Published at 11/30/2005
in .Misc..
Quite a delayed blog entry about the Monday night game, but better late than never right?….right?
Had a great time with some guys from church at the home of Mr. Jeff W. You can’t ask for a better football (or any moving image) viewing experience. 150+” projection screen, theater sound, theater popcorn, and 6 matching La-Z-Boy chairs. The only thing better than the ambience is the fellowship with good Christian brothers I’ve come to truly love, respect and admire.
Here’s my short list of game highlights:
- Steelers not allowed 1st downs until their interception.
- Normally stoic Marvin Harrison, mixing it up with #24 Ike Taylor (fired up the Colts team according to included article below)
- Three sacks for Roethlisburger
- Edge running for 129yds, first player to get 100+ against Pitt in 23 games
- Bob Sanders body slamming a Steeler
- Bob Sanders face-planting another Steeler
Yahoo! Sports Game Recap
The F-word by Charles Robinson of Yahoo! Sports - article speaks of the motivating factor of Marvin Harrison not backing down to Ike Taylor and the Colt’s not ONLY being a finesse team. Think I may change the spelling to FHYSICAL!
Planning for Colts Not Easy by Pat Kirwan NFL.com Senior Analyst
According to this article on Yahoo! News, author C.S.Lewis was opposed to turning his beloved Chronicles of Narnia books into movies.
After reading the article myself, I’m not so sure this is an accurate statement. In the article, the quote from Lewis was:
“I am absolutely opposed — adamant isn’t in it! — to a TV version,” he wrote to BBC producer Lance Sieveking, who had created a radio version of his book which had met Lewis’ approval.
Although Lewis, who died in 1963, said he would have considered a cartoon version, his letter suggests he is unlikely to have approved of Disney’s interpretation, particularly its computer-generated Aslan.
“Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare — at least with photography,” he wrote.
C.S.Lewis died in 1963, and the last time I checked computer animation and movie making skills have come a LONG way. I think C.S.Lewis would have actually been impressed with the capabilities of the artists of rendering his imaginative characters into reality. The other thing to remember is that it’s not really “Disney’s interpretation” of the book series. The movie itself is actually being produced by Walden Media, which has a history of accurately adapting literary books into movies. Disney is just distributing the work that Walden is doing. Someone please enlighten me if I’m wrong.
Author CS Lewis opposed screen version of “Narnia”
Published at 11/30/2005
in .Humor.
Was putting gas in the mini-van last night at our local BP station. Paid $2.05/gallon so didn’t fill up, I’m sure it will fall below $2/gallon later this week, so I’m just buying time.
While I was there I just noticed the little LED screen giving you the news and instructions and stuff and the following message was displayed while I was pumping:
“Replace Nozzle When Finished”
Do we really need those instructions? I know, I know. I guess we do, but I’m thinking that if you need to be reminded of this little bit of information, we probably shouldn’t be trusting you with the control of a multiple thousand pound vehicle equipped with a gas powered engine!
Don’t you hate it when you read a blog entry and they direct you to a site that’s really cool, then you can’t remember what blog it was that directed you there?
Sorry about that whomever it was that directed me here, but this little site is really cool. You can find all the deals at stores around you. The other neat feature was the ability to build a grocery list and it will tell you where the best deals are for the various items at your preferred stores. But what does “Cairo” have to do with this service? Seems like a better name could have been determined.
Cairo - Local Sales Just a Click Away
I’m always eager to save some money, just need to balance the requirement of driving more to get to the various deals instead of just purchasing everything at one store. I was going to mention that being a bigger concern at $2.05/gallon for gas, but that seems like a deal since it was over $3/gallon for so long. Guess the plan worked!
Spent Saturday morning putting up the icicle lights on the house. I’ve got two short sections on two separate strands that have bulb outs so I still need to get those fixed. I’m glad they weren’t up on the high parts of the house, should be able to reach these without climbing on the roof.
While I was putting up my lights, I noticed I was losing the ongoing battle between unimpeded rainwater flow and crap in my gutters. Spent a little bit of time while I was up there and cleaned some of the stuff out above the downspouts.
Then, just now, the Signal vs. Noise blog posted this entry about the ultimate low-tech solution to this battle many homeowners face each fall and spring. As Jason posted in the article he has battled with the wire covers, gutter gaurds and brushes, but nothing really seems to still work for long.
He points us to the folks over at Gutter Stuff. Their solution is a traingular shaped piece of foam that you push down into your gutter. Since nothing but liquid can get through the foam, everything else just falls off the edge of your gutter and onto your yard.
Idea seems great to me. However, I wonder how long it takes for the miniscule dirt/debris to clog up the top surface of the foam and turn the edges of your roof into a little suburbian waterfall.
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