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Old: The Endor Holocaust -- what the Death Star II would have done to Endor.
Haven't seen: A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope -- putting all six movies together, to see R2 and Chewbacca as Rebel leaders.
I read Spirit of the Century, the Fate 3.0 based pulp RPG. It's pretty awesome, mechanics and setting and writing. I spent some time thinking about that, or about a 16th century Europe + magic setting, or a classic D&Dish setting with a big role for aberrations and Torque to justify "dungeons".
LJ's Rich Text behaves weirdly if I try to link or highlight the last text I've typed -- becomes hard to escape the HTML codes.
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lyceum_arabica said her parents call our current weather oobleck, which seems to fit. Didn't stop a zillion students from swaming for Excel help, though. I also realize I have no idea how IU would announce cancelling classes, assuming it ever did such a thing.
Heard of a Victor Stenger and his book God: the Failed Hypothesis. Sounds like his answer to "But you can't prove God doesn't exist" is "sure we can, for scientific values of proof which we apply to fairies and luminiferous ether and everything else besides God". I wasn't sure of it when I heard of it, but last night I was re-reading parts of The God Delusion and Dawkins mentioned him favorably, for other books. I found an article of Stenger's, purporting to give a model for the origin of the universe: http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/Godless/Origin.pdf
Near as I can understand it: if you assume QM and GR apply to nothingness, the nothingness will more likely than not decay into a more stable state, i.e. something. This doesn't address why QM and GR would hold at all, but then nothing addresses why God would exist.
Sagan will have a posthumous book out: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/13/science/13carl.html The Varieties of Scientific Experience.
A blog commenter noted that the "New Atheism" (a label applied to the crop of in-your-face, NOMA-be-damned books by Dennett, Dawkins, Sam Harris, et al) doesn't seem all that new to him, compared to denials by Democritus, or Voltaire's "mankind will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." People call Dawkins shrill...
Quote seen somewhere: "I always joked that the real curse of Angel was that he was a WW/Anne Rice Angstpire accidentally transported to the Buffyverse..."
My computer's power supply is making a really annoying high-pitched whine. First the rattle of the CPU fan, now this. And replacing power supplies scares me. Get a new computer? That takes money... though some new computers I've seen have been amazingly quiet. OTOH, the whine encourages me to keep the computer off and read books instead.
Valentine's Day Massacre at Anime Club: Higurashi (events in a creepy village, looked at from multiple viewpoints), Blood+ ("Saya the Chriopteran Slayer"), Monster (doctor saves the Antichrist?) Only 4 episodes of each, but all seemed good, especially the first and third.
Okay, now to see if I can go home safely...
Haven't seen: A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope -- putting all six movies together, to see R2 and Chewbacca as Rebel leaders.
I read Spirit of the Century, the Fate 3.0 based pulp RPG. It's pretty awesome, mechanics and setting and writing. I spent some time thinking about that, or about a 16th century Europe + magic setting, or a classic D&Dish setting with a big role for aberrations and Torque to justify "dungeons".
LJ's Rich Text behaves weirdly if I try to link or highlight the last text I've typed -- becomes hard to escape the HTML codes.
lyceum_arabica said her parents call our current weather oobleck, which seems to fit. Didn't stop a zillion students from swaming for Excel help, though. I also realize I have no idea how IU would announce cancelling classes, assuming it ever did such a thing.Heard of a Victor Stenger and his book God: the Failed Hypothesis. Sounds like his answer to "But you can't prove God doesn't exist" is "sure we can, for scientific values of proof which we apply to fairies and luminiferous ether and everything else besides God". I wasn't sure of it when I heard of it, but last night I was re-reading parts of The God Delusion and Dawkins mentioned him favorably, for other books. I found an article of Stenger's, purporting to give a model for the origin of the universe: http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/Godless/Origin.pdf
Near as I can understand it: if you assume QM and GR apply to nothingness, the nothingness will more likely than not decay into a more stable state, i.e. something. This doesn't address why QM and GR would hold at all, but then nothing addresses why God would exist.
Sagan will have a posthumous book out: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/13/science/13carl.html The Varieties of Scientific Experience.
A blog commenter noted that the "New Atheism" (a label applied to the crop of in-your-face, NOMA-be-damned books by Dennett, Dawkins, Sam Harris, et al) doesn't seem all that new to him, compared to denials by Democritus, or Voltaire's "mankind will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." People call Dawkins shrill...
Quote seen somewhere: "I always joked that the real curse of Angel was that he was a WW/Anne Rice Angstpire accidentally transported to the Buffyverse..."
My computer's power supply is making a really annoying high-pitched whine. First the rattle of the CPU fan, now this. And replacing power supplies scares me. Get a new computer? That takes money... though some new computers I've seen have been amazingly quiet. OTOH, the whine encourages me to keep the computer off and read books instead.
Valentine's Day Massacre at Anime Club: Higurashi (events in a creepy village, looked at from multiple viewpoints), Blood+ ("Saya the Chriopteran Slayer"), Monster (doctor saves the Antichrist?) Only 4 episodes of each, but all seemed good, especially the first and third.
Okay, now to see if I can go home safely...