Tuesdays have now become my TV night. I currently watch the lineup of Gilmore Girls, Last Comic Standing, Amazing Race, Friends, Dharma & Greg, and sometimes Drew Carey. This makes it hard to get other things done like anything. My favorite show of the lineup is by far Amazing Race. THIS is a reality show I can stand to watch - a race around the world.

Of course now I must launch into the requisite writing on my blog about it. I hate to say it, I really hope that Sharla and Mirna lose next chance they get. I don’t mind Sharla at all - she’s being great and it’s wonderful that they’re doing well, but Mirna is just annoying as hell. She’s done approximately 0% of the work in the entire race. She also has an attitude that just won’t quit - unfortunately it’s a crappy one. Granted, I would have snuck away from the rest of the group just like they did to get on the earlier flight, but she’s not even nice to her TEAMMATE.

Lagoon Cinema 4 07/25/04 2:00pm Score: 7

The Corporation takes on the largest and most prolific business entity of the 20h century. In this documentary, Mark Ackbar, Jennifer Abbott, and Joel Bakkan dissect the entity that runs our capitalist society, and attempts to find flaws. Unfortunately, they find quite a few flaws in the model. However, they don’t offer any new solution to the problem.

Apparently the best way to lose friends on LJ is to 1. start a separate blog that can post to LJ 2. stop posting things about your life 3. start posting lots of movie and book reviews.

People on LJ - I’m defriending people who I see rarely in real life and have also defriended me.

In other news, my new blog is being syndicated in full glory at Planet Debian. Wondering how the debian folks will like the movie reviews and general ramblings.

An executive summary of the events of today:

Ferion, Airplane!, Falutas, Harold and Kumar, Brownie Blizzard, Wedge, Amazing Race, Ferion, Princess Diaries, Whose Line, Aldous, Instant Marriage License, Kayas, Ritual, Perkins, Kaya Happy Dance, Menthol, Balls, Aneurism-inducing Beeping, Mad World.

Things I can control:

• Caloric intake
• TV habits
• Keeping in touch with people
• Posting of Homeworks
• Movies I see
• Upkeep of Debian packages
• Spending

Things I can’t control:

• Other’s feelings
• Annoying people
• The price of objects
• Financial penalties
• Liars
• Employers

So, why am I focusing on the second list?

Dodgeball - A True Underdog Story (Video) Starring:Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Vince Vaughn Manufacturer:Fox Home Entertainme Released:24 May, 2005 Watched: 07/04/04 St. Anthony Main 7:00pm Score: 5

Ben Stiller in a movie about the little guy beating the big guy that is supposed to be funny. You have to go into this movie not expecting much, it’s obviously a movie aimed at the immature crowd. Surprisingly, it refrained from the easiest of wisecracks and went on to be genuinely entertaining to watch.

Watched: 07/17/04 9:55pm St. Anthony Main Score: -∞

Don’t see this movie. Please. Crap like this should not be rewarded. More later maybe. Score: -∞.

Euclid’s Window : The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace (Book) Authors:Leonard Mlodinow Manufacturer:Free Press Released:09 April, 2002 Rating: A

When most people think of math, they think of raw numbers, boring classes in high school or college, and geeky people calculating things quickly. People don’t think of geometry, which is very much a foundation of much of the mathematics which is performed today. In Euclid’s Window, Leonard Mlodinow makes math history interesting by telling the story of the people behind geometry, starting with Euclid and ending with modern string and M-theory.

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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (Book) Authors:John Allen Paulos Manufacturer:Hill and Wang Released:18 August, 2001 Rating: C

In this book, John Allen Paulos attempts to present the reasonings behind the Innumeracy problem, and some possible solutions. Unfortunately, this book falls flat on the solutions, and doesn’t examine the reasons as well as I would have liked. It seems riddled with useless information that is only connected to the subject by one thread or another, and doesn’t have a clear goal.