfurter, Jurist
-- Felix Frankfurter, Jurist
November 12, 2008
Catching up
Well, I finally have reached a point where I feel I can sit down and write something. I wrote that we were moving to Colorado, mission accomplished.
The physical facts of the move were somewhat daunting, two houses, one in Fla. the other Va. packed and shipped and arriving at the new house one on a Thursday, the next two days later on Saturday.
The furniture was a mere bagatelle, the unending horror was the procession of boxes, not one of which offered to unpack itself. It then becomes a game of unpack, stack and the constant unanswered question of, "what the hell did I bring this for??"
I will, in a few months, have to go through all the closets to discover where I shoved everything. It is amazing the things that can get lost in transit, I will ponder for a long time why a collection of teapots that I have been assembling for many years, the kind of thing that is added to by family and friends over the years, didn't make it here. Lost somewhere between there and here, but each and every piece of my sci-fo and movie paraphernalia is already on display.
While I was devoting my life to unpacking boxes, breaking down boxes, and piling the emptys in the garage which of course cant be used for parking my car, things on the Torchwood front are finally in motion.
Judging from the previews I have seen, the miniseries will open with a bang, of the pyrotechnical variety. Torchwood is under attack and the Hub has been blown up. Our stalwarts are on the run and if they wanted to get my attention, they did. There is a new blue meanie in the form of a very forceful woman clad in black.
Continued in this vein and the five days of mini-series will fly by. Also this week we learned that after next years four specials we will have a new Doctor Who. David Tennant has decided that four is enough he was and is great in the role, but half of the excitement of Doctor Who has always been the anticipation of what horrible circumstance has led up to the regeneration, and who will be on the other end of the smoke and mirrors.
More to come...
The physical facts of the move were somewhat daunting, two houses, one in Fla. the other Va. packed and shipped and arriving at the new house one on a Thursday, the next two days later on Saturday.The furniture was a mere bagatelle, the unending horror was the procession of boxes, not one of which offered to unpack itself. It then becomes a game of unpack, stack and the constant unanswered question of, "what the hell did I bring this for??"
I will, in a few months, have to go through all the closets to discover where I shoved everything. It is amazing the things that can get lost in transit, I will ponder for a long time why a collection of teapots that I have been assembling for many years, the kind of thing that is added to by family and friends over the years, didn't make it here. Lost somewhere between there and here, but each and every piece of my sci-fo and movie paraphernalia is already on display.
While I was devoting my life to unpacking boxes, breaking down boxes, and piling the emptys in the garage which of course cant be used for parking my car, things on the Torchwood front are finally in motion.
Judging from the previews I have seen, the miniseries will open with a bang, of the pyrotechnical variety. Torchwood is under attack and the Hub has been blown up. Our stalwarts are on the run and if they wanted to get my attention, they did. There is a new blue meanie in the form of a very forceful woman clad in black.
Continued in this vein and the five days of mini-series will fly by. Also this week we learned that after next years four specials we will have a new Doctor Who. David Tennant has decided that four is enough he was and is great in the role, but half of the excitement of Doctor Who has always been the anticipation of what horrible circumstance has led up to the regeneration, and who will be on the other end of the smoke and mirrors.
More to come...
November 10, 2008
Quote of the week - 11/10/08
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein
