Timewaster's Guide Archive

 Ok. I just reread my review of equilibrium and whoever edited it screwed it up mildly. What I submitted read:  

"The leaders reason that sacrificing love and joy is a small price to pay for ridding themselves of hate and anger."

What it says now is:  

"The leaders' reason is that sacrificing love and joy is a small price to pay for ridding themselves of hate and anger."

In my version "reason" is used as a verb.  Perhaps it's not as clear as it could be but I like my version better since the edited version has no clear antecedent.

Could it be corrected please?

Ok. I just reread my review of equilibrium and whoever edited it screwed it up mildly. What I submitted read:

"The leaders reason that sacrificing love and joy is a small price to pay for ridding themselves of hate and anger."

What it says now is:

"The leaders’ reason is that sacrificing love and joy is a small price to pay for ridding themselves of hate and anger."

In my version "reason" is used as a verb.  Perhaps it's not as clear as it could be but at least it doesn't read like a twelve year old wrote it, with no clear antecedent.

Could it be corrected please?

Sand

Yup, a long time ago. If I remember, at the end the main character commits suicide by sledding down a long hill while imagining that good things are happening. Am I remembering the right book?

I just cruised past Rottentomatoes.com, (at entropy's tacit suggestion) something I didn't do before I wrote the review.  From reading the blurbs it's pretty obvious that most of the reviewers, if not all, just didn't get the movie.

Reason must triumph over emotion.  How often must we, as a society, be reminded of this?  

Equilibrium graphically presents the case for both sides of the question: Which should rule, heart or mind?  The answer, of course, is a balance of both.  In today's press and in most of my discussions with people over events in the world, emotion rules supreme.  Arguments that produce a warm fuzzy get dressed up in pseudo-intellectual nonsense that sounds reasonable but when carried to a logical conclusion is revealed as silly.  Equilibrium shows the system out of whack in the other direction but does not present our extreme as the answer either.  It draws a solid conclusion right smack in the middle of the road where it belongs, emotion informing but ruled by reason.

My favorite moment from this movie is when Preston is taking the polygraph and has been revealed as a wildly frightened sense offender.  When he reaches the conclusion that he really is going to have to fight his way in and kill "Father" the polygraph demonstrates his decision and the polygraph-reader understands.  Mayhem follows.  Choice!

The reviewers on Rottentomatoes are all pig ignorant philistines.

Hey folks.  Thanks for all the thanks.  It's good to be back and especially good to be reminded that y'all remember who I am after so much time away!

My wife and I would love to get together with everyone some evening.  Buca di Beppo sounds like a great place to go.

As for the lasertag thing, it sounds as fun as it did before I left.

A game night would also be mega cool.  All my magic cards are at least two years old and there's no one to play with up here so... just about any game sounds fun.

I promise to tell lots of war stories if you want.

Game night near the end of the month will be tricky for me because my parents and two brothers will all be in town both weekends.  

We've made Halloween our family gathering holiday since no one else travels then.

Nice thought though.

I can't wait to get a cell phone so I can make the number restricted, call Stacer and fail to leave a message from wherever I happen to be when the whim strikes me, instead of having to do it from my house all the time.