All sorts of fun and craziness
September 25th, 2007
We bring the ol “Only in Russia” category back for this breaking piece of news — a boy surviving an airplane flight on the wing of the plane! Even if this ends up being a hoax, it is still a very Russian thing to make up (while that would be odd to me since RIA news is one of the most respected news agencies in the country, kind of like AP in the US)
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September 21st, 2007
I only had to walk about four blocks back home from a party through the warehouse district. And in that short distance, I was offered a ride in a limo (what’s surprising the guys looked like they were all 22 and they did have a limo standing by.) While I didn’t take them up on the offer, it was flattering– ol’ G still got it to be picked up by random guys in the street 
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September 21st, 2007
I just booked our one-way air ticket to San Francisco. It is finally sinking in. The excitement and the fear, sadness to leave our friends, joy to avoid the winter, concern of being lonely in the new city, anticipation to live by the ocean again — it is all becoming more real. More real, more immediate, more in my face and on the list of things to worry about. Despite the mixed bag of emotions, it’s a good thing. It is time for us to move our excellent adventure to the City by the Bay.
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September 20th, 2007
Seems like sort of a strange news day. Get a message that the Senate has managed to find time to (not specifically) put down the the citizen’s group MoveOn but did not manage to support the troops and their families, and also did not manage to restore habeas corpus. This is by far the worst part. We need to restore habeas corpus and the right to due process. We are on a slippery slope, and it’s time for a change.
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September 8th, 2007
Tonight we almost finished what might be the worst movie ever: “What the Bleep do we know?”. We’re about 3 years late to reviewing it, but just in case you are thinking about renting it — don’t! I will spare you the torture by highlighting a couple of tidbids about the movie.
The summary of a plot: your thoughts literally create your reality because quantum physics says so (the phrase “quantum physics” is used in almost every sentence throughout the film). The format: mix of computer graphics, talking heads, and several mini-stories loosely related to each other. No wonder that the talking heads weren’t introduced till the end of the movie — most of them are members of a particular cult and include an Oregon housewife aka the cult leader who was not talking to the camera as herself but rather she WAS CHANNELING A 35,000-year-old warrior spirit. Says so in the credits to the movie itself. Should I even continue debunking? Oh, what the hell…
The movie uses several examples of how thoughts supposedly change reality: an “experiment” where a large-scale meditation group decreased violent crimes in DC by 25% (in reality, the murder rate went up 18% during that time and the pseudo-scientists who conducted the exercise got Ig Nobel prize for it.) Another “proof” is somewhat-known experiment of water freezing in different patterns depending on what emotions were channeled to it, so water that “was loved” produced pretty crystals while water that was “hated” didn’t look so good. A brief googling of the experiment reveals that the “scientist” knew what words were spoken to a particular bottle of water, so if the word was “hate”, the guy just keep looking for a mal-formed crystal to photograph etc.
By the time the movie made a statement that each individual cell in our body has independent contentiousness, I had to turn it off. What a waste of time and how very sad that this movie did well at the box office.
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